Abstracts tagged "Biologic agents"

Abstract Number: 1802 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Utility of Repeat Latent Tuberculosis Testing in Patients Taking Biologics
Urmi Khanna¹, Ariana Ellis ², AbdulAziz Galadari ³, Jeffery Hu ⁴, Josh Gallop ⁵, M. Elaine Husni ⁶ and Anthony Fernandez ⁷, ¹Department of Dermatology , Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ²Northeast Ohio Medical University, Cleveland, OH, ³Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi, Cleveland, ⁴Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, ⁵Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, ⁶Department of Rheumatologic and Immunologic Diseases, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ⁷Department of Dermatology and Pathology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Background/Purpose: Guidelines for repeat Latent Tuberculosis Infection (LTBI) testing while on biologics are not clearly defined. The American College of Rheumatology recommends repeat LTBI screening…
Abstract Number: 1822 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
6 and 12-month Drug Retention Rates and Treatment Outcomes in 941 Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis Treated with Secukinumab in Routine Clinical Practice in 12 European Countries in the EuroSpA Research Collaboration Network
Brigitte Michelsen¹, Johan Askling ², Catalin Codreanu ³, Herman Mann ⁴, Anne Gitte Loft ⁵, Manuel Pombo-Suarez ⁶, Ziga Rotar ⁷, Tore Kvien ⁸, Maria José Santos ⁹, Anna Mari Hokkanen ¹⁰, Florenzo Iannone ¹¹, Bjorn Gudbjornsson ¹², Fatos Onen ¹³, Lennart Jacobsson ¹⁴, Ruxandra IONESCU ¹⁵, Karel Pavelka ⁴, Carlos Sánchez-Piedra ¹⁶, Matija Tomsic ¹⁷, Joe Sexton ¹⁸, Helena Santos ¹⁹, Jenny Österlund ²⁰, Alberto Cauli ²¹, Arni Jon Geirsson ²², Servet Akar ²³, Adrian Ciurea ²⁴, Gareth Jones ²⁵, Irene van der Horst-Bruinsma ²⁶, Cecilie Heegaard Brahe ²⁷, Stylianos Georgiadis ²⁸, Lykke Midtbøll Ørnbjerg ²⁷, Mikkel Østergaard ²⁹ and Merete Lund Hetland ³⁰, ¹Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet Glostrup, Denmark/ Hospital of Southern Norway Trust, Kristiansand, Norway/ Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Oslo, Norway, ²Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ³Center of Rheumatic Diseases, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania., Bucharest, Romania, ⁴Institute of Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic, Prague 2, Czech Republic, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, Århus, Denmark, ⁶Unit Research, Spanish Society of Rheumatology, Madrid, Spain, ⁷UMC LJUBLJANA, DPT. OF RHEUMATOLOGY, LJUBLJANA, Slovenia, ⁸Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Dept. of Rheumatology / University of Oslo, Faculty of Medicine, Oslo, Norway, ⁹Rheumatology department, Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal, ¹⁰Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, ¹¹Department of Emergency and Transplantation , Rheumatology Unit, University Hospital of Bari, Bari, Italy., Bari, Italy, ¹²Centre for Rheumatology Research, Landspitali and Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, ¹³Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, İzmir, Turkey, ¹⁴Dept of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden,, Gothenburg, Sweden, ¹⁵SPITALUL CLINIC SFANTA MARIA, Bucharest, ¹⁶Research Unit, Spanish Society of Rheumatology, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁷Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Center Ljubljana, Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ¹⁸Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Dept. of Rheumatology, Oslo, Norway, ¹⁹Instituto Português de Reumatologia (IPR), Lisbon, Portugal, ²⁰ROB-FIN registry, Helsinki University and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, ²¹Universitá di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy, ²²Centre for Rheumatology Research, University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, Reykjavik, Iceland, ²³Izmir Katip Celebi University, Faculty of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, İzmir, Turkey, ²⁴University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, ²⁵University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, ²⁶Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²⁷Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet Glostrup, Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, ²⁸DANBIO registry and Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Centre for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, ²⁹Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, ³⁰DANBIO and Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research (COPECARE), Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Centre of Head and Orthopaedics, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Background/Purpose: Secukinumab is a fully human IgG1 monoclonal antibody targeting interleukin-17A. There is a lack of real-life evidence on secukinumab retention rates and treatment outcomes…
Abstract Number: 2099 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Comparison of Single and Dual Latent Tuberculosis Screening Strategies Before the Initiation of Biologic and Targeted Therapy in Rheumatological Patients in Hong Kong
Yan Ki Tang¹, Ho So ², Weng Nga Virginia Lao ², Hin Ting Pang ², Tak Lung Victor Wong ², Tsz Ho Luk ² and Man Lung Ronald Yip ³, ¹Department of Medicine and Geriatrics, Kwong Wah Hospital, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ²Department of Medicine & geriatrics, Kwong Wah Hospital, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ³Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Integrated Diagnostic and Medical Centre, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Background/Purpose: Screening for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) before the initiation of biologic and targeted synthetic disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (b/tsDMARDs) is recommended internationally especially in…
Abstract Number: 2131 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Rituximab Safety and Persistence in Patients with Systemic Autoimmune Diseases
Cristóbal Pavez Perales¹, Jorge Juan Fragio Gil ¹, Roxana Gonzalez Mazarío ¹, José Ivorra Cortés ¹, Elena Grau García ¹, Cristina Alcañiz Escandell ¹, Inmaculada Chalmeta Verdejo ¹, Marta de la Rubia Navarro ¹, Luis González Puig ¹, Isabel Martínez Cordellat ¹, Rosa Negueroles Albuixech ¹, José Eloy Oller Rodríguez ², Francisco Miguel Ortiz-Sanjuán ¹, Elvira Vicens Bernabeu ¹, Carmen Nájera Herranz ¹, Inés Cánovas Olmos ¹, Samuel Leal Rodriguez ¹ and José Andrés Román Ivorra ¹, ¹Rheumatology Department. HUP La Fe, Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain, ²Rheumatology Department. HUP La Fe, v, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
Background/Purpose: Rituximab (RTX), an anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody inducing B cell depletion, is used as therapy for diverse systemic autoimmune diseases (SAIDs), but is associated with adverse events…
Abstract Number: 314 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Pre-treatment Screening for Hepatitis B and C Among Users of Biologics or New Synthetic Disease Modifying Drugs: An Analysis Using RISE Data
Jing Li ¹, Julia Kay ¹, Jinoos Yazdany ¹ and Gabriela Schmajuk², ¹UCSF Division of Rheumatology, San Francisco, CA, ²UCSF, SFVAMC Division of Rheumatology, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Testing for hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) is recommended for patients initiating biologics or new synthetic DMARDs, which can increase the risk…
Abstract Number: 315 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Improving the Rate of Tuberculosis Screening Among High Risk Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients on Biologic Agents Using a Proposed Questionnaire
Hamayon Babary¹, Suraiya Afroz ¹, John Carter ¹, Yih Lin ¹, Marie O'Brien ², Marcos Maldonado ¹, Helen Bateman ¹, Gabriela Montes-Rivera ¹, Grace Berlin ², Dan Tseytlin ², Madeline MacDonald ³, Yasmin Ayoubi ⁴, Matthew Nguyen ⁴, Shalini Setty ⁴, Rahul Mhaskar ⁴ and Joanne Valeriano-Marcet ¹, ¹University of South Florida Division of Rheumatology, Tampa, FL, ²Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA, ³University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Tampa, FL, ⁴University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, FL
Background/Purpose: The use of biologics has transformed the treatment paradigm for RA; however, reactivation of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis is still a concern. Frequent TB screenings without…
Abstract Number: 1226 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Effect of New Method for Pre-Administration Assessment of Intravenous Biologics on Infections in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Sho Fukui¹, Masei Suda², Haruki Sawada³, Yukihiko Ikeda¹, Mitsuru Watanabe⁴, Ayako Koido⁴, Rui Kawato⁵, Yasuhiro Suyama⁶, Hisanori Shimizu⁷, Haruyuki Yanaoka⁷, Ryo Rokutanda¹, Hiromichi Tamaki¹, Tokutaro Tsuda¹, Ken-ichi Yamaguchi⁸, Mitsumasa Kishimoto¹ and Masato Okada⁹, ¹Immuno-Rheumatology Center, St. Luke's International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, ²Immuno-Rheumatology Center, St luke's International hospital, Tokyo, Japan, ³Immuno-rheumatology Center, St. Luke's International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, ⁴Immune-Rheumatology Center, St. Luke's International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, ⁵Immuno rheumatology center, St. Luke's International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, JR Tokyo General Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, ⁷St. Luke's International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, ⁸Allergy and Rheumatology, St. Luke's International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, ⁹Immuno-Rheumatology Center, St. Luke’s International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: Biologics are widely used and effective treatments for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but generally biologics are avoided when patients have active infections on the day…
Abstract Number: 2461 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Analysis of Severe Adverse Drug Reactions to Disease Modifying Drugs in an Inception Rheumatoid Arthritis Cohort
Zulema Rosales Rosado^1,2, Judit Font Urgelles¹, Pia Mercedes Lois¹, Cristina Vadillo Font¹, Dalifer Freites Núñez², Isabel Hernández-Rodríguez¹, Juan A Jover Jover¹ and Lydia A Alcazar², ¹Rheumatology, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain, ²Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: There is a well-known risk of developing adverse drug reactions (ADR) in rheumatic patients due, mainly, to the Disease Modifying Drugs (DMARD) widely used.…
Abstract Number: 1227 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Indicator Opportunistic Infections after Biological Treatment in Rheumatoid Arthritis, 10 Years Follow up in Clinical Practice
Leticia Leon^1,2, Marina Peñuelas³, Francisco Javier Candel³, Dalifer Freites Núñez⁴, Luis Rodriguez-Rodriguez⁵, Zulema Rosales Rosado⁶ and Lydia A Alcazar⁷, ¹Rheumatology Department, Hospital Clínical San Carlos, and IdISSC, Madrid, Spain, ²Health Sciences, Universidad Camilo Jose Cela, Madrid, Spain, ³Microbiology, Microbiology Department. Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain., Madrid, Spain, ⁴Rheumatology, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain, ⁶Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain, ⁷Rheumatology Department and Heath Research Institute (IdISSC), Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: Biologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) may be associated with opportunistic infections. Our purposes were to describe their incidence in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) taking bDMARDs,…
Abstract Number: 2489 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
In Clinical Practice a Substantial Group of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Patients on Biologic Therapy (bDMARDs) Has Persistent Moderate Disease Activity Despite Treatment Switches That Correlates with Unfavourable Long-Term Outcome
Irini Genitsaridi^1,2, Irini Flouri³, Argyro Repa², Nestor Avgoustidis², Nikolaos Kougkas², Ioannis Papalopoulos², Styliani Polia², Konstantinos Marias¹, Dimitris Plexousakis⁴, George Bertsias² and Prodromos Sidiropoulos², ¹Computational BioMedicine Laboratory, Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklio, Greece, ²Department of Rheumatology, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University of Crete, School of Medicine, Heraklion, Greece, ³Department of Rheumatology, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University of Crete, School of Medicine, Heraklio, Greece, ⁴Information Systems Laboratory, Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklio, Greece
Background/Purpose: Registry data have shown that treatment with bDMARDs induces remission or LDA (RLDA) in up-to 50% of RA patients. Approximately 30-50% of patients have…
Abstract Number: 1251 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Guideline Adherence for Perioperative Use of Immunosuppressive Medications in Patients with Rheumatologic Disease
Grace Berlin, Carolyn Casey, Susan Kim and James Ross, Rheumatology, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA
Background/Purpose: In response to the lack of clear data to dictate recommendations for use of DMARDs and biologic therapy in the perioperative period, The American…
Abstract Number: 2502 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Influence of the Treatment with Biologic Agents in the Viremia By the Endogenous Anelovirus Torque Teno Virus in Patients with Chronic Arthritis
Maria Martin-Lopez¹, Eliseo Albert², Esther Rodriguez-Almaraz³, Isidoro Gonzalez-Alvaro⁴, Mario Fernandez-Ruiz⁵, Jose M. Aguado⁵, David Navarro² and Jose L. Pablos⁶, ¹Rheumatology Department, Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain, ²Microbiology, Instituto de Investigación INCLIVA, Hospital Clínico, Valencia, Spain, ³Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain, ⁴Rheumatology Department, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, IIS-IP, Madrid, Spain, ⁵Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre. Unit of Infectious Diseases, Madrid, Spain, ⁶Rheumatology, Rheumatology Department, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Spain, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: Torque teno virus (TTV) is an endogenous anellovirus that is highly prevalent in adult healthy subjects (up to 90%) without known pathogenicity. Increased replication…
Abstract Number: 48 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
In Vivo Demonstration of Tmtnf Reverse Signaling: Significance in the Therapeutic Response to Anti-TNF Agents during Murine Arthritis
Numa Simons¹, Andrey Kruglov², Yannick Degboe³, Arnaud Constantin³, Sergei Nedospasov⁴, Alain Cantagrel⁵, Jean-Luc Davignon⁶ and Benjamin Rauwel⁶, ¹Rheumatology, Purpan Hospital, Toulouse III University, Toulouse, France, ²German Rheumatism Research Centre, Berlin, Germany, ³Department of Rheumatology, Purpan Hospital, Toulouse III University, Toulouse, France, Toulouse, France, ⁴4Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation, ⁵Center of Rheumatology of CHU, Toulouse, France, ⁶CPTP, INSERM UMR 1043, Toulouse, France
In vivo demonstration of tmTNF reverse signaling: significance in the therapeutic response to anti-TNF agents during murine arthritis. N. Simons1,2, A. Kruglov 3, Y. Degboé 1,2, A.…
Abstract Number: 1522 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Time Dependent Effect of Biologic Therapy on Overall Survival in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Cancer
Xerxes Pundole¹, Natalia Zamora², Harish Siddhanamatha³, Jean Tayar⁴, Cheuk Hong Leung⁵, Heather Lin⁶ and Maria Suarez-Almazor⁷, ¹Section of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of General Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA, Houston, TX, ²Reumatologia, Instituto de Rehabilitación Psicofísica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ³The University of Texas Health Science Center, School of Biomedical Informatics, Houston, TX, USA, Houston, TX, ⁴Department of General Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA, Section of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of General Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA, Houston, TX, ⁵Department of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA, Houston, TX, ⁶Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA, Houston, TX, ⁷Section of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of General Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Background/Purpose: Biologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) are commonly used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). But the use of bDMARDs in patients with RA…
Abstract Number: 2520 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Efficacy of the Reference Biologic Agents in Two Different Types of Randomized Clinical Trials: 1/ the Ones Comparing Their Efficacy Vs. Placebo and 2/ the Ones Comparing Their Efficacy Vs. Biosimilar in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Systematic Review of Literature and Meta-Analysis
Lea Lopez¹, Christophe Richez², Marie-Elise Truchetet², Bernard Bannwarth³, Thomas Barnetche⁴ and Thierry Schaeverbeke⁵, ¹Aquitaine, Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, ²Department of Rheumatology, Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France, ³Rheumatology, CHU de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, ⁴Rheumatology, Centre hospitalier universitaire de Bordeaux - Service de Rhumatologie, Bordeaux, France, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, Bordeaux University Hospital, BORDEAUX, France
Background/Purpose: Recent randomized clinical trials (RCTs) have shown similar efficacy of biosimilar agents compared to reference agents. Is the efficacy of reference biologic agents different…

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