Abstracts tagged "autoimmune diseases"

Abstract Number: 2184 • ACR Convergence 2022
CaMK4 Controls the Humoral Response via the T Follicular Helper Compartment and Regulates Autoimmunity
Marc Scherlinger¹, Hao Li², Wenliang Pan², Maria Tsokos¹ and George Tsokos², ¹BIDMC Harvard University, Boston, MA, ²Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is characterized by a dysregulated T cell compartment and production of autoantibodies leading to organ damage. We previously identified that…
Abstract Number: PP26 • ACR Convergence 2022
Chronically Catherine: A Sex and the City-Inspired Autobiographical Column for Disabled Young Adults on Subjects We Really Care About – Like Disabled Dating and How Hot Cheetos Saved My Life
Catherine Ames¹, Courtney Wells² and Kristine Carandang¹, ¹Young Patients' Autoimmune Research & Empowerment Alliance, San Diego, CA, ²University of Wisconsin-River Falls; Young Patients' Autoimmune Research and Empowerment Alliance, St. Paul, MN
Background/Purpose: What if Carrie Bradshaw, sex advice columnist, fashionsta, and all around icon from Sex and the City were chronically ill? Or disabled? That's the…
Abstract Number: 0012 • ACR Convergence 2022
Role of Type L IFN Signaling on B Cell Pathogenicity in Early Sjögren’s Disease in Mouse Model
Merri-Grace Allred and Scott Lieberman, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Background/Purpose: Sjogren's disease is a chronic autoimmune disease autoimmune disease characterized by foci of inflammation of the lacrimal and salivary glands. As disease progresses, B…
Abstract Number: 0154 • ACR Convergence 2022
Anti-SMN Autoantibodies in Mixed Connective Tissue Disease Are Associated with a Scleromyositis Phenotype
Hajar El Kamouni¹, Alexandra Albert², Sabrina Hoa³, Darya S. Jalaledin⁴, Josiane Bourre-Tessier⁵, Eric Rich⁵, Jean-Richard Goulet⁶, Martial Koenig⁷, Minoru Satoh⁸, Marvin Fritzler⁹, May Choi¹⁰, Yves Troyanov¹¹, Jean-Luc Senécal⁵ and Océane Landon-Cardinal⁵, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Laval, Canada, ²Division of Rheumatology, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada, ³University of Montreal, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁴Division of Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Sherbrooke, Saint-Lambert, Canada, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Saint-Lambert, Canada, ⁷Division of Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁸Department of Human, Information and Science, University of Occupational Environmental Health, Kitakyusyu Fukuoka, Japan, ⁹University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ¹⁰Brigham and Women's Hospital | University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ¹¹Division of Rheumatology, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
Background/Purpose: The survival of motor neuron (SMN) is a ubiquitous macromolecular complex, located in the Cajal body of mammalian nuclei, with an essential role in…
Abstract Number: 0443 • ACR Convergence 2022
Prognosis of Non-PR3 ANCA-Associated Vasculitis with Glomerulonephritis
Aurélien Chepy¹, Hélène Béhal², Alexandre Karras³, Xavier Puéchal⁴, Benjamin Terrier⁴, David Jayne⁵, Thomas Quéméneur⁶ and Mary-Jane Guerry⁷, ¹CHU Lille, Département de Médecine Interne et Immunologie Clinique, Centre de Référence des Maladies Auto-immunes Systémiques Rares du Nord et Nord-Ouest de France (CeRAINO), Lille, France, ²University of Lille, CHU Lille, ULR 2694 - METRICS: Évaluation des Technologies de Santé et des Pratiques Médicales, Lille, France, ³HEGP, Paris, France, ⁴National Referral Center for Rare Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France, ⁵University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ⁶Valenciennes Hospital, Valenciennes, France, ⁷Department of Nephrology, Centre Hospitalier de Valenciennes, Valenciennes., Valenciennes, France
Background/Purpose: Immunosuppressive treatments have improved the prognosis of anti-neutrophil cytoplasm antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV), transforming these formerly fatal diseases into chronic conditions, with periods of…
Abstract Number: 0640 • ACR Convergence 2022
Immune Cell Heterogeneity in Lupus Nephritis Kidneys and Its Relation to Histopathological Features
Arnon Arazi¹, Joseph Mears², Thomas Eisenhaure³, Qian Xiao⁴, Paul Hoover⁴, Deepak Rao⁴, Celine Berthier⁵, Andrea Fava⁶, Siddarth Gurajala⁴, Michael Peters³, Tony Jones³, William Apruzzese⁴, Jennifer Barnas⁷, Richard Furie⁸, Anne Davidson⁹, David Hildeman¹⁰, Judith James¹¹, Joel Guthridge¹¹, Maria Dall'Era¹², David Wofsy¹³, Peter Izmirly¹⁴, H Michael Belmont¹⁵, Robert Clancy¹⁴, Diane Kamen¹⁶, Chaim Putterman¹⁷, Thomas Tuschl¹⁸, Maureen McMahon¹⁹, Jennifer Grossman¹⁹, Kenneth Kalunian²⁰, Michael Weisman²¹, Matthias Kretzler⁵, Michael Brenner²², Jennifer Anolik²³, Michelle Petri²⁴, Jill Buyon¹⁴, Soumya Raychaudhuri⁴, Nir Hacohen³, Betty Diamond⁹ and the Accelerating Medicines Partnership RA/SLE Network³, ¹Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Melrose, MA, ²Michigan University, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, ⁴Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁵University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁶Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁷University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, ⁸Northwell Health, Great Neck, NY, ⁹Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, ¹⁰Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, ¹¹Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹²University of California, Division of Rheumatology, San Francisco, CA, ¹³University of California San Francisco, SF, CA, ¹⁴NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, ¹⁵NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ¹⁶Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ¹⁷Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ¹⁸Rockefeller University, New York, NY, ¹⁹University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ²⁰University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ²¹Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Stanford University; Distinguished Professor of Medicine Emeritus, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ²²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²³University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, ²⁴Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Baltimore, MD
Background/Purpose: Lupus nephritis (LN) is characterized by considerable variability in its clinical manifestations and histopathological findings. Understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying this heterogeneity…
Abstract Number: 0732 • ACR Convergence 2022
Application of Natural Language Processing to Identify Varicella Zoster Infection in Clinical Notes
Austin Ho¹, Zara Izadi², Gabriela Schmajuk³, Jinoos Yazdany⁴, Suzanne Tamang⁵ and Milena Gianfrancesco⁶, ¹University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, ²University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ³UCSF / SFVA, San Francisco, CA, ⁴UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ⁵Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences, Redwood City, CA, ⁶University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Varicella zoster virus (VZV) infection can be associated with significant morbidity in immunosuppressed individuals. However, infections of VZV are often documented in unstructured fields…
Abstract Number: 0788 • ACR Convergence 2022
Development of Autoantibodies and Their Association with Flare-ups of Rheumatic Diseases in Adult Patients with Autoimmune Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases (AIIRD) and the General Population Following BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination – Results of 1-year Prospective Follow-up Study
Tal Gazitt¹, Jacqueline Shear², Joy Feld³, Amir Haddad⁴, Muna Elias⁵, Nizar Hijazi⁶, Idit Lavi¹, Tali Eviatar⁷, Victoria Furer⁸, Hagit Peleg⁹, Ori Elkayam¹⁰ and Devy Zisman¹, ¹Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel, ²The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel, ³Carmel and Zvulun Medical Centre, Haifa, Israel, ⁴Carmel Medical Centre, Haifa, Israel, ⁵Carmel Medical Center, Rheumatology Unit, Haifa, Israel, ⁶Carmel medical centre1Carmel Medical Center, Rheumatology Unit, Haifa, Israel, ⁷Tel Aviv Sourasky medical center, Tel Aviv, Israel, ⁸Department of Rheumatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, ⁹Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel, ¹⁰Tel Aviv Medical Center, Rheumatology, and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Background/Purpose: Little is known regarding autoantibody generation and clinically manifest autoimmunity following BNT162b2 mRNA vaccination. Our objective was to investigate the development of autoantibodies following…
Abstract Number: 0948 • ACR Convergence 2022
Fertility and the Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Perceptions, Thoughts and Experiences of Men and Women with Rheumatic Disease
Emily Peninger¹, Molly Leavitt¹, Cuoghi Edens¹ and Shilpa Venkatachalam², ¹University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²Global Healthy Living Foundation, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Patients with rheumatic diseases have fewer biologic children than those without for a number of reasons, including infertility. Patients with rheumatic diseases may therefore…
Abstract Number: 1176 • ACR Convergence 2022
Immunoglobulins G from Systemic Sclerosis Patients May Alter the Secretome of Dermal Fibroblasts
Aurélien Chepy¹, Marie Duhamel², Solange Vivier³, lucile Guilbert³, Eric Hachulla⁴, Sylvain Dubucquoi³, David Launay³, Michel Salzet² and Vincent Sobanski³, ¹CHU Lille, Département de Médecine Interne et Immunologie Clinique, Centre de Référence des Maladies Auto-immunes Systémiques Rares du Nord et Nord-Ouest de France (CeRAINO), Lille, France, ²Univ. Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, U1192 - Protéomique Réponse Inflammatoire Spectrométrie de Masse - PRISM, Lille, France, ³Univ. Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, U1286 - INFINITE - Institute for Translational Research in Inflammation, Lille, France, ⁴University of Lille, LILLE, France
Background/Purpose: Autoantibodies (Aab) are frequent in systemic sclerosis (SSc).Recently, it has been shown that immunoglobulins G (IgG) from SSc promoted a proinflammatory and profibrotic phenotype…
Abstract Number: 1361 • ACR Convergence 2022
Factors Associated with Medication-Free Remission in Juvenile Dermatomyositis
Harneet Ghumman¹, Asra Firdous¹, Megan Quinlan-Waters¹, Amy Cassedy², Angela Merritt¹, Hermine Brunner³, Alexei Grom¹, Daniel Lovell¹ and Sheila Angeles-Han¹, ¹Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ²Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, ³Division of Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati, OH
Background/Purpose: Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is characterized by symmetric proximal muscle weakness, distinct rash, and a risk for calcinosis and multi-organ involvement. Treatment with systemic immunosuppression…
Abstract Number: 1652 • ACR Convergence 2022
Long-term Safety and Efficacy of Anifrolumab in Adult Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled 3-year TULIP Extension Study
Kenneth C. Kalunian¹, Richard A. Furie², Eric F. Morand³, Ian N. Bruce⁴, Susan Manzi⁵, Yoshiya Tanaka⁶, Kevin Winthrop⁷, Gabriel Abreu⁸, Ihor Hupka⁹, Lijin Zhang¹⁰, Shanti Werther¹¹, Micki Hultquist¹², Raj Tummala¹⁰ and Catharina Lindholm¹¹, ¹UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ²Northwell Health, Great Neck, NY, ³Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, ⁴The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁵Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁶University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyusyu Fukuoka, Japan, ⁷Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, ⁸AstraZeneca, Mölndal, Sweden, ⁹AstraZeneca, Warsaw, Poland, ¹⁰AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD, ¹¹AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden, ¹²AstraZeneca, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Anifrolumab is a fully human IgG1 κ monoclonal antibody that binds to the type I IFN receptor and inhibits type I IFN signaling.1 In…
Abstract Number: 1845 • ACR Convergence 2022
Mortality Prognostic Factors of Critically Ill Patients with Systemic Autoimmune Diseases Admitted in a Medical Intensive Care Unit: A 20-year Cohort Study
Pamela Doti¹, Ana Luisa Cunha², Armin Quispe Cornejo³, Ángela Nieto González¹, Andre Matos¹, Pedro Guevara Hernández¹, Pedro Castro Rebollo¹ and Gerard Espinosa Garriga¹, ¹Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain, ²Hospital Senhora da Oliveira, Guimarães, Porto, Portugal, ³Erasme Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
Background/Purpose: To describe the clinical characteristics of a 20-year cohort of patients with systemic autoimmune diseases (SAD) admitted to a medical intensive care unit (ICU)…
Abstract Number: 2185 • ACR Convergence 2022
Development of a Novel Regulatory T Cell-Based Therapy for Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Anne-Renee van der Vuurst de Vries¹, Kathryn Hooper¹, Jonathan Graf², Katie Tuckwell¹ and Joshua Beilke¹, ¹Sonoma Biotherapeutics, South San Francisco, CA, ²Ucsf, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune inflammatory condition with persistent unmet medical need despite significant treatment advances. The pathogenesis of RA is initiated…
Abstract Number: 0014 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Expanded CD21 Low B Cell Subpopulation in Ankylosing Spondylitis Consists Mainly of Antigen-Inexperienced Cells
Rick Wilbrink¹, Linda van der Weele², Anneke Spoorenberg¹, Niek De Vries², Frans Kroese¹ and Gwenny Verstappen¹, ¹University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ²University Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: The role of B cells in the pathogenesis of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) remains relatively understudied. Nevertheless, available evidence shows presence of B cells at…

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