Abstracts tagged "Biologicals"

Abstract Number: 0354 • ACR Convergence 2020
How Do TNF-alpha-Inhibitors in Medical History Affect Patient Reported Outcomes and Retention in Ankylosing Spondylitis Patients Treated with Secukinumab in Real World? – German Observational Study
Uta Kiltz¹, Jan Brandt-Jürgens², Peter Kästner³, Elke Riechers⁴, Daniel Peterlik⁵ and Hans-Peter Tony⁶, ¹Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Ruhr-University Bochum, Herne, Germany, ²Rheumatologische Schwerpunktpraxis Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ³Ambulantes Rheumazentrum, Erfurt, Germany, ⁴Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, ⁵Novartis Pharma GmbH, Nürnberg, Germany, ⁶Rheumatology/Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine II, Würzburg, Germany
Background/Purpose: Secukinumab (SEC), a fully human monoclonal antibody that selectively inhibits interleukin 17A, is approved for treatment of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). However, there…
Abstract Number: 0505 • ACR Convergence 2020
Secukinumab Provides Sustained Improvements in Clinical and Imaging Outcomes in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis and Axial Manifestations: Results from the MAXIMISE Trial
Xenofon Baraliakos¹, Laure Gossec², Effie Pournara³, Slawomir Jeka⁴, Ricardo Blanco⁵, Salvatore D'Angelo⁶, Georg Schett⁷, Barbara Schulz³, Michael Rissler³, Dermot Whyms⁸, Chiara Perella³ and Laura Coates⁹, ¹Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet Herne, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, ²Sorbonne Université and Hôpital Universitaire Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France, ³Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland, ⁴2nd Univ Hospital, CM UMK, Bydgoszcz, Poland, ⁵Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Cantabria, Spain, ⁶Rheumatology Department of Lucania and Rheumatology Institute of Lucania (IRel), San Carlo Hospital of Potenza, Potenza, Italy, ⁷Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen- Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, ⁸Novartis Ireland Limited, Dublin, Ireland, ⁹University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Axial disease may affect up to 25–70% of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients, depending on the definition used. Current evidence on efficacy of biologics in…
Abstract Number: 0713 • ACR Convergence 2020
Longitudinal Effectiveness of Abatacept in JIA: Results from an Ongoing JIA Registry
Daniel J Lovell¹, Hermine Brunner², Nikolay Tzaribachev³, Esi Morgan², Gabriele Simonini⁴, Thomas Griffin⁵, Ekaterina Alexeeva⁶, John Bohnsack⁷, Andrew Zeft⁸, Gerd Horneff⁹, Richard Vehe¹⁰, Valda Stanevicha¹¹, Stacey Tarvin¹², Maria Trachana¹³, Adam Huber¹⁴, Ilonka Orban¹⁵, Jason Dare¹⁶, Ivan Foeldvari¹⁷, Pierre Quartier¹⁸, Alyssa Dominique¹⁹, Tzuyung Douglas Kou¹⁹, Robert Wong¹⁹, Alberto Martini²⁰ and Nicolino Ruperto²⁰, ¹PRCSG, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ²Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ³Pediatric Rheumatology Research Institute, Bad Bramstedt, Germany, 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, ¹⁵National Institute of Rheumatology and Physiotherapy, Budapest, Hungary, ¹⁶University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, ¹⁷Hamburg Centre for Pediatric and Adolescent Rheumatology, Hamburg, Germany, ¹⁸Necker-Enfants Malades University Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France, ¹⁹Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Princeton, NJ, ²⁰PRINTO, Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genova, Italy
Background/Purpose: Abatacept is a selective T-cell co-stimulation modulator approved for use in JIA. Efficacy and safety of abatacept in patients with JIA has been demonstrated…
Abstract Number: 0821 • ACR Convergence 2020
Gender and Discontinuation of Biologic DMARDs in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Data from the Mexican Biologics Registry
Vijaya Rivera¹, Sandra Sicsik Ayala¹, David Vega Morales², Fedra Irazoque-Palazuelos³, Dafhne Miranda Hernández¹, Julio Casasola Vargas¹, Sandra Carrillo Vázquez¹, Angélica Peña Ayala¹, Angel Castillo Ortiz¹, Omar Muñoz Monroy¹, Sergio Durán Barragán¹, Aleni Paz Viscarra¹, Estefanía Torres Valdez¹, Daniel Xibille Friedmann¹, Erick A Zamora Tehozol⁴, Luis Valdés Corona¹, Azucena Ramos Sánchez¹, Natalia Santana Portillo¹, Francisco Guerrero Díaz¹, Miguel Vazquez Zaragoza¹, Claudia Zepeda Moreno¹, Kitzia Alvarado Sánchez¹, Melanea Rivera Valencia¹, Cesar Pacheco Tena⁵ and Deshire Alpizar-Rodriguez⁶, ¹Colegio Mexicano de Reumatología, Mexico City, Mexico, ²Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Garcia, Mexico, ³Centro de Investigación y Tratamiento Reumatológico S.C, Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico, ⁴Centro Médico Pensiones, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, ⁵Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico, ⁶Colegio Mexicano de Reumatología, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common autoimmune disease and is more frequent and severe in women than in men. Symptom severity, disease progression,…
Abstract Number: 0899 • ACR Convergence 2020
Secukinumab Provides Significant Improvement of Spinal Pain and Lowers Disease Activity in Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis: 24-week Results from a Randomized Controlled Phase 3b Trial
Denis Poddubnyy¹, Effie Pournara², Agnieszka Zielinska³, Asta Baranauskaite⁴, Alejandro Muñoz Jiménez⁵, Sanchayita Sadhu⁶, Barbara Schulz², Michael Rissler², Chiara Perella² and Helena Marzo-Ortega⁷, ¹Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ²Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland, ³Medycyna Kliniczna, Warszawa, Poland, ⁴Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania, ⁵H. U. Virgen del Rocío (Sevilla), Sevilla, Spain, ⁶Novartis Healthcare Private Limited, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, ⁷The University of Leeds, Leeds Institute for Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, Leeds, UK, Leeds, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: SKIPPAIN (NCT03136861) is the first randomized controlled study involving a biological disease modifying antirheumatic drug, with spinal pain as the primary endpoint as early…
Abstract Number: 1224 • ACR Convergence 2020
Glucocorticoid Reduction in Different Profiles of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Treatment with Sarilumab
Esteban Rubio Romero¹, Alejandro Muñoz Jiménez², Rosalia Martinez Perez³ and Lara Mendez Diaz⁴, ¹VIRGEN DEL ROCIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, SEVILLE, Spain, ²H. U. Virgen del Rocío (Sevilla), Sevilla, Spain, ³Virgen del Rocío University Hospital, seville, Spain, ⁴Virgen del Rocío Hospital, sevilla, Spain
Background/Purpose: Glucocorticoid reduction in different profiles of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and sarilumab treatment. Real clinical practice studies are tasked with providing clinically relevant data…
Abstract Number: 1375 • ACR Convergence 2020
Remission in Axial Spondyloarthritis: Is There a Difference Between NSAIDs and Biologics in the Real Life?
Charlotte Baert¹, Charlene Mouafo Toukam², Tatiana Sokolova³, Maria S. Stoenoiu⁴, Patrick Durez⁵, Laurent Meric De Bellefon² and Adrien Nzeusseu Toukap⁶, ¹Rheumatology department, St-Luc university hospitals, Brussels, Belgium, ²Rheumatology department; St-Luc University Hospitals, Brussels, Belgium, ³Rheumatology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc – Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) – Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique (IREC), Brussels, Belgium, ⁴1Department of Rheumatology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, 2Institut de recherche expérimentale et cliniques (IREC), Brussels, Belgium, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Bruxelles, Belgium, ⁶1Department of Rheumatology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc, 2Institut de recherche expérimentale et clinique (IREC), Brussels, Belgium
Background/Purpose: Randomized-controlled trials (RCTs) done in axial spondyloarthritis (AxSpA) patients have shown that remission in Ankylosing Spondylitis and nonradiographic AxSpA patients treated without biologics (BIOL)…
Abstract Number: 1750 • ACR Convergence 2020
Longitudinal Change in the Central Nervous System Pain Response After Treatment with Certolizumab or Placebo. a Post-hoc Analysis from the Pre-CEPRA Trial
Juergen Rech¹, Hannah Schenker², Koray Tascilar¹, Melanie Hagen², Larissa Valor Mendez², Verena Schoenau³, Marina Sergeeva⁴, Jutta Prade⁴, Mageshvar Sulvakumar⁵, Laura Konert⁶, Arnd Kleyer¹, David Simon¹, Sandra Strobelt⁴, Frank Behrens⁷, Christoph Baerwald⁸, Stephanie Finzel⁹, Reinhard Voll¹⁰, Axel Hueber¹¹, Eugen Feist¹², Julie Roesch¹³, José A. P. da Silva¹⁴, Arnd Doerfler¹³, Nemanja Damjanov¹⁵, Andreas Hess¹⁶ and Georg Schett¹⁷, ¹Department of Internal Medicine 3, Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nuremberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Bayern, Germany, ²Department of Internal Medicine 3 - Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, 91054, Erlangen, Germany, Erlangen, Germany, ³Department of Internal Medicine 3 - Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, 91054, Erlangen, Germany, Erlangen, ⁴Institute for Experimental Pharmacology, Erlangen, Germany, ⁵Insitute for Experimental Pharmacology, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, ⁶Institute for Experimental Pharmacology, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, ⁷CIRI/Rheumatology & Fraunhofer TMP, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, ⁸Uniklinik Leipzig, Medizinische Klinik III - Bereich Rheumatologie, Leipzig, Germany, ⁹Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Klinik für Rheumatologie und Klinische Immunologie, Freiburg, Germany, ¹⁰Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Klinik für Rheumatologie und Klinische Immunologie, Freibrug, ¹¹Section Rheumatology, Sozialstiftung Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany, ¹²Department of Rheumatology, Helios Vogelsang-Gommern, Vogelsang-Gommern, Germany, ¹³Abteilung für Neuroradiologie, Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, 91054, Erlangen, Germany, Erlangen, Germany, ¹⁴9.Centro Hospitalar e Universitário Coimbra (Rheumatology Department), Coimbra, Portugal, Coimbra, Portugal, ¹⁵Belgrade University School of Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia, ¹⁶Institute for Experimental Pharmacology, Erlangen, ¹⁷Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen- Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
Background/Purpose: Biologicals - bring a hope of recovery or amelioration to people suffering from RA, but only half of the patients respond to such treatment.…
Abstract Number: 0225 • ACR Convergence 2020
Prevalence and Probability Assessment of Adverse Drug Reactions in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Receiving Intravenous Originator Biologics in Saudi Arabia: A Longitudinal Five Years Follow-up Study
Hawazin Alhazzani¹, Reem Tashkandi¹, Lamia Alzamel¹, Haya Almalag¹, Shiekha Alaujan¹, Abdurhman Alarfaj¹, Hussain Alarfaj¹ and Mohammed Omair¹, ¹King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Background/Purpose: Biologics have been advocated by guidelines as effective therapies for rheumatoid arthritis (RA)1. Limited longitudinal studies investigated the prevalence and risk factors for developing…
Abstract Number: 0355 • ACR Convergence 2020
Collagen Turnover Markers Are Associated with Active Psoriatic Arthritis and Decrease with Guselkumab Treatment in a Phase-3 Clinical Trial
Georg Schett¹, Matthew J. Loza², Arumugam Palanichamy², Oliver FitzGerald³, Christopher Ritchlin⁴, Frédéric Baribaud⁵ and Kristen Sweet⁵, ¹Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen- Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, ²Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Spring House, ³Conway Institute for Biomolecular Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, ⁴Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, ⁵Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Spring House, PA
Background/Purpose: Guselkumab (GUS), an interleukin-23p19-subunit monoclonal antibody, demonstrated efficacy compared to placebo (PBO) in reducing skin and musculoskeletal signs and symptoms in patients with active…
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,…

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