Abstracts tagged "Biologicals"

Abstract Number: 0308 • ACR Convergence 2022
Risankizumab (RZB) Demonstrates Long-Term Efficacy Across Subgroups in Patients with Active Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA): A Post Hoc, Integrated Analysis from the Phase 3 (KEEPsAKE 1 and KEEPsAKE 2) Studies
Joseph Merola¹, Kristina Callis-Duffin², Byron Padilla³, Cuiyong Yue⁴, Huzefa Photowala⁴, Blair Kaplan⁴ and Iain B McInnes⁵, ¹Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ³AbbVie, Inc., Waukegan, IL, ⁴AbbVie, Inc., North Chicago, IL, ⁵Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Risankizumab (RZB), a fully humanized IgG1 monoclonal antibody inhibitor of IL-23, is a therapeutic agent approved for the treatment of active psoriatic arthritis (PsA)…
Abstract Number: 0414 • ACR Convergence 2022
Efficacy and Safety of Upadacitinib in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis with Intolerance to And/or Lack of Efficacy of Prior Biologic Therapy: A Subgroup Analysis
Xenofon Baraliakos¹, Fabiana Ganz², Hideto Kameda³, Jessica Walsh⁴, Manish Jain⁵, Kristin D’Silva⁶, Peter Wung⁶, Xianwei Bu⁶, Jayne Stigler⁶ and Désirée van der Heijde⁷, ¹Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet Herne, Herne, Germany, ²AbbVie, Inc., Luzern, Switzerland, ³Toho University, Tokyo, Japan, ⁴University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁵Great Lakes Clinical Trials, Chicago, IL, ⁶AbbVie, Inc., North Chicago, IL, ⁷Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Leiden, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Upadacitinib (UPA), an oral Janus kinase inhibitor, has been evaluated in the treatment of AS both in patients (pts) naïve to biologic DMARDs (bDMARDs)1…
Abstract Number: 0595 • ACR Convergence 2022
Validation of Urotensin-2 mRNA Expression as Marker for Tocilizumab Non-Response in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis
Janani Sundaresan¹, Ittai B. Muller¹, Marry Lin¹, Floris P.J.G. Lafeber², Paco Welsing², Maurits C.F.J. De Rotte³, Maja Bulatovic-Calasan⁴, Conny van der Laken⁵, Robert De Jonge⁶ and Gerrit Jansen⁵, ¹Department of Clinical Chemistry, Amsterdam University Medical Centers – location VUMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²Department of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, ³Department of Clinical Chemistry, Amsterdam University Medical Centers – location AMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁴Department of Clinical Chemistry, Amsterdam University Medical Centers – location VUmc, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, ⁵Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers – location VUMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁶Department of Clinical Chemistry, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Tocilizumab (TCZ), a biologic Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drug, elicits an immune-modulating effect by binding to the interleukin 6 receptor and inhibiting downstream signaling. Despite…
Abstract Number: 0812 • ACR Convergence 2022
3-years Safety and Efficacy Outcomes of Canakinumab Treatment in Cryopyrin-associated Periodic Syndromes (CAPS) – Data from the RELIANCE Registry
Jasmin B. Kuemmerle-Deschner¹, Birgit Kortus-Goetze², Prasad T. Oommen³, Ales Janda⁴, Juergen Rech⁵, Catharina Schuetz⁶, Tilmann Kallinich⁷, Frank Weller-Heinemann⁸, Gerd Horneff⁹, Ivan Foeldvari¹⁰, Florian Meier¹¹, Michael Borte¹², Tobias Krickau¹³, Julia Weber-Arden¹⁴ and Norbert Blank¹⁵, ¹Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, ²Division of Nephrology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany, ³Clinic of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Clinical Immunology, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany, ⁴Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany, ⁵University Clinic Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁶Pediatrics, Medizinische Fakultaet Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Dresden, Germany, ⁷Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Nuremberg, Germany, ⁸Klinikum Bremen-Mitte, Prof. Hess Kinderklinik, Bremen, Germany, ⁹Pediatrics, Asklepios Klinik Sankt Augustin GmbH, Sankt Augustin, Germany, ¹⁰Hamburger Zentrum für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie, Hamburg, Germany, ¹¹Division of Rheumatology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, Project Group Translational Medicine and Pharmacology TMP, Frankfurt, Germany, ¹²ImmunoDeficiencyCenter Leipzig (IDCL), Hospital St. Georg gGmbH Leipzig, Germany, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany, ¹³Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Pediatrics, Erlangen, Germany, ¹⁴Novartis Pharma GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany, ¹⁵Rheumatology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Background/Purpose: Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes (CAPS) are monogenic autoinflammatory diseases with severe systemic inflammation. The IL-1β inhibitor canakinumab (CAN) leads to a rapid remission of CAPS…
Abstract Number: 0978 • ACR Convergence 2022
Belimumab After Rituximab Targets IgA2 Anti-dsDNA Antibody Production and Shifts Repopulating B-cells Towards an Anergic, Non-pathogenic Phenotype in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Muhammad Shipa¹, liliana ribeiro santos², Dao X Nguyen¹, Andrew Embleton-Thirsk¹, Mariea parvaz¹, David Isenberg¹, Caroline Gordon³ and Michael Ehrenstein¹, ¹University College London, London, United Kingdom, ²University College London, London, ³Rheumatology Research Group, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: The results from the BEAT-lupus trial comparing belimumab vs placebo, both after rituximab in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have recently been reported (1). We…
Abstract Number: 1159 • ACR Convergence 2022
Uveitis in Psoriatic Arthritis: Study of 406 Patients in a Single University Center
Ana De Vicente-Delmás¹, Lara Sánchez-Bilbao², Vanesa Calvo Río³, David Martínez-López², Alba Herrero-Morant⁴, Eva Galíndez-Agirregoikoa⁵, Nuria Barroso-García⁶, Natalia Palmou-Fontana², Miguel Ángel González-Gay⁷ and Ricardo Blanco⁸, ¹Hospital General Santa María del Puerto, Cádiz, Spain, ²Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ³Valdecilla Hospital, Santander, Spain, ⁴Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Ontinyent, Spain, ⁵Basurto University Hospital, Bilbao, Spain, ⁶Hospital Universitario Puerta del Mar, Cádiz, Spain, Cádiz, Spain, ⁷Department of Medicine and Psychiatry, Universidad de Cantabria; Rheumatology Division, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla; Research group on genetic epidemiology and atherosclerosis in systemic diseases and in metabolic diseases of the musculoskeletal system, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain. Cardiovascular Pathophysiology and Genomics Research Unit, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, ⁸Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain
Background/Purpose: The manifestations of uveitis are well-established in Axial Spondyloarthritis (ax-SpA), but not in Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA). We aimed to assess, in a large unselected…
Abstract Number: 1430 • ACR Convergence 2022
Time to First Remission and Prevalence of Sustained Remission After Etanercept Biosimilar (ETA-B) or Originator (ETA-O) Initiation in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Cristiano Moura¹, Luck Lukusa¹, Laura Yan¹, Walter P Maksymowych², Denis Choquette³, Gilles Boire⁴ and Sasha Bernatsky¹, ¹Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada, ²Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ³Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁴Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
Background/Purpose: The first biosimilar etanercept (ETA-B) was approved in Canada in 2016, but real-world data comparing the effectiveness of ETA-B versus its equivalent originator (ETA-O)…
Abstract Number: 1795 • ACR Convergence 2022
Therapeutic Strategies for Patients with Chronic Manifestations of Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition Disease
Julien Damart¹, Silvia Sirotti², Mariano Andrès³, Edoardo Cipolletta⁴, Georgios Filippou⁵, Davide Carboni⁶, Emilio Filippucci⁷, Pilar Diez⁸, Abhishek Abhishek⁹, Augustin Latourte¹⁰, Hang-Korng Ea¹¹, Sebastien Ottaviani¹², Jean-Guillaume Letarouilly¹³, Renaud Desbarbieux¹⁴, Sahara Graf¹, Laurène Norberciak¹, Pascal Richette¹⁵ and Tristan Pascart¹⁶, ¹Hôpital Saint-Philibert, Lomme, France, ²Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy, ³Dr Balmis Alicante General University Hospital-ISABIAL, Alicante, Spain, ⁴Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy, ⁵Rheumatology Department, Luigi Sacco University Hospital, Siena, Italy, ⁶Luigi Sacco University, Milano, Italy, ⁷Polytechnic University of Marche, Rheumatology Unit, Department of Clinical and Molecular Sciences, "Carlo Urbani" Hospital, Jesi, Italy, ⁸Alicante University, Alicante, Spain, ⁹University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, ¹⁰Université de Paris, Paris, France, ¹¹Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France, ¹²Hopital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris, France, ¹³CHU Lille, Lille, France, ¹⁴Ch Boulogne-sur-Mer, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, ¹⁵Department of Rheumatology, Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France, ¹⁶Groupement Hospitalier de l'Institut Catholique de Lille, Lomme, France
Background/Purpose: Calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD) disease lacks recommendations on treatment strategies. This study reports on treatment modalities used in European tertiary hospitals for the management…
Abstract Number: 2110 • ACR Convergence 2022
Guselkumab Efficacy in Psoriatic Arthritis Assessed by Multi-domain Composite Indices: Data from the Phase 3b COSMOS Trial in a TNFi-IR Population
Laure Gossec¹, Mohamed Sharaf², Elke Theander³, Marlies Neuhold⁴, Paul Bergmans⁵, May Shawi⁶, Michelle Perate⁷, Christine Contré⁸ and Laura Coates⁹, ¹Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, ²Johnson & Johnson, Middle East FZ LLC, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, ³Formerly at Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC, Solna, Sweden, ⁴Takeda Europe & Canada Business Unit (EUCAN) Medical Affairs, Zurich, Switzerland; formerly at Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC, Zug, Switzerland, ⁵Formerly at Janssen, Breda, Netherlands, ⁶Immunology Global Medical Affairs, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, Horsham, PA, ⁷Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC, Horsham, PA, ⁸Formerly at Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, ⁹Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: The Phase 3b COSMOS study (NCT03796858) demonstrated the efficacy and safety of guselkumab (GUS), an IL-23 p19 subunit inhibitor, in patients (pts) with psoriatic…
Abstract Number: 2192 • ACR Convergence 2022
Serious Infections in Offspring Exposed During Late Pregnancy to Tumour Necrosis Factor Inhibitors with High versus Low Placental Transfer Ability
Leah K. Flatman¹, Yvan St. Pierre², Isabelle Malhamé³, Olga Basso¹, Anick Berard⁴, Sasha Bernatsky² and Evelyne Vinet³, ¹McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada, ²Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada, ³McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁴University of Montreal, Montréal, QC, Canada
Background/Purpose: During pregnancy, best practice guidelines suggest discontinuing tumour necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) with high placental transfer before or during the third trimester if the…
Abstract Number: L07 • ACR Convergence 2021
Depletion of KLRG1+ T Cells in a First-in-human Clinical Trial of ABC008 in Inclusion Body Myositis (IBM)
Niti Goel¹, Dulce Soler-Ferran², Monette Coutreau², Jorge Escobar³, Kate Courtemanche², Merrilee Needham⁴ and Steven Greenberg⁵, ¹Abcuro, Inc.; Duke University, Durham, NC, ²Abcuro, Inc., Newton, MA, ³Abcuro, Inc., Hayward, CA, ⁴Perron Institute, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, ⁵Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Inclusion body myositis (IBM), a relentlessly progressive autoimmune skeletal muscle disease, has no effective available pharmacological therapy. A prominent feature of IBM on microscopy…
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: 0014 • ACR Convergence 2021
Low Baseline Expression of Pyruvate Kinase and Succinate Dehydrogenase Genes in the Peripheral Blood of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Treated with Tofacitinib Is Associated with Clinical Remission at the End of Follow-up
Elena Tchetina¹, Azamat Satybaldyev², Galina Markova¹ and Alexander Lila², ¹Nasonova Research Institute of Rheumatology, Moscow, Russia, ²V.A. Nasonova Reseach Institute of Rheumatology, Moscow, Russia
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease of unknown etiology, which is characterized by erosive arthritis and systemic inflammation. Tofacitinib (TFCN) is a Janus…

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