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Abstract Number: 0804 • ACR Convergence 2024
Serologic and Clinical Predictors of Progressive Pulmonary Fibrosis in Rheumatoid Arthritis-associated Interstitial Lung Disease Progression: A Prospective Longitudinal Cohort
Sung Hae Chang¹, Misti Paudel², Gregory McDermott³, Qianru Zhang⁴, You-Jung Ha⁵, Jeong Seok Lee⁶, Min Uk Kim⁷, Chan Ho Park⁸, Ji-Won Kim⁹, Jang Woo Ha¹⁰, Sang Wan Chung¹¹, Sung Won Lee¹², Eun Ha Kang⁵, Yeon-Ah Lee¹³, Jung-Yoon Choe¹⁴, Yong-Beom Park¹⁵, Eun Young Lee¹⁶ and Jeffrey Sparks¹⁷, and the KOrean Rheumatoid Arthritis Interstitial Lung Disease (KORAIL) group, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital/Soonchunhyang University, College of Medicine, Boston, MA, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity, Boston, MA, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Brookline, MA, ⁴Harvard medical school, Cambridge, MA, ⁵Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea, ⁶Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KAIST,, Daejeon, Republic of Korea, ⁷SMG-SNU Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ⁸Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine,, Cheonan-si, Republic of Korea, ⁹Daegu Catholic University School of Medicine, Nam-gu, Daegu, South Korea, ¹⁰Yonsei university college of medicine, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, South Korea, ¹¹Kyung Hee University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ¹²Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital, Seoul, South Korea, ¹³Kyung Hee University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea, ¹⁴Catholic University of Daegu School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea, ¹⁵Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ¹⁶3Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ¹⁷Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Predictors of progressive pulmonary fibrosis (PPF) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease (ILD) are unclear but may be due to inflammation or…
Abstract Number: 0776 • ACR Convergence 2024
Follicular Dendritic Cell PD-L1 Expression Promotes Autoreactive Germinal Center Formation
Elliot Akama-Garren¹, Yingying Zhang², Balthasar Heesters³, Padraic Fallon⁴ and Michael Carroll², ¹Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, ⁴Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Background/Purpose: Germinal center (GC) responses generate humoral immunity through coordinated interactions between B cells and T follicular helper (TFH) and T follicular regulatory (TFR) cells.…
Abstract Number: 0394 • ACR Convergence 2024
Unveiling Major Challenges and Unmet Needs in the Therapeutic Approach to Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: The Patient Perspective
Francesco Baldo¹, Luciana Peixoto², Remco Erkens³, Greta Rogani³, Claudia Bracaglia⁴, Dirk Foell⁵, Marco Gattorno⁶, Marija Jelusic⁷, Sebastiaan Vastert³, Rashmi Sinha² and Francesca Minoia⁸, and on behalf of the PReS MAS/sJIA Working Party and the Systemic JIA Foundation, ¹Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy, ²Systemic JIA Foundation, Cincinnati, OH, ³University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, ⁴IRCCS Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy, ⁵University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany, ⁶IRCCS Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy, ⁷University of Zagreb School of Medicine, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, ⁸Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Milan, Italy
Background/Purpose: Despite continuous improvements in the therapeutic options for children with systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA), access to medications significantly differs among centres and countries.…
Abstract Number: 0795 • ACR Convergence 2024
Prevalence of Post-exertional Malaise (PEM) in Adults with Rheumatic Diseases and Relationship with COVID19 Infection
Kaleb Michaud¹, Shreena Kamlesh Gandhi², Sofia Pedro³, Cassandra Calabrese⁴, Patti Katz⁵ and Leonard Calabrese⁶, ¹University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ²Kansas University School of Medicine - Wichita, Wichita, KS, ³Forward, The National Databank for Rheumatic Diseases, Wichita, KS, ⁴Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland Heights, OH, ⁵UCSF, San Rafael, CA, ⁶Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Background/Purpose: Chronic fatigue is the dominant symptom in patients with Long COVID and Myalgic encephalomyelitis/Chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) as well as an important and prevalent…
Abstract Number: 0791 • ACR Convergence 2024
Optimizing Knee Osteoarthritis Treatment with the Precision Medicine Approach in a Clinical Trial Dataset
Caroline Walton¹, Forrest Hurley², Liubov Arbeeva³, Stephen Messier⁴, Shannon Mihalko⁴, Jeffrey Katz⁵, Richard Loeser⁶, David Hunter⁷, Leigh Callahan⁸ and Amanda Nelson², ¹UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, ²University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ³University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, NC, ⁴Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, ⁵Brigham and Women's Hospital, Brookline, MA, ⁶University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁷Sydney Musculoskeletal Health, University of Sydney, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia, ⁸University of North Carolina Thurston Arthritis Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC
Background/Purpose: Precision medicine has previously identified subgroups of clinical trial participants with knee osteoarthritis (kOA) that benefit more from a specific intervention than others. We…
Abstract Number: 0799 • ACR Convergence 2024
Peripheral Biomarker Signatures and a Genetic Risk Score Improve the Identification of RA-ILD Beyond Clinical Risk Factors
Austin Wheeler¹, Thomas Riley², Joshua Baker³, Yangyuna Yang¹, Punyasha Roul⁴, Katherine Wysham⁵, grant Cannon⁶, Gary Kunkel⁷, Gail Kerr⁸, Dana Ascherman⁹, Paul Monach¹⁰, Andreas Reimold¹¹, Jill Poole¹, Tony Merriman¹², Ted Mikuls¹ and Bryant England¹, ¹University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ²Hopsital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴UNMC, Omaha, NE, ⁵VA PUGET SOUND/UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, WA, ⁶University of Utah and Salt Lake City VA, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁷University of Utah and George E Wahlen VAMC, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁸Washington DC VAMC/Georgetown and Howard Universities, Washington, DC, ⁹Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, ¹⁰VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, ¹¹Dallas VA Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ¹²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Homewood, AL
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD) is an extra-articular manifestation of RA that causes substantial morbidity and mortality. Despite the paucity of known risk…
Abstract Number: 0755 • ACR Convergence 2024
Characteristics Associated with Long-Term Glucocorticoids Use in Patients with New Onset Polymyalgia Rheumatica
Anisha Dua¹, Andrea Rubbert-Roth², Kerri Ford³, Stefano Fiore⁴, Lita Araujo³, Timothy Beukelman⁵, Fenglong Xie⁶ and Jeffrey Curtis⁷, ¹Northwestern University Division of Rheumatology, Chicago, IL, ²Cantonal Hospital St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland, ³Sanofi, Cambridge, MA, ⁴Sanofi, Bridgewater, NJ, ⁵Foundation for Advancing Science, Technology, Education and Research, Birmingham, AL, ⁶University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁷The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR), a common inflammatory rheumatic condition in people aged ≥50 years, is primarily treated with glucocorticoids (GC). Extended GC therapy can increase…
Abstract Number: 0745 • ACR Convergence 2024
Tocilizumab in Monotherapy vs. Combined in Aortitis Associated with Giant Cell Arteritis. Multicenter Open-label Study of 196 Patients
Adrián Martín-Gutiérrez¹, Javier Loricera², Carmen Secada Gómez³, Javier Narvaez-García⁴, Olga Maíz Alonso⁵, Iñigo Hernández-Rodríguez⁶, Susana Romero Yuste⁷, Eugenio De Miguel⁸, Eva Galindez-Agirregoikoa⁹, ivan Ferraz-Amaro¹⁰, Julio Sánchez-Martín¹¹, Patricia Moya Albarado¹², Cristina Campos Fernández¹³, Fernando Lopez-Gutierrez¹⁴, Santos Castañeda¹⁵ and Ricardo Blanco-Alonso¹⁶, and the Tocilizumab in Giant Cell Arteritis Spanish Collaborative Group, ¹Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Renedo de Piélagos, Cantabria, Spain, ²Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ³Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ⁴Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain, ⁵3Hospital Universitario de Donosti, San Sebastian, Spain, San Sebastian, Pais Vasco, Spain, ⁶Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Vigo, Vigo, Spain, ⁷Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Complex of Pontevedra, Pontevedra, Spain, ⁸Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain, ⁹BASURTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, BILBAO, Spain, ¹⁰Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canarias, Spain, ¹¹Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain, ¹²Hospital de San Pau, Barcelona, Spain, ¹³Escuela de Doctorado, Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir, Valencia, Spain, ¹⁴Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Cantabria, Spain, ¹⁵Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁶Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. IDIVAL, Immunopathology group, Santander, Spain
Background/Purpose: Aortitis related to Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA-aortitis) is a frequent and potential severe complication. Tocilizumab (TCZ) was approved in GCA, but the efficacy in…
Abstract Number: 0391 • ACR Convergence 2024
Using Machine Learning to Predict Inactive Disease in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Mei-Sing Ong¹, Marc Natter², Laura Schanberg³ and Yukiko Kimura⁴, and CARRA Registry Investigators, ¹Harvard Medical School & Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Institute, Boston, MA, ²Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Duke University Medical Center, DURHAM, NC, ⁴Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Optimizing treatment of JIA continues to be a challenge. Biologic DMARD (bDMARD) therapies have significantly improved outcomes but is costly, may be more difficult…
Abstract Number: 0816 • ACR Convergence 2024
Distinct Transcript and Protein Dysregulation Patterns in Dermatomyositis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
James Ward¹, Mythri Ambatipudi², Zerai Manna³, Michael Smith⁴, Melissa de los Reyes⁵, Adam Schiffenbauer⁶, Saifur Rahman⁷, Kamelia Zerrouki⁵, Fredrick Miller¹, Mariana Kaplan⁸, Jian-Liang Li¹, Kerry Casey⁹, Lisa Rider¹⁰ and Sarfaraz Hasni⁶, ¹National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Durham, NC, ²Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁴Horizon Therapeutics, Alexandria, VA, ⁵AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD, ⁶NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, Bethesda, MD, ⁷AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, ⁸NIAMS/NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁹Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Terrytown, NY, ¹⁰NIEHS, NIH, Garrett Park, MD
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and dermatomyositis (DM) are hypothesized to be triggered by shared genetic and environmental factors leading to aberrant activation of innate…
Abstract Number: 0614 • ACR Convergence 2024
Bridging the Gap Between Patient’s Perception on Quality of Life and Disease Activity and Damage in Systemic Lupus Erythematous Patient
Background/Purpose: Improving quality of life (QoL) is one of the key targets when treating systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients. The Lupus impact Tracker (LIT) is…
Abstract Number: 0788 • ACR Convergence 2024
Long-term Effectiveness of a Lifestyle Intervention for Osteoarthritis: Two-year Follow-up After the “Plants for Joints” Randomized Clinical Trial
Carlijn Wagenaar¹, Wendy Walrabenstein², Marike van der Leeden², Martijn Gerritsen¹, Jos Twisk³, Martin van der Esch², Henriët van Middendorp⁴, Peter Weijs⁵ and Dirkjan van Schaardenburg⁶, ¹Reade Rheumatology Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²Reade Center for Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ³Amsterdam UMC location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁴Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁵Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁶Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: The 16-week Plants for Joints (PFJ) multidisciplinary lifestyle Intervention, based on a whole-food plant-based diet, physical activity, and stress management, significantly reduced The Western…
Abstract Number: 0786 • ACR Convergence 2024
First Analyses of Transcriptomic Changes in the Skin of SSc Patients upon CD19-targeting CAR T Cell Therapy
Janina Auth¹, Manoj Kumar Selvaraju², Fabian Müller³, Pooja Gupta², Arif Ekici⁴, Carlo Tur¹, Maria Gabriella Raimondo¹, Jörg Distler⁵, Clara Dees⁶, Sara Chenguiti⁶, Melanie Hagen¹, Andreas Wirsching¹, Jule Taubmann⁷, Soraya Kharboutli⁸, Silvia Spoerl⁸, Michael Aigner⁸, Sascha Kretschmann⁸, Ingrid Vasova⁸, Andreas MAckensen⁹, Georg Schett¹⁰ and Christina Bergmann¹¹, ¹Department of Medicine 3 - Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Uniklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Bayern, Germany, ²CUBiDA Department (Core Unit Bioinformatics and Data Analysis), UKER and FAU, Erlangen, Germany, ³Department of Medicine 5 - Hematology and Oncology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Uniklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁴Core Unit Next Generation Sequencing, Erlangen, Germany, ⁵Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf and Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany, ⁶Department Internal Medicine III, Erlangen, Germany, ⁷Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁸Department of Medicine 5 - Hematology and Oncology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁹Department of Medicine 5 - Hematology and Oncology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Uniklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Bayern, Germany, ¹⁰Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, ¹¹Department Internal Medicine III, Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) Erlangen-Nurnber, Frankfurt, Germany
Background/Purpose: CD19-targeting CAR T cells showed remarkable improvements of modified Rodnan skin score in SSc patients within 6 months after treatment and stable reduction afterwards…
Abstract Number: 0652 • ACR Convergence 2024
Analysis of Relapses in a Single Center Cohort of Patients with Lupus Nephritis
Gamze Kemec¹, Sibel Varelci², Erdem Gurel², Isın Kılıcaslan³, Yasemın özlük³, Yasemın Yalcınkaya⁴, Ahmet Gul⁵, Murat Inanc⁶ and bahar Artım Esen⁴, ¹Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Department of Internal Medicine Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ³Department of Pathology Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁶Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey
Background/Purpose: Relapses are correlated with increased hospitalizations, poor renal outcomes, morbidity and mortality. We aim to investigate the incidence, predictive factors and outcomes related to…
Abstract Number: 0398 • ACR Convergence 2024
Validation of Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System® (PROMIS®) Pediatric Measures for Children with Chronic Nonbacterial Osteomyelitis Using the CHOIR Data
Mary Eckert¹, Eveline Wu², Melissa Oliver³, Joshua Scheck⁴, Sivia Lapidus⁵, Ummusen Kaya Akca⁶, Shima Yasin⁷, Aleksander Lenert⁸, Sara Stern⁹, Antonella insalaco¹⁰, Manuela Pardeo¹⁰, Gabriele Simonini¹¹, Edoardo Marrani¹², Xing Wang¹³, Bin Huang¹⁴, Leonard Kovalick¹⁵, Natalie Rosenwasser¹⁶, Erin Balay-Dustrude¹⁷, Gabriel Casselman¹⁶, Liau Adriel¹⁸, Ava Klein¹⁸, Yurong Shao⁴, Claire Yang⁴, Molly Briggs⁴, Emily Deng⁴, Iris Hamilton⁴, Ethan Mueller¹⁶, Elise Machrone⁴, Paige Trunnel⁴, Doaa Mosa¹⁹, Lori Tucker²⁰, Hermann Girschick²¹, Ronald Laxer²², Georgina Tiller²³, Jonathan Akikusa²⁴, Christian Hedrich²⁵, Karen Onel²⁶, Fatma Dedeoglu²⁷, Marinka Twilt²⁸, Seza Ozen²⁹, Polly Ferguson³⁰, Laura Schanberg³¹, Bryce Reeve³² and Yongdong (Dan) Zhao³³, ¹Seattle Children's, Mercer Island, WA, ²University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, ³Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, ⁴Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, ⁵Hackensack University Medical Center, Montclair, NJ, ⁶Hacettepe University, Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey, ⁷University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, ⁸University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁹University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ¹⁰IRCCS Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy, ¹¹Meyer Children Hospital IRCCS; NEUROFARBA Department, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, ¹²University of Florence, Firenze, Florence, Italy, ¹³Biostatistics Epidemiology and Analytics in Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA, ¹⁴Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cinciannati, OH, ¹⁵UNC Health Care, Durham, NC, ¹⁶Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, ¹⁷University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ¹⁸Seattle Children’s Research Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, ¹⁹Mansoura University Hospital, Mansoura City, Egypt, ²⁰BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ²¹Vivantes Clinic Friedrichshain, Wuerzburg, Germany, ²²SickKids, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²³University of British Columbia - Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ²⁴Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, ²⁵University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, ²⁶HSS, New York, NY, ²⁷Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²⁸Alberta Children's Hospital, Calgary, AB, Canada, ²⁹Department of Pediatrics, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, ³⁰University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, ³¹Duke University Medical Center, DURHAM, NC, ³²Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, ³³University of Washington, Redmond, WA
Background/Purpose: Chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis (CNO) is an autoinflammatory bone disease. It is critical to capture the child’s health-related quality of life impact using validated patient-reported…

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