Abstracts tagged "autoimmune diseases"

Abstract Number: PP21 • ACR Convergence 2022
What Lies Beneath: Making Rheumatoid Arthritis Visible for the Seronegative Patient Through Blood Work
Shilpa Venkatachalam, Global Healthy Living Foundation, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: When I first received my Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) diagnosis 5 years ago, I experienced a combination of relief and disbelief. Relief because now all…
Abstract Number: 0006 • ACR Convergence 2022
Oral Administration of a Novel Pyrrolopyrimidine Derivative That Inhibits BAFF Signaling Suppresses B Cell Differentiation and Production of Autoantibody in Autoimmune Model Mice
Keiko Yoshimoto¹, Katsuya Suzuki², Yumi Ikeda¹, Tsutomu Takeuchi³ and Yuko Kaneko⁴, ¹Div. of Rheumatology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ²Div. of Rheumatology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku, Japan, ³Keio University and Saitama Medical University, Tokyo, Japan, ⁴Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: We reported that the expression level of a BAFF receptor (BR3) was upregulated in peripheral monocytes of patients with primary Sjogren's syndrome (pSS) and…
Abstract Number: 0136 • ACR Convergence 2022
Sarcoidosis Incidence After mTOR Inhibitor Treatment
Matthew Baker¹, Emese Vágó², Yuhan Liu¹, Rong Lu¹, Suzanne Tamang³, Erzsébet Horváth-Puhó² and Henrik Sørensen², ¹Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ²Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, ³Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences, Redwood City, CA
Background/Purpose: Mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitors are effective in animal models of granulomatous disease, but their benefit in patients with sarcoidosis is unknown. We…
Abstract Number: 0351 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Effect of Belimumab to Achieve Low Disease Activity or Remission Based on SLE-DAS in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Single-center Retrospective Study
Yasuhiro Hasegawa¹, Yoshiyuki Arinuma², Yu Matsueda¹, Kenji Oku³ and Kunihiro Yamaoka⁴, ¹Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Japan, ²Kitasato University, Kanagawa, Japan, ³Kitasato University, Chigasaki, Japan, ⁴Department of Rheumatology and Infectious Diseases, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan
Background/Purpose: Low disease activity (LDA) and remission in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) can reduce organ damage accrual and improve prognosis. We investigated the…
Abstract Number: 0622 • ACR Convergence 2022
Commensal Reactive T-cells Display Diverse Phenotype in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
Sumbul Afroz¹, Lea Williams¹, Ruozhang Xu¹, Joshua F. Baker², Anupama Shahane² and Laura F. Su³, ¹Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, ³Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: Past studies have shown a critical link between alteration in human commensal microbiota and development of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), however how CD4+ T-cell responses…
Abstract Number: 0716 • ACR Convergence 2022
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease Patients During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic
Jack Ellrodt¹, Emily G Oakes¹, Laura Kubzansky², Karestan Koenen², Hongshu Guan¹ and Karen Costenbader¹, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a complex psychiatric disorder that can result from experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event, such as an accident, assault, or…
Abstract Number: 0770 • ACR Convergence 2022
Immune Related Adverse Events in Checkpoint Inhibitor Treated Cancer Patients Increased in Patients with Underlying Autoimmune Disease and Positive Autoantibodies
Amarah Baluch¹, Katerina Warda², Taylor Middleton², Kiersten Kennedy², Andras Perl³ and Jihad Ben Gabr¹, ¹SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, ²SUNY Upstate Medical Unviersity, Syracuse, NY, ³SUNY, Syracuse, NY
Background/Purpose: Immune check point inhibitors (ICIs) boost the patient's immune system by blocking intrinsic down-regulators of immunity by signaling through cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA-4),…
Abstract Number: 0874 • ACR Convergence 2022
A Tale of Many Canadas: Associations of Ethnicity with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Categories and Disease Severity at Presentation in a Multicultural Universal Healthcare Setting: Results from ReACCh-Out
Stephanie Wong¹, Lori Tucker², Kristin Houghton³, David Cabral⁴, Mercedes Chan², Ross Petty³, Andrea Human², Kimberly Morishita³, Rae Yeung⁵, Kiem Oen⁶, Ciaran Duffy⁷, Roberta Berard⁸, Gaelle Chedeville⁹, Thomas Loughin¹⁰, Matthew Berkowitz¹⁰ and Jaime Guzman¹¹, ¹University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ²British Columbia Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ³University of British Columbia - Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁴BC Children's Hospital and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁵The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶University of Manitoba, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁷University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ⁸London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada, ⁹McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada, ¹⁰Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ¹¹University of British Columbia and BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Background/Purpose: The distribution of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) categories and disease severity at presentation vary across countries, however it is unclear how much of this…
Abstract Number: 1138 • ACR Convergence 2022
Whole-Blood DNA Methylation Analysis Reveals Respiratory Environmental Traits Involved in COVID-19 Severity Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Common Molecular Signatures with Autoimmune Diseases
Guillermo Barturen¹, Elena Carnero-Montoro¹, Manuel Martinez-Bueno¹, Silvia Rojo-Rello², Beatriz Sobrino³, Clara Alcántara-Domínguez⁴, David Bernardo⁵ and Marta Alarcon-Riquelme¹, ¹Center for Genomics and Oncological Research (GENYO), Granada, Spain, ²Hospital Clínico Universitario, Valladolid, Spain, ³Hospital Regional de Málaga, Málaga, Spain, ⁴Lorgen G.P., SL, Granada, Spain, ⁵Universidad de Valladolid-CSIC, Valladolid, Spain
Background/Purpose: SARS-CoV-2 causes a severe inflammatory syndrome (COVID-19) leading, in many cases, to bilateral pneumonia, severe dyspnea and in ~5% of these, death. DNA methylation…
Abstract Number: 1341 • ACR Convergence 2022
Clinical Outcomes of COVID-19 Vaccination and Booster in Patients with Autoimmune Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases
Silera Holguin Balbuena, Anna Radisic, Sarah Goodman, Shreya Gor, Beatrice Wood, Alexander Shahin, Kelara Samuel, Rahul Mhaskar and John Carter, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Background/Purpose: The spread of COVID-19 began in December 2019 and quickly escalated into a global pandemic resulting in millions of deaths. Many factors are associated…
Abstract Number: 1628 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Sjogren Tool for Assessing Response (STAR): Assessment of Response Rates Overall, According to Baseline Activity and by Domain: Reanalysis of 9 Clinical Trials in Primary Sjogren Syndrome
Raphaèle Seror¹, Gabriel Baron², Divi CORNEC³, Elodie Perrodeau², Marine Camus⁴, Professor Simon Bowman⁵, Michele Bombardieri⁶, Hendrika Bootsma⁷, Suzanne Arends⁷, jacques-eric gottenberg⁸, Benjamin A. Fisher⁹, Wolfgang Hueber¹⁰, Joel Van Roon¹¹, Valerie Devauchelle¹², Liseth de Wolff¹³, Peter Gergely¹⁴, Xavier Mariette¹⁵ and Raphaël Porcher¹⁶, ¹University Hospital Paris-Saclay, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France, ²AP-HP Hôtel Dieu Hospital, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France, ³CHRU Brest, Brest, France, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, Université Paris-Saclay, APHP Hôpital Bicêtre, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France, ⁵University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ⁶Experimental Medicine and Rheumatology, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University, London, United Kingdom, ⁷University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ⁸Strasbourg University Hospital, Strasbourg, France, ⁹University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ¹⁰Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Basel, Switzerland, ¹¹Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, ¹²Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France, ¹³UMCG, Zwolle, Netherlands, ¹⁴Novartis Pharma, Basel, Switzerland, ¹⁵Paris-Saclay University, Rueil Malmaison, Ile-de-France, France, ¹⁶Université Paris Cité, Hôtel-Dieu, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: The ESSDAI and ESSPRI, used alone, are not able to capture all features of primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS). The NECESSITY consortium developed the Sjögren's…
Abstract Number: 1836 • ACR Convergence 2022
Schizophrenia and Its Relationship with Autoimmunity: A Nationwide Analysis
Faria Sami¹, Dennis Kumi¹, Sumbul Liaqat² and Hania Sami³, ¹John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL, ²Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, ³Shalamar Medical and Dental College, Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: It has been hypothesized that autoimmunity may play a role in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia (SCZ). Several autoimmune disorders (AID) have also been noted…
Abstract Number: 2182 • ACR Convergence 2022
mRNA Vaccine Against Fibroblast Activation Protein Ameliorates Murine Models of Inflammatory Arthritis
Xiaowei Zhang¹, Antony Jozic¹, Pingfang Song¹, Qiang Xu², Xiaofei Shi³, Hong Wang⁴, Lindsey Bishop¹, Hillary Struthers¹, John Rutledge⁵, Shuang Chen¹, Fei Xu¹, Meaghan Hancock¹, Daocheng Zhu⁶, Gaurav Sahay¹ and Cong-Qiu Chu¹, ¹Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, ²Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China, ³Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China, ⁴Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China, ⁵Portland VA Research Foundation, Portland, ⁶Shanghai Kexin Biotechnology, Shanghai, China
Background/Purpose: Synovial fibroblasts in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) contribute substantially to the perpetuation of synovitis and invasion to cartilage and bone, and have been…
Abstract Number: PP23 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Journey to Collaborative Care and Patient-Centric Educational Opportunities for a Scleroderma Patient
Amy Gietzen and Hannah Bowen, The Ann Steffens Scleroderma Foundation, Albany, NY
Background/Purpose: In 2001 I started to experience forearm, elbow, and wrist pain. My fingers were constantly swollen, and sensitive. After 6 months of living in…
Abstract Number: 0008 • ACR Convergence 2022
CD11c+ T-Bet+ B Cells Traffic to Human Bone Marrow
Jennifer Barnas¹, Diana Alzamareh², Nida Meednu² and Jennifer Anolik², ¹University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, ²University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
Background/Purpose: CD11c+ age/autoimmunity-associated B cells (ABC) are associated with autoantibody producing cells and disease flare in systemic lupus erythematosus. ABC were initially identified in aged…

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