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Abstract Number: 0494 • ACR Convergence 2021
The Distribution of Social Deprivation, Distance to Care and Disease Burden in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients in the United States
Sharon Dowell¹, Huifeng Yun², Jeffrey Curtis³, Lang Chen⁴, Manuela Pedra-Nobre⁵, Dianne Wollaston⁶, SAWSAN NAJMEY⁷, Cynthia Lawrence-Elliott⁸, Theresa Lawrence-Ford⁹, Heather North¹⁰, Robin Dore¹¹, Soha Dolatabadi¹², Thaila Ramanujam¹³, Anne Winkler¹⁴, Stacy Kennedy¹⁵, Stephanie Ott¹⁶, Stephanie Ledbetter¹⁷, Grace Wright¹⁸ and Gail Kerr¹⁹, ¹Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC, ²University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, ⁵North Jersey Rheum. Center, Westfield, NJ, ⁶Memorial Advanced Rheumatology, Houston, TX, ⁷Midstate Rheumatology Center, PA, Freehold, NJ, ⁸North Georgia Rheum Group, Atlanta, GA, ⁹North Georgia Rheum Group, Atlanta, MD, ¹⁰Pardee UNC, Hendersonville, NC, ¹¹Robin K. Dore, MD Inc, Tustin, CA, ¹²Soha Dolatabadi, MD, Los Angeles, CA, ¹³Santa Cruz Rheumatology, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA, ¹⁴Winkler Medical Practice, Springfield, MO, ¹⁵Rowan Diagnostic Clinic, Concord, NC, ¹⁶Fairfield Medical Center, Carroll, OH, ¹⁷University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ¹⁸Grace C Wright MD PC, and Association of Women in Rheumatology, New York, NY, ¹⁹Washington D.C., Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC)/Georgetown and Howard Universities, Washington, DC
Background/Purpose: The overall success of RA therapy is dependent on access to specialty care, insurance coverage and effective management of associated comorbidities. Whether RA disease…
Abstract Number: 0493 • ACR Convergence 2021
Hospitalization for SLE Flare Has Reduced over Two Decades in the United States: A Longitudinal Population-based Study
Ehizogie Edigin¹, Precious Eseaton², Chinenye Osuorji³, Nneka Chukwu⁴, Oluyemisi Amoda⁵, Kolade Olabode⁶ and Augustine Manadan⁷, ¹Internal Medicine, John H Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL, ²University of Benin, Benin, Nigeria, ³Internal Medicine, Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, Las Cruces, NM, ⁴Nuvance Health Internal Medicine Residency, Poughkeepsie, NY, ⁵Internal Medicine, Brookdale University hospital and medical center, New York, NY, ⁶College of Public Health, Kent State University, Kent, OH, ⁷Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: Longitudinal data are limited on SLE flare hospitalizations. This study aims to study longitudinal trends of SLE flare hospitalizations in the last 2 decades…
Abstract Number: 0492 • ACR Convergence 2021
Racial Differences in Glucocorticoid Use Among Medicaid Beneficiaries with Incident Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Mia Chandler¹, Leah Santacroce², Karen Costenbader³, Rishi Desai⁴, Seoyoung Kim² and Candace Feldman², ¹Boston Children's Hospital, Brookline, MA, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Belmont, MA, ⁴Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Glucocorticoids (GCs) are an integral part of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) treatment. Long-term use of GCs is associated with adverse effects. This study evaluated…
Abstract Number: 0487 • ACR Convergence 2021
A Needs Assessment for the Transition into a Rheumatology Program Director Role: Survey of Current and Former Rheumatology Program Directors
Rachel Wolfe¹, Fotios Koumpouras², Anisha Dua³, Philip Seo⁴, Simon Helfgott⁵ and Beth Jonas⁶, ¹Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston-Salem, NC, ²Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ³Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁴Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁵Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁶University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Background/Purpose: Clinical educators taking on the new role as program director (PD) must have the time and resources to learn about all the processes (e.g.,…
Abstract Number: 0498 • ACR Convergence 2021
Background Mycophenolate (MMF) Treatment Is Associated with Improved Outcomes in a Phase 3 Trial of Lenabasum in Diffuse Cutaneous Systemic Sclerosis (dcSSc)
Robert Spiera¹, Dan Furst², Tracy Frech³, Masataka Kuwana⁴, Laura Hummers⁵, Wendy Stevens⁶, Suzanne Kafaja⁷, Eun bong Lee⁸, Scott Constantine⁹, Nancy Dgetluck⁹, Barbara White¹⁰ and Christopher Denton¹¹, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ³University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁴Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, Nippon Medical School Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ⁵Johns Hopkins Univerisity, Baltimore, MD, ⁶St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, ⁷University of California Los Angeles Division of Rheumatology, Los Angeles, CA, ⁸Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ⁹Corbus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Norwood, MA, ¹⁰Corbus Pharmaceuticals, Norwood, MA, ¹¹University College London Division of Medicine, Centre for Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Treatment of dcSSc is evolving, with limited information on relative efficacies of different immunosuppressive therapies (IST). Our hypothesis was that patients on MMF have…
Abstract Number: 0497 • ACR Convergence 2021
Efficacy in Patient Subgroups in the INCREASE Trial, a Phase III Trial to Evaluate Inhaled Treprostinil in Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension Due to Parenchymal Lung Disease
Victor Tapson¹, Steven Nathan², Reda Girgis³, James Runo⁴, Remzi Bag⁵, Arunabh Talwar⁶, Peter Smith⁷, Lisa Edwards⁷, Christine Park⁷ and Aaron Waxman⁸, ¹Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA, ²Inova Fairfax, Falls Church, VA, ³Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, ⁴University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ⁵University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ⁶Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, Hempstead, NY, ⁷United Therapeutics Corporation, Durham, NC, ⁸Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: INCREASE was a 16-week trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of inhaled treprostinil (iTRE) in patients with pulmonary hypertension associated with interstitial lung disease…
Abstract Number: 0495 • ACR Convergence 2021
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Multimorbidity Between Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Comparators in a Large Nationwide US Study
Ali Duarte-Garcia¹, Herbert Heien¹, Nilay Shah¹ and Cynthia Crowson², ¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Mayo Clinic, Eyota, MN
Background/Purpose: Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have an increased burden of multimorbidity. Racial/ethnic disparities have also been associated with an increased burden of multimorbidity.…
Abstract Number: 0499 • ACR Convergence 2021
Preliminary Assessment of Internal Reliability and Construct Validity of Long and Short-form Assessment of Systemic Sclerosis-associated RAynaud’s Phenomenon (ASRAP) Questionnaires
John Pauling¹, Lan Yu², Christopher Denton³, Tracy Frech⁴, Ariane Herrick⁵, Laura Hummers⁶, Lesley Ann Saketkoo⁷, Ami Shah⁸, Dinesh Khanna⁹ and Robyn Domsic², ¹Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath, United Kingdom, ²University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ³University College London Division of Medicine, Centre for Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases, London, United Kingdom, ⁴University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁵University of Manchester, Salford, United Kingdom, ⁶Johns Hopkins Univerisity, Baltimore, MD, ⁷University Medical Center - Comprehensive Pulmonary Hypertension Center, New Orleans, LA, ⁸Johns Hopkins Rheumatology, Baltimore, MD, ⁹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Background/Purpose: The Assessment of Systemic sclerosis-associated RAynaud’s Phenomenon (ASRAP) questionnaire is a novel patient-reported outcome instrument devised to assess the severity and impact of SSc-RP.…
Abstract Number: 0501 • ACR Convergence 2021
Immunogenicity of a Single Dose of Covid-19 Vaccination in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis with or Without Immunosupression
Vishal Kakkar¹, Rebecca Ross², Ranjitha Karanth³, Sumit Lahiri⁴, Panji Mulipa¹, Pamela Hughes⁵, Brendan Clarke⁵, Clive Carter⁵, Mark Lobb⁵, Sinisa Savic⁶ and Francesco Del Galdo¹, ¹University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ²LIRMM University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ³Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, LTHT, Leeds, United Kingdom, ⁴Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom, ⁵Transplant and Cellular Immunology, Leeds, United Kingdom, ⁶Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, Leeds, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) is a rare connective tissue disease with multi-systemic involvement, which at times requires the use of immunosuppressive medication. None of the…
Abstract Number: 0500 • ACR Convergence 2021
Clinical Phenotypes of Patients with Systemic Sclerosis with Distinct Molecular Signatures in the Skin
Monica Yang¹, Vivien Goh², Monica Espinoza³, Yiwei Yuan⁴, Julia Lee⁵, Mary Carns⁶, Dinesh Khanna⁷, Zsuzsanna McMahan⁸, Michael Whitfield⁹ and Monique Hinchcliff¹⁰, ¹University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ³Geisel School of Medicine, Hanover, NH, ⁴Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, ⁵Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ⁶Northwestern University Division of Rheumatology, Chicago, IL, ⁷University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁸Johns Hopkins Rheumatology, Baltimore, MD, ⁹Geisel School of Medicine, Lebanon, NH, ¹⁰Yale School of Medicine, Westport, CT
Background/Purpose: Although two subsets in systemic sclerosis (SSc) have been identified based on degree of skin disease, the current classification system, limited vs. diffuse cutaneous,…
Abstract Number: 0496 • ACR Convergence 2021
Safety and Efficacy of Rituximab for Systemic Sclerosis: A Double-Blind, Parallel-Group Comparison, Investigators Initiated Confirmatory Randomized Clinical Trial (DESIRES Study)
Satoshi Ebata¹, Ayumi Yoshizaki¹, Koji Oba², Kosuke Kashiwabara³, Keiko Ueda³, Yukari Umemura⁴, Takeyuki Watadani⁵, Takemichi Fukasawa¹, Shunsuke Miura¹, Asako Yoshizaki-Ogawa¹, Yoshihide Asano¹, Naoko Okiyama⁶, Masanari Kodera⁷, Minoru Hasegawa⁸ and Shinichi Sato¹, ¹Department of Dermatology, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ²Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, and Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, ³Clinical Research Support Center, The Tokyo University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, ⁴Biostatistics Section, Department of Data Science, Center for Clinical Sciences, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ⁵Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan., Tokyo, Japan, ⁶Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan., Ibaraki, Japan, ⁷Department of Dermatology, Japan Community Health Care Organization Chukyo Hospital, Aichi, Japan., Aichi, Japan, ⁸Department of Dermatology, Division of Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan., Fukui, Japan
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a systemic autoimmune disease belonging to collagen diseases, characterized by fibrosis of various organs including the skin and lungs, and…
Abstract Number: 0490 • ACR Convergence 2021
Biomarker Changes with Selective Tyrosine Kinase 2 Inhibitor, Deucravacitinib, in PsA: Effects on Disease Markers and Tyrosine Kinase 2‒ versus Janus Kinase 1/2/3‒mediated Pathways
Oliver FitzGerald¹, Dafna Gladman², Philip Mease³, Christopher Ritchlin⁴, Josef Smolen⁵, Lu Gao⁶, Sarah Hu⁶, Miroslawa Nowak⁶, Subhashis Banerjee⁶, Ian Catlett⁶ and Xiang Guo⁶, ¹Conway Institute for Biomolecular Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, ²Schroeder Arthritis Institute, Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Swedish Medical Center/Providence St. Joseph Health and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ⁴Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, ⁵Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ⁶Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ
Background/Purpose: Deucravacitinib is a novel, oral, selective tyrosine kinase 2 (TYK2) inhibitor with a unique mechanism of action that has demonstrated efficacy in patients (pts)…
Abstract Number: 0471 • ACR Convergence 2021
Therapeutic Efficacy of BT-104, an Oral LANCL2 Agonist, for the Treatment of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Andrew Leber, Raquel Hontecillas, Nuria Tubau-Juni, Sarah Fitch, Jyoti Chauhan and Josep Bassaganya-Riera, Landos Biopharma, Blacksburg, VA
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus is a complex disease in which the immune system is dysfunctional at multiple levels including impaired regulatory responses, altered self-antigen processing…
Abstract Number: 0442 • ACR Convergence 2021
Identification of Plexin D1 on Circulating Extracellular Vesicles as a Potential Biomarker of Polymyositis and Dermatomyositis
Kenichi Uto¹, Koji Ueda², Takaichi Okano¹, Kengo Akashi¹, Soshi Takahashi³, Yuji Nakamachi⁴, Takamitsu Imanishi¹, Seiji Kawano¹, Yoshihiko Yano⁵ and Jun Saegusa⁶, ¹Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Japan, ²Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan, ³Shinko Hospital, Kobe, Japan, ⁴Kobe University School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan, ⁵Department of Clinical Laboratory, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Japan, ⁶Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Japan
Background/Purpose: Extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes and microvesicles, are small membrane vesicles released by almost all cell types and are found circulating in blood and…
Abstract Number: 0379 • ACR Convergence 2021
Pain Sensitivity in Axial Spondyloarthritis – Comparisons Between Patients and Controls, Women and Men, and Between Different Pain Groups
Elisabet Lindqvist¹, Tor Olofsson², Stefan Bergman³, Ann Bremander⁴, Mats Geijer⁵, Lars Erik Kristensen⁶, Jack Kvistgaard Olsen⁶, Jonas Sagard⁷, Johan Karlsson Wallman⁸ and Elisabeth Mogard¹, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Skane University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, ²Lund University and Skane University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, ³Spenshult Research and Development Centre, Halmstad, Sweden, ⁴Spenshult research and development centre, Vilsharad, Sweden, ⁵University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska Academy, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Department of Radiology, Göteborg, Sweden, ⁶Parker Institute, Copenhagen University Hospital, Frederiksberg and Bispebjerg, Department of Rheumatology, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁷Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, ⁸Lund University and Skane University Hospital, Hjarup, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Chronic widespread pain (CWP) is common in axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA). For ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and non-radiographic axSpA (nr-axSpA) patients, no differences were found in…

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