Abstracts tagged "autoimmune diseases"

Abstract Number: 900 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Choroid Plexus Tertiary Lymphoid Structures in Lupus: A Novel Neuro-Immune Interface
Ariel Stock¹, Evan Der², Sivan Gelb³, Ayal Ben-Zvi³ and Chaim Putterman⁴, ¹Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ²Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ³Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA, Bronx, NY
Background/Purpose: The central nervous system (CNS) manifestations of SLE remain poorly understood. Although potentially neuropathic autoantibodies have been identified in the serum, lupus patients show…
Abstract Number: 2111 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Encephalitis – Expanding Our Understanding of the Clinical Needs of Pediatric Patients with This Complex Disorder
Katherine A. Battisti¹, Tobias J. Tsai², Angela Pickersgill³ and Sheetal S. Vora⁴, ¹Emergency Medicine, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, ²Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Levine Children's Hospital/Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC, ³Pediatrics, Levine Children's Hospital, Charlotte, NC, ⁴Pediatric Rheumatology, Levine Children's Hospital, Charlotte, NC
Background/Purpose: Although recognized only 10 years ago, anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate receptor encephalitis (anti-NMDAR encephalitis) has become a leading cause of encephalitis with an identifiable etiology in pediatric…
Abstract Number: 1002 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Survival and Years of Potential Life Lost in Connective Tissue Disease and Vasculitis; Data from the Norwegian Connective Tissue Diseases and Vasculitis Registry (NOSVAR)
Torhild Garen¹, Karoline Lerang¹, Anna Maria Hoffmann-Vold², Helena Andersson¹, Øyvind Midtvedt¹, Karin Kilian¹, Ragnar Gunnarsson¹, Birgir Gudbrandsson¹, Gudrun Norby¹, Oyvind Molberg² and Øyvind Palm¹, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, OSLO, Norway, ²Department of Rheumatology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Oslo, Norway
Background/Purpose: Survival is decreased in patients with connective tissue diseases (CTDs) and vasculitis, however few studies have compared the mortality between the specific diseases prospectively…
Abstract Number: 2121 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Autoantibodies As Biomarkers for the Identification of Pre-Clinical Stages of Autoimmune Diseases: Demonstration of Inflammatory and Fibrotic Activity in the Liver of Asymptomatic and Biochemically Normal Individuals with Anti-Mitochondria Antibodies
Danielle Baldo¹, Alessandra Dellavance¹, Maria Lucia Ferraz² and Luis Eduardo C. Andrade^3,4, ¹Research and Development Department, Fleury Medicine and Health Laboratories, São Paulo, Brazil, ²Gastroenterology Division, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ³Rheumatology Division, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ⁴Immunology Division, Fleury Medicine and Health, São Paulo, Brazil
Background/Purpose: Circulating autoantibodies precede clinical onset of several autoimmune diseases. The characteristics of the so-called pre-clinical stage of autoimmune diseases are poorly understood. Anti-mitochondria autoantibodies…
Abstract Number: 1023 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Autoimmune Discovery Ichip Distinguishes Healthy Individuals (HC) from Those with SLE, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Scleroderma (SSc), Sjogren’s Syndrome (SS), and the Anti-Phospholipid Syndrome (APS)
Chaim Putterman¹, Armando Gabrielli², Alexandra Balbir-Gurman³, Pennina Safer⁴, Keren Jakobi-Brook⁴, Rachel Sorek⁴, Ilana Gluzman⁴, Steve Wallace⁵ and Irun R. Cohen^4,6, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA, Bronx, NY, ²Istituto di Clinica Medica dell'Università di Ancona, Ancona, Italy, Ancona, Italy, ³Rheumatology Unit, Rambam Health Care Campus, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel, Haifa, Israel, ⁴ImmunArray Ltd., Rehovot, Israel, Rehovot, Israel, ⁵ImmunArray Inc., VA, USA, Richmond, VA, ⁶Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, Rehovot, Israel
Background/Purpose: Current serological tests are not sufficiently accurate in differentiating between HC and those with autoimmune rheumatic diseases. We developed the iCHIP antigen microarray to…
Abstract Number: 2128 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Systematic Review of the Management of Patients with Preexisting Rheumatologic Diseases Receiving Checkpoint Inhibitors for Cancer
Noha Abdel-Wahab^1,2, Mohsin Shah¹, Maria A. Lopez-Olivo¹ and Maria Suarez-Almazor¹, ¹Section of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of General Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA, Houston, TX, ²Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Department, Assiut University Hospitals, Assiut, Egypt, Assiut, Egypt
Background/Purpose: The incidence and management of rheumatologic immune-related adverse events (irAEs) as a consequence of the checkpoint inhibitor (CPI) therapy in patients with cancer has…
Abstract Number: 1064 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Characterization of Human Tolerogenic Dendritic Cells Generated with Protein Kinase C Inhibitor and Induction from Patients with Autoimmune Diseases
Hitoshi Hasegawa¹, Takuya Matsumoto¹, Endy Adnan², Jun Ishizaki¹, Koichiro Suemori¹ and Masaki Yasukawa¹, ¹Department of Hematology, Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime, Japan, ²Hematology, Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime, Japan
Background/Purpose: Tolerogenic dendritic cells (tDCs) are a promising therapeutic tool for specific induction of immunological tolerance. Human tDCs can be generated ex vivo using various…
Abstract Number: 2142 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Autoantibodies Recognizing Cytosolic 5’-Nucleotidase 1A Are Associated with More Severe Disease in Patients with Juvenile Myositis
Richard Yeker¹, Iago Pinal-Fernandez², Takayuki Kishi³, Ira N. Targoff⁴, Frederick W Miller³, Lisa G Rider³ and Andrew Mammen⁵, ¹National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ²NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ³Environmental Autoimmunity Group, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ⁴VA Medical Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁵Muscle Diseases Unit, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Autoantibodies recognizing cytosolic 5’-nucleotidase 1A (NT5C1A) are present in the sera of adults with myositis and other autoimmune diseases. They are especially prevalent in…
Abstract Number: 1068 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Impact of TNF Antagonist Treatment on the Gut Microbiome In Vivo
Odile Gabay¹, Jonathan Vicenty², Grant Wunderlin³, Linda Tiffany², Wells Wu⁴, Vahan Simonyan⁵ and Kathleen A Clouse⁶, ¹Office of Biotechnology Products /Center for Drug Evaluation and Research DBRRI, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, ²Office of Biotechnology Products, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, DBRRI, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, ³Center for Drug Evaluation and Research CDER DBRRI, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, ⁴Center for Biologic Evaluation and Research OMPT, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, ⁵Center for Biologic Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, ⁶Office of Biotechnology Products /Center for Drug Evaluation and Research,DBRRI, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD
Background/Purpose: Auto-immune diseases are in constant progression in the US. Biologic therapeutics have been used successfully to treat these diseases, but have presented some unique…
Abstract Number: 2454 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Real-World Consistency of Response to Adalimumab over Time in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Results from the Corrona Registry
Dimitrios A. Pappas^1,2, George W. Reed^2,3, Chitra Karki⁴, Jenny Griffith⁵, Martha Skup⁵, Vishvas Garg⁵ and Joel Kremer^2,6, ¹Columbia University, New York, NY, ²Corrona LLC, Southborough, MA, ³UMass Medical School, Worcester, MA, ⁴Corrona, LLC, Southborough, MA, ⁵AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, IL, ⁶Albany Medical College and The Center for Rheumatology, Albany, NY
Background/Purpose: Adalimumab (ADA) was approved in the US in 2002 for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and subsequently approved for the management of other inflammatory diseases such…
Abstract Number: 152 • 2017 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Characteristics of Patients With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in a US Healthcare Claims Database
TA Simon¹, A Baheti², N Ray², S Kelly¹ and Z Guo¹, ¹Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, ²Mu Sigma, Bangalore, India
Background/Purpose: Abatacept, the first selective co-stimulation modulator approved and used for the treatment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), has a mechanism of action that is…
Abstract Number: 147 • 2017 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Epigenetic and Transcriptomic Profiling of Primary Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Patient Cells: Better Understanding of Disease Pathogenesis
Lucas Picavet¹, Janneke Peeters², Sandra Coenen³, Arjan Boltjes⁴, Femke van Wijk⁵, Paul Coffer², Bas Vastert⁶ and Jorg van Loosdregt⁷, ¹Regenerative Medicine Center Utrecht, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, ²Center for Molecular Medicine and Regenerative Medicine Center Utrecht, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, ³University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, ⁴Laboratory of Translational Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, ⁵Laboratory for Translational Immunity, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, ⁶Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, ⁷Division of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: For many autoimmune diseases, including Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA), the molecular mechanisms remain elusive. JIA can be used as a model to study autoimmune…
Abstract Number: 12L • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Efficacy and Safety of Atacicept in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Results of a 24-Week Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Phase IIb Study
Joan T. Merrill¹, Daniel J. Wallace², Stephen Wax³, Amy Kao⁴, Patricia Fraser⁴, Wai Chin⁴ and David A. Isenberg⁵, ¹Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ³EMD Serono, BIllerica, MA, ⁴EMD Serono, Billerica, MA, ⁵University College Hospital, London, London, United Kingdom

Background/Purpose: Atacicept targets B-cell stimulating factors BLyS and APRIL. In the APRIL-SLE trial, atacicept 150 mg was associated with reduced SLE flares in post-hoc analyses.1Methods:…
Abstract Number: 2934 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Clinical Assessment of the Monoclonal Anitbody, PRX003, a Potential Novel Treatment for Th17-Mediated Inflammatory Disease
Gene G. Kinney¹, Kenneth Flanagan¹, Michael Skov¹, Ronald Goldblum², Sue Griffith³, Robin M. Barbour¹, Wagner Zago¹, Ted Yednock¹, Martin Koller¹ and Dan Ness¹, ¹Prothena Biosciences Inc, South San Francisco, CA, ²Carlsbad Pharmaceutical Consulting, Inc., Carlsbad, CA, ³ClinPharma Services, Inc, San Diego, CA
Background/Purpose: Melanoma cell adhesion molecule (MCAM; CD146) is expressed on the surface of Th17 cells, which have the capacity to produce IL-17 and a multitude…
Abstract Number: 764 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Atacicept: Integrated Safety Profile from Phase II Randomized Placebo-Controlled Studies in Autoimmune Diseases
Patricia Fraser, Wai Chin and Amy Kao, EMD Serono, Billerica, MA
Background/Purpose: Atacicept, a recombinant fusion protein, targets both BLyS (B lymphocyte stimulator) and APRIL (a proliferation-inducing ligand), B cell activating factors involved in the pathogenesis…

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