Abstracts tagged "Autoantibody(ies)"

Abstract Number: 1398 • ACR Convergence 2020
The Isolated Nucleolar Pattern ANA Antibody in a Systemic Sclerosis Patient Cohort
Sabrina Elliott¹, Duncan Moore² and Virginia Steen², ¹MedStar Georgetown Hospital, Alexandria, VA, ²Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC
Background/Purpose: Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) patients with an isolated nucleolar patterned ANA (NUC ANA) make up about 15% of the SSc population, although the specific nucleolar…
Abstract Number: 1802 • ACR Convergence 2020
Vitamin D Level: Predictor of SLE Disease Activity in AA Cohort with CLE?
Ileannette Robledo-Vega¹, John Scheinuk², Emmanuel Pardo², Ansley Pratt², Soham Mahato³, Andrew G. Chapple² and Myriam Guevara⁴, ¹Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orlenas, LA, ²Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA, ³LSUHSC School of Public Health, New Orleans, LA, ⁴Lousiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA
Background/Purpose: There are few predominant African American (AA) epidemiological studies in Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus (CLE). The Gilliam classification divides CLE into lupus specific, acute cutaneous…
Abstract Number: 0559 • ACR Convergence 2020
Low Frequency of ANA/DFS70 Pattern Positive Result in a Large Cohort of Autoimmune/autoinflammatory Diseases Compared with First Degree Relatives and Healthy Controls Evaluated in a Single Hospital from Colombia
Consuelo Romero-Sanchez¹, Omar-Javier Calixto², Veronica Romero², Diana Rincon Riano³, Julio Amador², Luis Castro², Pedro Lopez-Mojica⁴, Daniela Marin², Diana Àcero⁵, Monica Acevedo⁵, Wilson Bautista-Molano⁶ and Juan Manuel Bello-Gualtero⁷, ¹Hospital Militar Central, Rheumatology and Immunology Department, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada / Clinical Immunology Group, Hospital Militar Central, School of Medicine, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada /Universidad El Bosque, Cellular and Molecular Immunology Group -InmuBo-, School of Dentistry, Bogotá D.C., Colombia, ²Hospital Militar Central, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, Bogota, Colombia, ³Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, Bogota, Colombia, ⁴Hospital Militar Central, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, BOGOTA, Distrito Capital de Bogota, Colombia, ⁵Hospital Militar Central, Bogota, Colombia, ⁶University Hospital Fundación Santa Fé de Bogotá and Universidad El Bosque, Bogotá, Colombia, ⁷Hospital Militar Central, Rheumatology and Immunology Department, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada/ Clinical Immunology Group, Hospital Militar Central, School of Medicine, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, Bogotá D.C., Colombia
Background/Purpose: Autoimmune systemic rheumatic disease (SARD) diagnostic approach is complex and recently there are some diagnostic tools to rule-out autoimmune disease diagnoses. ANAS/DFS70 antibodies have…
Abstract Number: 1059 • ACR Convergence 2020
Anti-mitochondrial Autoantibodies Are Associated with Cardiomyopathy, Dysphagia, and Features of More Severe Disease in Adult-onset Myositis
Sara Sabbagh¹, Iago Pinal-Fernandez², Maria Casal-Dominguez³, Jemima Albayda⁴, Julie Paik⁴, Frederick W. Miller², Lisa G. Rider⁵, Andrew Mammen³ and Lisa Christopher-Stine⁴, ¹Medical College of Wisconsin, Fox Point, WI, ²National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ³NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁴Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁵Environmental Autoimmunity Group, Clinical Research Branch, NIEHS, NIH, Garrett Park, MD
Background/Purpose: We examined the prevalence of anti-mitochondrial autoantibodies (AMA) in adult- and juvenile-onset myositis longitudinal cohorts and investigated phenotypic differences between myositis patients with or…
Abstract Number: 1413 • ACR Convergence 2020
An Imbalance Between Regulatory and Inflammatory T Cell Subsets Distinguishes Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease Patients from Asymptomatic ANA+ Individuals
Emma Vanlieshout¹, Rashi Gupta¹, Dennisse Bonilla², Michael Kim³, Sindhu Johnson², Earl D. Silverman⁴, Linda Hiraki⁵, Zareen Ahmad⁶, Zahi Touma⁷, Arthur Bookman² and Joan Wither², ¹Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²University of Toronto Lupus Clinic, Centre for Prognosis Studies in Rheumatic Diseases, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Krembil Research Insitute, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Translational Medicine, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, and Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto., Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, and Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto., Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁷University of Toronto Lupus Clinic, Centre for Prognosis Studies in Rheumatic Diseases, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network; Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: The anti-nuclear antibody (ANA)-associated systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases (SARDs) are characterized by a prolonged preclinical phase in which ANAs are produced in the absence…
Abstract Number: 1803 • ACR Convergence 2020
Ability of Innate, Adaptive, and TNF-Superfamily Immune Pathways to Characterize Disease Activity and Inform a Refined Lupus Disease Activity Immune in a Confirmatory Cohort of SLE Patients
Melissa Munroe¹, Wade DeJager², Susan Macwana², Ly Tran², Joel Guthridge², Eldon Jupe³, Daniele DeFreese³, Ryan Newhardt³, Mohan Purushothaman³, Sanjiv Sharma³, Nancy Redinger², Teresa Aberle², Stan Kamp², Cristina Arriens², Eliza Chakravarty², Joan Merrill⁴ and Judith James⁵, ¹Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation/Progentec Diagnostics, Inc., Oklahoma City, OK, ²Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ³Progentec Diagnostics, Inc., Oklahoma City, OK, ⁴Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, ⁵Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation;Department of Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center;Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Edmond, OK
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease driven by complex immune dysregulation, involving altered immune mediators and accumulation of autoantibody (AutoAb) specificities.…
Abstract Number: 0586 • ACR Convergence 2020
Performance Characteristics of ANA by Elisa and Immunofluorescence
Gitanjali Lobo¹, Michael Luggen² and Chris Crutchfield³, ¹TriHealth Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, ²University Hospital/University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati Rheumatic Disease Study Group, Inc, Cincinnati, OH, ³University Hospital/University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
Background/Purpose: The ANA is a critical test in the evaluation of patients with suspected lupus and other connective tissue diseases. Clinical laboratories have relied increasingly…
Abstract Number: 1064 • ACR Convergence 2020
Anti-SMN Autoantibodies Are Associated with Systemic Sclerosis Small Bowel Involvement in anti-U1RNP Positive Autoimmune Myositis
Caroline Vo¹, Océane Landon-Cardinal², Alexandra Albert³, Alain Meyer⁴, Valérie Leclair⁵, Josiane Bourré-Tessier², Sabrina Hoa², Eric Rich¹, Jean-Richard Goulet¹, Benjamin Ellezam⁶, Maude Bouchard-Marmen⁷, Martial Koenig⁸, Geneviève Gyger⁵, Ira N. Targoff⁹, Marie Hudson⁵, Minoru Satoh¹⁰, Marvin Fritzler¹¹, Yves Troyanov¹² and Jean-Luc Senécal², ¹Division of Rheumatology, Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, ²Division of Rheumatology, Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, ³Division of Rheumatology, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada, ⁴Service de rhumatologie et Centre de références des maladies autoimmunes rares, Hôpitaux universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, Alsace, France, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁶Division of Pathology, Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁷Division of Rheumatology, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université Laval, Department of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada, ⁸Division of Internal Medicine, Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁹University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹⁰Department of Clinical Nursing, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan, ¹¹Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ¹²Division of Rheumatology, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur, Montréal, QC, Canada
Background/Purpose: The survival of motor neuron (SMN)/gemin proteins are components of a multifunctional protein complex that plays an essential role in RNA metabolism. SMN is…
Abstract Number: 1415 • ACR Convergence 2020
Murine Roseolovirus Induces Autoimmune Disease and Development of Autoreactive T Cells and Autoantibodies
Tarin Bigley¹, Jose Saenz², Li-Ping Yang², Jason Mills² and Wayne Yokoyama², ¹Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, ²Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Background/Purpose: Murine roseolovirus (MRV) is a recently sequenced beta-herpesvirus that is a natural murine pathogen and is genetically highly related to HHV6 and HHV7. The…
Abstract Number: 1818 • ACR Convergence 2020
IgG and IgA Autoantibodies Against L1 ORF1p Expressed in Granulocytes Correlate with Granulocyte Consumption and Disease Activity in Pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Kennedy Ukadike¹, Kathryn Ni¹, Victoria Carter¹, Martin Taylor², John LaCava³, Lauren Pachman⁴, Xiaoxing Wang¹, Mary Eckert⁵, Anne Stevens¹, Christian Lood¹ and Tomas Mustelin¹, ¹University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Rockefeller University, New York, NY, ⁴Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; The Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Division of Pediatric Rheumatology; The CureJM Center of Excellence in Juvenile Myositis Research and Care, The Stanley Manne Children's Research Center of Chicago, Lake Forest, IL, ⁵Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: To quantitate autoantibodies against the RNA-binding p40 (ORF1p) protein encoded by the L1 retroelement, expression of p40 itself, and markers of neutrophil death in…
Abstract Number: 0761 • ACR Convergence 2020
Anti-Peptidylarginine Deaminase Antibodies in the Individuals with Arthralgia at Risk of Progression to Rheumatoid Arthritis
Nora Petrovská¹, Klára Prajzlerová¹, Ivana Půtová², Monika Gregová¹, Petra Hánová², Heřman Mann³, Karel Pavelka¹, Jiří Vencovský¹, Ladislav Šenolt¹ and Mária Filková¹, ¹Institute of Rheumatology and Department of Rheumatology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ²Institute of Rheumatology, Prague, Czech Republic, ³Institute of Rheumatology, Prague, Czech Republic. Department of Rheumatology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
Background/Purpose: In order to identify the individuals at risk of imminent progression to rheumatoid arthritis (RA), EULAR has established a definition of clinically suspect arthralgia…
Abstract Number: 1068 • ACR Convergence 2020
Efficacy of Early Initiation of Plasma Exchange Therapy for a Patient with Anti-MDA5 Autoantibody-Positive Dermatomyositis Developing Refractory Rapidly Progressive Interstitial Lung Disease
Noriko Sasaki¹, Akira Ishii¹, Keigo Shimura¹, Azusa Kojima¹, Mai Sugiyama², Yuto Izumi¹, Kazuki Hirano¹, Sho Sasaki², Takayoshi Kurabayashi¹, Yuji Hosono², Chiho Yamada² and Shinji Sato², ¹Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan, ²Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan
Background/Purpose: Dermatomyositis (DM), and particularly the subtype clinically amyopathic DM (CADM), is often associated with fatal rapidly progressive interstitial lung disease (RP-ILD) when anti-melanoma differentiation-associated…
Abstract Number: 1445 • ACR Convergence 2020
Citrulline Reactive B Cells Are Present in the Lungs of Risk RA and Early Untreated RA
Vijay Joshua¹, Malena Loberg-Haarhaus², Akilan Krishnamurthy¹, Meng Sun³, Christina Gerstner⁴, Aase Hensvold⁵, Khaled Amara¹, Lena Israelsson¹, Ragnhild Stålesen⁶, Bence Rethi⁷, Magnus Sköld⁷, Johan Grunewald¹, Heidi Wähämaa¹, Caroline Grönwall¹, Vivianne Malmström⁸ and Anca Catrina⁵, ¹Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ²Rheumatology clinic, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden, ³Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Insitutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine,Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁵Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden, ⁶Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁷Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, ⁸Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Structural changes, increased tissue citrullination, signs of local inflammation and anti-citrullinated protein autoantibodies (ACPA) are present in the pulmonary compartment of early untreated seropositive…
Abstract Number: 1830 • ACR Convergence 2020
Adverse Drug Reactions to Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole as a Prophylactic Agent Against Pneumocystis Pneumonia in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: anti-Sm Antibody as a Possible Risk Factor
Shinji Izuka¹, Hiroyuki Yamashita², Yuko Takahashi² and Hiroshi Kaneko², ¹Devision of Rheumatic Disease, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Toshima-Ku, Tokyo, Japan, ²Devision of Rheumatic Disease, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) is a life-threatening infection in immunocompromised patients, including those with connective tissue diseases (CTDs), treated with corticosteroids or immunosuppressive agents. Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole…
Abstract Number: 0767 • ACR Convergence 2020
Anti-acetylated Protein Antibodies in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA): Clues for the Starting Point of Autoantibody Responses in RA
Tineke van Wesemael¹, Nazike Salioska², Annemarie Dorjée¹, Thomas Huizinga¹, Annette van der Helm - van Mil³, René Toes¹ and Diane van der Woude¹, ¹Leiden university medical center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²leiden university medical center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ³Leiden University Medical Center, Erasmus Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by autoantibodies such as rheumatoid factor (RF) and anti-modified protein autoantibodies (AMPAs) like anti-citrullinated protein antibodies (ACPA) and anti-carbamylated…

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