Abstracts tagged "Biologicals"

Abstract Number: 0513 • ACR Convergence 2020
Mass Spectrometry Identifies Novel Biomarkers in Giant Cell Arteritis, Useful in Patients on Interleukin-6 Receptor Blockade
Sebastian Unizony¹, Robert Morris², Johannes Kreuzer², Wilhelm Haas² and John H. Stone¹, ¹Massachusetts General Hospital Rheumatology Unit, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: We aimed to identify biomarkers of disease activity in giant cell arteritis (GCA) patients treated with prednisone monotherapy and with prednisone in combination with…
Abstract Number: 0714 • ACR Convergence 2020
Response to Abatacept in JIA Categories: Results from the PRCSG/PRINTO JIA Abatacept Phase IV Registry
Daniel J Lovell¹, Nikolay Tzaribachev², Esi Morgan³, Gabriele Simonini⁴, Thomas Griffin⁵, Ekaterina Alexeeva⁶, John Bohnsack⁷, Andrew Zeft⁸, Gerd Horneff⁹, Richard Vehe¹⁰, Valda Stanevicha¹¹, Stacey Tarvin¹², Maria Trachana¹³, Adam Huber¹⁴, Daniel Kietz¹⁵, Ilonka Orban¹⁶, Jason Dare¹⁷, Ivan Foeldvari¹⁸, Pierre Quartier¹⁹, Alyssa Dominique²⁰, Tzuyung Douglas Kou²⁰, Robert Wong²⁰, Alberto Martini²¹, Hermine Brunner³ and Nicolino Ruperto²², ¹PRCSG, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ²Pediatric Rheumatology Research Institute, Bad Bramstedt, Germany, ³Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁴Anna Meyer Children's Hospital, Firenze, Italy, ⁵Levine Children's Hospital, Charlotte, NC, ⁶Scientific Center of Children’s Health of RAMS, Moscow, Russia, ⁷University of Utah and Primary Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, ⁸Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ⁹Asklepios Clinic Sankt Augustin, Sankt Augustin, Germany, ¹⁰University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ¹¹Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia, ¹²Riley Children’s Health, Indianapolis, IN, ¹³Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloníki, Greece, ¹⁴Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, ¹⁵Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ¹⁶National Institute of Rheumatology and Physiotherapy, Budapest, Hungary, ¹⁷University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, ¹⁸Hamburg Centre for Pediatric and Adolescent Rheumatology, Hamburg, Germany, ¹⁹Necker-Enfants Malades University Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France, ²⁰Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Princeton, NJ, ²¹PRINTO, Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genova, Italy, ²²Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genova, Italy
Background/Purpose: Abatacept, a selective T-cell co-stimulation modulator, has been demonstrated to be well tolerated and effective in JIA in 2 Phase III studies.1,2 The ongoing…
Abstract Number: 0826 • ACR Convergence 2020
Clinical Responses and Patient Flow over 2 Years of Treatment with Abatacept, Including Dose De-Escalation, in Patients with Early, MTX-Naïve, ACPA+ RA: Results from a Phase IIIb Study
Paul Emery¹, Yoshiya Tanaka², Vivian Bykerk³, Clifton Bingham III⁴, Thomas Huizinga⁵, Gustavo Citera⁶, Kuan-Hsiang Gary Huang⁷, Sean Connolly⁸, Yedid Elbez⁹, Robert Wong⁸, Karissa Lozenski⁸ and Roy Fleischmann¹⁰, ¹Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds and NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK, Leeds, United Kingdom, ²The First Department of Internal Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan, ³Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁴Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁵Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁶Instituto de Rehabilitación Psicofísica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁷Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (at time of analysis), Princeton, NJ, ⁸Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Princeton, NJ, ⁹Excelya, Boulogne-Billancourt, France, ¹⁰Southwestern Medical Center, Metroplex Clinical Research Center, Dallas, TX
Background/Purpose: In the 56-week (wk) induction period (IP) of the Phase IIIb Assessing Very Early RA Treatment (AVERT)-2 trial (NCT02504268), a greater proportion of patients…
Abstract Number: 0903 • ACR Convergence 2020
Changing Patterns of Use of Biologic/Targeted Synthetic DMARDs in Psoriatic Arthritis: An Analysis of the OPAL Dataset
Sabina Ciciriello¹, Tegan Smith², Geoffrey Littlejohn³, Kathleen Tymms⁴, David Mathers⁵, Helen Cooley⁶, Hedley Griffiths⁷, Catherine OSullivan² and Peter Youssef⁸, ¹Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, ²OPAL Rheumatology Ltd, Sydney, NSW, Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia, ³Monash Rheumatology, Clayton, VIC; OPAL Rheumatology Ltd, Sydney, NSW, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, ⁴Canberra Rheumatology, Canberra, ACT, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, ⁵Georgetown Rheumatology, Georgetown, NSW, Georgetown, New South Wales, Australia, ⁶Hobart Private Hospital, Hobart, TAS, Taroona, Australia, ⁷Barwon Rheumatology Service, Geelong, VIC, Geelong, Victoria, Australia, ⁸University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW; Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia
Background/Purpose: In Australia the cost of biologic/targeted synthetic DMARDs (b/tsDMARDs) for treatment of PsA is subsidized if the patient has documented high levels of clinical/laboratory…
Abstract Number: 1226 • ACR Convergence 2020
Outcomes and Efficacy of Selective versus Automatic Switching from Etanercept to a Biosimilar in Inflammatory Arthritis Using Electronic Health Records from UK
Roxanne Cooksey¹, Sinead Brophy¹, Muhammad Azizur¹, Jonathan Kennedy¹ and Ernest Choy², ¹Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom, ²CREATE Centre, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Biosimilars have been approved for the treatment of inflammatory arthritis and evidence from randomised controlled trials have demonstrated equivalent efficacy to biologics. Etanercept biosimilar,…
Abstract Number: 1376 • ACR Convergence 2020
Impact of Body Composition Measures on the Response to Biological Disease-modifying Anti-rheumatic Drugs in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis
Valeria Rios Rodriguez¹, Mikhail Protopopov¹, Fabian Proft¹, Judith Rademacher¹, Burkhard Muche¹, Anne-Katrin Weber¹, Susanne Lüders¹, Hildrun Haibel¹, Maryna Verba¹, Joachim Sieper¹ and Denis Poddubnyy², ¹Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ²Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose: Data on the impact of body weight and body mass index (BMI) on the response to biological disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) in axial spondyloarthritis…
Abstract Number: 1764 • ACR Convergence 2020
Disease Modifying Anti-rheumatic Drug and Biologic Therapy in Pregnancy: A Single-center Mixed Methods Study
Lauren Glick¹, Justin Shamis², Taneisha McGhie³ and Dharini Mahendira⁴, ¹University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²North York General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Cornwall University Hospital, Kingston, Saint Andrew, Jamaica, ⁴University of Toronto - Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Rheumatic diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, seronegative inflammatory arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus can be associated with significant morbidity in women of child-bearing age. Both…
Abstract Number: 0003 • ACR Convergence 2020
Assessing Cytokine Profiles and COVID Serology in Patients on Immunosuppression to Guide Care Recommendations
Quinn Pritchett¹, Rebecca Overbury¹, Dorota Lebiedz-Odrobina¹, Julie Thomas¹, Tawnie Braaten², Stacey Clardy¹, Marc Elgort³, Emily Spivak¹, Patricia Slev³, Lisa Peterson³ and Tracy Frech⁴, ¹University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ²University of Utah, Salt Lake City, ³ARUP, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁴University of Utah and Salt Lake Veterans Affair Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Background/Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic is especially terrifying for patients on immunosuppression for autoimmune disease. With the exception of social isolation, experts do not have clear…
Abstract Number: 0230 • ACR Convergence 2020
Effect of Dose Escalation of Subcutaneous Tocilizumab on Disease Activity in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis in a Randomized Controlled Trial
Nora G. Singer¹, Shalini V. Mohan², Jeffrey Yourish³, Jian Han², Michael Edwardes⁴ and Margaret Michalska³, ¹Case Western Reserve University and MetroHealth System, Cleveland, ²Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, ³Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, ⁴Everest Clinical Research, Ontario, Canada
Background/Purpose: In patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), subcutaneous tocilizumab (TCZ-SC) is administered every 2 weeks (q2w) or every week (qw), based on the patient’s weight…
Abstract Number: 0356 • ACR Convergence 2020
Bimekizumab Improves Patient-Reported Outcomes in Psoriatic Arthritis: 48-Week Results from a Phase 2b Study and Association Between Patient-Reported Outcomes and Disease Activity
Laure Gossec¹, Philip Mease², Alice Gottlieb³, Deepak Assudani⁴, Jason Coarse⁵, Barbara Ink⁶ and Laura Coates⁷, ¹Sorbonne Université and Hôpital Universitaire Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France, ²Seattle Rheumatology Associates, P.L.L.C., Seattle, WA, ³Department of Dermatology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, ⁴UCB Pharma, Slough, United Kingdom, ⁵UCB Pharma, Raleigh, NC, ⁶UCB Pharma, Slough, ⁷University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Bimekizumab (BKZ), a humanized monoclonal IgG1 antibody that selectively neutralizes interleukin (IL)-17A and IL-17F, has shown clinical improvements in joint and skin outcomes and…
Abstract Number: 0516 • ACR Convergence 2020
Characteristics of Giant Cell Arteritis Flares After Successful Treatment with Tocilizumab: Results from the Long-Term Extension of a Randomized Controlled Phase 3 Trial
Sebastian Unizony¹, Shalini V. Mohan², Jian Han² and John H. Stone¹, ¹Massachusetts General Hospital Rheumatology Unit, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Genentech, South San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: To investigate the characteristics of disease flare after successful treatment with tocilizumab (TCZ) in patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA).Methods: We performed a post…
Abstract Number: 0743 • ACR Convergence 2020
Higher Baseline Fine-Specificity ACPAs Predict Greater Treatment Response with Abatacept + MTX versus MTX Monotherapy in Seropositive RA: A Post Hoc Analysis
William Robinson¹, Chun Wu², Sarah Hu², Sean Connolly² and Sumanta Mukherjee², ¹Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CT, ²Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Princeton, NJ
Background/Purpose: ACPAs are sensitive, highly specific markers of RA. Current tests cannot differentiate ACPA+ RA subtypes. Fine-specificity ACPAs (FS) can distinguish between ACPA+ RA subtypes…
Abstract Number: 0827 • ACR Convergence 2020
Comparative Clinical Efficacy of Sarilumab versus Upadacitinib over 12 Weeks: Matching-Adjusted Indirect Comparison Analysis
Thomas Huizinga¹, Ernest Choy², Amy Praestgaard³, Hubert van Hoogstraten⁴, Patrick R LaFontaine³, Patricia Guyot⁵, Daniel Aletaha⁶, Ulf Müller-Ladner⁷, Yoshiya Tanaka⁸, Jeffrey R Curtis⁹ and Roy Fleischmann¹⁰, ¹Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²CREATE Centre, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, ³Sanofi, Cambridge, MA, ⁴Sanofi, Bridgewater, NJ, ⁵Sanofi, Chilly-Mazarin, France, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna,, Vienna, Austria, ⁷Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Justus-Liebig University, Campus Kerckhoff, Bad Nauheim, Germany, ⁸The First Department of Internal Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan, ⁹Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ¹⁰Southwestern Medical Center, Metroplex Clinical Research Center, Dallas, TX
Background/Purpose: Sarilumab, an IL-6 receptor inhibitor, and upadacitinib, a Janus kinase (JAK) 1 inhibitor, are both approved for the treatment of patients with moderately to…
Abstract Number: 0906 • ACR Convergence 2020
Bimekizumab Treatment Is Associated with Improvements in Back Pain and Fatigue in Patients with Active Psoriatic Arthritis: 48-Week Results from a Phase 2b Study
Atul Deodhar¹, Laure Gossec², Philip Mease³, Jason Coarse⁴, Heather Edens⁵, Natasha de Peyrecave⁶, Deepak Assudani⁶, Barbara Ink⁷ and Christopher Ritchlin⁸, ¹Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, ²Sorbonne Université and Hôpital Universitaire Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France, ³Seattle Rheumatology Associates, P.L.L.C., Seattle, WA, ⁴UCB Pharma, Raleigh, NC, ⁵UCB Pharma, Smyrna, GA, ⁶UCB Pharma, Slough, United Kingdom, ⁷UCB Pharma, Slough, ⁸Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
Background/Purpose: Patients (pts) with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) require effective treatment across all symptoms. Bimekizumab (BKZ) is a humanized IgG1 monoclonal antibody which selectively neutralizes interleukin…
Abstract Number: 1236 • ACR Convergence 2020
Association Between Change in Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index and Treatment Response in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis in Tocilizumab Clinical Trials
Sebastian Unizony¹, Joseph Dang², Jian Han³, Margaret Michalska² and Jennie H. Best², ¹Massachusetts General Hospital Rheumatology Unit, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, ³Genentech, South San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: The efficacy and safety of intravenous (IV) and subcutaneous (SC) tocilizumab (TCZ) in combination with conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (csDMARDs) and as monotherapy…

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