Abstracts tagged "Biologicals"

Abstract Number: 1520 • ACR Convergence 2022
Rituximab and Tocilizumab and Their Effect on Lung Disease Progression in Scleroderma. a Retrospective Cohort Study at a Single Centre
Nina Goldman¹, Aoife Tynan², Shivani Shah², Claire Beesley¹, Rizgar Mageed³, Chris Denton¹ and Voon Ong⁴, ¹University College London, London, United Kingdom, ²Division of Medicine, Department of Rheumatology, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ³Experimental Medicine and Rheumatology, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University, London, United Kingdom, ⁴UCL Medical School Royal Free Campus, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is one of the leading causes of mortality in systemic sclerosis (SSc). Emerging evidence suggests a beneficial effect of tocilizumab…
Abstract Number: 1929 • ACR Convergence 2022
Outcomes and Safety of Anakinra for the Treatment of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children
Dizon Brian¹, Christopher Redmond², Emily Gotschlich³, Sangeeta Sule⁴, Tova Ronis⁴, Kathleen Vazzana⁵, Matthew Sherman⁶, Rachael Connor⁷, Abigail Bosk⁴, Niti Dham⁴, Ashraf Harahsheh⁴, Elizabeth Wells⁴, Roberta DeBiasi⁴ and Hemalatha Srinivasalu⁴, ¹National Institutes of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, ²National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, ³FDA, Washington, DC, ⁴Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, ⁵Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, Orlando, FL, ⁶Muscle Disease Unit, Laboratory of Muscle Stem Cells and Gene Regulation, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH); Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, ⁷Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC
Background/Purpose: Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a clinical entity distinct from primary COVID-19 infection that resembles Kawasaki disease (KD) and toxic shock syndrome.…
Abstract Number: 2115 • ACR Convergence 2022
Early Skin and Early Enthesitis Responses in Psoriatic Arthritis Patients Treated with Guselkumab Associate with Long-term Response: Post Hoc Analysis Through 2 Years of a Phase 3 Study
Laura Coates¹, Julio Ramírez², Dennis McGonagle³, Sibel Aydin⁴, Miriam Zimmermann⁵, Francois Nantel⁶, May Shawi⁷, Emmanouil Rampakakis⁸, Peter Nash⁹ and Philip J Mease¹⁰, ¹Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Oxford, England, United Kingdom, ²Arthritis Unit, Rheumatology Department, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain, ³University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, Leeds, United Kingdom, ⁴University of Ottawa, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ⁵Immunology, Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC, Zug, Switzerland, ⁶Nantel MedSci Consult, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁷Immunology Global Medical Affairs, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, Horsham, PA, ⁸McGill University, Department of Pediatrics and JSS Medical Research, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁹School of Medicine, Griffith University, Sunshine Coast, Australia, ¹⁰Swedish Medical Center/Providence St. Joseph Health, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Guselkumab (GUS), an IL-23p19 inhibitor, has demonstrated efficacy in PsA across key Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis (PsO) and Psoriatic Arthritis (GRAPPA)-recommended…
Abstract Number: 2217 • ACR Convergence 2022
Disease Response in Rheumatoid Arthritis Across 4 Biologic Therapies Associates with Improvement in Paraoxonase-1 Activity
Amir Razmjou¹, Jennifer Wang¹, Ani Shahbazian¹, Jeffrey Curtis², Dimitrios Pappas³, Joel Kremer⁴ and Christina Charles-Schoeman⁵, ¹UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Hoover, AL, ³CorEvitas, LLC, Waltham, MA, ⁴The Corrona Research Foundation, Delray Beach, FL, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, University of California, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, CA
Background/Purpose: Paraoxonase-1 (PON1) is a high-density lipoprotein (HDL)-associated enzyme with paraoxonase, lactonase, and arylesterase activities (1). PON1 is integral to the anti-inflammatory, anti-atherogenic functions of…
Abstract Number: 0159 • ACR Convergence 2022
B Cell Phenotype in Adult Patients with Idiopathic Inflammatory Myositis (IIM) Before and After Belimumab
Tam Quach¹, Anne Davidson² and Galina Marder³, ¹Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, ²Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, ³Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Great Neck, NY
Background/Purpose: Recent observations suggest the importance of the BAFF pathway in the pathogenesis of Idiopathic Inflammatory Myositis (IIM). Elevated serum levels of circulating BAFF in…
Abstract Number: 0316 • ACR Convergence 2022
Targeting Oxidized Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (oxMIF) – a Novel Treatment Approach for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Christine Landlinger¹, Maroua Ferhat¹, ferdinando Nicoletti² and Michael Thiele¹, ¹OncoOne R&D, Vienna, Austria, ²University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Background/Purpose: Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a primary mediator of adaptive and innate immune responses, as well as a primary counter-regulator of glucocorticoids (GCs),…
Abstract Number: 0428 • ACR Convergence 2022
Difficult to Treat Spondyloarthritis: Patients with a High Biologic Switch Rate and the Factors Influencing It; A Real World as Clinic Experience
Devika dua and Tim Blake, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, Coventry, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: To determine if there is a significant variation in biologic usage in axSpa patients and to identify factors associated with it.Methods: We collected retrospective…
Abstract Number: 0765 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Impact of Immunomodulating Treatment on the Immunogenicity of COVID-19 Vaccines in Patients with Immune-mediated Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases Compared to Healthy Controls. a Swedish Nationwide Study (COVID19-REUMA)
Martina Frodlund¹, Katerina Chatzidionysiou², Anna Södergren³, Eva Klingberg⁴, Anders A Bengtsson⁵, Monika Hansson², Sophie Ohlsson⁶, Elisa Pin⁷, Lars Klareskog⁸ and Meliha Kapetanovic⁹, ¹Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Division of Inflammation and Infection/Rheumatology, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, ²Department of Medicine, Solna, Division of Rheumatology, Karolinska University Hospital at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ³Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine/Rheumatology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden and Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, ⁴Dept of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, ⁵Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund, Section for Rheumatology, Lund University, Lund and Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, ⁶Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund, Section for Nephrology, Lund University, Lund and Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, ⁷Department of Protein Science, SciLifeLab, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁸Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁹Lund University, Department for clinical sciences Lund, section of rheumatology and Lund University Hospital Lund and Malmö, Lund, Sweden
Background/Purpose: The aim of the study was to elucidate antibody responses after vaccination with two doses of COVID-19 vaccines in patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases…
Abstract Number: 0872 • ACR Convergence 2022
Incidence, Risk Factors, and Outcomes of Eosinophilia on IL-1 and IL-6 Inhibitors in Systemic and Non-Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Holly Wobma¹, Maria Taylor², Ki Pui Lam¹, Helene Brown¹, Siobhan Case¹, Mia Chandler¹, Margaret Chang¹, Ezra Cohen¹, Megan Day-Lewis¹, Olha Halyabar¹, Jonathan Hausmann¹, Melissa Hazen³, Erin Janssen¹, Pui Lee¹, Mindy Lo¹, Esra Meidan¹, Jordan Roberts¹, Mary Beth F. Son¹, Robert Sundel¹, Fatma Dedeoglu¹, Peter Nigrovic¹, Alicia Casey⁴, Joyce Chang¹ and lauren henderson¹, ¹Division of Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Division of Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Brighton, MA, ³Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Children with systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA) exposed to IL1/6 inhibitors may develop eosinophilia with an atypical rash, reportedly in association with HLA-DRB1*15:XX. There…
Abstract Number: 1037 • ACR Convergence 2022
Performance of BASDAI vs. ASDAS in Evaluating Axial Involvement in Patients with PsA Treated with Guselkumab: Pooled Analysis of Two Phase 3 Studies
Xenofon Baraliakos¹, Dafna Gladman², Soumya Chakravarty³, Cinty Gong⁴, May Shawi⁵, Emmanouil Rampakakis⁶, Kishimoto Mitsumasa⁷, Enrique R Soriano⁸ and Philip J Mease⁹, ¹Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet Herne, Herne, Germany, ²Toronto Western Hospital, Schroeder Arthritis Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC; Drexel University College of Medicine, Villanova, PA, ⁴Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC, Horsham, PA, ⁵Immunology Global Medical Affairs, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, Horsham, PA, ⁶McGill University, Department of Pediatrics and JSS Medical Research, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁷Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ⁸Rheumatology Unit and University Institute, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁹Swedish Medical Center/Providence St. Joseph Health, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Although the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index (BASDAI) is used to assess the activity of axial disease in patients (pts) with PsA, only…
Abstract Number: 1374 • ACR Convergence 2022
Real-World Effectiveness and Steroid Sparing Effect of Belimumab in Pediatric Lupus: A Single Center Retrospective Study
Jordan Roberts¹, Mindy Lo¹, Rebecca Sadun², Emily Smitherman³, Scott Wenderfer⁴ and Mary Beth F. Son¹, ¹Division of Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Duke University, Durham, NC, ³University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴British Columbia Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Background/Purpose: Belimumab is the only targeted therapy approved for pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus (pSLE), although use remains limited in children. While clinical trials and studies…
Abstract Number: 1548 • ACR Convergence 2022
Immune Cells Are Highly Disturbed in Polymyalgia Rheumatica Patients
Guillermo CARVAJAL ALEGRIA¹, Sara Boukhlal², Sophie Hillion³, Pierre Pochard³, Emmanuelle Porchet³, Alain Saraux⁴, sandrine jousse joulin⁵, Thierry MARHADOUR⁶, Dewi Guellec³, Divi CORNEC⁷ and Valerie Devauchelle², ¹CHRU de Tours, Tours, France, ²Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France, ³CHRU de Brest, Brest, France, ⁴CHU Brest, Brest, France, ⁵Roche, Brest, France, ⁶CHU Cavale Blanche, Brest, France, ⁷CHRU Brest, Brest, France
Background/Purpose: Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is an inflammatory disease. But it's pathophysiology and the impact of the treatments on immune cells are poorly known. Our objectives…
Abstract Number: 1952 • ACR Convergence 2022
Burden of Disease in Refractory Rheumatoid Arthritis
Kristin Wipfler¹, Bobby Kwanghoon Han², Urbano Sbarigia³, Federico Zazzetti⁴, Anna Sheahan⁵, Iris Lin⁶, Patricia Katz⁷, Evo Alemao⁸ and Kaleb Michaud⁹, ¹FORWARD, The National Databank for Rheumatic Diseases, Omaha, NE, ²Division of Rheumatology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ³Johnson & Johnson, Beerse, Belgium, ⁴Janssen Medical Affairs Global Services, LLC, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁵Janssen Research and Development, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁶Janssen, Horsham, PA, ⁷UCSF, San Rafael, CA, ⁸Janssen, Princeton, NJ, ⁹University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Background/Purpose: Despite major advances in RA treatment and the improved outcomes that have been associated with the expanding number of advanced therapies available, a substantial…
Abstract Number: 2123 • ACR Convergence 2022
Hierarchical Ranking of Biologic Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs and Targeted Systemic Therapies for Psoriatic Arthritis: A Network Meta-analysis
Jesus Diaz¹, Guillermo Quiceno² and Adela Castro³, ¹Hamilton Medical Center, Chattanooga, TN, ²UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ³Hamilton Physician Group-Specialty Care, Dalton, GA
Background/Purpose: There are an increasing number of biological and targeted DMARDs in PsA. However, challenges around treatment selection remain, given the few head-to-head studies directly…
Abstract Number: 2251 • ACR Convergence 2022
Reduction in Rheumatoid Arthritis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease Risk in Patients Treated with Tofacitinib
Matthew Baker¹, Yuhan Liu¹, Rong Lu¹, Janice Lin¹, Jason Melehani¹ and William Robinson², ¹Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ²Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
Background/Purpose: Clinically significant interstitial lung disease (ILD) occurs in roughly 10% of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). There are limited data on the pathogenesis of…

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