Abstracts tagged "autoimmune diseases"

Abstract Number: 0765 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Impact of Immunomodulating Treatment on the Immunogenicity of COVID-19 Vaccines in Patients with Immune-mediated Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases Compared to Healthy Controls. a Swedish Nationwide Study (COVID19-REUMA)
Martina Frodlund¹, Katerina Chatzidionysiou², Anna Södergren³, Eva Klingberg⁴, Anders A Bengtsson⁵, Monika Hansson², Sophie Ohlsson⁶, Elisa Pin⁷, Lars Klareskog⁸ and Meliha Kapetanovic⁹, ¹Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Division of Inflammation and Infection/Rheumatology, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, ²Department of Medicine, Solna, Division of Rheumatology, Karolinska University Hospital at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ³Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine/Rheumatology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden and Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, ⁴Dept of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, ⁵Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund, Section for Rheumatology, Lund University, Lund and Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, ⁶Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund, Section for Nephrology, Lund University, Lund and Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, ⁷Department of Protein Science, SciLifeLab, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁸Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁹Lund University, Department for clinical sciences Lund, section of rheumatology and Lund University Hospital Lund and Malmö, Lund, Sweden
Background/Purpose: The aim of the study was to elucidate antibody responses after vaccination with two doses of COVID-19 vaccines in patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases…
Abstract Number: 0832 • ACR Convergence 2022
Anti-NOR 90 Antibodies: What Is the Clinical Significance in Rheumatic Inflammatory Conditions?
Paulo Vilas-Boas¹, Gisela Eugenio² and Anabela Barcelos², ¹Rheumatology Department, Centro Hospitalar Baixo Vouga, Aveiro, Portugal, ²Centro Hospitalar Baixo Vouga, Aveiro, Portugal
Background/Purpose: Anti-NOR 90 antibodies have been detected in inflammatory conditions, neoplastic diseases and even in healthy individuals. Despite numerous epidemiologic studies, large scale studies are…
Abstract Number: 1121 • ACR Convergence 2022
Intricate Roles of Low Gene Copy Numbers for Complement C4, C4A Deficiency and HLA-DRB1*03 as Genetic Risk Factors for Myositis, Its Subgroups and Autoantibodies
Danlei Zhou¹, Emily H King¹, Simon Rothwell², Olga Kryštůfková³, Antonella Notarnicola⁴, Samantha Coss¹, Rabheh Abdul Aziz⁵, Katherine E Miller¹, Amanda Dang¹, G. Richard Yu¹, Joanne Drew⁶, Emeli Lundstrom⁴, Lauren Pachman⁷, Gulnara Mamyrova⁸, Rodolfo V Curiel⁸, Boel De Paepe⁹, Jan De Bleecker⁹, Antony Payton¹⁰, William Ollier¹¹, Terrance P O'Hanlon¹², Ira Targoff¹², Willy Flegel¹², Vidya Sivaraman⁶, Edward Oberle⁶, Shoghik Akoghlanian⁶, Kyla Driest⁶, Charles H Spencer¹³, Yee Ling Wu¹⁴, Haikady N Nagaraja¹⁵, Stacy P Ardoin⁶, Hector Chinoy¹⁶, Lisa G Rider¹², Frederick Miller¹², Ingrid Lundberg¹⁷, Leonid Padyukov¹⁸, Jiří Vencovský³, Janine A Lamb² and Chack-Yung Yu¹, ¹Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Abigail Wexner Research Institute, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH, ²National Institute for Health Research Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ³Institute of Rheumatology and Department of Rheumatology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Nationwide Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ⁷Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine. Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago; Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute of Chicago, Lake Forest, IL, ⁸Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, ⁹Department of Neurology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium, ¹⁰Division of Informatics, Imaging and Data Sciences, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ¹¹Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom, ¹²Environmental Autoimmunity Group, Clinical Research Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ¹³Division of Rheumatology, Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, MS, ¹⁴Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL, ¹⁵Division of Biostatistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ¹⁶The University of Manchester, Sale, United Kingdom, ¹⁷Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ¹⁸Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a group of autoimmune diseases characterized by autoantibodies plus infiltration of leukocytes into muscles and/or the skin, leading to…
Abstract Number: 1295 • ACR Convergence 2022
Targeting Barriers That Prevent Contraception Counseling in an Academic Rheumatology Practice
Tara Skorupa¹, Kristin Sturm², Aaron Lazorwitz², Guiset Carvajal Bedoya³, Ju Young Kwag², JoAnn Zell² and Kristen Demoruelle², ¹University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, ²University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, ³Billings Clinic, Billings, MT
Background/Purpose: Systemic autoimmune diseases disproportionately affect females of childbearing potential. Many of the medications used to treat systemic autoimmune diseases have suspected or confirmed teratogenic…
Abstract Number: 1576 • ACR Convergence 2022
Clinical Presentation and Outcome of Patients with Chronic Abdominal Periaortitis
Umar Ghaffar¹, Hannah Langenfeld², Cynthia Crowson³, Tanaz Kermani⁴, Michelle Burke¹, Boyd Viers¹, Aaron Potretzke¹, Haraldur Bjarnason¹, Kenneth J. Warrington¹ and Matthew J. Koster¹, ¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³Mayo Clinic, Eyota, MN, ⁴University of California Los Angeles, West Hills, CA
Background/Purpose: To evaluate the presentation features and outcomes of patients with chronic abdominal periaortitis in a large referral cohort. Methods: Using a proprietary medical text…
Abstract Number: 1756 • ACR Convergence 2022
Adverse Events in Patients with Inflammatory Joint Diseases: Results from the EULAR Coronavirus Vaccine (COVAX) Physician-reported Registry
Ana Lúcia Martins Fernandes¹, Jose A Gomez-Puerta², Juan Camilo Sarmiento-Monroy², Saskia Lawson-Tovey³, Kimme Hyrich⁴, Laure Gossec⁵, Loreto Carmona⁶, Anja Strangfeld⁷, Elsa Mateus⁸, Ana Maria Rodrigues⁹, Eric Hachulla¹⁰, Marta Mosca¹¹, Patrick Durez¹², Bernd Raffeiner¹³, Nicolas Roux¹⁴, Viellard Eric¹⁵, Olivier Brocq¹⁶, Julija Zepa¹⁷, Inita Bulina¹⁸, Eva Strakova¹⁹, Vanda Mlynarikova²⁰, Emoke Šteňová²¹, Martin Soubrier²², Xavier Mariette²³ and Pedro Machado²⁴, ¹Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Algarve, Faro, Portugal, ²Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ³Centre for Genetics and Genomics Versus Arthritis, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK AND National Institute of Health Research Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁴The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁵Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, ⁶Instituto de Salud Musculoesquelética (InMusc), Madrid, Spain, ⁷Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁸EULAR, Lisboa, Portugal, ⁹Reuma.pt, Sociedade Portuguesa de Reumatologia, Lisbon, Portugal, ¹⁰University of Lille, LILLE, France, ¹¹Rheumatology Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ¹²Rheumatology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc – Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) – Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique (IREC), Brussels, Belgium, ¹³Department of Rheumatology, Central Hospital of Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy, ¹⁴Service de Rhumatologie, Hôpital Robert Schuman, Metz, France, ¹⁵Private practice, St. Malo, France, ¹⁶Rheumatology- CH Princesse Grace, Monaco, Monaco, ¹⁷Riga Stradins University, Latvia, Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital, Centre of Rheumatology, Riga, Latvia, Riga, Latvia, ¹⁸Center of Rheumatology, Paul Stradins Clinical University hospital, Riga, Latvia, Riga, Latvia, ¹⁹Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty Hospital Prešov, Presov, Slovakia, ²⁰National Institute of Rheumatic Diseases, Piešťany, Slovakia, ²¹University Hospital, Bratislava, Slovakia, ²²Gabriel-Montpied Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand, France, ²³Paris-Saclay University, Rueil Malmaison, Ile-de-France, France, ²⁴University College London, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Patients with inflammatory/autoimmune rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (I-RMDs) were excluded from SARS-CoV-2 vaccination development programs. Therefore, concerns regarding the safety and effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2…
Abstract Number: 2048 • ACR Convergence 2022
Serology Driven Pulmonary Phenotype Characterization of Sjögren Syndrome-associated Interstitial Lung Disease: A Monocentric Cohort Study
Gaetano La Rocca¹, Francesco Ferro², Giovanni Fulvio³, Silvia Fonzetti⁴, Inmaculada Concepción Navarro García⁵, Elena Elefante⁶, Chiara Romei⁷, Marta Mosca⁶ and Chiara Baldini³, ¹University of Pisa, Rheumatology Unit, Palermo, Palermo, Italy, ²Clinical and Experimental Medicine Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ³University of Pisa, Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ⁴Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy, ⁵Clinical and Experimental Medicine Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy, ⁶University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ⁷University of Pisa, Rheumatology Unit, Pisa, Italy
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a relatively frequent manifestation of Sjögren's Syndrome (pSS), potentially presenting with a wide spectrum of clinical-radiological characteristics. Anti-Ro52 autoantibodies…
Abstract Number: PP14 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Use of Social Support as Treatment
Aleta McLean, Open Hand Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Background/Purpose: The months leading up to my diagnosis were frustrating. Initially my hair started falling out. I was told it was stress related. I was…
Abstract Number: 0135 • ACR Convergence 2022
Janus Kinase Inhibitors in Severe and Refractory Inflammatory Ocular Pathology. Cases Reports and Literature Review
Lara Sánchez-Bilbao¹, Vanesa Calvo Río², José Luis Martín-Varillas³, José Luis Álvarez-Vega⁴, Emma Beltrán Catalán⁵, Olga Maiz⁶, Ignacio Torre⁷, Raúl Veroz⁸, Carmen Alvarez Reguera¹, Rosalía Demetrio-Pablo¹, Miguel Ángel González-Gay⁹ and Ricardo Blanco¹⁰, ¹Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ²Valdecilla Hospital, Santander, Spain, ³Hospital de Laredo, Laredo, Cantabria, Spain, ⁴Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Badajoz, Badajoz, Spain, ⁵Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, ⁶Hospital Universitario de Donostia, San Sebastián, Spain, ⁷Hospital de Basurto, Basurto, Spain, ⁸Hospital de Mérida, Mérida, Spain, ⁹Department of Medicine and Psychiatry, Universidad de Cantabria; Rheumatology Division, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla; Research group on genetic epidemiology and atherosclerosis in systemic diseases and in metabolic diseases of the musculoskeletal system, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain. Cardiovascular Pathophysiology and Genomics Research Unit, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, ¹⁰Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain
Background/Purpose: Inflammatory ocular pathology (IOP) includes internal (uveitis) and external [mainly ocular surface pathology such as epi/scleritis and peripheral ulcerative keratitis (PUK)] involvement. IOP may…
Abstract Number: 0337 • ACR Convergence 2022
Expanded Autoantibody Profiling in Incomplete Lupus Erythematosus
Rebecca Wood¹, Catriona Wagner², Carla J. Guthridge³, Joel Guthridge³, Steve Wallace⁴, Pennina R Safer⁵ and Judith James³, ¹Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Edmond, OK, ²Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Santa Cruz, CA, ³Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁴Immunarray, Richmond, ⁵Immunarray, Rehovot, Israel
Background/Purpose: Incomplete lupus erythematosus (ILE) involves clinical and/or serologic manifestations consistent with but insufficient for SLE classification. While a subset of ILE patients transition to…
Abstract Number: 0608 • ACR Convergence 2022
Wnt Pathway Regulators R-spondin 3 and Dickkopf-related Protein 3 Demarcate a Transcriptional Gradient That Drives Synovial Fibroblast Inflammatory Pathology in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Alisa Mueller¹, Angela Zou², SABA NAYAR³, Emily Taylor³, Triin Major³, David H Gardner³, Gerald FM Watts¹, Adam Croft³, Roche Fibroblast Network Consortium⁴, Andrew Filer³, Christopher Buckley⁵, Kevin Wei⁶, ilya Korsunsky¹, Soumya Raychaudhuri¹ and Michael Brenner⁷, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ⁴Roche, Basel, Switzerland, ⁵University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ⁶Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁷Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Synovial fibroblasts are key players in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) where they secrete inflammatory cytokines and directly instigate cartilage and bone destruction. However, most treatments…
Abstract Number: 0715 • ACR Convergence 2022
Safety and Immunogenicity of Mixed COVID19 Vaccine Regimens in Immune-mediated Inflammatory Diseases: An Observational Cohort
Carol Hitchon¹, Christine Mesa², Charles N Bernstein¹, Catherine Card², RuthAnn Marrie¹, Sheila O'Brien³ and John Kim², ¹University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ²Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ³Canada Blood Services, Ottawa, Canada
Background/Purpose: Data on immunogenicity and safety of COVID-19 vaccination strategies exist for the general population, however, such data are limited for immunocompromised people including those…
Abstract Number: 0769 • ACR Convergence 2022
Heterologous Vector versus Homologous mRNA COVID-19 Booster Vaccination in Non-seroconverted Immunosuppressed Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Daniela Sieghart¹, Daniel Mrak¹, Elisabeth Simader¹, Selma Tobudic², Helga Radner¹, Peter Mandl³, Lisa Göschl¹, Maximilian Koblischke⁴, Nikolaus Hommer⁵, Lukas Hartl⁶, Philipp Hofer⁷, Felix Kartnig¹, Thomas Hummel¹, Andreas Kerschbaumer³, Thomas Deimel³, Antonia Puchner¹, Renate Thalhammer⁸, Andreas Zuckermann⁹, Karin Stiasny⁴, Thomas Perkmann⁸, Helmuth Haslacher⁸, Markus Zeitlinger⁵, Ursula Wiedermann¹⁰, Judith Aberle⁴, Daniel Aletaha¹¹, Leonhard Heinz¹ and Michael Bonelli¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ²Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ³Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ⁴Center for Virology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ⁵Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ⁶Division of Gastroenterology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ⁷Department of Pathology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ⁸Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ⁹Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ¹⁰Institute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, Center of Pathophysiology, Infectiology & Immunology, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ¹¹Medical University Vienna, Wien, Austria
Background/Purpose: Patients under immunosuppressive therapy have a high risk for severe COVID-19 disease courses. However, efficacy of vaccination and therefore the right vaccination strategy remains…
Abstract Number: 0840 • ACR Convergence 2022
Postoperative Risk of Immunosuppression in Rheumatic Disease Patients Undergoing Arthroscopy
Kinjal Vasvada, Laith Jazrawi and Jonathan Samuels, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Recent literature suggests that rheumatic disease patients hold most immunosuppressive (IS) medications before and after joint replacement surgery, to prevent infections and other complications.…
Abstract Number: 1134 • ACR Convergence 2022
Genome-wide Association Study Identifies Novel Loci for Leukopenia Among TPMT and NUDT15 Normal Metabolizers Taking Azathioprine
Jacy Zanussi, Puran Nepal, Alyson Dickson, Laura Daniel, Peter Straub, Tyne Miller-Fleming, Wei-Qi Wei, Adriana Hung, Nancy Cox, Vivian Kawai, Jonathan Mosley, Michael Stein, QiPing Feng, Ge Liu, Ran Tao and Cecilia Chung, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Background/Purpose: Azathioprine is a thiopurine drug used for the treatment of several inflammatory and autoimmune conditions. However, its use is limited due to side effects,…

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