Abstracts tagged "autoimmune diseases"

Abstract Number: 0247 • ACR Convergence 2024
Enhanced Immunogenicity of the Recombinant Herpes Zoster Vaccine After One-Week of Mycophenolate Mofetil Discontinuation in Patients with Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases: Interim Results from a Prospective Randomized Phase 4 Study
Sandra Pasoto¹, Isabele Antonelli¹, Ana Cristina Medeiros-Ribeiro², Nadia Aikawa³, Leonard Kupa¹, Eduardo Borba¹, Luciana Seguro⁴, Emily Figueiredo Neves Yuki¹, ANA PAULA ASSAD¹, Carla Saad⁴, Andrea Shimabuco⁴, Andrea Negrini¹, Julia Medeiros¹, Talita Ribeiro¹, Samuel Shinjo⁴, Percival Sampaio-Barros⁴, Danieli Andrade⁵, Fernando Souza⁴, Renata Miossi⁴, Clovis Silva⁶ and Eloisa Bonfa¹, ¹Rheumatology Division, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, ²Rheumatology Division, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Jose Dos Campos, Brazil, ³Rheumatology Division and Pediatric Rheumatology Unit, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, ⁴Rheumatology Division, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, ⁵University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, ⁶Rheumatology Division and Pediatric Rheumatology Unit, Instituto da Criança e do Adolescente, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Background/Purpose: Recently, it was demonstrated that temporarily halting mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) for 1-week post-COVID-19 vaccination in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients improved humoral response, without…
Abstract Number: 0311 • ACR Convergence 2024
Investigation of Sarcoidosis-associated Neuropathy: Challenges with Diagnosis of Small Fiber Neuropathy
Kristen Caldwell¹, Sindhuja Koppu¹, Kelly Gwathmey¹, Aamer Syed¹, Jordana Kron¹, Thomas Iden¹ and Huzaefah Syed², ¹Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, ²Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA
Background/Purpose: Small fiber neuropathy (SFN) is an underrecognized complication of sarcoidosis which can significantly impair individuals’ physical functioning and quality of life. Diagnosis includes both…
Abstract Number: 0475 • ACR Convergence 2024
Rheumatoid Arthritis – Progressive Interstitial Lung Disease with Abatacept: Data from a Large National Multicenter Cohort
Ana Serrano-Combarro¹, Belén Atienza-Mateo², Libe Ibarrola Paino³, Ivette Casafont-Sole⁴, Jesús Loarce⁵, Juan María Blanco Madrigal⁶, Santos Castañeda⁷, Rafaela Ortega-Castro⁸, Natalia Mena Vázquez⁹, Nuria Vegas Revenga¹⁰, Lucia Cristina Dominguez Casas¹¹, Cilia Peralta Ginés¹², Carolina Diez Morrondo¹³, Lorena Pérez Albadalejo¹⁴, Rubén López Sánchez¹⁵, MARIA GUADALUPE MANZANO CANABAL¹⁶, Anahy Maria Brandy-Garcia¹⁷, Patricia Lopez Viejo¹⁸, Gema Bonilla¹⁹, Olga Maíz Alonso²⁰, Carmen Carrasco-Cubero²¹, Marta Garijo Bufort²², Mireia Moreno Martinez-Losa²³, Ana Urruticoechea-Arana²⁴, Sergi Ordoñez²⁵, Carmen González Montagut²⁶, Andrea García-Valle²⁷, Juan Ramón De Dios²⁸, Patricia Carreira²⁹, Tomás Vázquez Rodríguez³⁰, Delia Fernández-Lozano³¹, Ignacio Brana Abascal³², Rafael Benito Melero-Gonzalez³³, Emilio Giner³⁴, Virginia Ruiz Esquide³⁵, Clara Ventin Rodriguez³⁶, Marina Rodriguez³⁷, Pablo Andújar-Brazal³⁸, Julia Fernandez Melon³⁹, Lilian M. López-Núñez⁴⁰, JOSE RAMON LAMUA RIAZUELO⁴¹, Carlos Fernández Díaz⁴², Javier Loricera⁴³ and Ricardo Blanco-Alonso⁴⁴, ¹Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Cantabria, Spain, ²Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. IDIVAL, Immunopathology group, Santander, Cantabria, Spain, ³Rheumatology Division, Bisadoa Hospital, Bidasoa, Spain, ⁴Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, ⁵Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ⁶Basurto University Hospital, Bilbao, Spain, ⁷Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ⁸Hospital Reina Sofía, Cordoba, Andalucia, Spain, ⁹IBIMA, Málaga, Andalucia, Spain, ¹⁰Hospital Galdakao- Usansolo, Galdakao, Spain, ¹¹Hospital Universtario San Agustin, Oviedo, Spain, ¹²Hospital Clínico Universitario Lozano Blesa, Zaragoza, Spain, ¹³Hospital de Leon, León, Spain, ¹⁴Hospital Universitario de Jaén, Jaén, Spain, ¹⁵Hospital Universitario de Gran Canaria Dr. Negrín, Gran Canaria, Spain, ¹⁶CAZA, Salamanca, Spain, ¹⁷Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, ¹⁸Hospital Severo Ochoa, Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁹H. Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain, ²⁰3Hospital Universitario de Donosti, San Sebastian, Spain, San Sebastian, Pais Vasco, Spain, ²¹Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Badajoz, Badajoz, Spain, ²²Hospital de Sagunto, Valencia, Spain, ²³Parc Tauli Hospital Universitari, I3PT(UAB), Barcelona, Spain, ²⁴Hospital Son Espases, Palma de Mallorca, Islas Baleares, Spain, ²⁵Hospital Universitario Arnau de Vilanova de Lleida, Lleida, Spain, ²⁶Hospital Universitario de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain, ²⁷Hospital General Río Carrión, Palencia, Spain, ²⁸Osakidetza, Vitoria, Spain, ²⁹Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ³⁰Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Ferrol, Ferrol, Spain, ³¹Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, ³²Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain, ³³CHU Ourense, O Carballino, Spain, ³⁴Hospital Royo Villanova, Teruel, Spain, ³⁵Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ³⁶Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain, ³⁷Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago, La Coruna, Spain, ³⁸Hospital Universitario Doctor Peset, Valencia, Spain, ³⁹Hospital Son Espases, Palma, Spain, ⁴⁰Hospital Universitari Son Llàtzer, Palma, Spain, ⁴¹Hospital Universitario del Henares, Madrid, Spain, ⁴²Hospital Universitario Santa Lucía, Cartagena, Spain, ⁴³Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ⁴⁴Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. IDIVAL, Immunopathology group, Santander, Spain
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a severe extra-articular manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Abatacept (ABA) has demonstrated effectiveness in the treatment of RA-ILD, regardless…
Abstract Number: 0703 • ACR Convergence 2024
Preliminary Results from the RECONNOITER Trial, a Phase 2 Study of AISA 021 in the Treatment of Secondary Raynaud’s, Primarily Due to Systemic Sclerosis
Andrew Sternlicht¹, Michael Shanahan², Erin Morton², Meredith Todd³, Ivana Hunt², Zoey Reed², amanda weragoda⁴, Lashika Weerakoon² and Elizabeth Briggs², ¹Tufts University Medical Center and Aisa Pharma, Inc., Boston, MA, ²Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, Australia, ³Aisa Pharma Pty Ltd., East Lindfield, New South Wales, Australia, ⁴F, Adelaide, Australia
Background/Purpose: While 95% of Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) patients have Raynaud’s phenomenon(RP) and many patients rate it as the most bothersome and severe symptom of their…
Abstract Number: 0841 • ACR Convergence 2024
Clinical and Biologic Predictors of Thrombosis in Persistently Antiphospholipid Antibody Positive Patients: Prospective Analysis of the International APS ACTION Clinical Database and Repository (“Registry”)
Jonathan Thaler¹, Michael Parides¹, Danieli Andrade², Diana Paredes-Ruiz³, Maria Tektonidou⁴, Vittorio Pengo⁵, Savino Sciascia⁶, Cecilia Nalli⁷, Guilherme Ramires de Jesús⁸, Paul Fortin⁹, Maria Efthymiou¹⁰, H Michael Belmont¹¹, Michelle Petri¹², Ricard Cervera¹³, Leslie Skeith¹⁴, TATSUYA ATSUMI¹⁵, Chary Lopez-Pedrera¹⁶, Yu Zuo¹⁷, David Branch¹⁸, Rohan Willis¹⁹, Nina Kello²⁰, Zhuoli Zhang²¹, Esther Rodriguez-Almaraz²², Bahar Artim Esen²³, Jose Pardos-Gea²⁴, Guillermo Pons-Estel²⁵, Giulia Pazzola²⁶, Hui Shi¹⁷, Ali Duarte-Garcia²⁷, Medha Barbhaiya¹, Cécile Yelnik²⁸, Pierluigi Meroni²⁹, Robert Roubey³⁰, Maria Laura Bertolaccini³¹, Hannah Cohen³², Jacob Rand³³ and Doruk Erkan¹, and on behalf of APS ACTION, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, ³Autoimmune Diseases Research Unit. Biocruces Bizkaia Health Research Institute, Baracaldo, Spain, ⁴National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, ⁵Thrombosis Research Laboratory, Department of Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, ⁶University of Turin, Torino, Turin, Italy, ⁷ASST SPEDALI CIVILI DI BRESCIA, Brescia, Italy, ⁸Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, ⁹Centre ARThrite - CHU de Québec - Université Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada, ¹⁰University College London, London, United Kingdom, ¹¹NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ¹²Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Timonium, MD, ¹³Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ¹⁴University of Calgary, Calgary, ON, Canada, ¹⁵Department of Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, ¹⁶IMIBIC/Reina Sofia Hospital/University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Andalucia, Spain, ¹⁷University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ¹⁸University of Utah and Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, ¹⁹University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, ²⁰Northwell Health, Brooklyn, NY, ²¹Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China, ²²Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain, ²³Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ²⁴Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, ²⁵CREAR, Rosario, Argentina, ²⁶Rheumatology Unit, Azienda USL IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ²⁷Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²⁸lille university, Lille, France, ²⁹IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano 100%, Cusano Milanino, Milan, Milan, Italy, ³⁰Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, ³¹King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ³²University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, ³³Weill Cornell Medical Center, Bronx, NY
Background/Purpose: There is a lack of high-quality data to inform risk-stratified long-term thrombosis prevention strategies in patients with persistently positive antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL). The APS…
Abstract Number: 0916 • ACR Convergence 2024
Isocitrate Dehydrogenase 2 Mutations Are Associated with Autoimmune Rheumatologic Diseases in Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia
Mahmut Kaymakci¹, Anuya Natu², Clifford Csizmar², Terra Lasho², Christy Finke², Abhishek Mangaonkar¹, Aref Al-Kali¹, Hassan Alkhateeb¹, Jenna Fernandez², Matthew Koster¹, Cornelia Weyand², Mrinal Patnaik¹ and Kenneth Warrington¹, ¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester
Background/Purpose: Somatic mutations occurring in the hematopoietic system can be associated with concomitant hematologic and inflammatory diseases. Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) is a hematologic neoplasm…
Abstract Number: 1005 • ACR Convergence 2024
Pharmacosurvellience Study of FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) Events of Tofacitinib and Upadacitinib
Nur Barlas, Sait Barlas, Stefan Milutinovic and Shristi Basnyat, Florida State University College of Medicine Internal Medicine Residency Program at Lee Health, Cape Coral
Background/Purpose: Janus Kinase (JAK) inhibitors are the agents of choice for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and ankylosing spondylitis when other DMARDs are…
Abstract Number: 1163 • ACR Convergence 2024
Characteristics of Interstitial Lung Disease Progressors in an Antisynthetase Autoantibody-Positive Population
Aurélie Mourot¹, Beatrice Panuta¹, Juliette Charbonneau¹, Ange Mounkam Ngeuleu¹, Caroline Vo², Eric Rich³, Josiane Bourré-Tessier³, Edith Villeneuve³, Hélène Manganas³, Andréanne Gauthier³, Julie Morisset³, Sabrina Anh-Tu Hoa³ and Océane Landon-Cardinal³, ¹University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²Hôpital Charles Lemoyne, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
Background/Purpose: Antisynthetase syndrome (ASSD) is characterized by interstitial lung disease (ILD), myositis, polyarthritis, Raynaud’s phenomenon, dermatomyositis-like rash and mechanic’s hands. ILD may present with isolated…
Abstract Number: 1432 • ACR Convergence 2024
Diagnostic Performance of Mayor Salivary Gland Ultrasound for Diagnosis of Sjögren’s Syndrome in Routine Clinical Practice
Carmen Raya-Santos¹, José Miguel Senabre², José Antonio Bernal³, Rocío Gallego Campuzano⁴, Lara Pons-Canet², Ana Pons-Bas², Juan Carlos Cortes⁴, Gregorio Santos-Soler⁵ and José Rosas-Gómez de Salazar⁶, ¹Hospital Marina Baixa, Villajoyosa (Alicante), Spain, ²Hospital Marina Baixa, Villajoyosa, Spain, ³Hospital Marina Baixa (Villajoyosa), Alicante, Spain, ⁴Hospital Marina Baixa, Villajoyosa, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain, ⁵Hospital Marina Baixa, Villajoyosa, ⁶Hospital Marina Baixa, PALMA DE MALLORCA, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
Background/Purpose: Major salivary glands ultrasound (SGU) is a promising tool in the diagnosis of Sjögren syndrome (SS) and has demonstrated good sensitivity and specificity in…
Abstract Number: 1621 • ACR Convergence 2024
Analysis of Hospitalizations of Adult Patients with Kawasaki’s Disease: A United States Population Based Study
Ufuoma Mamoh¹, Soziema Salia¹, Joan Morny², Jesse Odion³, Elem Ewuru⁴, Precious Onobraigho⁵, Eugene Omoike⁵, Oyidia Ijioma⁶, Osaruese Ezomo⁷ and Ehizogie Edigin⁸, ¹Medstar Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, MD, ²Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center, Athens, GA, ³Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Barnstaple, United Kingdom, ⁴Acute and Emergency Care United Kingdom Medway Maritime Hospital, Gillingham, ⁵College of Medicine, University of Benin, Benin, Nigeria, ⁶Department of Clinical Psychiatry, University of South Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, ⁷Department of Gastroenterology, Spire Manchester Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁸The University of Texas Health Science Center, houston, TX
Background/Purpose: Kawasaki disease (KD) is a systemic vasculitis, typically affecting young children, and is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children in developed…
Abstract Number: 1753 • ACR Convergence 2024
A Phase 1, Multicenter, Open-Label Study to Establish the Preliminary Tolerability, Efficacy, Pharmacokinetics, and Pharmacodynamics of CC-97540 (BMS-986353), a CD19-directed CAR T Cell Therapy Manufactured Using a Next-generation Process, for Severe, Refractory Autoimmune Diseases
Georg Schett¹, Emily Littlejohn², Neil Kramer³, Amit Saxena⁴, Philip Mease⁵, Margrit Wiesendanger⁶, Fabian Müller⁷, Ran Reshef⁸, Paolo Caimi⁹, Mohamad Cherry¹⁰, Jingmei Hsu⁴, Krish Patel¹¹, Jacques Azzi⁶, Susana Falcon¹², Thomas Ly¹³, Ken Ogasawara¹², Sharmila Das¹², Jerill Thorpe¹⁴, Michael Maldonado¹², Giuseppina Stifano¹², Ashley Koegel¹² and Anca Askanase¹⁵, ¹Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, ²Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ³Atlantic Medical Group, Atlantic Health System, Morristown, NJ, ⁴NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁵Swedish Medical Center/Providence St. Joseph Health; University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, ⁶Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, ⁷Department of Medicine 5 - Hematology and Oncology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Uniklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁸Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, ⁹Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland, OH, ¹⁰Atlantic Health System, Morristown, NJ, ¹¹Center for Blood Disorders and Cellular Therapy, Swedish Cancer Institute, Seattle, WA, ¹²Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, ¹³Bristol Myers Squibb, San Diego, CA, ¹⁴Bristol Myers Squibb, Seattle, WA, ¹⁵Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: CD19 is an appealing therapeutic target due to its ubiquitous expression on B cells and plasmablasts, which play a key role in the pathogenesis…
Abstract Number: 1841 • ACR Convergence 2024
Preclinical Evaluation of ALLO-329: Allogeneic CD19 CAR T Cells Expressing an Anti-Rejection CD70 CAR for the Treatment of Autoimmune Diseases
Kristen Zhang, Joanne Li, Duy Nguyen, Nguyen Tan, Hsin-Yuan Cheng, David Huang, Suhasni Gopalakrishnan, Zachary Roberts, Cesar Sommer and Elvin Lauron, Allogene Therapeutics, South San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Autologous CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies have recently shown to be well tolerated and highly effective in patients with autoimmune diseases…
Abstract Number: 1940 • ACR Convergence 2024
Timely Initiation of Steroid Sparing Therapy in Uveitis Patients – a Quality Improvement Initiative
Bibi Ayesha¹, Claudia Castiblanco², Clement Tagoe³, Sarah Baron² and Sharon Rikin², ¹Montefiore Medical Center, Metuchen, NJ, ²Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, ³Montefiore Medical Center, New York
Background/Purpose: Uveitis is the inflammation of the eye, which is third leading cause of preventable blindness in the United States. Corticosteroids are the first line…
Abstract Number: 2078 • ACR Convergence 2024
Increased RAGE Expression in Myositis
Madison King¹, Rita Spathis², Elizabeth Bagley¹ and Melissa Morales³, ¹Binghamton University, Johnson City, NY, ²Binghamton University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Johnson City, NY, ³SUNY Binghamton, Johnson City, NY
Background/Purpose: Myositis is a broad term for a group of rare autoimmune diseases that cause persistent muscle inflammation, weakness, and fatigue. Currently, first-line treatment for…
Abstract Number: 2391 • ACR Convergence 2024
Identification of Patients with ANA Negative and Double Stranded DNA Positive: What Is the Significance in Daily Rheumatology Practise
Güllü Sandal Uzun¹, Emily Apsley² and David Isenberg², ¹University College London, London, England, United Kingdom, ²University College London, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: The anti-nuclear antibody (ANA test) is a sensitive screening tool used when assessing patients with possible autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARD). Homogeneous staining positivity is…

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