Abstracts tagged "autoantibodies and Biologic agents"

Abstract Number: 2527 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Cytokine and Autoantibody Profiles During Treatment with Belimumab in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Ioannis Parodis¹, Emil Åkerström ¹, Christopher Sjöwall ², Azita Sohrabian ³, Andreas Jönsen ⁴, Alvaro Gomez ¹, Martina Frodlund ², Agneta Zickert ¹, Anders Bengtsson ⁴, Johan Rönnelid ³ and Iva Gunnarsson ¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ²Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Rheumatology/Division of Neuro and Inflammation Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, ³Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, ⁴Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Background/Purpose: The anti-BAFF monoclonal belimumab is approved for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) since 2011. Effects of belimumab on anti-double stranded (ds)DNA levels,…