Abstracts tagged "autoimmune diseases"

Abstract Number: 1531 • ACR Convergence 2024
Prospective mRNA SARS-CoV-2 Additional Vaccination in Systemic Autoimmune Disease Patients on Immunosuppressive Medications in a Randomized Controlled Trial
Meggan Mackay¹, Catriona Wagner², Ashley Pinckney³, Jeffrey Cohen⁴, Zachary Wallace⁵, Arezou Khosroshahi⁶, Jeffrey Sparks⁷, Sandra Lord⁸, Amit Saxena⁹, Roberto Caricchio¹⁰, Alfred Kim¹¹, Diane Kamen¹², Fotios Koumpouras¹³, Anca Askanase¹⁴, Kenneth Smith¹⁵, Joel Guthridge¹⁵, Susan Macwana¹⁶, Sean McCarthy¹⁷, Matthew Sherman¹⁸, Sanaz Daneshfar Hamrah¹⁹, Maria Veri¹⁹, Kate York²⁰, Sarah Walker²¹, Sandeep Narpala²², Robin Carroll²², Bob Lin²², Leonid Serebryanny²², Adrian McDermott²³, William Barry²¹, Ellen Goldmuntz²⁴, James McNamara²⁵, Sara Tedeschi²⁶, Amit Bar-Or²⁷, Dinesh Khanna²⁸, ACV01 Clinical Study Team¹⁵ and Judith James¹⁵, ¹Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, ²Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Santa Cruz, CA, ³Rho, St Louis Park, NC, ⁴Neurologic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA, Cleveland, OH, ⁵Massachusetts General Hospital, Newton, MA, ⁶Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ⁷Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, Boston, MA, ⁸Center for Interventional Immunology, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, WA., Seattle, WA, ⁹NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ¹⁰University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, ¹¹Washington University School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, St Louis, MO, ¹²Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ¹³Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ¹⁴Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, ¹⁵Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹⁶Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, ¹⁷DAIT/NIAID/NIH, Rockville, MD, ¹⁸DAIT/NIAID/NIH, Washington, DC, ¹⁹Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Transplantation, NIH/NIAID, Bethesda, MD, USA., Bethesda, MD, ²⁰Rho Federal Systems Division, Durham, NC, USA., Durham, NC, ²¹Rho, Durham, NC, ²²Vaccine Research Center, NIH/NIAID, Bethesda, MD, USA, Bethesda, MD, ²³Vaccine Research Center, NIH/NIAID, Bethesda, MD, ²⁴NIAID/ NIH, Washington, DC, ²⁵NIH, Bethesda, MD, ²⁶Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²⁷Department of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, Philadelphia, PA, ²⁸Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, Ann Arbor, MI
Background/Purpose: Autoimmune disease patients treated with mycophenolate mofetil/mycophenolic acid (MMF/MPA), methotrexate (MTX), or B cell-depleting therapies (BCDT) exhibit reduced humoral responses following primary two-dose COVID-19…
Abstract Number: 1652 • ACR Convergence 2024
Extracellular Vesicles from Lymphocyte B and Neutrophil Presents Ro52, Ro60 and La Autoantigens in Patient Suffering from Sjögren Syndrome
Lily BRUYERE¹, Anne-Claire DUCHEZ², Martin KILLIAN³ and Stéphane PAUL⁴, ¹université jean-monnet, saint-etienne, ²EFS, saint-etienne, ³chu Saint-Etienne, saint-etienne, ⁴CIRI, Saint Etienne, France
Background/Purpose: Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) are double lipid bilayer-enclosed membranous vesicles, produced and discharged from almost all cells. EVs are known for inter-cellular communication by releasing…
Abstract Number: 1784 • ACR Convergence 2024
T-bet Expressing B Cells as a Putative Prognostic and Therapeutic Biomarker for Human SLE
Athanasios Sachinidis¹, Maria Trachana², Anna Taparkou², George Gavriilidis³, Vasileios Vasileiou³, Sofoklis Keisaris³, Panayotis Verginis⁴, Christina Adamichou⁵, Dimitrios Boumpas⁶ and Alexandros Garyfallos², ¹School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Thessaloniki, Greece, ²Ippokrateio General Hospital Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, ³Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece, ⁴Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, ⁵IPPOKRATEION HOSPITAL OF THESSALONIKI, Athens, Greece, ⁶4th Department of Internal Medicine, "Attikon" University Hospital, Athens, Greece, Athens, Greece
Background/Purpose: T-bet+ B cells, known as age-associated B cells (ABCs) and/or double-negative B cells (DN), expand in various autoimmune diseases. This study aimed to clarify…
Abstract Number: 1857 • ACR Convergence 2024
Thymic Mimetic Cells in Humans, Mice and Fish Are Evolutionarily Ancient with Species-specific Adaptations
Brooke Huisman¹, Daniel Michelson¹, Sara Rubin¹, Katherine Kohlsaat², Wilson Gomarga², Yuan Fang¹, Ji Myung Lee², Pedro del Nido², Meena Nathan², Christophe Benoist¹, Leonard Zon² and Diane Mathis¹, ¹Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Thymic mimetic cells are molecular hybrids between medullary thymic epithelial cells (mTECs) and diverse peripheral cell types. They are involved in eliminating autoreactive T…
Abstract Number: 1982 • ACR Convergence 2024
Comparison of COVID-19 Infection and Mortality Rates in Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Patients with Autoimmune Inflammatory Rheumatic Disease (AIRD) Using Conventional and Biologic DMARD Therapy at an Urban Tertiary Care Hospital
Sarah Ifteqar¹, Mallak Zatreh², Aatif Syed¹, Xiangni Wu³, Asad Kabir⁴, John Foxworth⁵ and AMR EDREES⁶, ¹University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, ²3. Hutchinson Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson, Kansas, USA, Kansas City, ³UMKC, KANSAS CITY, MO, ⁴5. Pulmonary Critical Care, Mosaic Life Care Health System, St. Joseph, Missouri, USA, Kansas City, ⁵2. Department of Internal Medicine, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, USA, Kansas City, ⁶UMKC, Overland Park, KS
Background/Purpose: Autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases (AIRD) such as rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus affect 3-5% of Americans and causes significant morbidity due to chronic…
Abstract Number: 2171 • ACR Convergence 2024
A Qualitative Exploration of Oral Healthcare Needs Amongst Canadian Patients with Rheumatic Diseases and Their Providers
Chrysi Stavropoulou¹, Corrie Billedeau², Jennifer Protudjer¹ and Carol Hitchon¹, ¹University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ²NA, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Background/Purpose: Patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases (RDs) have a high prevalence of oral manifestations and/or oral side effects from immunomodulatory medications. These factors combined with…
Abstract Number: 2411 • ACR Convergence 2024
Attainment of Complete Renal Response in Patients with Active Lupus Nephritis: A Multi-Center Cohort Study
Arushi Ramnarain¹, Xiaomeng Xu², Joanna Kent³, Sagar Jagtiani⁴, Worawit Louthrenoo⁵, Laniyati Hamijoyo⁶, Shue-Fen Luo⁷, Yi-Hsing Chen⁸, Jiacai Cho⁹, Chiu Wai Shirley Chan¹⁰, Sandra Navarra¹¹, Haihong Yao¹², Lydia Pok¹³, BMDB Basnayake¹⁴, Zhuoli Zhang¹⁵, Madelynn Chan¹⁶, Sang-Cheol Bae¹⁷, Yasuhiro Katsumata¹⁸, Jun Kikuchi¹⁹, Sean O'Neill²⁰, Fiona Goldblatt²¹, Yih Jia Poh²², Mark Sapsford²³, Nicola Tugnet²⁴, Kristine Pek Ling Ng²⁵, Cherica Tee²⁶, Yoshiya Tanaka²⁷, Mandana Nikpour²⁸, Alberta Hoi²⁹, Eric Morand³⁰ and Rangi Kandane-Rathnayake³¹, ¹Monash Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, ²GSK, Value, Evidence & Outcomes, Singapore, Singapore, ³Monash University, Department of Nephrology, Monash Health and Department of Medicine, Melbourne, Australia, ⁴Glaxo Smith Kline, Singapore, Singapore, ⁵Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Chiang Mai, Thailand, ⁶Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia, ⁷Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ⁸Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, TW, Taichung, Taiwan (Republic of China), ⁹National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore, ¹⁰Division of Rheumatology and Clinial Immunology, Department of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, ¹¹University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines, ¹²People's Hospital, Peking University Health Science Center, Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Beijing, China, ¹³University of Malaya Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ¹⁴Teaching Hospital, Kandy, Sri Lanka, ¹⁵Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China, ¹⁶Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore, ¹⁷Department of Rheumatology, Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ¹⁸Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ¹⁹Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ²⁰Liverpool Hospital; Royal North Shore Hospital; University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, ²¹Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, Australia, ²²SingHealth, Singapore, Singapore, ²³WDHB, Auckland, New Zealand, ²⁴Auckland District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand, ²⁵Health New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand, ²⁶Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines, ²⁷Department of Internal Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan, ²⁸The University of Sydney, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, ²⁹Monash Health, Monash University, Melbourne, AU, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, ³⁰School of Clinical Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, ³¹Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
Background/Purpose: LN is prevalent in SLE, occurring in up to 50% of patients. Treatment response is evaluated by improvement in proteinuria and renal function, and…
Abstract Number: 2549 • ACR Convergence 2024
VISTA Deficiency Alters the Skin Immune Cell Composition and Confers Skin Sensitivity to UV Light
Zachary Peters¹, Lindsay Mendyka², Angelique Cortez¹, J'voughnn Blake¹, Alecia Roy¹, William Rigby³, Christopher Burns⁴, Randolph Noelle⁵ and Sladjana Skopelja-Gardner⁶, ¹Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH, ²Dartmouth Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Lyme, NH, ³Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Norwich, VT, ⁴Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, ⁵Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, ⁶Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, Lebanon, NH
Background/Purpose: Persistent production of type I interferons (IFN-Is) is one of the hallmarks of cutaneous lupus erythematosus (CLE) that is exacerbated by ultraviolet (UV) light.…
Abstract Number: 2681 • ACR Convergence 2024
Association of Social Determinants of Health with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in the United States: Nationally Representative Estimates for 2017-2021
Ami Vyas, Steven Cohen and Christine Eisenhower, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Background/Purpose: Careful assessment of individuals’ social determinants of health (SDOH) that affect systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is crucial, as such evidence will improve care and…
Abstract Number: 0010 • ACR Convergence 2024
Precision Editing of Cyclophilin a to Engineer Cyclosporine- and Voclosporin- Resistant Human CAR-T Cells
Holly Wobma¹, Francesca Alvarez-Calderon², Jiayi Dong², Alexandre Albanese², Kayleigh Omdahl², Rene Bermea³, Gillian Selig⁴, Marlana Winschel², Elisa Rojas Palato², Katherine Michaelis¹, Xianliang Rui², Bruce Blazar⁵, Susan Prockop², Victor Tkachev³, Ulrike Gerdemann² and Leslie Kean², ¹Division of Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Division of Hematology-Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Harvard College, Boston, MA, ⁵Division of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Background/Purpose: With exponential demand for chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapies for autoimmune disease, allogeneic options will be essential. Advantages include use of healthy donor cells,…
Abstract Number: 0106 • ACR Convergence 2024
IgM and IgG Phosphatidylserine Antibody Detection May Improve Classification Accuracy of SLE and APS
Christina Donath¹, Sara Kahlown¹, Ryan Soares², Kamal Gautam², Mariam Saleh³, Banki Katalin⁴ and Andras Perl⁵, ¹SUNY Upstate University Hospital, Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Fellowship Program, Syracuse, NY, ²SUNY Upstate University Hospital, Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine Residency Program, Syracuse, NY, ³SUNY Upstate University Hospital, Syracuse, NY, ⁴SUNY Upstate University Hospital, Department of Pathology, Syracuse, NY, ⁵SUNY, Syracuse, NY
Background/Purpose: Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is an autoimmune coagulopathy that causes microvascular and macrovascular thrombosis in both venous and arterial systems. This can occur as a…
Abstract Number: 0257 • ACR Convergence 2024
High Prevalence of Strongyloides Antibodies in Patients at Risk for Dissemination. A Call for Action
Jaspreet Bhatti¹, Kyu-In Lee¹, Arushika Yedla¹, Julia Ash¹, James Miceli¹, Kirk Sperber¹ and Amy Wasserman², ¹Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, ²Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla
Background/Purpose: Strongyloides Stercoralis is a human intestinal nematode widely found in tropical and subtropical regions that frequently causes chronic and asymptomatic infection (Table 1). Immunosuppression in a host…
Abstract Number: 0331 • ACR Convergence 2024
Cardiac Manifestations in Patients with Anti-Synthetase Syndrome: Analysis from the “Classification Criteria for Anti-synthetase Syndrome (CLASS)” Project Database
Sangmee Bae¹, Gianluca sambataro², iazsmin Ventura³, Francisca Bozan⁴, Eduardo Dourado⁵, Sara Faghihi-Kashani⁶, Aravinthan Loganathan⁷, Daphne Rivero Gallegos⁸, Akira Yoshida⁹, Giovanni Zanframundo¹⁰, Francesco Bonella¹¹, Tamera J Corte¹², Tracy J Doyle¹³, david fiorentino¹⁴, Miguel Angel Gonzalez-Gay¹⁵, marie Hudson¹⁶, Masataka Kuwana¹⁷, Andrew Mammen¹⁸, Neil McHugh¹⁹, Frederick Miller²⁰, Carlomaurizio Montecucco²¹, Antonella Notarnicola²², Chester Oddis²³, Jorge Rojas-Serrano²⁴, Jens Schmidt²⁵, Carlo A. Scire²⁶, Albert Gil-Vila²⁷, Victoria Werth²⁸, Lorenzo Cavagna²⁹ and Rohit Aggarwal³⁰, ¹UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ²University of Catania, Catania, Italy, ³Section of Rheumatology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ⁴Hospital Clinico Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, ⁵Unidade Local de Saúde da Região de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, ⁶Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, San Francisco, CA, ⁷Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath, United Kingdom, ⁸INER, Ciudad de México, Mexico State, Mexico, ⁹Nippon Medical School Graduate School of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, ¹⁰Università di Pavia, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy, Milano, Italy, ¹¹Center for interstitial and rare lung diseases, Ruhrlandklinik, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany, ¹²Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, ¹³Brigham and Women's Hospital, West Roxbury, MA, ¹⁴Department of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, Palo Alto, CA, ¹⁵University of Cantabria, Fundación Jimenez Díaz, Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁶McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ¹⁷Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo, Japan, ¹⁸NIH, Bethesda, MD, ¹⁹University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom, ²⁰NIH, NIEHS, Chapel Hill, NC, ²¹IRCCS policlinico S. Matteo foundation, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, ²²Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden, ²³Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²⁴National Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Ismael Cosío Villegas, Mexico City, Mexico, ²⁵University Medical Center Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany, ²⁶University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy, ²⁷Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ²⁸University of Pennsylvania, Wynnewood, PA, ²⁹University of Pavia and Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Hospital of Pavia, Pavia, Pavia, Italy, ³⁰Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: The prevalence of cardiac manifestations has not been comprehensively described in anti-synthetase syndrome (ASSD). In the current study, we report the prevalence of cardiac…
Abstract Number: 0536 • ACR Convergence 2024
A Population Modeling and Simulation of the Effect of Obexelimab Exposure on the QTc Interval in Healthy Volunteers and Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis or IgG4-Related Disease
Claire Mukashyaka¹, Xiaodong Wang¹, Sujata Arora¹, Mason Yamashita¹, Allen Poma¹ and Tanya Fischer², ¹Zenas BioPharma, Waltham, MA, ²Zenas BioPharma, Waltham, CA
Background/Purpose: Obexelimab is a novel bifunctional antibody that inhibits B cells, CD19-expressing plasma cells, and plasmablast activity and has the potential to provide clinical benefit…
Abstract Number: 0775 • ACR Convergence 2024
A Phase 3, Randomized, Double-Blind, Multicenter, Placebo-Controlled Study of Inebilizumab in IgG4-Related Disease (MITIGATE): Primary Efficacy and Safety Findings
John Stone¹, Emma Culver², Arezou Khosroshahi³, Wen Zhang⁴, Emanuel Della Torre⁵, Kazuichi Okazaki⁶, Yoshiya Tanaka⁷, Matthias Löhr⁸, Nicolas Schleinitz⁹, Lingli Dong¹⁰, Hisanori Umehara¹¹, Marco Lanzillotta¹², Zachary Wallace¹³, Mikael Ebbo¹⁴, George Webster¹⁵, Ferran Martinez Valle¹⁶, Manu Nayar¹⁷, Vinciane Rebours¹⁸, Cory Perugino¹⁹, Xinxin Dong²⁰, Yanping Wu²⁰, Nishi Rampal²⁰ and Daniel Cimbora²⁰, ¹Massachusetts General Hospital , Harvard Medical School, Concord, MA, ²John Radcliffe Hospital, and Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ³Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ⁴Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Dong Cheng Qu, China (People's Republic), ⁵Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy, ⁶University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Osaka, Japan, ⁷Department of Internal Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan, ⁸Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁹Aix Marseille university, AP-HM, Marseille, France, ¹⁰Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China (People's Republic), ¹¹Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Nagahama City Hospital,, Nagahama, Shiga 526-0043, Japan, Japan, ¹²IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano, Italy, ¹³Massachusetts General Hospital, Newton, MA, ¹⁴Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France, ¹⁵University College Hospital London, London, United Kingdom, ¹⁶Vall d’Hebron Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, ¹⁷Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, ¹⁸Beaujon Hospital, Université Paris-Cité, France, ¹⁹Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²⁰Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA
Background/Purpose: IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a rare, systemic, fibroinflammatory disease characterized by unpredictable and recurring flares, leading to organ damage and decreased quality of life.…

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