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Abstract Number: 2421 • ACR Convergence 2023
Optic Nerve Sheath Measurement on Ultrasound: A Novel Diagnostic Test for Giant Cell Arteritis
Hussein Baalbaki¹, David Dube¹, Carolyn Ross², Stephanie Ducharme-Benard³, Samer Hussein⁴, Rosalie-Selene Meunier⁴, Christian Pagnoux⁵ and Jean-Paul Makhzoum², ¹Hopital du Sacre-Coeur de Montreal, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²Vasculitis Clinic, Canadian Network for Research on Vasculitides, Hopital du Sacre-Coeur de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Vasculitis Clinic, Hopital du Sacre-Coeur de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁴Vasculitis Clinic, Hopital du Sacre-Coeur de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁵Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Confirming the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis (GCA) remains challenging. Available diagnostic tests have limited accuracy and availability. Recently, optic nerve sheath enhancement on…
Abstract Number: 2406 • ACR Convergence 2023
Risk of Large Vessel Complications in Patients with Giant Cell Arteritis, a Population-based Study
Mohanad Elfishawi¹, Mahmut Kaymakci¹, Sara Achenbach², Cynthia Crowson¹, Tanaz Kermani³, Cornelia M. Weyand⁴, Matthew Koster¹ and Kenneth Warrington¹, ¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, Rochester, MN, ³University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Mayo Clinic School of Medicine and Stanford University, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose: Large vessel (LV) complications are known to occur in patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA). The magnitude of risk compared to the general population…
Abstract Number: 2418 • ACR Convergence 2023
Effectiveness of Dose Spacing with Tocilizumab in Giant Cell Arteritis Treatment
Sharon Cowley¹, Colm Kirby², Patricia Harkins³, Richard Conway⁴, Grainne Murphy⁵ and David Kane⁶, ¹Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, ²Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ³St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ⁴Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, ⁵Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland, ⁶Tallaght University Hospital & Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Background/Purpose: The only steroid sparing agent approved for treatment of Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA) is the anti-interleukin-6 receptor antagonist tocilizumab. There remains uncertainty regarding treatment…
Abstract Number: 2424 • ACR Convergence 2023
Exploring the Limit of Image Resolution for Human Expert Classification of Vascular Ultrasound Images in Giant Cell Arteritis and Healthy Subjects: The GCA-US-AI Project
Valentin Sebastian Schäfer¹, Stavros Chrysidis², Christian Dejaco³, Sara Monti⁴, Matthew Koster⁵, Pantelis Karakostas¹, Wolfgang Schmidt⁶, Eugenio De Miguel⁷, Christina Duftner⁸, Alojzija Hocevar⁹, Annamaria Iagnocco¹⁰, Marcin Milchert¹¹, Chetan Mukhtyar¹², Cristina Ponte¹³, Lene Terslev¹⁴, Tanaz Kermani¹⁵, Uffe Møller Døhn¹⁶, Berit Dalsgaard Nielsen¹⁷, Aaron Juche¹⁸, Luca Seitz¹⁹, Minna Kohler²⁰, Kresten Keller²¹, Rositsa Karalilova²², Thomas Daikeler²³, Sarah Mackie²⁴, Karina Torralba²⁵, Kornelis van der Geest²⁶, Dennis Boumans²⁷, Philipp Bosch²⁸, Alessandro Tomelleri²⁹, Markus Aschwanden³⁰, Peter Brossart¹, Charlotte Behning³¹ and Claus Juergen Bauer¹, ¹Clinic of Internal Medicine III, Department of Oncology, Hematology, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, ²Department of Rheumatology, Southwest Jutland Hospital Esbjerg, Esbjerg, Denmark, ³Department of Rheumatology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria; Department of Rheumatology, Hospital of Bruneck (ASAA-SABES), Teaching Hospital of the Paracelsius Medical University, Brunico, Italy, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy; Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy, ⁵Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁶Rheumatology, Immanuel Krankenhaus Berlin, Medical Centre for Rheumatology Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany, ⁷Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain, ⁸Department of Internal Medicine, Clinical Division of Internal Medicine II, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, ⁹Department of Rheumatology, Universitiy Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ¹⁰University of Turin, Roma, Italy, ¹¹Department of Internal Medicine, Rheumatology, Diabetology, Geriatrics and Clinical Immunology, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland, ¹²Vasculitis service, Rheumatology department, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, United Kingdom, ¹³Department of Rheumatology, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte, Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal; Rheumatology Research Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, ¹⁴Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Denmark, ¹⁵Rheumatology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ¹⁶Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research (COPECARE), Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, ¹⁷Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark; Department of Medicine, The Regional Hospital in Horsens, Horsens, Denmark, ¹⁸Department of Rheumatology, Immanuel Hospital, Berlin, Germany, ¹⁹Rheumatology and Immunology, Inselspital University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland, ²⁰Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²¹Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital; Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, ²²Clinic of Rheumatology, Medical University Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, ²³Clinic for Rheumatology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, ²⁴Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK; Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom, ²⁵Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA, ²⁶Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ²⁷Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Hospital Group Twente, Almelo, Netherlands, ²⁸Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria, ²⁹Unit of Immunology, Rheumatology, Allergy and Rare Diseases, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy, ³⁰Department of Angiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, ³¹Institute of Medical Biometry, Informatics and Epidemiology, University Hospital of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Background/Purpose: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common form of vasculitis in adults, necessitating prompt diagnosis to prevent severe complications. However, access to expert…
Abstract Number: 2425 • ACR Convergence 2023
Pregnancy Outcomes Among Patients with Vasculitis Using Administrative Claims Data
Amadeia Rector¹, Julia Simard², Gary Shaw³ and Audra Horomanski⁴, ¹Stanford University, San Francisco, CA, ²Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, ³Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ⁴Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Background/Purpose: Systemic vasculitides are rare, heterogeneous, inflammatory disorders associated with high morbidity and mortality. Recent management and therapeutic advances have improved life expectancy and reproductive…
Abstract Number: 2423 • ACR Convergence 2023
Concordance Between the 1990 ACR Classification Criteria and the New 2022 ACR/EULAR 2022 Criteria in Giant Cell Arteritis
Julio Sanchez Martin¹, Julia Medina Valle¹, Javier Loricera¹, Maria Fe Garcia Reija¹ and Ricardo Blanco², ¹Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ²Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain
Background/Purpose: Classification criteria for vasculitis, including giant cell arteritis (GCA) are under constant revision. In 2022, the American College of Rheumatology (ACR)/European League Against Rheumatism…
Abstract Number: 2419 • ACR Convergence 2023
Visual Manifestations in Giant Cell Arteritis: Identification of Risk Factors from the ARTESER Registry
Juan Molina-Collada¹, Marta Domínguez², Rafael Benito Melero-Gonzalez³, Elisa Fernandez-Fernandez⁴, Maria. T Silva-Diaz⁵, Joaquín M. Belzunegui⁶, Ismael González⁷, Julio Sanchez Martin⁸, Javier Narvaez⁹, Eva Galíndez¹⁰, javier Mendizábal¹¹, Leticia Leon Mateos¹², Javier Loricera⁸, Alejandro Muñoz¹³, Santos Castañeda¹⁴, Iván Castellvi¹⁵, Marina Tortosa-Cabañas¹⁶, Vanesa Navarro¹⁷, Carlos Galisteo¹⁸, Ivette Casafont-Solé¹⁹, Jose Andres Roman Ivorra²⁰, TAREK CARLOS SALMAN MONTE²¹, Margarida Rocha²², Carlota Laura Iñiguez²³, Maria Vanesa Hernandez Hernandez²⁴, Cristina Campos²⁵, María Alcalde²⁶, Antonio Juan Mas²⁷, Francisco Javier Prado²⁸ and Ricardo Blanco²⁹, ¹Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, ²Sociedad Española de Reumatología, Madrid, Spain, ³CHU Vigo, O Carballino, Spain, ⁴La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain, ⁵Complexo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain, ⁶Hospital Universitario Donostia, Donostia, Spain, ⁷Hospital Universitario de León, León, Spain, ⁸Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ⁹Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain, ¹⁰Hospital Universitario de Basurto, Bilbao, Spain, ¹¹Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, ¹²IDISSC Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain, ¹³Hospital universitario Virgen del Rocío, El Viso de Alcor, Spain, ¹⁴Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁵Hospital de Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain, ¹⁶Ramon y Cajal University Hospital, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁷H Moisès Broggi, Sant Joan Despí, Barcelona, Spain, ¹⁸Hospital Universitario Parc Taulí, Barcelona, Spain, ¹⁹Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, ²⁰Hospital Universitari i Politècnic la Fe, Valencia, Spain, ²¹Hospital del Mar/Parc de Salut Mar-IMIM, Barcelona, Spain, ²²Osakidetza, Bilbo, Spain, ²³Hospital Universitario Lucus Augusti, Lugo, Spain, ²⁴Hospital Universitario de Canarias, La Laguna, Spain, ²⁵Rheumatology Unit, Hospital General Universitario de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, ²⁶Hospital Severo Ochoa, Madrid, Spain, ²⁷Hospital Universitario Son Llàtzer, Mallorca, Spain, ²⁸Research department Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez, Mexico City, Mexico, ²⁹Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain
Background/Purpose: Visual loss is one of the most feared complications in giant cell arteritis (GCA). Some factors have been previously associated with visual loss, as…
Abstract Number: 2410 • ACR Convergence 2023
Tocilizumab versus Methotrexate in Giant Cell Arteritis: A Retrospective Study to Compare Efficacy and Rapidity of These Steroid-sparing Agents in GCA Patients
Luca Quartuccio Quartuccio¹, Elena Treppo², Maria De Martino³, Maria Pillon¹, Simone Perniola⁴, Dario Bruno⁴, Miriam Isola³ and Elisa Gremese⁴, ¹Rheumatology Division, Department of Medicine, University of Udine, Udine, Italy, ²Physician, Moimacco, Italy, ³Institute of Statistics, Department of Medicine, University of Udine, Udine, Italy, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Institute of Rheumatology and Affine Sciences, School of Medicine, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Roma, Italy
Background/Purpose: Glucocorticoids (GCs) are still the mainstay of treatment of Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA). Although GCs are highly effective in GCA, it is well documented…
Abstract Number: 2349 • ACR Convergence 2023
Selection of the Dose for Subcutaneous Administration to Non-Japanese Subjects and Intravenous Administration to Japanese Subjects in the First-in-Human Study of DS-7011a, an Anti-TLR7 Monoclonal Antibody for the Treatment of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Li Zhang¹, Jun Tanaka², Michael Dodds³, Mirjam Trame³, Sophia Xu¹, Masafumi Kumazaki⁴, Yoshiaki Tomimori⁵, Samarth Patel¹, Aparna Mohan¹, Giorgio Senaldi¹ and Tarek Leil¹, ¹Daiichi Sankyo, Basking Ridge, NJ, ²Daiichi Sankyo, Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ, ³Certara Strategic Consulting, Princeton, NJ, ⁴Daiichi Sankyo, Tokyo, Japan, ⁵Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd., Shinagawa-ku, Japan
Background/Purpose: Toll-like receptor (TLR)7 is a pattern recognition receptor whose ligands include nucleic acids and whose gain-of-function mutations have been reported to result insystemic lupus…
Abstract Number: 2430 • ACR Convergence 2023
Time-Dependent Evaluation of Weighted Cumulative Glucocorticoid Exposure and Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in a Cohort of Veterans with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Beth Wallace¹, Yuqing Gao², H. Myra Kim¹, Bryant England³, Joshua Baker⁴, Brian Sauer⁵, Grant Cannon⁶, Punyasha Roul³, Ted R Mikuls⁷, Shirley Cohen-Mekelburg¹, Daniel Clauw⁸, Wyndy Wiitala², Rodney Hayward¹, Jeremy Sussman¹ and Akbar Waljee⁹, ¹VA Ann Arbor; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²VA Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, ³University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁴University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵Salt Lake City VA/University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁶University of Utah and Salt Lake City VA, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁷Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁸Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁹VA Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Background/Purpose: Three-quarters of RA patients use glucocorticoids (GC) to manage RA symptoms. Prior work suggests recent GC use is associated with major adverse cardiovascular events…
Abstract Number: 2403 • ACR Convergence 2023
Systole and Diastole Ultrasound Wall Thickness Shows Significant Differences That Affect the Diagnosis and Assessment of Giant Cell Arteritis
Emma Brugarolas¹, Elisa Fernandez-Fernandez², Irene Monjo³ and Eugenio De Miguel⁴, ¹Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Girona, Spain, ²La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain, ³University Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain, ⁴Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: In the last few years, several cut-off points for the intima-media thickness (IMT) of temporal arteries (TA) and large vessels (LV) have been proposed…
Abstract Number: 2362 • ACR Convergence 2023
Identification of Protein Biomarkers Associated with the Severity and Risk of Progression of Interstitial Lung Disease in VEDOSS and Established Systemic Sclerosis Patients
Thierry Sornasse¹, Vishal Kakkar², Rebecca Ross³, Sunhwa Kim⁴ and Francesco Del Galdo⁵, ¹AbbVie, Inc., North Chicago, IL, ²University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ³Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ⁴AbbVie, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, ⁵University of Leeds - Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Muskuloskeletal Medicine, Leeds, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Pulmonary Fibrosis (PF) is one of the primary causes of systemic sclerosis (SSc)-related death. Hence, monitoring and predicting the course of PF in SSc…
Abstract Number: 2369 • ACR Convergence 2023
Investigating Macrophage Heterogeneity in the Esophagus of SSc Patients
Hadijat Makinde¹, Matthew Dapas², Salina Dominguez², Tyler Therron¹, Miranda Gurra¹, Mary Karns³, Kathleen Aren³, Alexandra Soriano², Lutfiyya Muhammad⁴, Carla Cuda¹, Dustin Carlson¹, Jane Dematte⁵, Darren Brenner¹, John Pandolfino⁶, Harris Perlman¹, Deborah Winter⁷ and Marie-Pier Tetreault¹, ¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Northwestern University FSM Division of Rheumatology, Chicago, IL, ³Northwestern University Division of Rheumatology, Chicago, IL, ⁴Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ⁵Northwestern University, Elmhurst, IL, ⁶Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Wilmette, IL, ⁷Northwestern University, Skokie, IL
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is characterized by an initial inflammatory phase followed by fibrosis. Esophageal dysfunction in SSc is associated with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD),…
Abstract Number: 2364 • ACR Convergence 2023
Circulating CTHRC1 Levels Are Associated with Disease Severity and Predict Survival in Systemic Sclerosis
Monica Yang¹, Seoyeon Lee², Lisa Hazelwood³, Dean Sheppard¹, Francesco Boin⁴ and Paul Wolters¹, ¹University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ³AbbVie, Inc., North Chicago, IL, ⁴Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: Despite recent advances in systemic sclerosis (SSc), there remains a paucity of clinically actionable biomarkers to assess disease severity and predict progression. Collagen triple…
Abstract Number: 1916 • ACR Convergence 2023
Clinical Features of the Patients with NLRP1 Gene Variants and a Systemic Autoinflammatory Phenotype
Shirkhan Amikishiyev¹, Tuğba Kalaycı², Rabia Deniz³, Yasemin Yalçınkaya⁴, Bahar Artim-Esen¹, Murat Inanc¹, Ayla Sahin², Sema Sırma Ekmekci⁵, Neslihan Abacı⁵, Sukru Ozturk², Sukru Palanduz² and Ahmet Gul¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Department of Genetics, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, ³Division of Rheumatology, University of Health Sciences, Başakşehir Çam and Sakura City Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁴Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁵Istanbul University, Aziz Sancar Institute of Experimental Medicine, Department of Genetics, Istanbul, Turkey
Background/Purpose: Although NLRP1 was the first identified member of the NOD-like receptors family, its role as a sensor of pathogen- or damage-associated signals and its…

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