Abstracts tagged "Anti-TNF Drugs"

Abstract Number: 1684 • ACR Convergence 2021
Incidence of Infections in Patients Aged ≥ 50 Years with RA and ≥ 1 Additional Cardiovascular Risk Factor: Results from a Phase 3b/4 Randomized Safety Study of Tofacitinib vs TNF Inhibitors
Andra R Bălănescu¹, Gustavo Citera², Virginia Pascual-Ramos³, Carol A Connell⁴, David Gold⁵, All-shine Chen⁴, Harry Shi⁶, Andrea B Shapiro⁷, Janet Pope⁸ and Hendrik Schulze-Koops⁹, ¹“Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Department of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology “Sf. Maria” Hospital, Bucharest, Romania, ²Instituto de Rehabilitación Psicofísica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ³Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico, ⁴Pfizer Inc, Groton, CT, ⁵Pfizer Inc, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁶Pfizer Inc, Collegeville, PA, ⁷Pfizer Inc, Peapack, NJ, ⁸University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ⁹Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine IV, University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Background/Purpose: Previous clinical trial and real-world data suggest that risk of serious infection events (SIEs) and opportunistic infections (OIs) is similar with tofacitinib 5 mg…
Abstract Number: 0057 • ACR Convergence 2021
Molecular Profiling of Radiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis Patients Reveals an Association Between Innate and Adaptive Cell Populations and Therapeutic Response to Adalimumab
Rita Torres¹, Daniel Sobral², Ana Fernandes³, Atlas Sardoo⁴, Miguel Bernardes⁵, Patrícia Pinto⁶, Helena Santos⁷, João Gomes⁸, Jose Tavares-Costa⁹, José Silva¹⁰, João Dias¹¹, Alexandra Bernardo⁵, Jean Gailard¹², Jean Armengaud¹³, Vladimir Benes¹⁴, Lúcia Domingues¹⁵, Sara Maia¹⁶, Jaime Branco¹⁷, Ana Varela¹⁸ and Fernando Santos¹⁹, ¹Rheumatology Department, Hospital de Egas Moniz, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Ocidental, Lisbon, Portugal, ²Faculdade Ciências e Tecnologia, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, ³Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Lisboa, Portugal, ⁴CEDOC, NOVA Medical School, UNL, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, ⁵Rheumatology Department, Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João EPE, Porto, Portugal, ⁶Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, ⁷Portuguese Institute of Rheumatology, Lisbon, Portugal, ⁸Hospital Egas Moniz, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, ⁹Rheumatology Department - Unidade Local de Saude do Alto Minho, Ponte de Lima, Portugal, ¹⁰Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, ¹¹Centro Hospitalar Médio Tejo, Abrantes, Portugal, ¹²Centre dénergie atomique; Service de Pharmacologie et Immunoanalyse (SPI), Paris, France, ¹³Service de Pharmacologie et Immunoanalyse (SPI), Paris, France, ¹⁴The European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, ¹⁵CEDOC - Chronic Diseases Research Center - Nova Medical School|Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, ¹⁶NOVA Medical School, Nova University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, ¹⁷EpiDoC Unit, CEDOC, Nova Medical School, Comprehensive Health Research Centre (CHRC), Lisbon, Portugal, ¹⁸Instituto Tecnologia Química e Biológica; Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, ¹⁹Hospital Egas Moniz, Lisboa, Portugal
Background/Purpose: The response to treatment in spondylarthropaties is heterogeneous, due to factors yet to be better described. For that reason, it is important to find…
Abstract Number: 0831 • ACR Convergence 2021
Safety and Efficacy of Tofacitinib vs TNF Inhibitors in RA Patients Aged 50 Years or Older with One or More Cardiovascular Risks: Results from a Phase 3b/4 Randomized Safety Trial
Steven R Ytterberg¹, Deepak L Bhatt², Ted Mikuls³, Gary G Koch⁴, Jose L Rivas⁵, Rebecca Germino⁶, Sujatha Menon⁶, Yanhui Sun⁷, Cunshan Wang⁶, Andrea B Shapiro⁸, Keith S Kanik⁶, Carol A Connell⁶ and Roy Fleischmann⁹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁴Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁵Pfizer SLU, Madrid, Spain, ⁶Pfizer Inc, Groton, CT, ⁷Pfizer CRDC, Shanghai, China (People's Republic), ⁸Pfizer Inc, Peapack, NJ, ⁹Metroplex Clinical Research Center and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Background/Purpose: ORAL Surveillance (NCT02092467) was mandated by the US Food and Drug Administration to assess the relative risk of tofacitinib vs TNF inhibitors (TNFi), based…
Abstract Number: 1222 • ACR Convergence 2021
Drug Response Is Associated with Changes in Specific MicroRNAs in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Qiong Wu¹, Sheau-Chiann Chen¹, Fei Ye¹, Joseph Solus¹, S. Louis Bridges, Jr.², Jeffrey Curtis³, C. Michael Stein¹ and Michelle Ormseth¹, ¹Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ²Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ³Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: MicroRNAs are markers and mediators of disease and drug response. Prior studies have proposed several miRNAs for prediction of drug response or monitoring drug…
Abstract Number: 1806 • ACR Convergence 2021
Designing a Phase 3b, Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Study to Investigate the Effect of Guselkumab (TREMFYA®/sup>) Dosing Interval in Psoriatic Arthritis Patients with Inadequate Response to Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibition
Alexis Ogdie-Beatty¹, Joseph Merola², Philip Mease³, Christopher Ritchlin⁴, Jose Scher⁵, Daphne Chan⁶, Soumya Chakravarty⁷, Wayne Langholff⁸, Olivia Choi⁹, Yevgeniy Krol⁹, Katelyn Rowland⁹ and Alice Gottlieb¹⁰, ¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, 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, ⁵New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁶Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC, Spring House, PA, ⁷Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC and Drexel University College of Medicine, Horsham, PA, ⁸Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Spring House, PA, ⁹Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC, Horsham, PA, ¹⁰Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) are frequently chosen as the first biologic therapy for patients (pts) with PsA, though a sizeable proportion of pts…
Abstract Number: 0087 • ACR Convergence 2021
TNF Inhibitors and the Risk of Adverse COVID-19 Outcomes in Patients with Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Disease: Pooled Data from Three Global Registries
Zara Izadi¹, Erica Brenner², Satveer Mahil³, Nick Dand⁴, Zenas Yiu⁵, Mark Yates⁴, Ryan Ungaro⁶, Xian Zhang², Manasi Agrawal⁶, Jean-Frederic Colombel⁷, Milena Gianfrancesco¹, Kimme Hyrich⁵, Anja Strangfeld⁸, Loreto Carmona⁹, Elsa Frazão Mateus¹⁰, Saskia Lawson-Tovey⁵, Eva Klingberg¹¹, Giovanna Cuomo¹², Marta Caprioli¹³, Rene-Marc FLIPO¹⁴, Ana Rita Cruz-Machado¹⁵, Carolina Mazeda¹⁶, Rebecca Hasseli¹⁷, Alexander Pfeil¹⁸, Hanns-Martin Lorenz¹⁹, Laura Trupin²⁰, Stephanie Rush¹, Patricia Katz¹, Gabriela Schmajuk¹, Lindsay Jacobsohn²¹, Andrea Seet¹, Samar Al Emadi²², Leanna Wise²³, Emily Gilbert²⁴, Ali Duarte-Garcia²⁵, Maria Valenzuela-Almada²⁶, Carolina Isnardi²⁷, Rosana Quintana²⁷, Enrique Soriano²⁸, Tiffany Hsu²⁹, Kristin D'Silva³⁰, Jeffrey Sparks³¹, Naomi Patel³⁰, Viviane de Souza³², Licia Maria Henrique Mota³³, Ana Paula Reis³⁴, Zachary S. Wallace³⁵, Suleman Bhana³⁶, Wendy Costello³⁷, Rebecca Grainger³⁸, Jonathan Hausmann³⁹, Jean Liew⁴⁰, Emily Sirotich⁴¹, Paul Sufka⁴², Philip Robinson⁴³, Pedro Machado⁴⁴, Christopher Griffiths⁴⁵, Jonathan Barker⁴, Catherine smith⁴, Jinoos Yazdany¹ and Michael Kappelman², ¹University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ³St John’s Institute of Dermatology, London, United Kingdom, ⁴King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁵University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁶Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, ⁷MD, New York, NY, ⁸Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁹Instituto de Salud Musculoesqueltica (InMusc), Madrid, Spain, ¹⁰Liga Portuguesa Contra as Doenças Reumáticas (LPCDR), Lisbon, Portugal, ¹¹University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden and Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden, ¹²Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Napoli, Italy, ¹³IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy, ¹⁴Rheumatology Department, Lille University Hospital, Lille, France, ¹⁵Rheumatology Department, Hospital de Santa Maria, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte, Lisbon Academic Medical Center; Rheumatology Research Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, ¹⁶Rheumatology Department - Centro Hospitalar do Baixo Vouga and Ibimed, Institute for Biomedicine, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, ¹⁷Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Bad Nauheim, Germany, ¹⁸Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany, ¹⁹University Hospital Heidelberg Germany, Heidelberg, Germany, ²⁰UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²¹University of California San Francisco, Antioch, CA, ²²Hamad medical corporation, Doha, Qatar, ²³LAC+USC/Keck Medicine of USC, Pasadena, CA, ²⁴Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ²⁵Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²⁶Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²⁷Argentine Society of Rheumatology, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ²⁸Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ²⁹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Jamaica Plain, MA, ³⁰Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ³¹Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³²UFJF, JUIZ DE FORA, Brazil, ³³Universidade de Brasília, Brasilia, Brazil, ³⁴Centro Universitrio de Braslia- UniCEUB, Brasilia, Brazil, ³⁵Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³⁶Crystal Run Health, Montvale, NJ, ³⁷Irish Children's Arthritis Network, Bansha, Ireland, ³⁸University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand, ³⁹Boston Children's Hospital / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Cambridge, MA, ⁴⁰Boston University, Boston, MA, ⁴¹McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ⁴²HealthPartners, Eagan, MN, ⁴³University of Queensland School of Clinical Medicine, Brisbane, Australia, ⁴⁴Centre for Rheumatology & Department of Neuromuscular Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁴⁵University of Manchester, Manchester Centre for Dermatology Research, Manchester, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: While tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) are widely prescribed globally due to their high efficacy across immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs), the impact of COVID-19…
Abstract Number: 0834 • ACR Convergence 2021
Comparative Effectiveness of TNF Inhibitor vs IL-6 Receptor Inhibitor as Monotherapy or Combination Therapy with Methotrexate in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Analysis from CorEvitas’ RA Registry
Anthony Sebba¹, Clifton Bingham², Vivian Bykerk³, Stefano Fiore⁴, Kerri Ford⁵, Jud C Janak⁶, Dimitrios Pappas⁶, Taylor Blachley⁶, Swapna Dave⁶, Joel Kremer⁷, Miao Yu⁶ and Ernest Choy⁸, ¹Division of Rheumatology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ³Division of Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York City, NY, ⁴Sanofi, Bridgewater, NJ, ⁵Sanofi, Cambridge, MA, ⁶CorEvitas, LLC, Waltham, MA, ⁷Department of Medicine, Center for Rheumatology, Albany Medical College, Albany, FL, ⁸CREATE Centre, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: RA patients who fail to achieve treatment targets with conventional synthetic DMARDs (csDMARDs) can be treated with biologics. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have shown…
Abstract Number: 1233 • ACR Convergence 2021
Physician and Patient Reported Effectiveness Outcomes Are Similar in Tofacitinib and TNF Inhibitors in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients: Data from a Rheumatoid Arthritis Registry in Canada
Mohammad Movahedi¹, Angela Cesta², Xiuying Li², Edward Keystone³ and Claire Bombardier⁴, ¹Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, UHN, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Keystone Consulting Enterprises Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴University of Toronto - Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Tofacitinib (TOFA) is an oral, small molecule drug used for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treatment as an alternative option to biologic disease modifying antirheumatic drugs…
Abstract Number: 1830 • ACR Convergence 2021
Discontinuation of Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors in Psoriatic Arthritis and Psoriasis
Sophia Wolfe¹, Elizabeth Cheng², Kavya Ganuthula¹, Meika Fang³, Gail Kerr⁴, Jessica Walsh⁵, Elizabeth Chang⁶, Siba Raychaudhuri⁷, Kyle Brees², Robert Dellavalle¹, Andreas Reimold⁸ and Liron Caplan⁹, ¹Rocky Mountain Regional VAMC/University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, ²Rocky Mountain Regional VAMC, Aurora, CO, ³David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA/West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Washington D.C., Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC)/Georgetown and Howard Universities, Washington, DC, ⁵Salt Lake City Veteran Affairs Medical Center (VAMC)/University of Utah Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁶Phoenix VAMC, Phoenix, AZ, ⁷Sacramento Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC)/University of California-Davis Health, Davis, CA, ⁸University of Texas – Southwestern Medical Center/Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), Dallas, TX, ⁹Rocky Mountain Regional Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC)/University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO
Background/Purpose: Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the joints and skin that affects 1/1000 people in the US. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α)…
Abstract Number: 0097 • ACR Convergence 2021
Outcome of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Under Treatment with Janus Kinase Inhibitors Compared to Tumour Necrosis Factor Inhibitors
Rebecca Hasseli¹, Bimba Franziska Hoyer², Hanns-Martin Lorenz³, Alexander Pfeil⁴, Anne Regierer⁵, Jutta Richter⁶, Tim Schmeiser⁷, Anja Strangfeld⁸, Reinhard Voll⁹, Andreas Krause¹⁰, Hendrik Schulze-Koops¹¹, Christof Specker¹² and Ulf Müller-Ladner¹³, ¹Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Bad Nauheim, Germany, ²Universittsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany, ³University Hospital Heidelberg Germany, Heidelberg, Germany, ⁴Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany, ⁵German Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin, Germany, ⁶Rheumatology and Hiller Research Unit, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany, ⁷Private Practice, Cologne, Germany, ⁸Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁹Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, ¹⁰Immanuel Hospital, Berlin, Germany, ¹¹Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine IV, University of Munich, Munich, Germany, ¹²Evangelisches Krankenhaus, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Essen, Germany, ¹³JLU Giessen, Campus Kerckhoff, Dept. Rheum & Clin Immunol, Bad Nauheim, Germany
Background/Purpose: Janus kinase inhibitors (JAK-i) offer a potent mode of action to treat rheumatic diseases. Little is known on the course and outcome of SARS-CoV-2…
Abstract Number: 0840 • ACR Convergence 2021
Modelling of Disease Activity in Patients with Inflammatory Arthropathies Treated with Etanercept Originator or Biosimilar as First-Line Biologic: A Real-World Observational Study Using the OPAL Dataset
Claire Deakin¹, Geoffrey Littlejohn², Hedley Griffiths³, Tegan Smith⁴, Catherine OSullivan⁵ and Paul Bird⁶, ¹OPAL Rheumatology Ltd, Sydney, Australia, ²Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, ³Barwon Rheumatology Service, Geelong, Australia, ⁴OPAL Rheumatology Ltd, Kogarah, Australia, ⁵OPAL Rheumatology Ltd, Queenscliff, Australia, ⁶University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Background/Purpose: The availability of biosimilars as non-proprietary versions of established biologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) has increased around the world. Since April 2017 both the…
Abstract Number: 1247 • ACR Convergence 2021
Plasma Cell-free DNA Is a Useful Biomarker for Tocilizumab Therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Teppei Hashimoto¹, Yuichi Yokoyama², Takahiro Yoshikawa³, Tetsuya Furukawa⁴, Naoto Azuma⁵, Akira Hashiramoto⁶ and Kiyoshi Matsui⁷, ¹Hyogo College of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, ²Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, ³Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan, ⁴Hyogo college of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan, ⁶Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, ⁷Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya-city, Hyogo, Japan
Background/Purpose: Endogenous DNA derived from nuclei is released into the blood circulation as cell-free DNA (cfDNA) following cell damage or death. cfDNA is associated with…
Abstract Number: 1870 • ACR Convergence 2021
Comparative Study on Anti-TNF vs Tocilizumab for Treatment of Refractory Uveitic Cystoid Macular Edema Due to Behcet’s Disease: Multicenter Study of 49 Patients
Belén Atienza-Mateo¹, Iván Ferraz-Amaro², Emma Beltrán Catalán³, Alfredo Adán⁴, Marisa Hernandez Garfella⁵, Lucía Martínez-Costa⁶, Miguel Cordero Coma⁷, Manuel Diaz-Llopis⁸, José M. Herreras⁹, Ana Blanco¹⁰, Ignacio Torre¹¹, David Díaz-Valle¹², Antonio Atanes-Sandoval¹³, Felix Hernandez¹⁴, Santos Insua¹⁵, Julio Sánchez¹⁶, raquel almodovar¹⁷, Oscar Ruiz-Moreno¹⁸, Myriam Gandia Martinez¹⁹, Joan M. Nolla²⁰, José Luis Martin-Varillas²¹, Vanesa Calvo-Río²², Diana Prieto-Peña²³, Miguel Ángel gonzalez-Gay²⁴ and Ricardo Blanco²², ¹Group "Research in genetic epidemiology and atherosclerosis of systemic diseases and in bone metabolic diseases of the locomotor system", IDIVAL; and Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ²Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, ³Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain, ⁵Hospital General Universitario de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, ⁶Hospital Peset, Valencia, Valencia, Spain, ⁷Hospital de León, Leon, Spain, ⁸Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia, Spain, ⁹Hospital Universitario IOBA, Valladolid, Spain, ¹⁰Hospital Universitario de Donostia, San Sebastián, ¹¹Hospital Universitario de Basurto, Bilbao, Spain, ¹²Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ¹³Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain, ¹⁴Hospital Doctor Negrín, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, ¹⁵Hospital Universitario Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain, ¹⁶Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁷Hospital Universitario Fundación de Alcorcón, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁸Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, ¹⁹Hospital Puerta del Mar, Cádiz, Spain, ²⁰Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ²¹Hospital Sierrallana, Torrelavega, Spain, ²²Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ²³Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, santander, Spain, ²⁴Research 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: Posterior segment involvement is the most serious affection of uveitis in Behçet’s disease (BD), with cystoid macular edema (CME) being the leading cause of…
Abstract Number: 0102 • ACR Convergence 2021
Differential Impact of TNFi, JAKi and Rituximab on the Outcome of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in RMD Patients
Anne Regierer¹, Rebecca Hasseli², Martin Schaefer¹, Bimba Franziska Hoyer³, Andreas Krause⁴, Hanns-Martin Lorenz⁵, Alexander Pfeil⁶, Jutta Richter⁷, Tim Schmeiser⁸, Anja Strangfeld⁹, Hendrik Schulze-Koops¹⁰, Reinhard Voll¹¹, Christof Specker¹² and Ulf Müller-Ladner¹³, ¹German Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin, Germany, ²Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Bad Nauheim, Germany, ³Universittsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany, ⁴Immanuel Hospital, Berlin, Germany, ⁵University Hospital Heidelberg Germany, Heidelberg, Germany, ⁶Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany, ⁷Rheumatology and Hiller Research Unit, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany, ⁸Private Practice, Cologne, Germany, ⁹Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ¹⁰Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine IV, University of Munich, Munich, Germany, ¹¹Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, ¹²Evangelisches Krankenhaus, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Essen, Germany, ¹³JLU Giessen, Campus Kerckhoff, Dept. Rheum & Clin Immunol, Bad Nauheim, Germany
Background/Purpose: Due to the impressive efforts of the global scientific rheumatology community, increasing evidence about inflammatory rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD) specific risk factors in…
Abstract Number: 0910 • ACR Convergence 2021
The Association of TNF Inhibitor Use with Incident Hypertension in Ankylosing Spondylitis: Data from the PSOAS Cohort
Jean Liew¹, S. Reza Jafarzadeh², Maureen Dubreuil³, Susan Heckbert⁴, Stephen Mooney⁴, Matthew Brown⁵, Mariko Ishimori⁶, John Reveille⁷, Michael Ward⁸, Michael Weisman⁹ and Lianne Gensler¹⁰, ¹Boston University, Boston, MA, ²Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ³Boston University School of Medicine/ VA Boston, Boston, MA, ⁴University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ⁵King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁶Cedars-Sinai Health System, Los Angeles, CA, ⁷Division of Rheumatology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, ⁸Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States, Rockville, MD, ⁹Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Stanford University; Distinguished Professor of Medicine Emeritus, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ¹⁰Department of Rheumatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is associated with greater cardiovascular (CV) risk than in the general population. The impact of tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) on…

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