Abstracts tagged "autoimmune diseases"

Abstract Number: 0204 • ACR Convergence 2021
Risk of Hepatitis B Virus Reactivation in Patients with Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases Receiving Biologics: Focus on the Timing of Biologics After Prophylactic Anti-viral Agents
Soo Min Ahn¹, Jonggi Choi², Byong Duk Ye², Suk-Kyun Yang², Ji Seon Oh³, Yong-Gil Kim², Chang-Keun Lee², Bin Yoo¹, Sang Hyoung Park² and Seokchan Hong², ¹ASAN MEDICAL CENTER, Seoul, South Korea, ²Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ³Asan Medical Center, Ulsan, Republic of Korea
Background/Purpose: Prophylactic anti-viral therapy is required in patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection receiving biologics because of the high risk of HBV reactivation. However,…
Abstract Number: 0458 • ACR Convergence 2021
Single Cell Profiling Reveals a Wnt-mediated Transcriptional Gradient That Drives Inflammation in Rheumatoid Arthritis Synovial Fibroblast Pathology
Alisa Mueller¹, Angela Zou¹, Emily Taylor², Triin Major², David Gardner³, Adam Croft⁴, Roche Fibroblast Network Consortium⁵, Andrew Filer², Christopher Buckley⁶, Kevin Wei¹, Ilya Korsunsky¹, Soumya Raychaudhuri¹ and Michael Brenner⁷, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ³University of Birmingham, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ⁴University of Birmingham, Halesowen, United Kingdom, ⁵Roche Innovation Center Basel, Basel, Switzerland, ⁶University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ⁷Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Newton, MA
Background/Purpose: Synovial fibroblasts are key inflammatory aggressors in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that mediate cartilage and bone destruction, yet therapies directly targeting these cells are lacking.…
Abstract Number: 0695 • ACR Convergence 2021
Safety and Tolerability of IVIg (Octagam 10%) in Patients with Active Dermatomyositis. Results of a Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase III Trial
Rohit Aggarwal¹, Christina Charles-Schoeman², Joachim Schessl³, Zsuzsanna Bata-Csorgo⁴, Mazen Dimachkie⁵, Zoltan Griger⁶, Sergey Moiseev⁷, Chester Oddis¹, Elena Schiopu⁸, Jiri Vencovsky⁹, Irene Beckmann¹⁰, Elisabeth Clodi¹⁰, Todd Levine¹¹ and and the ProDERM Investigators¹², ¹University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ³Friedrich-Baur-Institut/Medical University Munich, München, Germany, ⁴University of Szeged, Faculty of Medicine, Szeged, Hungary, ⁵University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, ⁶University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary, ⁷First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia, ⁸University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁹Institute of Rheumatology, Prague, Czech Republic, ¹⁰Octapharma PPG, Vienna, Austria, ¹¹Phoenix Neurological Associates, LTD, Phoenix, AZ, ¹²Different Institutions in several countries, Vienna, Austria
Background/Purpose: Dermatomyositis (DM) is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease with characteristic skin rash and muscle weakness. Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) has long been used as adjuvant…
Abstract Number: 1026 • ACR Convergence 2021
Factors Impacting Likelihood of Discontinuing Immunosuppression in Adult Dermatomyositis: A Single-Center Study
Sung Kyung Cho¹, Lorinda Chung² and David Fiorentino³, ¹University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, ²Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ³Stanford University, Redwood City, CA
Background/Purpose: Dermatomyositis (DM) is a chronic idiopathic inflammatory myopathy with variable clinical course, but little is known regarding factors associated with remission of disease. We…
Abstract Number: 1303 • ACR Convergence 2021
Associations Between Early Changes in Circulating B Cell Subsets and Severe Flare in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus – Results from Three Phase III Trials of Belimumab
Ioannis Parodis¹, Alvaro Gomez², Julius Lindblom², Alexander Borg², Sharzad Emamikia² and Mariele gatto³, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden and Department of Rheumatology, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden, ²Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, ³Department of Rheumatology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Background/Purpose: Belimumab is the only approved targeted treatment for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Identification of early predictors of response or non-response to therapy is imperative…
Abstract Number: 1518 • ACR Convergence 2021
Elucidating Activated Osteoarthritis as an Emerging Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Toxicity: A Descriptive Observational Study
Pankti Reid¹, David Liew², Rajshi Akruwala³, Anne Bass⁴ and Karmela Kim Chan⁵, ¹University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, ²Austin Health, Heidelberg, Australia, ³SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University College of Medicine, Brooklyn, NY, ⁴Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ⁵Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are a type of immunotherapy used for cancer management. ICI toxicities can challenge the ability to safely continue ICI therapy…
Abstract Number: 1606 • ACR Convergence 2021
Telemedicine for Rheumatology Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Patient Perceptions and Preferences
Maria I. Danila¹, Kelly Gavigan², Esteban Rivera², William Nowell², Michael George³, Jeffrey Curtis⁴, Lisa Christopher-Stine⁵, Shubhasree Banerjee³, Peter Merkel³, Kalen Young⁶, Dianne Shaw⁶, Jennifer Gordon⁶ and Shilpa Venkatachalam², ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Global Healthy Living Foundation, Upper Nyack, NY, ³University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁵Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁶Vasculitis Foundation, Kansas City, MO
Background/Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the delivery of medical care and resulted in a substantial uptake in telemedicine care for patients with chronic conditions, including…
Abstract Number: 1769 • ACR Convergence 2021
BMS-986256, an Oral Novel Toll-like Receptor 7 and 8 (TLR7/8) Inhibitor, Does Not Affect the Pharmacokinetics of Mycophenolate Mofetil in Healthy Subjects
Manoj Chiney¹, Ihab Girgis², Melanie Harrison¹, Xiaoping Zhang¹, Yun Shen³, Michelle Dawes¹, Lixian Dong², Diane Shevell³, Urvi Aras¹ and Bindu Murthy³, ¹Bristol Myers Squibb, Lawrenceville, NJ, ²Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, ³Bristol Myers Squibb, Lawrenceville
Background/Purpose: Toll like receptor (TLR) 7 and TLR8 are activated as part of the disease pathophysiology of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), including lupus nephritis (LN),…
Abstract Number: 0035 • ACR Convergence 2020
Distinct Biological Pathways in Both Blood and Kidney Further Define Molecular Profiles Across Diverse Nephritides
Loqmane Seridi¹, Matteo Cesaroni¹, Qingxuan Song², Ashley Orillion¹, Frédéric Baribaud¹, Tatiana Ort¹, Sheng Gao², Tomas Parker³, James Chevalier³, Dan Levine³, Alan Perlman³ and Jarrat Jordan¹, ¹Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Spring House, PA, ²Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Spring House, PA, USA, Spring House, PA, ³The Rogosin Institute, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York, NY, USA., New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Approximately 40% of SLE patients will develop Lupus Nephritis (LN), of which 10-30 % will progress to end-stage renal disease. To further understand LN…
Abstract Number: 0395 • ACR Convergence 2020
African Ancestry-Specific Variants Regulate TGFB3 Expression in Systemic Sclerosis
Julia Hartman¹, Andrea Conte², Chloe Borden³, Urvashi Kaundal⁴, Yongbing Zhao², Sarah Safran⁵, Ami Shah⁶, Maureen Mayes⁷, Ayo Doumatey⁸, Amy Bentley⁹, Daniel Shriner⁸, Robyn Domsic¹⁰, Thomas Medsger¹¹, Paula Ramos¹², Richard Silver¹³, Virginia Steen¹⁴, John Varga¹⁵, Vivien Hsu¹⁶, Lesley Ann Saketkoo¹⁷, Elena Schiopu¹⁸, Dinesh Khanna¹⁹, Jessica Gordon²⁰, Lindsey Criswell²¹, Heather Gladue²², Chris Derk²³, Elana Bernstein²⁴, S. Louis Bridges²⁵, Victoria Shanmugam²⁶, Kathleen Kolstad²⁷, Lorinda Chung²⁸, Suzanne Kafaja²⁹, Reem Jan³⁰, Marcin Trojanowski³¹, Avram Goldberg³², Benjamin Korman³³, Monique Hinchcliff³⁴, Settara Chandrasekharappa⁸, Stefania Dell'Orso³, Adebowale Adeyemo⁸, Charles Rotimi⁸, Elaine Remmers³⁵, Fredrick Wigley³⁶, Daniel Kastner³⁵, Francesco Boin³⁷, Rafael Casellas² and Pravitt Gourh⁴, ¹National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, NIH, Washington, DC, ²National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, Bethesda, ³National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁴National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), NIH, Bethesda, ⁵National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, New York, NY, ⁶Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Ellicott City, MD, ⁷University of Texas Houston McGovern Medical School, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunogenetics, Houston, TX, ⁸National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, ⁹National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), NIH, Bethedsa, MD, ¹⁰University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, ¹¹University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Verona, PA, ¹²Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ¹³Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, ¹⁴Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, ¹⁵Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ¹⁶Rutgers-RWJ Medical School, South Plainfield, NJ, ¹⁷Scleroderma Patient Care and Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, ¹⁸Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, ¹⁹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²⁰Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²¹Rosalind Russell/Ephraim P. Engleman Rheumatology Research Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²²Arthritis and Osteoporosis Consultants of the Carolinas, Charlotte, NC, ²³University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²⁴Columbia University, New York, NY, ²⁵University of Alabama at Birmingham, Mountain Brk, AL, ²⁶The George Washington University, Washington, DC, ²⁷Division of Immunology & Rheumatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, ²⁸Stanford University School of Medicine and Palo Alto VA Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, ²⁹David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ³⁰Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ³¹Boston University Medical Center, BOSTON, MA, ³²NYU Langone Medical Center - NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, Lake Success, NY, ³³Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, ³⁴Yale School of Medicine, Westport, CT, ³⁵National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), NIH, Bethesda, MD, ³⁶Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ³⁷University of California San Francisco, Cedars-Sinai, West Hollywood, CA
Background/Purpose: African American (AA) patients have a higher prevalence of SSc than European Americans (EA). Adding to this health disparity, AA SSc patients are more…
Abstract Number: 0595 • ACR Convergence 2020
High Satisfaction with Tele-medicine in a New York City Clinic
Tommy Chen¹, Cathy Guo¹, Wei Tang¹, Leila Khalili¹ and Anca Askanase², ¹Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, ²Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: The face of medicine is changing with the time. A twenty-first century technological revolution in medicine happened in March 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic…
Abstract Number: 0862 • ACR Convergence 2020
Voclosporin Does Not Decrease Mycophenolic Acid Concentrations in Patients with SLE
Teun van Gelder¹, Robert Huizinga², Neil Solomons² and Laura Lisk³, ¹Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, ²Aurinia Pharmaceuticals, Victoria, BC, Canada, ³Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc., Victoria, BC, Canada
Background/Purpose: Voclosporin (VCS) is a novel calcineurin inhibitor, structurally similar to cyclosporine A (CsA). In a Phase 3 clinical trial in patients with active lupus…
Abstract Number: 1052 • ACR Convergence 2020
Connective Tissue Disease-Related Interstitial Lung Disease in American Indian/Alaska Native People in Alaska
Joanna Marco¹ and Elizabeth Ferucci², ¹University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, AK
Background/Purpose: Many connective tissue diseases are known to cause interstitial lung disease (ILD). American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations have higher prevalence and severity of a…
Abstract Number: 1307 • ACR Convergence 2020
Detecting Subtle Changes in Fundoscopic Retinal Images in Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis with Deep Learning
Yun Ju Huang¹, Chang-Fu Kuo², Yu Huei Huang³, Yih Shiou Hwang⁴ and Chihung Lin⁵, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University, New Taipei City, Taiwan (Republic of China), ²Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan (Republic of China), ³Department of Dermatology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan city, Taiwan (Republic of China), ⁴Department of Ophthalmology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan city, Taiwan (Republic of China), ⁵Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan city, Taiwan (Republic of China)
Background/Purpose: Fundoscopy is essential to identify the retinopathy of patients with autoimmune diseases. However, the classification of different autoimmune diseases is difficult by human eyes…
Abstract Number: 1471 • ACR Convergence 2020
Healthy Lifestyle and Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Women: A Prospective Cohort Study
Jill Hahn¹, May Choi², Susan Malspeis³, Emma Stevens⁴, Elizabeth Karlson⁴, Kazuki Yoshida⁵, Laura Kubzansky⁶, Jeffrey Sparks⁷ and Karen Costenbader⁸, ¹Brigham and Womens' Hospital, Newton, MA, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital | Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, ⁴Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁵Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁶Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, ⁷Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity; Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁸Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Many potentially modifiable biobehavioral factors have been associated with the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but the benefit of adopting an overall healthy…

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