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Abstract Number: 2124 • ACR Convergence 2022
Immunological Differences Between PsA Patients Who Are Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitor-Naïve and Who Have Inadequate Response to Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors
Stefan Siebert¹, Laura Coates², Georg Schett³, Siba P. Raychaudhuri⁴, Warner Chen⁵, Sheng Gao⁵, Soumya Chakravarty⁶, May Shawi⁷, Frederic Lavie⁸, Elke Theander⁹, Marlies Neuhold¹⁰, Alexa Kollmeier¹¹, Xie L Xu¹², Proton Rahman¹³, Philip J Mease¹⁴ and Atul Deodhar¹⁵, ¹Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, ²Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Oxford, England, United Kingdom, ³Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁴Rheumatology, Allergy, and Clinical Immunology, University of California Davis, School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, ⁵Janssen Research and Development, LLC, Spring House, PA, ⁶Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC; Drexel University College of Medicine, Villanova, PA, ⁷Immunology Global Medical Affairs, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, Horsham, PA, ⁸The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, Paris, France, Paris, France, ⁹Janssen Cilag, Lund, Sweden, ¹⁰Janssen, Zug, Switzerland, ¹¹Janssen-Cilag, Research & Development, LLC, San Diego, CA, ¹²Janssen Research & Development, LLC, San Diego, CA, USA, San Marcos, CA, ¹³Memorial University, St. John's, NL, Canada, ¹⁴Swedish Medical Center/Providence St. Joseph Health, Seattle, WA, ¹⁵Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA, Portland, OR
Background/Purpose: A better understanding of the immunological differences between psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients (pts) who are tumor necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFi)-naïve and who have inadequate…
Abstract Number: 2121 • ACR Convergence 2022
Long-term Persistence of Second-line Biologics in Psoriatic Arthritis Patients with Prior TNF Inhibitor Exposure: A Nationwide Cohort Study from the French Health Insurance Database
Laura Pina Vegas¹, Emilie sbidian² and Pascal Claudepierre³, ¹Service de Rhumatologie, AP-HP, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France, ²Service de Dermatologie, AP-HP, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France, ³Paris Est Creteil University, Creteil, France
Background/Purpose: Tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) are most often the first choice biologic treatment for patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA). When their discontinuation is needed,…
Abstract Number: 2103 • ACR Convergence 2022
Association of Telomere Length with Phenotypic Frailty in Adults with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Sarah Lieber¹, Robyn Lipschultz¹, Syed Zahid², Myriam Lin¹, Neal Lue² and Lisa Mandl¹, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Frailty is an increasingly recognized risk factor for adverse health outcomes in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Preliminary evidence is conflicting regarding whether telomere length,…
Abstract Number: 2128 • ACR Convergence 2022
Consistent Long-Term Guselkumab Efficacy Across Psoriatic Arthritis Domains Irrespective of Baseline Patient Characteristics
Iain B McInnes¹, John Tesser², Elena Schiopu³, Joseph Merola⁴, Soumya Chakravarty⁵, Emmanouil Rampakakis⁶, Natalie Shiff⁷, Alexa Kollmeier⁸, Xie L Xu⁹, May Shawi¹⁰, Frederic Lavie¹¹, Paul Bird¹² and Philip J Mease¹³, ¹Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, ²Arizona Arthritis & Rheumatology Associates, Phoenix, AZ, ³Michigan Medicine Rheumatology Clinic – Taubman Center, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁴Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁵Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC; Drexel University College of Medicine, Villanova, PA, ⁶McGill University, Department of Pediatrics and JSS Medical Research, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁷Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC; Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan, Philadelphia, PA, ⁸Janssen-Cilag, Research & Development, LLC, San Diego, CA, ⁹Janssen Research & Development, LLC, San Diego, CA, USA, San Marcos, CA, ¹⁰Immunology Global Medical Affairs, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, Horsham, PA, ¹¹The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, Paris, France, Paris, France, ¹²University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, ¹³Swedish Medical Center/Providence St. Joseph Health, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: In the phase 3 DISCOVER (D)-1 and D-2 studies, guselkumab (GUS) significantly improved joint symptoms, skin disease, enthesitis, dactylitis, physical function, and quality of…
Abstract Number: 2132 • ACR Convergence 2022
Safety of Deucravacitinib, an Oral, Selective Tyrosine Kinase 2 Inhibitor: As Assessed by Laboratory Parameters – Results from a Phase 2 Trial in Psoriatic Arthritis and 2 Phase 3 Trials in Psoriasis
Roy Fleischmann¹, Diamant Thaci², Melinda Gooderham³, Bruce Strober⁴, Neil J. Korman⁵, Subhashis Banerjee⁶, Tom Lehman⁶, Miroslawa Nowak⁶, Antoine Sreih⁷, Akimichi Morita⁸ and Philip J Mease⁹, ¹Metroplex Clinical Research Center and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ²Institute and Comprehensive Center for Inflammation Medicine, University Hospital of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany, ³SKiN Centre for Dermatology, Queen’s University, Probity Medical Research, Peterborough, Canada, ⁴Yale University, New Haven, CT; Central Connecticut Dermatology Research, Cromwell, CT, ⁵Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH, ⁶Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, ⁷Bristol Myers Squibb, Philadelphia, PA, ⁸Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan, ⁹Swedish Medical Center/Providence St. Joseph Health, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Deucravacitinib (DEUC) is a novel, oral, selective, allosteric tyrosine kinase 2 (TYK2) inhibitor with a unique mechanism of action distinct from Janus kinase (JAK)…
Abstract Number: 2130 • ACR Convergence 2022
Apremilast in Bio-Naïve Patients with Early Psoriatic Arthritis: A National, Real-Life, Multicenter, Non-Interventional, Prospective, 52-week Cohort Study
Petros P. Sfikakis¹, Dimitrios Vassilopoulos², Gkikas Katsifis³, Georgios Vosvotekas⁴, Theodoros Dimitroulas⁵, Argyro Repa⁶, Grigorios Sakellariou⁷, THEODORA SIMOPOULOU⁸, Athanasios Georgountzos⁹, Andreas Bounas¹⁰, Panagiotis Georgiou¹¹, Evangelia Mole¹², Evangelia Kataxaki¹³, Stamatis Nick Liossis¹⁴, Evangelos Theodorou¹⁵, Christina Antoniadou¹⁶, EVANGELOS THEOTIKOS¹⁷, PANAYIOTIS VLACHOYIANNOPOULOS¹⁸, THEODORA MARKATSELI¹⁹, Angeliki Kekki²⁰, NIKOLAOS ANTONAKOPOULOS²¹ and Dimitrios Boumpas²², ¹Joint Academic Rheumatology Program, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece, ²Clinical Immunology-Rheumatology Unit, 2nd Department of Internal Medicine and Laboratory, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, Athens, Greece, ³Naval Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece, ⁴Euromedica General Clinic of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, Thessaloniki, Greece, ⁵4th Department of Internal medicine, Hippokration Hospital, School of medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, Thessaloniki, Greece, ⁶Rheumatology, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University of Crete School of Medicine, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, ⁷Department of Rheumatology, 424 General Army Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece, Thessaloniki, Greece, ⁸Clinic of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece, Larissa, Larisa, Greece, ⁹General Hospital of Athens G. Gennimatas, Athens, Greece, ¹⁰Olympion private General Clinic of Patras, Patras, Greece;, Patra, Akhaia, Greece, ¹¹Rheumatology Unit, Agios Andreas Hospital, Patras, Greece, PATRA, Akhaia, Greece, ¹²Department of Rheumatology, KAT General Hospital of Attica, Athens, Greece, ¹³Rheumatology Unit, Thriasio General Hospital of Elefsina, Magoula, Greece, ¹⁴Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Patras University Hospital, University of Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece, Patras, Akhaia, Greece, ¹⁵Rheumatology Clinic 251 Hellenic Air Force Hospital, Athens, Greece, ¹⁶First Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece, ¹⁷Rheumatology Department, Asklepieion Voulas General Hospital, Athens, Greece, ¹⁸Department of Pathophysiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, ¹⁹Rheumatology Clinic, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece, ²⁰Genesis Pharma SA, Halandri, Greece, ²¹Genesis Pharma SA, Chalandri, Greece, ²²4th Department of Internal Medicine, "Attikon" University Hospital, Athens, Joint Academic Rheumatology Program, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Background/Purpose: Apremilast is a targeted synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (tsDMARD) approved for psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Few clinical studies assessing treatment regimens in PsA have focused…
Abstract Number: 2134 • ACR Convergence 2022
Deucravacitinib Long-term Efficacy and Safety in Plaque Psoriasis: 2-Year Results from the Phase 3 POETYK PSO Program
Richard Warren¹, Howard Sofen², Shinichi Imafuku³, Jacek C. Szepietowski⁴, Andrew Blauvelt⁵, Lynda Spelman⁶, Jessica Toms⁷, Alex Buck⁸, Subhashis Banerjee⁷ and Alan Menter⁹, ¹The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ²UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ³Fukuoka University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan, ⁴Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland, ⁵Oregon Medical Research Center, Portland, OR, USA, Portland, OR, ⁶Veracity Clinical Research, Woolloongabba, Australia, ⁷Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, ⁸Bristol Myers Squibb; Cytel Inc, Princeton, ⁹Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Background/Purpose: Tyrosine kinase 2 (TYK2) is an intracellular kinase that mediates signalling of key cytokines (eg, IL-23 and Type I IFN) involved in the pathogenesis…
Abstract Number: 2133 • ACR Convergence 2022
Baseline Biomarkers Predict Better Responses to Deucravacitinib, an Oral, Selective Tyrosine Kinase 2 (TYK2) Inhibitor, in a Phase 2 Trial in Psoriatic Arthritis
Oliver FitzGerald¹, Dafna Gladman², Philip J Mease³, Christopher Ritchlin⁴, Josef Smolen⁵, Lu Gao⁶, Sarah Hu⁶, Miroslawa Nowak⁶, Subhashis Banerjee⁶ and Ian M. Catlett⁶, ¹Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, ²Toronto Western Hospital, Schroeder Arthritis Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Swedish Medical Center/Providence St. Joseph Health, Seattle, WA, ⁴Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology Division, University of Rochester Medical School, Canandaigua, NY, ⁵Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ⁶Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ
Background/Purpose: Deucravacitinib (DEUC) is a novel, oral, selective TYK2 inhibitor with a unique allosteric mechanism of action that has demonstrated efficacy in patients with psoriasis1…
Abstract Number: 2127 • ACR Convergence 2022
Guselkumab Provides Continued Improvement in Key Domains of Psoriatic Arthritis Through 2 Years
Laura Coates¹, Laure Gossec², Christine Contré³, May Shawi⁴, Emmanouil Rampakakis⁵, Natalie Shiff⁶, Alexa Kollmeier⁷, Xie L Xu⁸, Peter Nash⁹, Philip J Mease¹⁰ and Philip Helliwell¹¹, ¹Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Oxford, England, United Kingdom, ²Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, ³Formerly at Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, ⁴Immunology Global Medical Affairs, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, Horsham, PA, ⁵McGill University, Department of Pediatrics and JSS Medical Research, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁶Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC; Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan, Philadelphia, PA, ⁷Janssen-Cilag, Research & Development, LLC, San Diego, CA, ⁸Janssen Research & Development, LLC, San Diego, CA, USA, San Marcos, CA, ⁹School of Medicine, Griffith University, Sunshine Coast, Australia, ¹⁰Swedish Medical Center/Providence St. Joseph Health, Seattle, WA, ¹¹Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Recent guidelines from the Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (GRAPPA) recommend that psoriatic arthritis (PsA) therapy achieve lowest possible…
Abstract Number: 2135 • ACR Convergence 2022
Evaluation of Candidate Protein Biomarkers to Predict Treatment Response in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis
James C Waddington¹, Ruoyi Zhou¹, Orla Coleman¹, Bruna Wundervald², Andrew Parnell³, Vinod Chandran⁴, Lara Fallon⁵, Douglass Chapman⁶, Remy Pollock⁷, Shibing Deng⁸, Oliver FitzGerald⁹, Stephen R Pennington¹⁰ and Philip J Mease¹¹, ¹Atturos, Dublin, Ireland, ²Atturos/Hamilton Institute, Maynooth University, Dublin, Ireland, ³Hamilton Institute, Maynooth University, Kildare, Ireland, ⁴Departments of Medicine and Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto/ Schroeder Arthritis Institute, Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Pfizer Inc, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁶Pfizer Inc, New York, NY, ⁷Pfizer Canada ULC, Kirkland QC, Canada, ⁸Pfizer Inc, Waterford, MI, ⁹Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, ¹⁰Atturos/Conway Institute for Biomolecular Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, ¹¹Swedish Medical Center/Providence St. Joseph Health, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Tofacitinib is an oral Janus kinase inhibitor for the treatment of PsA.1,2 Using two mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomic approaches (targeted multiple reaction monitoring [MRM]…
Abstract Number: 2126 • ACR Convergence 2022
Impact of Risankizumab on Enthesitis and Dactylitis: Integrated Analysis of the Phase 3, Randomized, Double-Blind KEEPsAKE 1 and 2 Trials
Shawn Kwatra¹, Saakshi Khattri², Ahmad Amin³, Huzefa Photowala⁴, Ran Liu⁴, Byron Padilla⁵, Blair Kaplan⁴ and Dennis McGonagle⁶, ¹John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, ³Northwestern Medicine Dermatology, Chicago, IL, ⁴AbbVie, Inc., North Chicago, IL, ⁵AbbVie, Inc., Waukegan, IL, ⁶Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds; National Institute for Health Research, Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a progressive condition with chronic inflammation and joint destruction impacting quality of life.1 Dactylitis and enthesitis are clinically relevant domains…
Abstract Number: 2102 • ACR Convergence 2022
Does Remission According Definition of Remission in SLE (DORIS) 2021 Match the Treating Rheumatologist Judgment? Analysis at Recruitment of a Prospective Study of 500 SLE Patients from a Spanish Multicenter Cohort
Irene Altabas Gonzalez¹, Coral Mouriño Rodriguez¹, Iñigo Rúa-Figueroa², Francisco Rubiño³, Iñigo Hernandez Rodriguez¹, Raul Menor Almagro⁴, Esther Uriarte Isacelaya⁵, Eva Tomero Muriel⁶, Tarek Carlos Salman-Monte⁷, Irene Carrion Barbera⁸, maria Galindo⁹, Esther Rodriguez Almaraz⁹, Norman Jimenez¹⁰, Luis Ines Sousa¹¹ and Jose M Pego-Reigosa¹², ¹Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Vigo, Vigo, Spain, ²Hospital Universitario Dr Negrín, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, ³Hospital Universitario de Jerez de la Frontera, Jerez de la frontera, Spain, ⁴Hospital Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Spain, ⁵Hospital Universitario Donostia, Donostia, Spain, ⁶Hospital Universitario La Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ⁷Hospital del Mar/Parc de Salut Mar-IMIM/UEC-AIS, Barcelona, Spain, ⁸Hospital del Mar, Rheumatology, Barcelona, Spain, ⁹Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁰IRIDIS Group, Vigo, Spain, ¹¹Centro Hospitalar e Universitario de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, ¹²Hospital Meixoeiro, Vigo, Spain
Background/Purpose: An accurate target in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) Treat to Target strategies has been challenging over the past years. Recently, a new definition of…
Abstract Number: 2143 • ACR Convergence 2022
Effect of Upadacitinib and Adalimumab on Residual Pain Among Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis Whose Inflammation Was Attenuated After Three and Six Months of Treatment
Louis Bessette¹, Georg Pongratz², Luca Navarini³, Rodrigo Garcia Salinas⁴, Tianming Gao⁵, Marie-Claude Laliberté⁶, Ralph Lippe⁷ and Philip J Mease⁸, ¹Centre de l'Ostoporose et de Rhumatologie de Québec, Québec, QC, Canada, ²Asklepios Clinic Bad Abbach, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany, ³Rheumatology, Immunology, and Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Rome, Italy, ⁴Hospital Italiano de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina, ⁵AbbVie, Inc., North Chicago, IL, ⁶AbbVie, Québec, QC, Canada, ⁷AbbVie, Inc, Wiesbaden, Germany, ⁸Swedish Medical Center/Providence St. Joseph Health, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Managing pain, a predominant symptom of psoriatic arthritis (PsA), is a priority for patients and healthcare providers. Upadacitinib (UPA), a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor,…
Abstract Number: 2142 • ACR Convergence 2022
Strong Correlation Between Short- vs Long-form Composite Measures of Psoriatic Arthritis Disease Activity in a TNFi-IR Population Treated with Guselkumab: Data from the Phase 3b COSMOS Trial
William Tillett¹, Laura Coates², Mohamed Sharaf³, Marlies Neuhold⁴, Elke Theander⁵, Paul Bergmans⁶, May Shawi⁷, Michelle Perate⁸, Christine Contré⁹ and Philip Helliwell¹⁰, ¹Centre for Therapeutic Innovation, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom, ²Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Oxford, England, United Kingdom, ³Johnson & Johnson, Middle East FZ LLC, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, ⁴Takeda Europe & Canada Business Unit (EUCAN) Medical Affairs, Zurich, Switzerland; formerly at Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC, Zug, Switzerland, ⁵Formerly at Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC, Solna, Sweden, ⁶Formerly at Janssen, Breda, Netherlands, ⁷Immunology Global Medical Affairs, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, Horsham, PA, ⁸Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC, Horsham, PA, ⁹Formerly at Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, ¹⁰Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Accurate assessment of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) disease activity in clinical practice requires a feasible, continuous, multidimensional composite instrument to assess key domains of this…
Abstract Number: 2144 • ACR Convergence 2022
JAK Inhibition Re-balances Gene Expression Profile of Circulating Immune Cells in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis
Maria Gabriella Raimondo¹, Charles Gwellem Anchang¹, Hannah Labinsky², Mina Saad Aziz Saad¹, Simon Rauber¹, Mario Vogg¹, Eleni Kampylafka¹, Johannes Knitza¹, Alina Soare¹, Georg Schett³ and Andreas Ramming¹, ¹Department of Internal Medicine 3 – Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, 91054 Erlangen, Germany; Deutsches Zentrum Immuntherapie, Friedrich-Alexander-UniversityErlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ²Department of Internal Medicine 3 - Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, 91054 Erlangen, Germany; Deutsches Zentrum Immuntherapie, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ³Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
Background/Purpose: Janus Kinase (JAK)/Signal Transducers and Activator of Transcription (STAT) is not only involved in IL23- signaling, but rather implemented into a broad range of…

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