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  • Abstract Number: 2224 • ACR Convergence 2022

    Genes Causative of Primary Immunodeficiency Are Risk Factors for and Over-expressed in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

    Haley Davis1, Adam Labonte1, Katherine Owen2, Erika Hubbard1, Jessica Kain1, Brian Kegerreis1, Prathyusha Bachali3, Amrie Grammer4 and Peter Lipsky1, 1AMPEL BioSolutions, Charlottesville, VA, 2RILITE, Crozet, VA, 3AMPEL BioSolutions, Redmond, WA, 4AMPEL LLC, Charlottesville, VA

    Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a polygenic autoimmune disease whose specific causes are incompletely understood and for which there exists no single comprehensive diagnostic…
  • Abstract Number: 2227 • ACR Convergence 2022

    Active Takayasu Arteritis Is Associated with Plasma and Cellular Measures of Endothelial Dysfunction

    Marta Peverelli1, Andrew Porter1, Kerri Malone2, Allan Kiprianos1, Tom McKinnon1, Charis Pericleous1, Robert Maughan1 and Justin Mason1, 1Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, 2European BioInformatics Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

    Background/Purpose: The accurate assessment of disease activity and progression is a major challenge in Takayasu Arteritis (TA). An improved understanding of disease pathogenesis is required…
  • Abstract Number: 2226 • ACR Convergence 2022

    Accelerated Aging Based on Blood DNA Methylation in SLE Participants Compared to Healthy Controls

    Joanne Nitithalm1, Olivia Solomon2, Laura Trupin3, Patricia Katz4, Jinoos Yazdany4, Maria Dall'Era5, Lisa F Barcellos2, Lindsey Criswell6 and Cristina M Lanata7, 1NIH/NHGRI, Bethesda, MD, 2University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 3UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 4UCSF, San Rafael, CA, 5University of California, Division of Rheumatology, San Francisco, CA, 6National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 7NIH/NHGRI, Washington, DC

    Background/Purpose: Epigenetic clocks based on DNA methylation in blood have been shown to correlate with biological aging and predict adverse health outcomes, including mortality. Accelerated…
  • Abstract Number: 2228 • ACR Convergence 2022

    Development of the Takayasu’s Arteritis Integrated Disease Activity Index

    Chiara Marvisi1, Ertugrul Cagri Bolek2, Mark Ahlman3, Hugh Alessi4, Christopher Redmond5, Peter Merkel6, Carlo Salvarani7, Kaitlin Quinn8 and Peter Grayson9, 1Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia and National Institute of Arthritis & Musculoskeletal & Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 2Vasculitis Translational Research Program, NIAMS, NIH, US, Lanham MD, MD, 3National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center, Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Bethesda, MD, 4National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 5National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, Bethesda, MD, 6University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 7Azienda USL -IRCCS di Reggio Emilia and Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 8National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Washington, DC, 9National Institutes of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD

    Background/Purpose: Disease activity indices that accurately assess inflammation in Takayasu's arteritis (TAK) are needed. While clinical assessment is often considered the gold standard, determining if…
  • Abstract Number: 2225 • ACR Convergence 2022

    Physical Inactivity Is Associated with Increased Expression of T Cell Inflammatory Genes in Systemic Lupus

    Sarah Patterson1, Sebastian Cruz Gonzalez2, Alexandra Tsitsiklis2, Cristina Lanata3, Lenka Maliskova4, Chun Ye1, Zachary Cutts4, Jinoos Yazdany5, Maria Dall'Era6, Lindsey Criswell7, Charles Langelier2, Patricia Katz5 and Marina Sirota8, 1University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2UCSF, San Francisco, CA, 3NIH, Washington, DC, 4University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, 5UCSF, San Rafael, CA, 6University of California, Division of Rheumatology, San Francisco, CA, 7National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 8UCSF, SF

    Background/Purpose: Prior studies show an independent association between greater physical activity and lower inflammatory markers among adults in the general population, but the impact of…
  • Abstract Number: 2206 • ACR Convergence 2022

    Understanding Inter-rater Variability in Scoring of Entheseal Lesions: Results from the Diagnostic Ultrasound Enthesitis Tool (DUET) Study

    Lihi Eder1, Fangya Ma2, Josefina Marin3, Minna Kohler4, Janeth Yinh5, Ari Polachek6, Marcos Rosemffet7, Ernesto Rodriguez8, Ilaria Tinnazzi9, Amir Haddad10, Philippe Carron11, Mariana Alves Ferreira Martins12, Catherine Bakewell13, Fahmeen J. Afgani14, Richard Cook2, Sibel Aydin15 and Gurjit S. Kaeley16, 1Women’s College Research Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, 3Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 4Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 5Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 6Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, 7Rheumatology Unit, Instituto de Rehabilitación Psicofísica, Capital Federal, Argentina, 8Florida Medical Clinic, Tampa, FL, 9Ospedale Sacro Cuore-Don Calabria, Negrar, Italy, 10Carmel Medical Centre, Haifa, Israel, 11Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium, 12São José Do Rio Preto Medical School, São José do Rio Preto, Brazil, 13Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, 14Women's College Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, 15University of Ottawa, Rheumatology, Ottawa, Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 16UF COM-J, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL

    Background/Purpose: Variability in scoring of sonographic entheseal lesions may be influenced by patient characteristics and sonographer expertise. We aimed to assess inter-rater agreement in scoring…
  • Abstract Number: 2232 • ACR Convergence 2022

    Clinical Features and Long-term Outcomes of Patients with Systemic Polyarteritis Nodosa Diagnosed Since 2005: Data from 196 Patients

    Julien ROHMER1, ludovic trefond2, Yann Nguyen3, Christian Agard4, Jean Sebastien ALLAIN5, Alice Berezne6, Pierre Charles7, Pascal Cohen8, guillaume gondran9, Matthieu GROH10, Tessa HUSCENOT11, carole lacout12, Estibaliz Lazaro13, Jonathan London14, Francois Maurier15, Arsene Mekinian16, Isabelle Nubourgh17, Rafik MESBAH18, Xavier Puéchal8, Laurent Perard19, Mathieu Puyade20, Gregory Pugnet21, Viviane Queyrel22, Diane Rouzaud23, Arthur Roux24, Cecile-Audrey DUREL19, Loïc Guillevin8 and Benjamin Terrier8, 1APHP, Suresnes, France, 2Chu clermont ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 3AP-HP.Centre Universit Paris Cit Hôpital Cochin, Montmorency, France, 4Internal medicine, Nantes University Hospital, Nantes, France, 5CHU rennes, Rennes, 6CH Annecy, Annecy, France, 7Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Service de Médecine Interne, Paris, France, 8National Referral Center for Rare Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France, 9CHU limoges, Limoges, France, 10Foch Hospital, Suresnes, France, 11APHP, Boulogne, France, 12CHU Angers, Angers, France, 13Bordeaux Hospital University, Bordeaux, France, 14Hôpital Croix-Saint-Simon, Paris, France, 15Hôpitaux privés de Metz, Metz, France, 16AP-HP, Hopital Saint Antoine, Paris, France, 17Ch St Pierre, Brussels, Belgium, 18Boulogne Ch, Boulogne, France, 19CHU Lyon, Lyon, France, 20Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Poitiers, Poitiers, France, 21CHU Toulouse Purpan Service de Medecine Interne, Toulouse, France, 22CHU NIce, Nice, France, 23Bichat, Paris, France, 24MGEN, Paris, France

    Background/Purpose: The etiological landscape of systemic polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) has substantially changed since the onset of hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccination and the discovery of…
  • Abstract Number: 2234 • ACR Convergence 2022

    Obesity, Adipokines, and Chronic and Persistent Pain in Rheumatoid Arthritis

    Joshua Baker1, Kristin Wipfler2, Marianna Olave3, Sofia Pedro4, Patricia Katz5 and Kaleb Michaud6, 1University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2FORWARD, The National Databank for Rheumatic Diseases, Omaha, NE, 3Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, 4Forward, The National Databank for Rheumatic Diseases, Wichita, KS, 5UCSF, San Rafael, CA, 6University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE

    Background/Purpose: Obesity has been linked to chronic pain and pain sensitization in the general population and among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The mechanism by…
  • Abstract Number: 2233 • ACR Convergence 2022

    Machine Learning Uncovers Novel mRNAs Expressed in Fibromyalgia

    Lena Kolb1, Mark Rudolph1, Alan Kivitz2, Scott Rey1, Roberta Alexander1, Anja Kammesheidt3 and Geoffrey Stephens1, 1Exagen, Inc., Vista, CA, 2Department of Rheumatology, Altoona Center for Clinical Research, Duncansville, PA, 3self, Laguna Beach, CA

    Background/Purpose: Fibromyalgia is a debilitating pain condition that affects roughly 12 million people in the United States. Although preliminary diagnostic criteria have been established by…
  • Abstract Number: 2231 • ACR Convergence 2022

    Earlier and More Aggressive Treatment of Major Organ Involvement with Biologics May Prevent Relapses or Further New Organ Involvement in Behçet’s Disease

    Tugce Bozkurt1, Murat Karabacak1, Hakan Karatas1, seda kutluğ ağaçkıran2, Tulin Ergun3, Haner Direskeneli4 and Fatma Alibaz-Oner5, 1Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2Marmara University School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, 3Marmara University, School of Medicine, Department of Dermatology, Istanbul, Turkey, 4Marmara University, Rheumatology, Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, 5Marmara University, Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey

    Background/Purpose: Behçet's disease (BD) is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the eye, nervous system (CNS), vascular and gastrointestinal systems (GIS) as well as skin, mucosa,…
  • Abstract Number: 2237 • ACR Convergence 2022

    Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial to Evaluate Efficacy and Safety of Subcutaneous Abatacept in Adults with Active Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy: Results of the 24-Week Double-Blind and 28-Week Open-Label Periods

    Rohit Aggarwal1, Ingrid Lundberg2, Yeong-Wook Song3, Aziz Shaibani4, Victoria Werth5 and Michael Maldonado6, 1Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 3Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 4Nerve and Muscle Center of Texas, Houston, TX, 5Philadelphia VAMC, Philadelphia, PA, USA and Department of Dermatology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 6Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ

    Background/Purpose: A 52-week (wk), randomized, placebo (PBO)-controlled phase 3 trial of subcutaneous (SC) abatacept (ABA) and standard of care (SOC) was performed in patients (pts)…
  • Abstract Number: 2239 • ACR Convergence 2022

    Effect of Treatment with IVIG (octagam10%) on Skin Symptoms and Quality of Life in Subjects with Dermatomyositis. Results of a Large, Randomized, Placebo-controlled International Phase III Trial

    Rohit Aggarwal1, Christina Charles-Schoeman2, joachim Schessl3, Victoria Werth4, Zsuzsanna Bata-Csorgo5, Mazen Dimachkie6, Zoltan Griger7, Sergey Moiseev8, Chester Oddis9, Elena Schiopu10, Jiří Vencovský11, Irene Beckmann12, Elisabeth Clodi13, Todd Levine14 and and the ProDERM investigators15, 1Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2Division of Rheumatology, University of California, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, CA, 3Friedrich-Baur-Institut/Medical University Munich, Mainkofen, Germany, 4Philadelphia VAMC, Philadelphia, PA, USA and Department of Dermatology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 5University of Szeged, Faculty of Medicine, Szeged, Hungary, 6University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, 7University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary, 8First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia, 9University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 10Michigan Medicine Rheumatology Clinic – Taubman Center, Ann Arbor, MI, 11Institute of Rheumatology and Department of Rheumatology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 12Octapharma PharmazeutikaProduktionsGesmbH, Vienna, Austria, 13Octapharma Pharmazeutika ProduktionsgesmbH, Vienna, Austria, 14Phoenix Neurological Associates, Ltd., Phoenix, AZ, 15Institutions in Europe and North America, Vienna, Austria

    Background/Purpose: Dermatomyositis (DM) is a rare chronic systemic autoimmune disease with characteristic skin rashes and progressive proximal muscle weakness. The efficacy of IVIg treatment in…
  • Abstract Number: 2238 • ACR Convergence 2022

    Performance of the 2016 ACR/EULAR Myositis Response Criteria in Adult Dermatomyositis and Polymyositis Therapeutic Trials and Consensus Profiles

    Didem Saygin1, Hanna Kim2, Christian Douglas3, Brian Erman3, Jesse Wilkerson3, john mcgrath3, Chester Oddis4, Ingrid Lundberg5, Anthony Amato6, Ignacio Garcia-De La Torre7, Hector Chinoy8, David Fiorentino9, Lorinda Chung9, Yeong-Wook Song10, Katalin Danko11, Frederick Miller12, Nicola Ruperto13, Jiří Vencovský14, Rohit Aggarwal15 and Lisa G Rider12, 1University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences; Juvenile Myositis Therapeutic and Translation Studies Unit, PTRB, NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 3Social and Scientific Systems, Inc., Durham, NC, 4University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 5Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 6Harvard University, Boston, MA, 7Centro de Est. de Inv. Bas. y Clinica, S.C., Guadalajara, Mexico, 8The University of Manchester, Sale, United Kingdom, 9Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 10Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 11*Deceased, Debrecen, Hungary, 12Environmental Autoimmunity Group, Clinical Research Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 13IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini; PRINTO, Clinica Pediatrica e Reumatologia, Genova, Italy, 14Institute of Rheumatology and Department of Rheumatology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 15Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

    Background/Purpose: The ACR/EULAR myositis response criteria (MRC) were developed as a composite continuous measure (Total Improvement Score (TIS)) using absolute percent changes (abs%) in 6…
  • Abstract Number: 2244 • ACR Convergence 2022

    Salient Coping Strategies Among Youth with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain

    Sabrina Gmuca1, Daneka Stryker2, Mackenzie McGill1, Whitney Eriksen3 and Peter F. Cronholm4, 1Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 2Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 3Jefferson Health, Philadelphia, PA, 4University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

    Background/Purpose: Youth with chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) learn pain-coping strategies and build resilience through cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). In order to expand therapeutic options for…
  • Abstract Number: 2243 • ACR Convergence 2022

    Patient Reported Outcomes from a Randomized Phase 3 Trial of Sarilumab in Polymyalgia Rheumatica

    Vibeke Strand1, Jennifer Sloane Lazar2, Michael C Nivens3, Jingdong Chao4, Stefano Fiore5, Angeliki Giannelou6, Lita Araujo7 and Jerome Msihid8, 1Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 2Sanofi, Delray Beach, FL, 3Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Tarrytown, NY, NY, 4Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,, Tarrytown, NY, 5Sanofi, Bridgewater, NJ, 6Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 7Sanofi, Cambridge, MA, 8Sanofi, Chilly-Mazarin, France

    Background/Purpose: Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is a common inflammatory rheumatic disease in the elderly. The phase 3 SAPHYR trial (NCT03600818) assessed the efficacy and safety of…
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