Abstracts tagged "autoimmune diseases"

Abstract Number: 0021 • ACR Convergence 2025
DoCTIS: A Single Cell RNA-Seq Atlas of Drug Response To Targeted Therapies
Antonio Julià¹, Yolanda Guillén², Paloma Vela Casasempere³, Antonio Fernández Nebro⁴, Carlos Marras⁵, Santos Castañeda⁶, Jaime Calvo Alén⁷, Jesús Tornero Molina⁸, Juan Cañete⁹, Eugeni Domènech¹⁰, Javier Gisbert¹¹, Jose M. Carrascosa¹², Eduardo Fonseca¹³, Luis Bujanda Fernández De pierola¹⁴, Valle García Sánchez¹⁵, Britta Siegmund¹⁶, Giampiero Girolomoni¹⁷, Holger Heyn¹⁸, Laura Jiménez Gracia¹⁸, Pere Santamaria¹⁹, Edgar Angelats²⁰, Richard Myers²¹, Sergio H. Martínez Mateu², Juan Ángel Patiño Galindo², Ernest Choy²² and Sara Marsal¹, ¹Vall d'Hebron Hospital Research Institute, Rheumatology Research Group, Barcelona, Spain, ²IMIDomics, Barcelona, Spain, ³Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Rheumatology, Alicante, Spain, ⁴Hospital Regional Universitario Carlos Haya, Rheumatology, Málaga, Spain, ⁵Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, Rheumatology, Murcia, Spain, ⁶Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, IIS-Princesa, Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ⁷Hospital Universitario de Araba, Rheumatology, Vitoria, Spain, ⁸Hospital Universitario de Guadalajara, Rheumatology, Guadalajara, Spain, ⁹Rheumatology Department, Hospital Clínic and IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, Spain, ¹⁰Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Gastroenterology, Badalona, Spain, ¹¹Hospital Universitario La Princesa, Rheumatology, Madrid, Spain, ¹²Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Dermatology, Badalona, Spain, ¹³Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña, Dermatology, A Coruña, Spain, ¹⁴Hospital Universitario de Donostia, Gastroenterology, San Sebastián, Spain, ¹⁵Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Gastroenterology, Córdoba, Spain, ¹⁶Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Gastroenterology, Berlin, Germany, ¹⁷University of Verona, Dermatology, Verona, Spain, ¹⁸Centre for Genomic Regulation (CNAG-CRG), Barcelona, Spain, ¹⁹Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelonoa, Spain, ²⁰Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain, ²¹HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL, ²²Division of Infection and Immunity, CREATE Centre, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Targeted therapies have revolutionized the management of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs), however, there is a substantial number of patients who respond poorly to a…
Abstract Number: 2611 • ACR Convergence 2025
Exploring the Role of a Lung Ultrasound Score in the Assessment of Severity of Connective Tissue Disease-Related Interstitial Lung Disease
jin ding¹, ying zhang¹, Linxuan Pang¹, ning guo² and zhaohui zheng¹, ¹Department of Clinical Immunology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China (People's Republic), ²Department of Radiology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China (People's Republic)
Background/Purpose: The role of lung ultrasound (LUS) in assessing disease severity of interstitial lung disease (ILD) remains unclear. We employed a semiquantitative scoring system to…
Abstract Number: 2535 • ACR Convergence 2025
Behçet’s syndrome: distinct features in 344 pediatric and adult patients in a non-endemic region
Ricardo Machado¹, Thales Souza², Matheus França³, Vinicius Matias⁴, Sylvia Farhat¹, Carolina Siqueira⁴, Maria Carolina Santos⁴, Lia Steuer¹, Luisa Forero¹, Rafael Bassara Macedo⁵, Thiago Freitas⁶, barbara Bayeh⁷, Carolina Ejnisman⁸, Pedro Araujo⁹, Rafael Cordeiro¹⁰, Fabio Specian⁵, Verena Balbi¹, Nadia Emi Aikawa¹¹, Katia Kozu¹, Clovis Artur Silva¹², Lucia Maria Campos¹³, Adriana Elias¹⁴ and Henrique Giardini⁶, ¹Instituto da Criança e do Adolescente, Hospital das Clinicas, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ²Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Brasilia, Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil, ³Instituto da Criança e do Adolescente, Hospital das Clinicas, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ⁴Faculdade de Ciências Medicas da Santa Casa de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ⁵Rheumatology Division, Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP), Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ⁶Rheumatology Division, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil, ⁷Hospital das Clínicas, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ⁸Rheumatology Division, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ⁹Universidade de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ¹⁰Rheumatology Division, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil, São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ¹¹Rheumatology Division and Pediatric Rheumatology Unit, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil, Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ¹²University of São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ¹³Instituto da Criança e do Adolescente, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ¹⁴Pediatric Rheumatology Unit, Instituto da Criança e do Adolescente, Hospital das Clinicas, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Background/Purpose: Behçet’s syndrome (BS) is a chronic inflammatory disorder characterized by a heterogeneous clinical presentation, occurring primarily in young adults and very rarely in children…
Abstract Number: 2409 • ACR Convergence 2025
Cutaneous Lupus Activity Investigator’s Global Assessment―Revised (CLA-IGA-R) Content Validity: Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus (CLE) Patient Qualitative Study
Joseph F Merola¹, Weihong Yang², Qianyun Li², Helen Doll³, Jason Randall³, Catherine Barbey⁴ and Feng Zeng², ¹Department of Dermatology and Department of Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ²Biogen, Cambridge, MA, ³Clinical Outcomes Solutions, Folkestone, Kent, United Kingdom, ⁴Biogen, Baar, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: The Cutaneous Lupus Activity Investigator’s Global Assessment-Revised (CLA-IGA-R) is an emerging clinician-reported outcome measure for severity of Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus (CLE) disease activity, developed…
Abstract Number: 2034 • ACR Convergence 2025
Hidden Burden in Rheumatology: Cross-Sectional Study of Hearing Loss in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases
Ruddy Paola Montoya Rumpf¹, Liliam María Murcia Munévar¹, Jairo Cajamarca-Baron², Dominique Daniela González Casas¹, María Fernanda González Sánchez¹, Adriana Rojas-Villarraga³, Henry Leonardo Martínez Bejarano¹, Adriana Isaza¹, Alejandro Escobar¹, Maria Camila Restrepo Guarnizo¹, Nicolás Santiago Rodríguez¹ and Claudia Ibáñez-Antequera¹, ¹Fundacion universitaria de ciencias de la salud, bogota, Distrito Capital de Bogota, Colombia, ²Fundacion universitaria de ciencia de la Salud, Bogota, Distrito Capital de Bogota, Colombia, ³Fundacion Universitaria de Ciencias de la salud, Bogotá, Distrito Capital de Bogota, Colombia
Background/Purpose: Autoimmune inner ear disease is a progressive sensorineural hearing loss of autoimmune origin, often underdiagnosed due to the lack of specific criteria, and requires…
Abstract Number: 1864 • ACR Convergence 2025
Mitochondrial Dysfunction Drives cGAS-STING–Mediated Type I Interferon Production and Fibrosis in Systemic Sclerosis
Giulio Forte¹, Vasiliki Liakouli¹, Alessia Salzillo², Mario Angeli³, Daniele Mauro¹, Antonio Ciancio¹, Barbara De Marino², Iacopo Panarese¹, Mario Faenza¹, roberto giacomelli⁴, Andreas Ramming⁵ and Francesco Ciccia⁶, ¹Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy, ²University of Campania L. Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy, ³Uniklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, Erlangen, Germany, ⁴Università Campus Bio-Medico, Roma, Italy, ⁵Department of Internal Medicine ³, Rheumatology & Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) & Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁶Rheumatology Section, University of Campania L. Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy, Naples, Italy
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune disease characterized by type I interferon (IFN-I) production and mitochondrial dysfunction. Emerging evidence suggests that activation of the…
Abstract Number: 1701 • ACR Convergence 2025
Gene Editing of HLA-Class II DRB1*04:01 at Position 82 Abrogates Binding of Citrullinated Arthritogenic Peptides and Collagen
Vibha Jha¹, Brian Freed², Niyun Jin¹, Manjula Miglani¹ and Christina Roark², ¹University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, ²Clinimmune Labs Immunology, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease with a strong genetic association to Class II HLA-DRB1*04:01. Presentation of arthritogenic peptides bound to DRB1*04:01…
Abstract Number: 1545 • ACR Convergence 2025
Efficacy and Safety of Subcutaneous Anifrolumab in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Interim Analysis of a Phase 3 Randomized Placebo-controlled Study
Susan Manzi¹, Ian Bruce², Eric Morand³, Richard Furie⁴, Yoshiya Tanaka⁵, Patricia Puzio⁶, Emon Khan⁷, Jenny Wissmar⁸, Michael Song⁹ and Catharina Lindholm¹⁰, ¹Lupus Center of Excellence, Autoimmunity Institute, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Centre for Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences, Queen's University, Belfast, Manchester, United Kingdom, ³Centre for Inflammatory Diseases, Monash University and Monash Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Northwell Health, Great Neck, NY, ⁵University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan, Kitakyushu, Japan, ⁶BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca US, Gaithersburg, MD, ⁷BioPharmaceuticals R&D, Late Respiratory and Immunology, AstraZeneca, Academy House, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ⁸BioPharmaceuticals R&D, Late-Stage Development, Respiratory & Immunology, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden, ⁹BioPharmaceuticals R&D, Late Clinical Development Immunology, AstraZeneca, Boston, MA, ¹⁰BioPharmaceuticals R&D, Late Clinical Development Immunology, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Intravenous (IV) anifrolumab (300 mg, every 4 weeks [Q4W]) is an approved biologic add-on therapy for moderate to severe SLE;1 a subcutaneous (SC) formulation…
Abstract Number: 1401 • ACR Convergence 2025
Real World Treatment Patterns and Health Care Resource Use in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Sjögren’s Disease (SjD) in the United States
Sara McCoy¹, Anjana Lalla², Nilesh Choudhary³, Shraddha Chatterjee³, Shiwani Prasad³ and Antton Egana², ¹University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, ²Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, NJ, ³Novartis India, Hyderabad, India
Background/Purpose: SjD is a chronic, systemic, progressive autoimmune disease characterized by dry mouth and eyes, but it is often accompanied by extraglandular symptoms and signs…
Abstract Number: 1248 • ACR Convergence 2025
Patient and Clinician Perception and Use of Complementary and Alternative (CAM) Medicine for Rheumatic Disease
Ailia Ali¹, Sarah Sun¹, Faryal Shaikh¹, Tamiko Katsumoto², Neha Shah³, Kimberly Trotter¹ and Pankti Reid⁴, ¹University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Stanford University, Millbrae, CA, ³Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ⁴University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use is increasingly prevalent among patients with rheumatic diseases, yet alignment between patient practices and clinician perspectives remains poorly…
Abstract Number: 1114 • ACR Convergence 2025
Multi-omics Integration Analysis of the Cross-scale Mechanism of MTX-induced T2DM Risk and the Precise Intervention Strategy of Leonurine
Mei-Feng Shi¹, Fang-Shu Zou¹, Xiao-Na Ma¹, Wei Feng¹, Yi-Fang Zhang², Chang-Song Lin¹, Min-Ying Liu² and Qiang Xu¹, ¹Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China (People's Republic), ²The First Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China (People's Republic)
Background/Purpose: Methotrexate (MTX) is a first-line treatment for autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Its potential risk of inducing type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) remains…
Abstract Number: 0989 • ACR Convergence 2025
Human MAIT cell produce IL-17 independently of IL-23 and TL1A
Kevin Hsu, Jessica Shannon, Zhiwei Fang, Anusara Daenthanasanmak, Prasad Srikakulapu, Tatiana Ort and Rafael de Queiroz Prado, AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD
Background/Purpose: Mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells represent a specialized subset of T cells that exhibit innate-like, effector functions and have been implicated in the pathogenesis…
Abstract Number: 0926 • ACR Convergence 2025
Discovery and Characterization of SIM0711: a Potent and Selective IRAK4 PROTAC with Improved Efficacy and Safety
Minyun Zhou¹, Peng Gu², Mengyu Wang³, Yuxi Yan², Li Sun³, Yiling Chen³, Xin Wang³, Feng Tang¹, Shunwei Zhu² and Xiaofeng Zhao⁴, ¹State Key Laboratory of Neurology and Oncology Drug Development, Simcere Pharmaceutical group, Nanjing, ²State Key Laboratory of Neurology and Oncology Drug Development, Simcere Pharmaceutical Group, Shanghai, China (People's Republic), ³State Key Laboratory of Neurology and Oncology Drug Development, Simcere Pharmaceutical Group, Nanjing, China (People's Republic), ⁴State Key Laboratory of Neurology and oncolog Drug Development, Simcere Pharmaceutical Group, Nanjing, China (People's Republic)
Background/Purpose: IRAK4 plays a pivotal role in the innate immune response by acting downstream of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and the interleukin-1 receptor (IL-1R), with both…
Abstract Number: 0699 • ACR Convergence 2025
A Retrospective Comparison of Transplant Outcomes in Patients with and without Systemic Sclerosis
Lilit Grigoryan, Sumbal Wajid, Giovanni Faddoul and Swati Mehta, Albany medical center, Albany, NY
Background/Purpose: Scleroderma renal crisis (SRC) is one of the life threatening complications of systemic sclerosis (SSc). Up to 20-50% require long term dialysis and subsequently…
Abstract Number: 0862 • ACR Convergence 2025
In immune-mediated necrotising myopathy, anti-HMGCR antibodies inhibit HMGCR activity, leading to the sarcoplasmic accumulation of lipid droplets and myofibres necrosis
Margherita Giannini¹, Giulia Quiring², Mustapha Oulad-Abdelghani³, Béatrice Lannes¹, Yves Allenbach⁴, Olivier Benveniste⁵, Olivier Boyer⁶, Aleksandra Nadaj Pakleza¹, Bernard Geny⁷ and Alain Meyer⁸, ¹Strasbourg University Hospital, Strasbourg, France, ²University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, ³IGBMC, Strasbourg, France, ⁴SORBONNE UNIVERSITE, Paris, France, ⁵Sorbonne Uniersite, Hopital de la Pitie-Salpetriere, Paris, France, ⁶University of Rouen, Rouen, France, ⁷UR ³⁰⁷², Centre de Recherche en Biomédecine, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg; FranceExplorations fonctionnelles musculaires, Service de physiologie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg;, Strasbourg, Alsace, France, ⁸Service de Rhumatologie, Centre de référence des maladies auto-immunes rares (RESO), Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, Explorations fonctionnelles musculaires, Service de physiologie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, UR ³⁰⁷², Centre de Recherche en Biomédecine, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg; France, Strasbourg, Alsace, France
Background/Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate whether in immune-mediated necrotising myopathy (IMNM), anti-HMGCR antibodies interfere with HMGCR activity and have a myopathic…

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