Abstracts tagged "Biologicals"

Abstract Number: L12 • ACR Convergence 2021
Neither Add-on nor Withdrawal of Methotrexate Impacts Efficacy of IL12/23 Inhibition in Active PsA: Data from a Multicenter Investigator-initiated Randomized Placebo-controlled Clinical Trial on Arthritis, Dactylitis, Enthesitis, Psoriasis, QoL and Function
Michaela Koehm¹, Tanja Rossmanith², Ann Christina Foldenauer², Eva Herrmann³, Herbert Kellner⁴, Uta Kiltz⁵, Jürgen Rech⁶, Gerd Burmester⁷, David Kofler⁸, Jan Brandt-Jürgens⁹, Christin Jonetzko¹⁰, Harald Burkhardt¹ and Frank Behrens¹, ¹Rheumatology Goethe-University Frankfurt and Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP, Frankfurt, Germany, ²Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP, Frankfurt, Germany, ³Institute for Biostatistics and Mathematical Modeling, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, ⁴Praxis Prof. Dr. Kellner, München, Germany, ⁵Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne, Germany, ⁶Department of Internal Medicine 3 - Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, 91054,, Erlangen, Germany, ⁷Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Germany and DRFZ, Berlin, Germany, ⁸Universitätsklinikum Köln, Med. Klinik I f. Innere Medizin Immunologische Ambulanz, Köln, Germany, ⁹Rheumatologische Schwerpunktpraxis im Ärztehaus am Walter-Schreiber-Platz, Berlin, Germany, ¹⁰Fraunhofer Insitute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP, Frankfurt, Germany
Background/Purpose: Methotrexate (MTX) is often used as first-line DMARD-therapy in active psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Randomized clinical trials usually require treatment failure or intolerance of csDMARD/MTX…
Abstract Number: L18 • ACR Convergence 2021
Humoral and Cellular Immune Responses to a Second Dose of COVID-19 Vaccine BNT162b2 in People Receiving Methotrexate or Targeted Immunosuppression: A Cohort Study
Satveer K Mahil¹, Katie Bechman², Antony Raharja¹, Clara Domingo-Vila³, David Baudry¹, Matt Brown², Andrew Cope², Tejus Dasandi¹, Hataf Khan⁴, Thomas Lechmere⁴, Michael Malim⁴, Freya Meynell¹, Emily Pollock³, Kamila Sychowska³, Jonathan Barker¹, Sam Norton⁵, James Galloway², Katie Doores⁴, Timothy Tree³ and Catherine Smith¹, ¹St John’s Institute of Dermatology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London, London, ²Centre for Rheumatic Diseases, King's College London, London, ³Department of Immunobiology, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁴Department of Infectious Diseases, School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁵Psychology Department, Institute for Psychiatry Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, London
Background/Purpose: COVID-19 vaccines have robust immunogenicity in the general population. Data on individuals with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases who are taking immunosuppressants remains limited. Our cohort…
Abstract Number: L19 • ACR Convergence 2021
Secukinumab in Giant Cell Arteritis: A Randomized, Parallel-group, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Multicenter Phase 2 Trial
Nils Venhoff¹, Wolfgang Schmidt², Raoul Bergner³, Jürgen Rech⁴, Leonore Unger⁵, Hans-Peter Tony⁶, Meryl Mendelson⁷, Christian Sieder⁸, Meron Maricos⁸ and Jens Thiel⁹, ¹Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Vasculitis Center Freiburg, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, ²Immanuel Krankenhaus Berlin, Medical Center for Rheumatology Berlin-Buch, Lindenberger Weg 19, 13125 Berlin, Germany, Berlin, Germany, ³Medizinische Klinik A, Klinikum der Stadt Ludwigshafen, Ludwigshafen, Germany, ⁴Department of Internal Medicine 3 - Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, 91054,, Erlangen, Germany, ⁵Medical Department 1, Städtisches Klinikum Dresden, Dresden, Germany, ⁶Department of Medicine 2, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Oberduerrbachertstr. 697080, Wuerzburg, Germany, ⁷Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, NJ, ⁸Novartis Pharma GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany, ⁹Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Vasculitis Center Freiburg, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Background/Purpose: Little is known about glucocorticoid-sparing agents in giant cell arteritis (GCA) except for IL-6 inhibition. Secukinumab (SEC) has shown significant improvements in the signs…
Abstract Number: 0103 • ACR Convergence 2021
Patients with Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases Are at Increased Risk of COVID-19 Related Hospitalization: Data from a Prospective Controlled Cohort Study
Laura Boekel¹, Femke Hooijberg¹, Erik Vogelzang², Maureen Leeuw¹, Sadaf Atiqi¹, Ronald van Vollenhoven³, Alexandre Voskuyl², Irene van der Horst-Bruinsma², Willem Lems¹, Taco Kuijpers², Marieke van Ham⁴, Luuk Wieske², Filip Eftimov², Maurice Steenhuis⁴, Sofie Keijzer⁴, Olvi Christianawati⁴, Floris Loeff⁴, Sander Tas⁵, Mike Nurmohamed⁶, Theo Rispens⁴ and Gertjan Wolbink¹, ¹Reade, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ³Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam Rheumatology Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁴Sanquin, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁵Amsterdam UMC, locatie AMC, Utrecht, Netherlands, ⁶Reade; Amsterdam Rheumatology & Immunology Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Retrospective studies have suggested that patients with rheumatic diseases may be at increased risk of severe COVID-19 related disease, and that this risk may…
Abstract Number: 0753 • ACR Convergence 2021
Patient-Reported Burden of Adverse Drug Reactions Attributed to the Use of Adalimumab and Etanercept in Patients with Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases
John Davelaar¹, Naomi Jessurun², Sander Tas³, Mike Nurmohamed⁴, Bart van den Bemt⁵ and Harald Vonkeman⁶, ¹Netherlands Pharmacovigilance Centre Lareb, Utrecht, Netherlands, ²Netherlands Pharmacovigilance Centre Lareb, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, ³Amsterdam UMC, locatie AMC, Utrecht, Netherlands, ⁴Reade; Amsterdam Rheumatology & Immunology Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁵Sint Maartenskliniek; Radboud University Medical Center, Ubbergen, Netherlands, ⁶Medisch Spectrum Twente; University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Health care professionals tend to focus on adverse drug reactions (ADRs) with the highest clinical impact. Subsequently, ADRs with less obvious clinical impact but…
Abstract Number: 1157 • ACR Convergence 2021
Patient Perspective on the Non Medical Switch of Originator to Its Biosimilar in Inflammatory Arthritis Using a Social Media Survey
David Vega Morales¹, Alejandro Garza-Alpirez² and Carlos Andrés Díaz-Garza², ¹Hospital Universitario, Garcia, Mexico, ²Tecnologico de Monterrey, Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, San Pedro, Mexico
Background/Purpose: The use of biosimilars instead of its originator is a controversial subject with many implications. It is considered that a non medical switch should…
Abstract Number: 1338 • ACR Convergence 2021
Bimekizumab in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis: 3-Year Results for Overall and Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitor (TNFi)-Naïve Populations from a Phase 2b Open-Label Extension Study
Philip Mease¹, Atul Deodhar², Joseph Merola³, Iain McInnes⁴, Deepak Assudani⁵, Rajan Bajracharya⁵, Jason Coarse⁶, Barbara Ink⁷ and Georg Schett⁸, ¹Swedish Medical Center/Providence St. Joseph Health and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁴University of Glasgow, School of Medicine, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, ⁵UCB Pharma, Slough, United Kingdom, ⁶UCB Pharma, Raleigh, NC, ⁷UCB Celltech, Slough, UK, Slough, United Kingdom, ⁸Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Department of Internal Medicine 3 – Rheumatology and Immunology, Erlangen, Germany, Erlangen, Germany
Background/Purpose: Bimekizumab (BKZ) is a monoclonal IgG1 antibody that selectively inhibits interleukin (IL)-17F and IL-17A, and has demonstrated clinical improvements in joint and skin outcomes…
Abstract Number: 1519 • ACR Convergence 2021
Concomitant Targeted Therapy with Ongoing Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor (ICI) Therapy for Severe Immune Related Adverse Events (irAEs): Clinical Experience from Two Centers
Cassandra Calabrese¹, Khashayar Esfahani² and Leonard Calabrese³, ¹Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland Heights, OH, ²Jewish General Hospital, Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada, ³Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Background/Purpose: Treatment of irAEs is a balance of suppressing irAE-associated hyper-inflammation without inhibiting anti-tumoral effects of ICI. Treatment of grade 3/4 irAEs is most challenging…
Abstract Number: 1741 • ACR Convergence 2021
Anifrolumab Results in Favorable Responses Regardless of SLE Disease Duration: Post Hoc Analysis of Data from 2 Phase 3 Trials
Kenneth Kalunian¹, Maria Dall'Era², Richard Furie³, Eric Morand⁴, Konstantina Psachoulia⁵, Emmanuelle Maho⁶, Catharina Lindholm⁷ and Raj Tummala⁵, ¹University of California, La Jolla, CA, ²University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ³Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Health, Great Neck, NY, ⁴Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, ⁵BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD, ⁶BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ⁷BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden
Background/Purpose: In 2 phase 3 trials, TULIP-1 and TULIP-2, anifrolumab, a type I IFN receptor mAb, improved disease activity in patients with SLE.1,2 Here, we…
Abstract Number: 1835 • ACR Convergence 2021
Secukinumab Effects on Cardiometabolic Risk and Systemic Inflammation in Patients with Psoriasis, Psoriatic Arthritis and Axial Spondyloarthritis: Results from Post Hoc Analyses of Pooled Data from 19 Phase 3/4 Clinical Studies
Joseph Merola¹, Iain McInnes², Atul Deodhar³, Erhard Quebe-Fehling⁴, Maher Aassi⁴, Michael Peine⁴ and Nehal Mehta⁵, ¹Department of Dermatology and Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Newton, MA, ²University of Glasgow, School of Medicine, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, ³Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, ⁴Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland, ⁵NHLBI/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Psoriasis (PsO), Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) and Axial Spondyloarthritis (AxSpA) are chronic immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) requiring long-term treatment. Systemic inflammation in these IMIDs is…
Abstract Number: 0138 • ACR Convergence 2021
Treatment with Adalimumab in Patients with Chronic Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases: A Study of Treatment Trajectories on a Patient Level in Clinical Practice
Imke Redeker¹, Stefan Moustakis², Styliani Tsiami², Xenofon Baraliakos², Ioana Andreica², Bjoern Buehring², Juergen Braun² and Uta Kiltz², ¹German Rheumatism Research Centre (DRFZ), Berlin, Germany, ²Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet Herne, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Herne, Germany
Background/Purpose: Adalimumab (ADA) retention rates are impaired in patients (pts.) with chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases (CIRD) due to loss of efficacy and adverse events, causing…
Abstract Number: 0813 • ACR Convergence 2021
Improvement in Clinical Disease Activity and Patient-Reported Outcomes After 6 Months of Treatment with Abatacept, Stratified by Line of Therapy, in Patients with RA: Results from a Large, US, National Observational Study
Leslie Harrold¹, Keith Wittstock², Sheila Kelly², Sang Hee Park², Xue Han², Ying Shan¹, Carla Roberts-Toler¹, Nicole Middaugh¹ and Vadim Khaychuk², ¹CorEvitas, LLC, Waltham, MA, ²Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ
Background/Purpose: RA is more responsive to treatment in the early stages of disease, and early treatment may lead to better long-term outcomes.1,2 Data on the…
Abstract Number: 1215 • ACR Convergence 2021
Development of a Multivariable Prediction Model for Treatment Response to Etanercept in a Multi-centre Cohort of Patients with Established RA
Michael Stadler¹, Stephanie Ling², Nisha Nair², John Isaacs³, Kimme Hyrich², Ann Morgan⁴, Anthony Wilson⁵, Darren Plant², Anne Barton² and John Bowes², ¹University of Manchester, Preston, United Kingdom, ²University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ³Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, ⁴University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ⁵Center for Arthritis Research, Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Background/Purpose: RA patients who respond inadequately to first-line DMARDs usually progress to a biologic DMARD. Treatment response to both DMARDs and biologics is heterogeneous within…
Abstract Number: 1339 • ACR Convergence 2021
Treatment Persistence Was Similar at 3 Years in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis Treated with Ustekinumab (STELARA®) or a Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitor in a Prospective Real-World Study
Laure Gossec¹, Stefan Siebert², Paul Bergmans³, Kurt de Vlam⁴, Elisa Gremese⁵, Beatriz Joven-Ibáñez⁶, Tatiana Korotaeva⁷, Wim Noël⁸, Michael Nurmohamed⁹, Petros Sfikakis¹⁰, Elke Theander¹¹ and Josef Smolen¹², ¹Sorbonne Université and Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France, ²University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, ³Janssen-Cilag BV, Breda, Netherlands, ⁴University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ⁵Fondazione Policlinico A Gemelli-IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy, ⁶University Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain, ⁷VA Nasonova Research Institute of Rheumatology, Moscow, Russia, ⁸Janssen Pharmaceutica, HEMAR Department, Beerse, Belgium, ⁹Reade and Amsterdam University Medical Center, location VUmc, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ¹⁰National Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece, Athens, Greece, ¹¹Janssen Cilag, Lund, Sweden, ¹²Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Background/Purpose: Several options exist in the treatment of PsA, but data on long-term persistence are rare. Here, we assess long-term persistence with ustekinumab (UST) or…
Abstract Number: 1542 • ACR Convergence 2021
Does Adjustment to Dosing and Timing of Immunomodulatory Drugs Impact Immunogenicity of COVID19 Vaccines in Patients with Autoimmune and Inflammatory Rheumatic Disease (AIIRD)?
Andrew Laster¹, Gordon Lam¹, Sarah McCarter¹, Heather Gladue², Ahmad Kashif¹, Erin Siceloff¹, Victoria Lackey², Cheryl Robertson², Ashley Toci¹ and Leonard Calabrese³, ¹Arthritis and Osteoporosis Consultants of the Carolinas, Charlotte, NC, ²Arthritis & Osteoporosis Consultants of the Carolinas, Charlotte, NC, ³Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Background/Purpose: Clinical trials leading to approval of the COVID19 vaccines did not include immunocompromised individuals. Concerns have been raised that immunogenicity of the vaccines may…

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