Abstracts tagged "autoimmune diseases"

Abstract Number: 1127 • ACR Convergence 2023
Factors Associated with Vision-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Non-infectious Uveitis: A Longitudinal Analysis
Maria Paula Alvarez Hernandez¹, Inés Pérez Sancristóbal¹, Alfredo Madrid García², Lara Borrego Sanz³, Cristina Hormigos martín¹, Beatriz García Tirado³, Mayte Ariño Gutiérrez³, Cristina lajas Petisco¹, Pedro Arriola Villalobos³, Esperanza Pato Cour³ and Luis Rodríguez Rodríguez¹, ¹Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain, ²Fundación Investigación Biomédica Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain, ³Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: Non-infectious uveitis (NIU) are characterized by inflammation of the middle layer of the eye wall and have a significant impact on patients' visual-related quality…
Abstract Number: 1355 • ACR Convergence 2023
Delivering Care for Pregnant Women with Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases in Ireland: Current Challenges and Practices
Rebecca O'Farrell¹, Sinead Maguire², Louise Moore³, Kieran Murray⁴, Áine Gorman⁵, Elisabeth Ball⁶, Claire Riddell⁶, Madeline O'Neill⁷, Natasha Jordan⁸, Barry O'Shea⁹, Douglas Veale¹⁰, Suzanne Donnelly¹¹, Grainne Murphy¹² and Gillian Fitzgerald¹³, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Galway, Dublin, Ireland, ²Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Our Lady's Hospice and Care Services, Harold's Cross, Dublin 6W, Harold's Cross,, Ireland, ⁴University Hospital Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, ⁵Royal United Hospital, Bath, United Kingdom, ⁶Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Belfast, United Kingdom, ⁷Our Lady's Hospice, Harold's Cross, Dublin, Ireland, ⁸Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ⁹St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ¹⁰St.Vincent's University Hosp, Dublin, Ireland, ¹¹Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ¹²Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland, ¹³University Hospital Galway, Galway, Ireland
Background/Purpose: Rheumatic disease frequently affects women of childbearing age. Women with pre-existing rheumatic disease who are planning a pregnancy or develop these conditions during pregnancy…
Abstract Number: 1587 • ACR Convergence 2023
Mitochondrial Z-DNA and ZBP1 Drive Autoimmune Photosensitivity
Benjamin Klein, Mack Reynolds, Bin Xu, Mehrnaz Gharaee-Kermani, Amanda Victory, Shannon Loftus, Mary O'Riordan and J. Michelle Kahlenberg, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Background/Purpose: Autoimmune photosensitivity is observed in type I Interferon (IFN) mediated diseases such as systemic and cutaneous lupus erythematosus (SLE/CLE) and dermatomyositis. Type I IFN…
Abstract Number: 1758 • ACR Convergence 2023
Identification of Circulating Autoantibodies Associated with ACPA Status in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis
Lucía Lourido¹, Vijay Joshua², Monika Hansson³, Ronald Sjöberg⁴, Elisa Pin⁴, Cristina Ruiz-Romero⁵, Peter Nilsson⁴, Lars Klareskog² and Francisco J. Blanco⁶, ¹Unidad de Proteómica. Grupo de Investigación de Reumatología (GIR). Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas. Universidade da Coruña (UDC). C/ As Xubias de Arriba 84, 15006, A Coruña, Spain, ²Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ³Division for Rheumatology, Department of Medicine (Solna) Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁴Department of Protein Science, SciLifelab, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁵1) Unidad de Proteómica. Grupo de Investigación de Reumatología (GIR). Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas. Universidade da Coruña (UDC). C/ As Xubias de Arriba 84, 15006, A Coruña, España. 4) Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN). Av. Monforte de Lemos, 3-5. Pabellón 11,28029, Madrid, Spain, ⁶Rheumatology department, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña (CHUAC). Instituto de Investigación Biomédica A Coruña (INIBIC), A Coruña, Spain
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with the presence of autoantibodies being the anti-citrullinated protein antibodies (ACPAs) the hallmark as they are present in almost…
Abstract Number: 1928 • ACR Convergence 2023
Response to Sars-Cov2 Vaccination in Rheumatic and Neurological Patients Treated with Different Immunosuppressive Therapies
Cristina Calomarde Gomez¹, Raquel Ugena García¹, Julia Valera², Melisa Mena², Maria Esteve², Irma Casas², jose Antonio Dominguez-Benitez², lidia Carabias-Ane², isaac Nuño-Ruiz², Cristina ramo-Tello², Javier Santesmases², Lourdes Mateo Soria³ and Melania Martinez Morillo¹, ¹Rheumatology department. Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, ²Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, ³HOSPITAL GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL, Badalona, Spain
Background/Purpose: Vaccination against SARS-CoV2 has been the primary global strategy to prevent severe forms of this respiratory infection. However, multiple studies have shown that patients…
Abstract Number: 2102 • ACR Convergence 2023
Is This Prosthetic Joint Infected or Flaring?
Susan Goodman, Insa Mannstadt, Kathleen Tam, Alejandro Kochen, Lorien Shakib, Peter Sculco, Mark Figgie, Alberto Carli, Andy Miller, Linda Russell, Allina Nocon and Laura Donlin, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Diagnosis of a periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) in a patient with inflammatory arthritis (IA) is challenging, as features of IA flares can mimic an…
Abstract Number: 2432 • ACR Convergence 2023
Wnt Signaling Drives Pathogenic Stromal Inflammation in Inflammatory Arthritis
Alisa Mueller¹, Angela Zou², Lucy-Jayne Marsh³, Samuel Kemble⁴, Saba Nayar³, Emily Taylor³, Triin Major³, David Gardner⁵, Gerald F.M. Watts¹, Cassandra Murphy¹, Roche Fibroblast Network Consortium⁶, Adam Croft³, Andrew Filer³, Christopher Buckley⁷, Kevin Wei⁸, ilya Korsunsky¹, Soumya Raychaudhuri¹ and Michael Brenner⁸, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ⁴University Birmingham, Rugeley, United Kingdom, ⁵University of Birmingham, Havelock North, New Zealand, ⁶Roche, Basel, Switzerland, ⁷University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ⁸Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Synovial fibroblasts are a promising therapeutic target in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) where they can adopt inflammatory or destructive phenotypes and directly promote bone and…
Abstract Number: 2572 • ACR Convergence 2023
Autoantibody Profile of Autoimmune Driven Interstitial Lung Disease as Compared to Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and Association of Autoantibodies with Survival
Elena Joerns¹, Chad Newton², Stanislav Kolenikov³, Jeffrey Sparks⁴ and David Karp⁵, ¹University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ²UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX, ³NORC at the University of Chicago, Columbia, MO, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁵UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Background/Purpose: The term interstitial pneumonia with autoimmune features (IPAF) describes patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD) and features of autoimmunity, that do not fulfill classification…
Abstract Number: 0008 • ACR Convergence 2023
Differential Induction of Anti-Muscarinic Type-3-Receptor Antibodies by Immunization with 4-Hydroxy-2-nonenal-Modified Ro60 in BALB/c Mice
Biji T Kurien¹, Devavrat Dave¹, Martha Tsaliki¹, Valerie Lewis¹ and R Hal Scofield², ¹Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²Oklahoma City Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Background/Purpose: Sjögren's Disease is an autoimmune condition in which patients exhibit decreased salivary/lacrimal gland function and express autoantibodies that target the 60k molecular weight Ro…
Abstract Number: 0085 • ACR Convergence 2023
Fibroblasts Promote Upregulation of Cannabinoid Type 2 Receptor on Inflammatory Cells in Dermatomyositis
DeAnna Diaz¹, Muhammad Bashir¹, Rohan Dhiman², Avital Baniel¹, Julianne Kleitsch¹, Rachita Pandya¹, Meena Sharma¹, Thomas Vazquez¹, Ming-Lin Liu², Mariko Momohara² and Victoria Werth³, ¹Philadelphia VAMC, Philadelphia, PA, USA and Department of Dermatology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³University of Pennsylvania and Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VAMC, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: Dermatomyositis (DM) is a chronic, systemic autoimmune disease affecting the skin, muscle, and lungs. The activation of CB2R has been shown to reduce several,…
Abstract Number: 0204 • ACR Convergence 2023
Risk of Severe Infections Associated with Immunoglobulin Deficiency Under Rituximab Therapy in Immune Mediated Inflammatory Diseases
Claire Rempenault¹, Cedric Lukas², Léa Tardivon³, Claire Daien⁴, Bernard G. Combe⁵, Philippe GUILPAIN³ and JACQUES MOREL⁶, ¹Universary Hospital of Montpellier, Montpellier, France, ²CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, France, ³University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France, ⁴University Hospital, Montpellier, France, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France, ⁶Protocole thérapeutique immuno-rhumatologie, Montpellier, France
Background/Purpose: Literature data on the increased risk of severe infection regarding hypogammaglobinemia related to RTX in IMID are controversial and sparse. We proposed to evaluate…
Abstract Number: 0330 • ACR Convergence 2023
Patient-Reported Experiences and Comorbidities in Patients with IgG4-Related Disease with and Without Pancreatic Involvement
Liam Harvey¹, Guy Katz², Yasmin Hernandez-Barco², Ana Fernandes², Aubree McMahon², Grace McMahon², Isha Jha², Zachary Wallace³, Cory Perugino² and John Stone⁴, ¹Frank H. Netter School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University, New Haven, CT, ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Newton, MA, ⁴Massachusetts General Hospital Rheumatology Unit, Harvard Medical School, Concord, MA
Background/Purpose: IgG4-Related Disease (IgG4-RD) is a systemic immune-mediated disease that commonly involves the pancreas in the form of autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP). Despite being one of…
Abstract Number: 0555 • ACR Convergence 2023
Evaluation and Management of the “False Positive” ANA and Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease Amongst Rheumatologists
Neha Gupta¹, Sarah Ford², Lane Scheiber², Tangada Rao² and Abhishek Nandan², ¹Virginia Commonwealth University Health Systems, Richmond, VA, ²Virginia Commonwealth University Health Systems; Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Richmond, VA
Background/Purpose: The management of a positive anti-nuclear antibody (ANA) is one of the most common consultations in rheumatology outpatient practice. The prevalence of a positive…
Abstract Number: 0798 • ACR Convergence 2023
A Novel 3D Model of Rheumatoid Arthritis Synovial Tissue Incorporating Fibroblasts, Endothelial Cells and Macrophages
Eva Philippon¹, Lisanne van Rooijen¹, Jan Piet van Hamburg¹, Fatemeh Khodadust¹, Conny Van der Laken² and Sander Tas³, ¹Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²Amsterdam UMC - location VUMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ³Amsterdam UMC, locatie AMC, Utrecht, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a progressive and systemic autoimmune disorder associated with chronic and destructive inflammation of the joints. The hallmarks of RA are…
Abstract Number: 0996 • ACR Convergence 2023
Will Patients Engage with Digital Technologies as Part of Routine Healthcare?
Jeffrey R Curtis¹, Sandeep Sodhi², Yuji Su³, Scott Laster⁴, Fenglong Xie², Ye Liu⁵ and Corey Patrick⁴, ¹Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, ²Illumination Health, Hoover, AL, ³University of Alabama at Birmingham and Illumination Health, Birmingham, AL, ⁴Micare, Memphis, TN, ⁵University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Remote Physiologic Monitoring (RPM) and Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM) are new care delivery options by which patients can provide data to their provider via…

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