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Abstract Number: PP08 • ACR Convergence 2023
Finding Gratitude in Adversity: The Impact of Finding the Right Rheumatologist
Yaideliz Acevedo, Global Healthy Living Foundation, Newark, NJ
Background/Purpose: I recall sitting in the doctor's office with my one-month-old baby in his stroller, hearing the words "You have rheumatoid arthritis." At 21, I…
Abstract Number: PP01 • ACR Convergence 2023
You Can’t Get This from a Doctor: The Role of Support Groups for Adults Aged 25-55 Living with Arthritis
Eileen Davidson, Global Healthy Living Foundation, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Background/Purpose: Living with a rheumatic condition comes with unique concerns specific to mental and social health like struggling with fatigue, anxiety, depression, and isolation, all…
Abstract Number: PP14 • ACR Convergence 2023
Putting Lived Experience into Action: Flipping the Script on Living with a Chronic Disease
Natasha Trehan¹ and Naomi Abrahams², ¹University of Ottawa, Take a Pain Check Foundation, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Naomi was diagnosed with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) at the age of 18, after enduring 3 years of misdiagnoses. Similarly, Natasha received a diagnosis…
Abstract Number: 2604 • ACR Convergence 2023
Premature Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells Senescence Driven by Interleukin-6-Mitochondrial STAT3-Mitofusin 2 Signaling in Takayasu’s Arteritis
Chenglong Fang¹, Lihong Du¹, Lili Li², Yuexin Chen³, Zuoguan Chen⁴, Yongjun Li⁴, Jing Li¹, Mengtao Li⁵, xiaofeng Zeng⁶ and Xinping Tian⁵, ¹Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, ²The State Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and School of Basic Medicine, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, ³Department of Vascular Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, ⁴Department of Vascular Surgery, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology; Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China, ⁵Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, ⁶Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
Background/Purpose: Takayasu’s arteritis (TAK) is characterized by persistent vascular inflammation involving aorta and its main branches, which is an important prosenescent factor that in turn…
Abstract Number: 2480 • ACR Convergence 2023
Definition of Rheumatoid Arthritis Flare Based on SDAI and CDAI
Victoria Konzett¹, Andreas Kerschbaumer², Josef S Smolen³, Eirik Kristianslund⁴, Sella Provan⁴, Tore Kvien⁵ and Daniel Aletaha⁶, ¹Medical University of Vienna, Wien, Austria, ²Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ³Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ⁴Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ⁵Center for Treatment of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases (REMEDY), Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Wien, Austria
Background/Purpose: Measures of improvement and state of disease activity are well-established in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), whereas distinct classifiers for worsening (“flare”) are lacking to date.…
Abstract Number: 2448 • ACR Convergence 2023
UV Light Exposure Induces a Type I Interferon Dependent Activation and Migration of Inflammatory Dendritic Cells to Local Lymph Nodes
Xizhang Sun, Jaime Chao, Michael Gerner and Keith Elkon, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Photosensitivity occurs in ~ 75% of lupus patients. Although ultraviolet (UV) light stimulates Type I interferon (IFN-I) in the skin, why lupus patients are…
Abstract Number: 2427 • ACR Convergence 2023
Degranulating PR3+ Myeloid Cells Characterize Proliferative Lupus Nephritis
Alessandra Ida Celia¹, Xiaoping Yang², Hana Minsky², Silvia Malvica², Michelle Petri³, the Accelerating Medicines Partnership in RA/SLE⁴, Avi Rosenberg⁵ and Andrea Fava², ¹John Hopkins University of Medicine, Rome, Italy, ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ³Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Timonium, MD, ⁴Multiple, Multiple, ⁵Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Background/Purpose: As part of the Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP), we discovered that urinary PR3, a neutrophil degranulation product, is associated with histological activity, indicating the…
Abstract Number: 2436 • ACR Convergence 2023
Characterizing Spatial Organization of Immune Infiltrates in Rheumatoid Arthritis Synovia Using Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis
Roopa Madhu¹, Kartik Bhamidipati¹, Anna Helena Jonsson¹, Fan Zhang², Lucy MacDonald³, Youngmi Kim⁴, Yi Cui⁴, STARS BWH¹, Accelerating Medicines Partnership Program RA SLE Network⁵, Mariola Kurowska-Stolarska³, Stefano Alvernini⁶, Ellen Gravallese⁷, Michael Brenner⁷, Soumya Raychaudhuri¹, Kevin Wei⁷ and ilya Korsunsky¹, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, ³Research into Inflammatory Arthritis Centre Versus Arthritis (RACE), University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, ⁴Nanostring, Seattle, WA, ⁵Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy, ⁷Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease characterized by immune infiltration of the synovial tissue lining joints. RA is clinically heterogenous, with patients having…
Abstract Number: 2454 • ACR Convergence 2023
Endometriosis Increase Risk of Antiphospholipid Syndrome: A Propensity Score Matched Cohort Study
Zhiyong Chen¹, Shiow-Ing Wang², James Cheng-Chung Wei³ and Sheng-Ming Dai¹, ¹Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Shanghai Sixth People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, ²Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, ³Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Department of Rheumatology, Taichung, Taiwan
Background/Purpose: Patients with endometriosis have a variety of autoimmune abnormalities. Our objective was to investigate the risk of incident antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) in patients with…
Abstract Number: PP03 • ACR Convergence 2023
Lupus with Slime: Improve QOL and Increase ROM in SLE with Slime
Amanda Greene, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: In 1983, over forty years ago, I was diagnosed with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). I was immediately prescribed high dose corticosteroids. My body and…
Abstract Number: PP09 • ACR Convergence 2023
Practicing Mindfulness to Improve Quality of Life
Vanessa Patino-Lydia, Global Healthy Living Foundation, Hallandale, FL
Background/Purpose: I’ve been living with symptoms of PSA and fibromyalgia for over 15 years. Four years ago, after flareup that severely impacted my mobility where…
Abstract Number: PP13 • ACR Convergence 2023
My Four Pillars of Wellness: How Sleep, Diet, Exercise and Stress Reduction Enable Me to Define My Life and not let Sjögren’s Define Me
Lisa Rubenstein, Sjögren's Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

Background/Purpose: Being diagnosed with Sjögren’s has been a life changing event for me.I was diagnosed in 2013 after suffering from various odd ailments. Ultimately, extreme…
Abstract Number: 2476 • ACR Convergence 2023
Defining Cutoffs for Disease Activity States in Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Based on the Systemic Juvenile Arthritis Disease Activity Score
Silvia Rosina¹, Ana Isabel Rebollo Gimenez², Letizia Tarantola¹, Yulia Vyzhga¹, Luca Carlini³, Elisa Patrone⁴, Maria Katsikas⁵, Claudia Saad-Magalhaes⁶, Dalia El-Ghoneimy⁷, Yasser El Miedany⁸, Raju Khubchandani⁹, Priyankar Pal¹⁰, Gabriele Simonini¹¹, Giovanni Filocamo¹², Maurizio Gattinara¹³, Fabrizio De Benedetti¹⁴, Davide Montin¹⁵, Adele Civino¹⁶, Muatasem Alsuweiti¹⁷, Valda Stenevicha¹⁸, Vyacheslav Chasnyk¹⁹, Ekaterina Alexeeva²⁰, Sulaiman Al-Mayouf²¹, Soamarat Vilayuk²², Angela Pistorio²³ and Angelo Ravelli²⁴, ¹IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, UOC Reumatologia e Malattie Autoinfiammatorie, Genova, Italy, ²IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, UOC Reumatologia e Malattie Autoinfiammatorie, Genoa, Italy, ³IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, UOC Servizio di Sperimentazioni Cliniche Pediatriche, PRINTO, Genoa, Italy, ⁴IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, UOC Servizio di Sperimentazioni Cliniche Pediatriche, PRINTO, Genova, Italy, ⁵Hospital de Pediatria Juan P Garrahan, Servicio de Inmunologia/Reumatologia, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁶Sao Paulo State University, Botucatu, Brazil, ⁷PAIR Unit, Children's Hospital Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, ⁸Ain Shams University, Italian Hospital St Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt, ⁹SRCC Childrens Hospital, Mumbai, India, ¹⁰Institute of Child Health, Pediatric Medicine, Kolkata, India, ¹¹Rheumatology Unit, ERN ReConnet Center, Meyer Children's Hospital IRCCS, Florence Italy. NeuroFARBA Department, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, ¹²Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda-Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Pediatric Rheumatology, Milan, Italy, ¹³Istituto Gaetano Pini, Divisione di Reumatologia, Milan, Italy, ¹⁴Bambino Gesu Children's Hospital, Division of Rheumatology, Rome, Italy, ¹⁵Immunology and Rheumatology Unit, Regina Margherita Children Hospital, Turin, Italy, ¹⁶P.O. Vito Fazzi, Uo Pediatria - Sezione Reumatologia e Immunologia Pediatrica, Lecce, Italy, ¹⁷King Hussein Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, Amman, Jordan, ¹⁸Department of Paediatrics, Riga Stradins University, Children University Hospital, Riga, Latvia, ¹⁹Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Pediatrics, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, ²⁰Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia, ²¹King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ²²Mahidol University Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand, ²³Direzione Scientifica, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy, ²⁴Direzione Scientifica, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genova, Italy
Background/Purpose: The systemic Juvenile Arthritis Disease Activity Score (sJADAS) is a composite disease activity (DA) score specifically validated for use in systemic JIA (sJIA), whose…
Abstract Number: 2132 • ACR Convergence 2023
Systematic Screening for Multimorbidities Leads to an Increased Use of Comorbidity-preventing Medications and Lower Hospitalization Rates
Claire Daien¹, Vera Georgescu², Guillaume Decarriere³, Gael Mouterde³, Cedric Lukas⁴, Gregoire Mercier² and JACQUES MOREL⁵, ¹University Hospital, Montpellier, France, ²Department of Medical Information, Montpellier, France, ³Rheumatology, Montpellier, France, ⁴CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, France, ⁵Protocole thérapeutique immuno-rhumatologie, Montpellier, France
Background/Purpose: Systematic screening for multimorbidities has been carried out since 2014 at Montpellier University Hospital in patients with chronic inflammatory rheumatism (IRD). The aim of…
Abstract Number: 0529 • ACR Convergence 2023
Sex-dependent Differences in Disease Characteristics Do Not Influence Effectiveness of Secukinumab Therapy in Patients with Active Axial Spondyloarthritis in a Non-Interventional Trial (AQUILA)
Michaela Koehm¹, Maximilian Klippstein², Sabine Kugler³, Sina Mackay³, Daniel Schulz³, Asmir Vodencarevic⁴, Guillaume Wendt⁴, Daniel Peterlik⁴, Uta Kiltz⁵, Jan Brandt-Juergens⁶ and Frank Behrens⁷, ¹University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, ²Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP, Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Immune Mediated Diseases CIMD, Frankfurt, Germany, ³Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS, Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Immune Mediated Diseases CIMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany, ⁴Novartis Pharma GmbH, Nürnberg, Germany, ⁵Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne, Germany, ⁶rheumatologische Schwerpunktpraxis, Berlin, Germany, ⁷Goethe-University & Fraunhofer ITMP, Frankfurt, Germany
Background/Purpose: Individualized treatment strategies are of high importance in the treatment of patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA). IL-17A inhibition has demonstrated good efficacy on axSpA.…

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