Abstracts tagged "Biologicals"

Abstract Number: 0348 • ACR Convergence 2022
Significant Improvement in Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus with or Without Systemic Lupus Erythematosus with Belimumab Use – a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Rachel Kneeland¹, Daniel Montes¹, Justin endo¹, Bridget Shields¹, Christie Bartels² and Shivani Garg³, ¹University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, ²University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, ³University of Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
Background/Purpose: Cutaneous lupus erythematosus (CLE) with or without systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), can be debilitating and cause significant scarring and psychological distress. Belimumab, a monoclonal…
Abstract Number: 0430 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Course of Bone Mineral Density During 8 Years of Treatment with TNF-α Inhibitors in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis
Mark Siderius¹, Anneke Spoorenberg², Freke Wink³ and Suzanne Arends², ¹University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ²University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ³Medical Center Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Bone loss reflected by lower bone mineral density (BMD) compared to age and gender matched healthy controls is a common feature of ankylosing spondylitis…
Abstract Number: 0771 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Use of a bDMARD or tsDMARD for the Management of Rheumatic irAE Under Checkpoint Inhibitors: An Observational Study
Fanny De La Fuente¹, Rakiba Belkhir², Julien Henry³, Chi Duc Nguyen⁴, Thao Pham⁵, Vincent GERMAIN⁶, Pierre-Edouard Gavand⁷, Céline Labadie¹, Claire Brière⁸, Ambre Lauret⁸, Thierry Cardon⁹, Gaël Mouterde¹⁰, Isabelle Bonnet¹¹, Léa Rouxel¹², Marie Truchetet¹, Thierry schaeverbeke¹³, Christophe Richez¹⁴ and Marie Kostine¹⁵, ¹Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France, ²Rheumatology departement, Bicêtre, Paris-Saclay university, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France, ³Department of Rheumatology, University Paris-Saclay, Hospital Bicêtre, Le Plessis Robinson, Ile-de-France, France, ⁴Bethune Hospital, Bethune, France, ⁵Aix-Marseille univ, APHM, Marseille, France, ⁶Pau Hospital, Rheumatology, Pau, France, Pau, France, ⁷Rhena Clinic, Strasbourg, France, ⁸Intercommunal Creteil Hospital, Créteil, France, ⁹Lille University Hospital, Lille, France, ¹⁰Lapeyronie Hospital, Montpellier, France, ¹¹University Paris-Saclay, Hospital Bicêtre, Bicêtre, France, ¹²Arcachon Hospital, Arcachon, France, ¹³CHU de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, ¹⁴Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, ¹⁵Pellegrin Hospital, University Hospital of Bordeaux, Rheumatology, Bordeaux, France
Background/Purpose: Rheumatic immune related adverse events (irAEs) are observed in about 5 to 10% of cancer patients receiving checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), with inflammatory arthritis (IA)…
Abstract Number: 0887 • ACR Convergence 2022
Comparison of Drug Persistence and Incidence of Tuberculosis Between Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Inhibitors and Tocilizumab as the First-line Biological Treatment in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Using the Korean Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service Database
Byung Wook Song, Dong-Hyuk Moon, Aran Kim and Seung-Geun Lee, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Busan, Republic of Korea
Background/Purpose: Drug persistence represents long-term therapeutic performance in real clinical setting and tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most important adverse events following biological treatments…
Abstract Number: 1040 • ACR Convergence 2022
Impact of Weight and Sex on Long-term Persistence to Secukinumab Treatment in Patients with Active Psoriatic Arthritis or Ankylosing Spondylitis
Uta Kiltz¹, Petros P. Sfikakis², Nicola Gullick³, ATHINA THEODORIDOU⁴, Anna Kandyli⁵, Jan Brandt-Juergens⁶, Philippe Goupille⁷, Nicola Maiden⁸, Karl Gaffney⁹, Daniel Peterlik¹⁰, Barbara Schulz¹¹, Effie Pournara¹¹ and Piotr Jagiello¹¹, ¹Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne, Germany, ²Joint Academic Rheumatology Program, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece, ³University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire; Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, ⁴Euromedica Geniki Kliniki, General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece, ⁵Rheumatology Outpatient Clinic, Iaso General Hospital, Athens, Greece, ⁶Rheumatologische Schwerpunktpraxis, Berlin, Germany, ⁷Rheumatology department, University Hospital of Tours, Tours, France, ⁸Craigavon Area Hospital, Southern Health & Social Care Trust, Craigavon, United Kingdom, ⁹Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust, Norfolk, United Kingdom, ¹⁰Novartis Pharma GmbH, Nürnberg, Germany, ¹¹Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: Secukinumab (SEC) has demonstrated a high sustained response rate in patients (pts) with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) or ankylosing spondylitis (AS) across Phase III clinical…
Abstract Number: 1403 • ACR Convergence 2022
Herpes Zoster in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Prospective Single University Center Study
Lucia Cristina Dominguez Casas¹, Mª Paz Rodriguez Cundin², Trinidad Dierssen Sotos³, Nuria Vegas Revenga⁴, Alfonso Corrales⁵, Miguel Ángel González-Gay⁶ and Ricardo Blanco⁷, ¹Hospital Universtario San Agustin, Oviedo, Spain, ²Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ³Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain, ⁴Hospital Galdakao- Usansolo, Galdakao, Spain, ⁵Research Group on Genetic Epidemiology and Atherosclerosis in Systemic Diseases and in Metabolic Bone Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System, IDIVAL; and Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ⁶Department 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, ⁷Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain
Background/Purpose: Patients with Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have an increased risk of infections due to the disease itself, and/or immunosuppressive therapy. The risk of herpes zoster…
Abstract Number: 1558 • ACR Convergence 2022
Prevalence, Phenotypical Clinical Clusters and Treatment of Neurobehçet’s Disease: Study in Northern Spain
Alba Herrero-Morant¹, Carmen Alvarez Reguera², Lara Sánchez-Bilbao², David Martínez-López², guillermo Suárez-Amorin², Raúl fernández-ramón², José Luis Martín-Varillas³, Cristina Mata⁴, Miguel Ángel González-Gay⁵ and Ricardo Blanco⁶, ¹Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Ontinyent, Spain, ²Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ³Hospital de Laredo, Laredo, Cantabria, Spain, ⁴Hospital Laredo, Santander, Spain, ⁵Department 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, ⁶Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain
Background/Purpose: Behçet's disease (BD) may present with different clinical phenotypes. Ocular and Neurobehçet's Disease (NBD) are severe complications. Data on NBD epidemiology, clinical phenotype and…
Abstract Number: 1994 • ACR Convergence 2022
Is Glucocorticoid Bridging Associated with Later Glucocorticoid and Biological DMARD Use in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis?
Lotte van Ouwerkerk¹, Sytske Anne Bergstra², Tjardo Maarseveen¹, Rachel Knevel¹, Tom Huizinga¹ and CF Allaart¹, ¹Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²LUMC, Leiden, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Glucocorticoids (GC) are rapidly effective in suppressing disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and are often used as 'bridging' therapy while slower acting conventional…
Abstract Number: 2131 • ACR Convergence 2022
Minimal Disease Activity Response Patterns in Bio-Naïve Patients Treated with Guselkumab: A Machine Learning Analysis
Alen Zabotti¹, Sarah Ohrndorf², William Tillett³, Marlies Neuhold⁴, Michel van Speybroeck⁵, Elke Theander⁶, Christine Contré⁷, Mohamed Sharaf⁸, May Shawi⁹, Michelle Perate¹⁰, Alexa Kollmeier¹¹ and Pascal Richette¹², ¹Department of Medical and Biological Sciences, Rheumatology Unit, University of Udine, Udine, Italy, ²Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ³Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath, United Kingdom, ⁴Takeda Europe & Canada Business Unit (EUCAN) Medical Affairs, Zurich, Switzerland; formerly at Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC, Zug, Switzerland, ⁵Janssen Pharmaceutica, Beerse, Belgium, ⁶Janssen Cilag, Lund, Sweden, ⁷Formerly at Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, ⁸Johnson & Johnson, Middle East FZ LLC, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, ⁹Immunology Global Medical Affairs, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, Horsham, PA, ¹⁰Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC, Horsham, PA, ¹¹Janssen-Cilag, Research & Development, LLC, San Diego, CA, ¹²Department of Rheumatology, Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: Guselkumab (GUS), a human monoclonal antibody targeting the interleukin-23p19 subunit, demonstrated joint and skin efficacy in patients with active psoriatic arthritis (PsA) in the…
Abstract Number: 2273 • ACR Convergence 2022
Waning Vaccine Response After Primary Vaccine Series: Results from the Covid19 Vaccine Response in Rheumatology Patients (COVER) Study
Amy Mudano¹, Gary Cutter², Ted Mikuls³, Geoffrey Thiele⁴, Mark Law⁴, Bart Hamilton⁴, Michael Zikry⁵, Kelly Y. Chun⁶, Monique Bastidas⁷, Michael George⁸, Lisa Williams⁹, Kevin Winthrop¹⁰, Mark Busch¹¹, Stanley Cohen¹², Roman Czubatyj¹³, Rajesh Kataria¹⁴, Reshma Khan¹⁵, Soha Mousa¹⁶, Jose Pando¹⁷, Elizabeth Perkins¹⁸, Shanmugapriya Reddy¹⁹, Delfin Santos²⁰, Joy Schechtman²¹, Frank Scott²², Sucharitha Shanmugam²³, Atul Singhal²⁴, John Tesser²⁵, John Tower²⁶, Swamy Venuturupalli²⁷, Sean Joseph Wollaston²⁸, Conrad Ziembinski²⁹ and Jeffrey Curtis³⁰, ¹Illumination Health, Hoover, AL, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³Division of Rheumatology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁴University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁵LabCorp, Burlington, NC, ⁶Labcorp, Calabasas, CA, ⁷LabCorp, Northridge, CA, ⁸University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁹Illumination Heath, Hoover, AL, ¹⁰Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, ¹¹Family Arthritis Center-Jupiter, Jupiter, FL, ¹²Metroplex Clinical Research Center, Pittsburgh, PA, ¹³Arthritis Physicians LLC, Rochester Hills, MI, ¹⁴Southern Ohio, Wheelersburg, OH, ¹⁵Palm Beach Rheumatology and Wellness, Jupiter, FL, ¹⁶Arthritis and Rheumatology of Southwest Ohio, Liberty Township, OH, ¹⁷Rheumatology Consultants of DE, Lewes, DE, ¹⁸Rheumatology Care Center, Hoover, AL, ¹⁹Southwest Florida Rheumatology, Riverview, FL, ²⁰Rochester Rheumatology, Rochester Hills, MI, ²¹SunValley Arthritis Center, Peoria, AZ, ²²Arthritis Medical Center, Arroyo Grande, CA, ²³Rheumatology and Arthritis Care Center, Exton, PA, ²⁴Southwest Rheumatology Research, Mesquite, TX, ²⁵Arizona Arthritis & Rheumatology Associates, Phoenix, AZ, ²⁶Arthritis Physicians LLC, Rochester, MI, ²⁷Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ²⁸Rheumatology Associates, North Hollywood, CA, ²⁹CZ Rheumatology, Coral Springs, FL, ³⁰Division of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Given possible increased risk of COVID-19 in patients with autoimmune conditions, there is a need to better understand the immunogenicity and safety of SARS-CoV-2…
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: 0201 • ACR Convergence 2021
Australian Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) Biologic Disease-modifying Antirheumatic Drug (bDMARD) Treatment Pathways Using Sankey Diagrams and Predictive Analysis: A Combined Australian Rheumatology Association Database (ARAD) and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) Analysis
Ashley Fletcher¹, Lyn March², Marissa Lassere³, Catherine Hill⁴, Claire Barrett⁵, Graeme Carroll⁶, Premarani Sinnathurai⁷ and Rachelle Buchbinder⁸, ¹Cabrini Health, Malvern, Australia, ²Institute of Bone and Joint Research, Kolling Institute, University of Sydney; Department of Rheumatology, Royal North Shore Hospital, Northern Sydney Local Health District, St Leonards, Sydney, Australia, ³St George Hospital; School of Population Health, University of New South Wales, Carlton, Australia, ⁴Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, Australia, ⁵Redcliffe Hospital, University of Queensland, Margate Beach, Australia, ⁶Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth, Australia, ⁷Institute of Bone and Joint Research, Kolling Institute, University of Sydney; Department of Rheumatology, Royal North Shore Hospital, Northern Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, Australia, ⁸Cabrini Health/Monash University, Malvern, Australia
Background/Purpose: To describe current bDMARD treatment patterns for ARAD participants with PsA, after combining with linked government PBS data.Methods: ARAD, a voluntary longitudinal observational database…

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