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Abstract Number: 1989 • ACR Convergence 2020
NXP2 Autoantibodies Link to Interferon Signature in Juvenile Myositis Lesional Skin
Jessica Turnier¹, Lauren Pachman², Lori Lowe³, Alex Tsoi³, Sultan Elhaj¹, Rajasree Menon¹, Maria Amoruso², Gabrielle Morgan⁴, Johann Gudjonsson⁵, Celine Berthier³ and J Michelle Kahlenberg¹, ¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ³University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, ⁴Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ⁵University of Michigan, Ann ArborUniversity of Michigan
Background/Purpose: Skin inflammation can herald systemic disease in juvenile myositis (JM), yet we lack an understanding of pathogenic mechanisms driving skin inflammation in JM. The…
Abstract Number: 1990 • ACR Convergence 2020
Janus Kinase (JAK) Inhibition with Baricitinib in Refractory Juvenile Dermatomyositis
Hanna Kim¹, Lylan Bergeron², Samantha Dill², Michelle O'Brien², Laura Vian³, Minal Jain⁴, Manuk Manukyan², Xiaobai Li⁵, Shajia Lu³, Wanxia L. Tsai³, Kalyani Mishra Thakur⁶, Yinghui Shi⁶, Massimo Gadina⁷, April Brundidge², Michelle Millwood², Lisa G. Rider⁸ and Robert Colbert², ¹Juvenile Myositis Pathogenesis and Therapeutics Unit / NIAMS / National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ²Pediatric Clinical Trials Unit and Office of Clinical Director, NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ³Translational Immunology Section, NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁴Rehabilitation Medicine Department, Physical Therapy Section, Clinical Research Center, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁵Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service, Clinical Center, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁶Office of Clinical Director, NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁷National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁸Environmental Autoimmunity Group, Clinical Research Branch, NIEHS, NIH, Garrett Park, MD
Background/Purpose: Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is a systemic autoimmune disease with a prominent interferon (IFN) signature. Treatment often requires prolonged high-dose steroids and other immunosuppressive medications.…
Abstract Number: 1991 • ACR Convergence 2020
Abatacept Treatment Reduces Cutaneous and Joint Activity in Juvenile Localized Scleroderma
Suzanne Li¹, Sarah Ishaq², Mary Buckley³, Kathryn Torok⁴, Barbara Edelheit⁵, Kaleo Ede⁶, Christopher Liu⁷ and C. Egla Rabinovich⁸, ¹Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, ²Montclair State University, Montclair, ³Duke University, Durham, NC, ⁴University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁵Conneticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford, ⁶Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ, ⁷U Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, ⁸Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC
Background/Purpose: Juvenile localized scleroderma (jLS) is an autoimmune disease commonly associated with damage. Damage includes dyspigmentation, tissue atrophy, arthropathy, hemiatrophy, vision loss, and seizures. To…
Abstract Number: 1992 • ACR Convergence 2020
Longitudinal Evaluation of Axonal Dysfunction, Neuronal Markers and Serum Cytokines in Childhood-onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Renan Frittoli¹, Danilo Rodrigues¹, Aline Lapa¹, Mariana Postal¹, Roberto Marini¹, Gabriela Castellano¹, Fernando Cendes¹, Leticia Rittner¹ and Simone Appenzeller¹, ¹UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil
Background/Purpose: To analyze 1H-MRS brain metabolites in a longitudinal study and to determine clinical, laboratory and treatment features associated with its occurrence. To determine, additionally…
Abstract Number: 1993 • ACR Convergence 2020
Cardiovascular Risk in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Treated with Methotrexate versus Hydroxychloroquine
Mengdong He¹, Ajinkya Pawar¹, Rishi Desai¹, Robert Glynn¹, Hemin Lee¹, Michael Weinblatt¹, Daniel H Solomon¹ and Seoyoung Kim¹, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a known risk factor for cardiovascular (CV) events. While most RA patients use conventional disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) such as…
Abstract Number: 1994 • ACR Convergence 2020
Rheumatoid Arthritis Improvement After Exposure to an Anti-Inflammatory “ITIS” Diet Is Associated with Changes of Gut Microbiome and Systemic Metabolome
Roxana Coras¹, Cameron Martino², Julia Gauglitz³, Anupriya Tripathi³, Alan Jarmusch⁴, Francesca Cedola⁵, Marta Fernandez Bustamante⁶, Meritxall Agustín-Perez⁷, Maram Alharthi⁸, Susan Lee⁸, Abha Singh⁸, Soo In Choi⁸, Tania Rivera⁸, Katherine Nguyen⁸, Tatyana Shekhtman⁹, Tiffany Holt¹⁰, Shahrokh Golshan¹¹, Rob Knight³, Pieter Dorrestein¹² and Monica Guma¹³, ¹University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ²Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, ³University of California San Diego, San Diego, ⁴Univesity of California San Diego, San Diego, ⁵Hospital Policlinico Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy, ⁶Departement of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, ⁷Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, San Diego, ⁸Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, ⁹Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, ¹⁰Center for Integrative Nutrition, University of California San Diego, San Diego, ¹¹Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA, San Diego, ¹²Department of Pharmacology and Pediatrics, University of California San Deigo, San Diego, ¹³Division of Rheumatology, University of California San Diego, Department of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, La Jolla, CA
Background/Purpose: A new dimension has been added to the link between diet and health, the gut microbiome. Of particular interest is the influence of diet…
Abstract Number: 1995 • ACR Convergence 2020
Non-invasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation Improves Signs and Symptoms of Rheumatoid Arthritis: Results of a Pilot Study
Sara Marsal¹, Hector Corominas², Juan Jose De Agustin De Oro³, Carolina Perez Garcia⁴, Maria Lopez Lasanta³, Helena Borrell³, Delia Reina⁵, Raimon Sanmartí⁶, Francisco Javier Narváez⁷, Clara Franco-Jarava⁸, Charles Peterfy⁹, Jose Antonio Narvaez¹⁰, Vivek Sharma¹¹, Konstantinos Alataris¹¹, Mark Genovese¹² and Matthew Baker¹³, ¹Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain, ²Institut Rec. Hospital de la Santa Creu I Sant Pau., Barcelona, Spain, ³Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴Hospital Universitari Parc Salut Mar, Barcelona, Spain, ⁵Hospital Moises Broggi, Barcelona, Spain, ⁶Hospital Universitari Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, ⁷Hospital Bellvitge, BARCELONA, Spain, ⁸1Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain, ⁹Spire Sciences, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, ¹⁰Clinica Diagonal, Barcelona, Spain, ¹¹Vorso Corp, Redwood CIty, CA, ¹²Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA, ¹³Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA
Background/Purpose: Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) has been shown to improve rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease severity in patients with refractory disease (1,2). A multi-center pilot study…
Abstract Number: 1996 • ACR Convergence 2020
Evaluation of Response to Pneumococcal Vaccination in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Receiving Upadacitinib: Results from a Phase 2 Open-Label Extension Study
Kevin Winthrop¹, Juan Vargas², Edit Drescher³, Conrado Garcia⁴, Alan Friedman⁵, Jeffrey Enejosa⁵, Nasser Khan⁵, Yihan Li⁵, Justin Klaff⁵ and Alan Kivitz⁶, ¹Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, ²Quantum Research, Puerto Varas, Chile, ³Veszprém Csolnoky Ferenc County Hospital, Veszprém, Hungary, ⁴Hospital General de México "Dr. Eduardo Liceaga", Mexico, Mexico, ⁵AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, IL, ⁶Altoona Center for Clinical Research/Altoona Arthritis and Osteoporosis Center, Duncansville, PA
Background/Purpose: Pneumococcal vaccination is recommended in patients with RA who are receiving conventional synthetic/biologic DMARDs.1 Upadacitinib (UPA) is an oral Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor engineered to…
Abstract Number: 1997 • ACR Convergence 2020
Immunogenicity of Adjuvanted Herpes Zoster Subunit Vaccine in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Treated with Janus Kinase Inhibitors and Controls: Preliminary Results
Hanna Källmark¹, Birgitta Gullstrand², Johanna Nagel³, Jon Einarsson¹, Göran Jönsson⁴, Fredrik Kahn⁵, Robin Kahn⁶, Anders Bangtsson², Tomas Bergström⁷ and Meliha Kapetanovic¹, ¹Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Section of Rheumatology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden and Skåne University Hospital Sweden., Lund, Sweden, ²Department of Rheumatology, Clinical Sciences, Lund University Sweden, Lund, Sweden, ³Lund University, Skåne University Hospital, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Rheumatology, Lund, Sweden, Lund, Sweden, ⁴Lund University, Skåne University Hospital, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Infection Medicine, Lund, Sweden, Lund, Sweden, ⁵Division of Infection Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Lund, Sweden, ⁶Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Section of Pediatrics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Wallenberg Centre of Molecular Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, ⁷Department of Infectious Diseases, Section for Clinical Virology, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Gothenburg, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at increased risk of contracting herpes zoster (HZ) and treatment with JAnus Kinase inhibitors (JAKi) further adds on…
Abstract Number: 1998 • ACR Convergence 2020
Ten-year Analysis of the Risk of Severe Outcomes Related to Very Low-dose Glucocorticoids in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis
Camille Roubille¹, Amandine Coffy², Nathalie Rincheval², Jean Pierre Daures², René-Marc Flipo³, Maxime Dougados⁴ and Bernard Combe⁵, ¹CHU LAPEYRONIE, Montpellier, France, ²INSERM, Montpellier, France, ³Univ-Lille, CHU Lille, department of rheumatology, Lille, France, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, Hopital Cochin, Université de Paris, Paris, France, ⁵University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Background/Purpose: Although glucocorticoids (GC) remain an essential part of the therapeutic strategy in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), the long-term risk of adverse events of low-dose GC…
Abstract Number: 1999 • ACR Convergence 2020
Hydroxychloroquine Is Not Cardiotoxic in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Jose Felix Restrepo¹, Agustin Escalante¹, Daniel Battafarano², Carlos Lorenzo³ and Inmaculada Del Rincon¹, ¹University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio/ Department of Medicine/ Rheumatology, San Antonio, TX, ²San Antonio Military Medical Center, San Antonio, TX, ³University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Background/Purpose: Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) has been proposed as a potential treatment for COVID-19, but early reports suggested that it could have cardiotoxic effects. Despite widespread and…
Abstract Number: 2000 • ACR Convergence 2020
Risk of Venous Thromboembolism in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Treated with Methotrexate versus Hydroxychloroquine
Mengdong He¹, Ajinkya Pawar¹, Rishi Desai¹, Robert Glynn¹, Hemin Lee¹, Michael Weinblatt¹, Daniel H Solomon¹ and Seoyoung Kim¹, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Prior studies suggest an increased risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, little is known about the comparative risk…
Abstract Number: 2001 • ACR Convergence 2020
Adverse Effects of Low Dose Methotrexate: Adjudicated Hematologic Outcomes in a Large Randomized Double-blind Placebo-controlled Trial
Kathleen Vanni¹, Nancy Berliner¹, Nina Paynter², Robert Glynn², Jean MacFadyen¹, Joshua Colls¹, Fengxin Lu¹, Chang Xu², Paul Ridker¹ and Daniel H Solomon¹, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
Background/Purpose: Low dose methotrexate (LD-MTX), a cornerstone in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, is associated with a moderately increased risk of anemia and leukopenia, but…
Abstract Number: 2002 • ACR Convergence 2020
Incidence and Risk Factors for Herpes Zoster in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Receiving Upadacitinib
Kevin Winthrop¹, Peter Nash², Kunihiro Yamaoka³, Eduardo Mysler⁴, Leonard Calabrese⁵, Nasser Khan⁶, Jeffrey Enejosa⁶, Yanna Song⁷, Jessica Suboticki⁶ and Jeffrey Curtis⁸, ¹Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, ²School of Medicine Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, ³Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan, ⁴Organización Medica de Investigación, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁵Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ⁶AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, IL, ⁷AbbVie Inc., North Chicago,, IL, ⁸Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Upadacitinib (UPA) is an oral JAK inhibitor approved for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The background rate of herpes zoster (HZ) in patients…
Abstract Number: 2003 • ACR Convergence 2020
Individualized Prediction of Response to Methotrexate Treatment in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Pharmacogenomics-driven Machine Learning Approach
Elena Myasoedova¹, Arjun Athreya¹, Cynthia Crowson², Richard Weinshilboum¹, Liewei Wang¹ and Eric Matteson³, ¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA, Rochester, MN, ³Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, Minnesota, USA, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose: Methotrexate (MTX) is the most common anchor drug for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but the risk of missing the opportunity for early effective treatment with alternative medications…

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