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Abstract Number: 0191 • ACR Convergence 2021
Influence of Canakinumab Dosing on Long-term Efficacy and Safety in Patients with Cryopyrin-associated Periodic Syndromes (CAPS) – 30-months Interim Analysis of the RELIANCE Registry
Jasmin Kuemmerle-Deschner¹, Birgit Kortus-Goetze², Prasad T. Oommen³, Aleš Janda⁴, Juergen Rech⁵, Tilmann Kallinich⁶, Frank Weller-Heinemann⁷, Gerd Horneff⁸, Ivan Foeldvari⁹, Catharina Schuetz¹⁰, Michael Borte¹¹, Axel Braner¹², Julia Weber-Arden¹³ and Norbert Blank¹⁴, ¹Pediatric Rheumatology and Autoinflammatory Reference Center, University Children's Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, ²Division of Nephrology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany, ³Clinic of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Clinical Immunology, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany, ⁴Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany, ⁵Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nuernberg and Universitaetsklinikum Erlangen, Department of Internal Medicine 3 - Rheumatology and Immunology, Germany, Erlangen, Germany, ⁶Charité University Medicine, Nuremberg, Germany, ⁷Klinikum Bremen-Mitte, Prof. Hess Kinderklinik, Bremen, Germany, ⁸Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO), Sankt Augustin, Germany, ⁹Hamburger Zentrum fuer Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie, Hamburg, Germany, ¹⁰Pediatrics, Medizinische Fakultaet Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Dresden, Germany, ¹¹ImmunoDeficiencyCenter Leipzig (IDCL), Hospital St. Georg gGmbH Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, ¹²Department of Medicine II, Rheumatology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany, Frankfurt a.M., Germany, ¹³Novartis Pharma GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany, ¹⁴Rheumatology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Eppelheim, Germany
Background/Purpose: The IL-1 inhibitor canakinumab (CAN) induces rapid remission of symptoms of CAPS (Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes), a monogenic autoinflammatory disease with severe systemic inflammation, both…
Abstract Number: 0194 • ACR Convergence 2021
Eye Opening: Use of IL-6 Inhibition in Non-Paraneoplastic Autoimmune Retinopathy
Lisa Carnago¹, Robert Keenan², Glenn Jaffe¹, Jordan Deaner¹ and Dilraj Grewal¹, ¹Duke Health, Durham, NC, ²Florence Rheumatology Center, Articularis Healthcare, Florence, NC
Background/Purpose: There is a lack of robust guidance and consistently effective treatment modalities in non-paraneoplastic autoimmune retinopathy (npAIR) with cystoid macula edema (CME), which is…
Abstract Number: 0193 • ACR Convergence 2021
Tocilizumab for the Treatment of Familial Mediterranean Fever – a Randomized, Double Blind, Placebo-controlled Phase II Study
Jorg Henes¹, Sebastian Saur², David Kofler³, Martin Krusche⁴, Theodoros Xenitidis⁵, Christoph Meisner⁶, Claudia Kedor⁷, Ina Koetter⁸, Hendrik Schulze-Koops⁹ and Eugen Feist¹⁰, ¹University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, ²Universtiy Hostpiatl Tübingen, Tuebingen, Germany, ³Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department I of Internal Medicine; University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany, ⁴Charite Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁵University Hospital Tuebingen, Rheumatology, Tuebingen, Germany, ⁶University Tuebingen, Statistics, Tuebingen, Germany, ⁷Charite University Hospital Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁸University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, ⁹Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine IV, University of Munich, Munich, Germany, ¹⁰Helios Department of Rheumatology, Vogelsang-Gommern, Germany
Background/Purpose: Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is the most common auto-inflammatory disease characterized by chronic inflammation, recurrent episodes of fever, abdominal and thoracic pain due to…
Abstract Number: 0192 • ACR Convergence 2021
Influence of Canakinumab Dosing on Efficacy and Safety of Long-term Treatment in Patients with Familial Mediterranean Fever – Interim Analysis of the RELIANCE Registry
Jorg Henes¹, Norbert Blank², Tilmann Kallinich³, Frank Dressler⁴, Gerd Horneff⁵, Ivan Foeldvari⁶, Markus Hufnagel⁷, Birgit Kortus-Goetze⁸, Frank Weller-Heinemann⁹, Florian Meier¹⁰, Julia Weber-Arden¹¹ and Jasmin Kuemmerle-Deschner¹², ¹University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, ²Rheumatology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Eppelheim, Germany, ³Charité University Medicine, Nuremberg, Germany, ⁴Division of Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, ⁵Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO), Sankt Augustin, Germany, ⁶Hamburger Zentrum fuer Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie, Hamburg, Germany, ⁷Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Medical Center Freiburg, Medical Faculty, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, ⁸Division of Nephrology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany, ⁹Klinikum Bremen-Mitte, Prof. Hess Kinderklinik, Bremen, Germany, ¹⁰1 Division of Rheumatology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2 Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, Project Group Translational Medicine and Pharmacology TMP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Frankfurt a.M., Germany, ¹¹Novartis Pharma GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany, ¹²Pediatric Rheumatology and Autoinflammatory Reference Center, University Children's Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
Background/Purpose: Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is characterized by severe systemic and organ inflammation. Successful treatment with rapid remission of symptoms and normalization of laboratory parameters…
Abstract Number: 0187 • ACR Convergence 2021
Safety and Tolerability of Nintedanib in Patients with Autoimmune Disease-Related Interstitial Lung Diseases: Pooled Data from the SENSCIS and INBUILD Trials
Vanessa Smith¹, Shervin Assassi², Yannick Allanore³, Lazaro Loaiza⁴, Inga Tschoepe⁵, Madhu Kanakapura⁴ and Elizabeth Volkmann⁶, ¹Department of Rheumatology and Internal Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium, ²University of Texas McGovern Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX, ³Department of Rheumatology A, Descartes University, APHP, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France, ⁴Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH, Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany, Ingelheim, Germany, ⁵Elderbrook Solutions, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany, ⁶Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of California, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: The efficacy and safety of nintedanib have been investigated in patients with systemic sclerosis-associated ILD (SSc-ILD) in the SENSCIS trial and in patients with…
Abstract Number: 0198 • ACR Convergence 2021
High Dose Intravenous Methylprednisolone Induces Rapid Improvement of Visual Acuity in Non-Infectious Uveitis of Different Immune Mediated Inflammatory Diseases
Nuria Vegas-Revenga¹, José Luis Martin-Varillas², Vanesa Calvo-Río³, Iñigo Gonzalez-Mazon⁴, Lara Sánchez-Bilbao⁵, Emma Beltrán Catalán⁶, Alejandro Fonollosa⁷, Ana Blanco⁸, Ana Blanco⁹, Miguel Cordero Coma¹⁰, Norberto Ortego¹¹, Ignacio Torre¹², Felix Hernandez¹³, Santiago Muñóz-Fernández¹⁴, Maria del Mar Esteban-Ortega¹⁴, Manuel Diaz-Llopis¹⁵, Joaquin Cañal⁵, Juan Antonio Ventosa⁵, Rosalía Demetrio-Pablo¹⁶, Lucia Cristina Dominguez Casas¹⁷, Santos Castañeda¹⁸, Iván Ferraz-Amaro¹⁹, Miguel Ángel gonzalez-Gay²⁰ and Ricardo Blanco³, ¹Hospital Galdakao, Galdakao, Spain, ²Hospital Sierrallana, Torrelavega, Spain, ³Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ⁴H. U. Marques de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ⁵Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ⁶Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, ⁷Hospital Universitario de Cruces, Barakaldo, Spain, ⁸Hospital Universitario de Donostia, San Sebastián, ⁹Hospital Universitario de Donostia, Donostia, Spain, ¹⁰Hospital de León, Leon, Spain, ¹¹Medicine Department, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain, ¹²Hospital Universitario de Basurto, Bilbao, Spain, ¹³Hospital Doctor Negrín, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, ¹⁴Hospital Universitario Infanta Sofia, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁵Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia, Spain, ¹⁶Hospital Universitario de Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ¹⁷Hospital Universtario San Agustin, Oviedo, Spain, ¹⁸Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁹Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, ²⁰Research group on Genetic Epidemiology and Atherosclerosis in Systemic Diseases and in Metabolic Bone Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System, IDIVAL, Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla; School of Medicine, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain. Cardiovascular Pathophysiology and Genomics Research Unit, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Background/Purpose: Rapid and effective remission-inducing therapy is mandatory in uveitis to avoid irreversible structural and functional damage. In some severe cases biological agents might be…
Abstract Number: 0197 • ACR Convergence 2021
Successful Treatment of Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia with Simultaneous Tocilizumab and Anakinra – A Case Series
Hildrun Haibel¹, Stefan Angermair², Michael Schumann², Janis Vahldiek³, Denis Poddubnyy⁴ and Thomas Schneider², ¹Department of Gastroenterology, Infectiology and Rheumatology (including Nutrition Medicine), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ²Charité University Medicine Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany, ³Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose: Severe and life threating COVID-19 pneumonia is often characterized by local and systemic immune-mediated hyperinflammation At the early disease stage activated monocytes are migrating…
Abstract Number: 0195 • ACR Convergence 2021
JAK Inhibitors in Refractory Adult and Childhood-Onset Still’s Disease
Louise GILLARD¹, Stéphane Mitrovic², Jacques Pouchot³, Fleur Cohen¹, Martin Michaud⁴, Heloise Reumaux⁵, Isabelle Kone-Paut⁶ and Bruno Fautrel⁷, ¹Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France, ²Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital - Institut Mutaliste Montsouris, Paris, France, ³AP-HP, RUEIL-MALMAISON, France, ⁴Joseph Ducuing Hospital, Toulouse, France, ⁵Jeanne de Flandre Hospital, Lille, France, ⁶APHP, Bicetre hospital, Le Kremlin bictre, France, ⁷Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital, APHP, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: Excessive and inappropriate production of pro-inflammatory cytokines such as interleukin IL-1, IL-6 or IL-18, is a pathogenic cornerstone in adult and childhood onset Still’s…
Abstract Number: 0199 • ACR Convergence 2021
Rapid Improvement in Cystoid Macular Edema with High Dose Intravenous Methylprednisolone in Non-Infectious Uveitis of Different Immune Mediated Inflammatory Diseases
Nuria Vegas-Revenga¹, José Luis Martin-Varillas², Vanesa Calvo-Río³, Iñigo Gonzalez-Mazon⁴, Lara Sánchez-Bilbao⁵, Emma Beltrán Catalán⁶, Alejandro Fonollosa⁷, Ana Blanco⁸, Ana Blanco⁹, Miguel Cordero Coma¹⁰, Norberto Ortego¹¹, Ignacio Torre¹², Felix Hernandez¹³, Santiago Muñóz-Fernández¹⁴, Maria del Mar Esteban-Ortega¹⁴, Manuel Diaz-Llopis¹⁵, Joaquin Cañal⁵, Juan Antonio Ventosa⁵, Rosalía Demetrio-Pablo¹⁶, Lucia Cristina Dominguez Casas¹⁷, Santos Castañeda¹⁸, Iván Ferraz-Amaro¹⁹, Miguel Ángel gonzalez-Gay²⁰ and Ricardo Blanco³, ¹Hospital Galdakao, Galdakao, Spain, ²Hospital Sierrallana, Torrelavega, Spain, ³Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ⁴H. U. Marques de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ⁵Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ⁶Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, ⁷Hospital Universitario de Cruces, Barakaldo, Spain, ⁸Hospital Universitario de Donostia, San Sebastián, ⁹Hospital Universitario de Donostia, Donostia, Spain, ¹⁰Hospital de León, Leon, Spain, ¹¹Medicine Department, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain, ¹²Hospital Universitario de Basurto, Bilbao, Spain, ¹³Hospital Doctor Negrín, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, ¹⁴Hospital Universitario Infanta Sofia, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁵Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia, Spain, ¹⁶Hospital Universitario de Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ¹⁷Hospital Universtario San Agustin, Oviedo, Spain, ¹⁸Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁹Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, ²⁰Research group on Genetic Epidemiology and Atherosclerosis in Systemic Diseases and in Metabolic Bone Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System, IDIVAL, Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla; School of Medicine, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain. Cardiovascular Pathophysiology and Genomics Research Unit, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Background/Purpose: Cystoid Macular Edema (CME) is the most important cause of blindness in non-infectious uveitis (NIU) (1). Corticosteroids and conventional and/or biological immunosuppressant may be…
Abstract Number: 0201 • ACR Convergence 2021
Australian Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) Biologic Disease-modifying Antirheumatic Drug (bDMARD) Treatment Pathways Using Sankey Diagrams and Predictive Analysis: A Combined Australian Rheumatology Association Database (ARAD) and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) Analysis
Ashley Fletcher¹, Lyn March², Marissa Lassere³, Catherine Hill⁴, Claire Barrett⁵, Graeme Carroll⁶, Premarani Sinnathurai⁷ and Rachelle Buchbinder⁸, ¹Cabrini Health, Malvern, Australia, ²Institute of Bone and Joint Research, Kolling Institute, University of Sydney; Department of Rheumatology, Royal North Shore Hospital, Northern Sydney Local Health District, St Leonards, Sydney, Australia, ³St George Hospital; School of Population Health, University of New South Wales, Carlton, Australia, ⁴Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, Australia, ⁵Redcliffe Hospital, University of Queensland, Margate Beach, Australia, ⁶Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth, Australia, ⁷Institute of Bone and Joint Research, Kolling Institute, University of Sydney; Department of Rheumatology, Royal North Shore Hospital, Northern Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, Australia, ⁸Cabrini Health/Monash University, Malvern, Australia
Background/Purpose: To describe current bDMARD treatment patterns for ARAD participants with PsA, after combining with linked government PBS data.Methods: ARAD, a voluntary longitudinal observational database…
Abstract Number: 0200 • ACR Convergence 2021
In Undifferentiated Arthritis, DMARD-treatment Intensified During the Last Decennia but Did Not Result in Improved Outcomes
Marloes Verstappen, Xanthe Matthijssen and Annette H.M van der Helm-van Mil, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: International guidelines stress timely DMARD-initiation in early arthritis, also when classification-criteria are not yet fulfilled. Consequently, undifferentiated arthritis (UA)-patients are increasingly treated despite placebo-controlled…
Abstract Number: 0196 • ACR Convergence 2021
A Single Center, Double Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Anakinra in Adult Patients with Features of Cytokine Storm Syndrome in COVID-19
Lesley Jackson¹, Randy Cron¹, Nitasha Khullar², Christopher Chapleau³, Dongmei Sun⁴ and Winn Chatham¹, ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³UAB Pharmacy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Some patients with COVID-19 develop respiratory distress and cytokine storm syndrome (CSS) which is characterized by hyperinflammation and may progress to multi-organ failure. Anakinra…
Abstract Number: 0190 • ACR Convergence 2021
Long-term Safety of Canakinumab in Patients with Autoinflammatory Periodic Fever Syndromes – Interim Analysis of the RELIANCE Registry
Jasmin Kuemmerle-Deschner¹, Jorg Henes², Birgit Kortus-Goetze³, Tilmann Kallinich⁴, Prasad T. Oommen⁵, Juergen Rech⁶, Frank Weller-Heinemann⁷, Gerd Horneff⁸, Ivan Foeldvari⁹, Aleš Janda¹⁰, Catharina Schuetz¹¹, Frank Dressler¹², Michael Borte¹³, Markus Hufnagel¹⁴, Axel Braner¹⁵, Florian Meier¹⁶, Michael Fiene¹⁷, Julia Weber-Arden¹⁸ and Norbert Blank¹⁹, ¹Pediatric Rheumatology and Autoinflammatory Reference Center, University Children's Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, ²University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, ³Division of Nephrology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany, ⁴Charité University Medicine, Nuremberg, Germany, ⁵Clinic of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Clinical Immunology, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany, ⁶Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nuernberg and Universitaetsklinikum Erlangen, Department of Internal Medicine 3 - Rheumatology and Immunology, Germany, Erlangen, Germany, ⁷Klinikum Bremen-Mitte, Prof. Hess Kinderklinik, Bremen, Germany, ⁸Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO), Sankt Augustin, Germany, ⁹Hamburger Zentrum fuer Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie, Hamburg, Germany, ¹⁰Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany, ¹¹Pediatrics, Medizinische Fakultaet Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Dresden, Germany, ¹²Division of Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, ¹³ImmunoDeficiencyCenter Leipzig (IDCL), Hospital St. Georg gGmbH Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, ¹⁴Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Medical Center Freiburg, Medical Faculty, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, ¹⁵Department of Medicine II, Rheumatology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany, Frankfurt a.M., Germany, ¹⁶1 Division of Rheumatology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2 Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, Project Group Translational Medicine and Pharmacology TMP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Frankfurt a.M., Germany, ¹⁷Department of Internal Medicine, District Hospital Demmin, Demmin, Germany, ¹⁸Novartis Pharma GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany, ¹⁹Rheumatology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Eppelheim, Germany
Background/Purpose: Autoinflammatory periodic fever syndromes (PFS) are characterized by severe systemic and organ inflammation. In clinical trials, successful treatment was achieved with the interleukin-1β inhibitor…
Abstract Number: 0171 • ACR Convergence 2021
Bone Erosions and Osteophytes in Premenopausal Women with Long-standing Rheumatoid Arthritis: Association with Systemic Bone Involvement Using HR-pQCT
Mariana Perez¹, Camille Figueiredo¹, Lucas Sales¹, ANA MEDEIROS-RIBEIRO¹, Liliam Takayama¹, Diogo Domiciano¹, Karina Bonfiglioli¹, Valeria Caparbo¹ and Rosa Pereira², ¹Rheumatology Division, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, ²Rheumatology Division, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Background/Purpose: Two patterns of bone involvement are described in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic and localized. Systemic bone involvement is characterized by loss of generalized bone…
Abstract Number: 0142 • ACR Convergence 2021
Description of a Scleroderma Cohort and Management of Lung Disease Risk at a Rural Academic Medical Center
Jenna Marinock¹, P. Daniel Nicholas², Kirsten Koons³, Rakesh Kriplani⁴, Andrea Berger⁴ and David Bulbin⁵, ¹Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, ²Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, ³Geisinger Medical Center, Lewisburg, PA, ⁴Department of Population Health Sciences, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, ⁵Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD) and pulmonary hypertension (SSc-PH) are leading causes of morbidity and mortality in patients with SSc. Few screening guidelines…

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