Abstracts tagged "Biomarkers"

Abstract Number: 0670 • ACR Convergence 2024
A Randomized, Open-Label, Phase III Trial Comparing Efficacy and Safety of Intravenous Cyclophosphamide, Mycophenolate Mofetil, or Tacrolimus as Induction Therapy in Lupus Nephritis
Alekhya Amudalapalli, Ashlesha Shukla, Abhichandra Maddineni, Sandeep Nagar, Sudhish Gadde, Harish BV, Rashmi Ranjan Sahoo and Pradeepta Sekhar Patro, IMS and SUM Hospital, Bhubaneswar, India
Background/Purpose: The optimal treatment for lupus nephritis is challenging due to its heterogeneity and the lack of prognostic factors favoring one immunosuppressive drug over another.…
Abstract Number: 0809 • ACR Convergence 2024
The Utility of the sFlt1:PlGF Ratio to Rule out and Predict Preeclampsia in Women with Lupus
Megan Clowse¹, Kateena Addae-Konadu², Jerome Federspiel³, Jennifer Gilner², Andra James², Eugene Kovalik², Anika Lucas³, Laura Neil², Catherine Sims⁴, Amanda Snyderman², Samir Soneji² and Amanda Eudy⁵, ¹Duke University, Chapel Hill, NC, ²Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, ³Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, ⁴Duke University, Knightdale, NC, ⁵Duke University, Raleigh, NC
Background/Purpose: Women with SLE have high rates of preeclampsia caused by poor placental vascularization. The FDA recently approved the ratio of two angiogenic factors, soluble…
Abstract Number: 0909 • ACR Convergence 2024
Identifying Predictive Serum Soluble Mediators Signatures Specific to ANA+ at Risk of SLE Individuals with Next Generation Proteomics
Aleksandra Bylinska¹, Miles Smith¹, Rufei Lu¹, Benjamin Jones², Carla Guthridge¹, Matthew Caleb Marlin¹, Christian Wright³, Susan Macwana³, Wade DeJager³, Marci Beel³, Christopher Lessard¹, Cristina Arriens¹, Joan Merrill⁴, Judith James¹ and Joel Guthridge¹, ¹Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma City, OK, ³Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, ⁴Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City 73104, OK
Background/Purpose: Multiple factors can predispose individuals to development of SLE, including the presence of African American ancestry, lupus-associated autoantibodies (ANAs), or some clinical manifestations of…
Abstract Number: 1266 • ACR Convergence 2024
Anti-Mitochondrial Antibodies Associate with Disease Activity and IFNα Expression in Childhood-onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Marina Barguil Macedo¹, Javad Wahadat², Albin Bjoerk³, Sylvia Kamphuis², Marjan Versnel² and Christian Lood¹, ¹University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ³Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Extracellular mitochondria may represent a source of antigenic burden in autoimmune disorders, such as in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), in which those organelles, released…
Abstract Number: 1496 • ACR Convergence 2024
Dysregulated Serum Cytokines in Association with Clinical Manifestations in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Loqmane seridi¹, Steven Leonardo², Brittney Scott³, Robert Gordon¹, cathye shu¹, Kaiyin Fei¹, Kim Lo³, Anne Stevens¹ and Sheng Gao³, ¹Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Spring House, PA, ²Janssen Research & Development, LLC, a Johnson & Johnson Company, Cambridge, MA, ³Janssen Research & Development, LLC, a Johnson & Johnson company, Spring House, PA
Background/Purpose: SLE is a heterogeneous autoimmune disease affecting multiple organ systems, making clinical trial design challenging. Biomarkers that can identify patients with specific clinical manifestations…
Abstract Number: 1777 • ACR Convergence 2024
Broad Proteomic Analysis Reveals Top Differential Protein Modules and Functional Annotations with Clinical Traits in Juvenile Dermatomyositis (JDM) and Myositis-Specific Autoantibody (MSA) Groups
Amy Kaneshiro¹, Adeline Chin¹, Lisa Rider², Frederick Miller³, Foo Cheung⁴, Megan Darrell¹, Angelique Biancotto⁴, Ujana Zajmi¹ and Hanna Kim⁵, ¹NIH/NIAMS, Bethesda, MD, ²NIEHS, NIH, Garrett Park, MD, ³NIH, NIEHS, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁴NIH/NIAID, Bethesda, MD, ⁵National Institute of Arthritis Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: JDM is a heterogenous systemic autoimmune disease with muscle and skin pathology, which can be clinically subgrouped by MSAs (ex: anti-TIF1, anti-MDA5 autoantibodies (Ab)).…
Abstract Number: 2063 • ACR Convergence 2024
Serum Glutamate Dehydrogenase in Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy Patients
Nantakarn Pongtarakulpanit¹, Tanya Chandra¹, shiri keret², Vladimir Liarski¹, Dana Ascherman³, Siamak Mogahadam¹, Chester Oddis¹ and Rohit Aggarwal⁴, ¹Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Rheumatology unit, Bnai-Zion medical center and the faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel., Atlit, Israel, ³Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁴Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: Diagnosing hepatocellular injury in idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM) patients with active myositis is challenging due to the lack of liver specificity of the transaminase…
Abstract Number: 2314 • ACR Convergence 2024
Serum Calprotectin (S100A8/9) and Complement Factor C3 as Potential Inflammatory Markers in Obese and “CRP Negative” Early PsA Patients: Data from a Multicenter METAPSA Cohort
Alla Ishchenko¹, Margot Van Mechelen², Sofia Pazmino³, Lies Storms⁴, Patrick Verschueren⁵, Rik Lories⁶ and Kurt de Vlam⁷, ¹UZ Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium, ²Antwerp University Hospital, Belgium, Antwerp, Belgium, ³KU Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium, Leuven, Belgium, ⁴KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Leuven and KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ⁶Laboratory of Tissue Homeostasis and Disease, Skeletal Biology and Engineering Research Center, Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Leuven, Belgium, ⁷Department of Rheumatology, UZ Leuven, and Department of Development and Regeneration, Skeletal Biology and Engineering Research Center, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Background/Purpose: Systemic inflammation is an integral part of psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Despite substantial inflammation in the affected tissues such as skin, entheses and joints, C-reactive…
Abstract Number: 2498 • ACR Convergence 2024
The Methylome Profile of B-cells as a Biomarker of Nephritis in IgA Vasculitis
Veronica Pulito-Cueto¹, Joao Carlos Batista-Liz¹, Laura Carmen Terron², Iván Fernández Rengel³, María Sebastián Mora-Gil⁴, María Teresa Leonardo⁵, Ana Peñalba⁵, Luis Martín-Penagos⁶, Lara Belmar-Vega⁷, Cristina Gomez-Fernandez⁸, Ligia Gabrie-Rodriguez⁹, Rafael Gálvez Sánchez⁹, Luis Caminal-Montero¹⁰, Ana Turrion Nieves¹¹, Patricia Quiroga Colina¹², Esther Vicente-rabaneda¹³, Belén Sevilla-Pérez¹⁴, José Luis Callejas¹⁵, Eduardo Andrés-León², Javier Martin¹⁶, Ana María Marquez¹⁷, Santos Castañeda¹³, Ricardo Blanco-Alonso¹⁸ and Raquel Lopez-mejias¹, ¹IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ²Unidad de Bioinformática, Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina ‘López-Neyra’, CSIC, Granada, Spain, ³Bioinformatics Unit, Institute of Parasitology and Biomedicine López-Neyra (IPBLN), CSIC, GENYO, Cen, Granada, Spain, ⁴Immunopathology Group, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ⁵Division of Pediatrics, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ⁶Immunopathology Group, IDIVAL. Division of Nephrology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ⁷Immunopathology Group, IDIVAL. Division of Nephrology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, ⁸Division of Dermatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ⁹Immunopathology Group, IDIVAL. Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ¹⁰Internal Medicine Department, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Principado de Asturias (ISPA), Oviedo, Spain, ¹¹Rheumatology Department, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Vega, Salamanca, Spain, ¹²Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ¹³Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁴Division of Pediatrics, Hospital Universitario San Cecilio, Granada, Spain, ¹⁵Systemic Autoimmune Diseases Unit, Hospital Clinico San Cecilio, Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria de Granada ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain, ¹⁶Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina ‘López-Neyra’, CSIC, PTS Granada, Spain, Granada, Spain, ¹⁷Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina ‘López-Neyra’, CSIC, PTS Granada, Granada, Spain, ¹⁸Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. IDIVAL, Immunopathology group, Santander, Spain
Background/Purpose: Nephritis is the main cause of long-term morbidity and mortality in patients with Immunoglobulin-A vasculitis (IgAV) [1, 2]. Unfortunately, sensitive, specific, and non-invasive biomarkers…
Abstract Number: 2677 • ACR Convergence 2024
N-Acetylcysteine Blocks the Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin in Pro-Inflammatory Effector-Memory CD4 and CD8 T Cells Re-Expressing CD45RA in Patients with Active Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Joy Park¹, Lanlan Ji¹, Jorge Cabezas¹, Xiaojing Wang², Bryan Blaker¹, Dilip Rao¹, Aparna Godavarthy¹, Lucero Blaker¹, FNU Ruchi¹, Ioana Coman¹, Nancy Olsen³, Joshua Lewis², Mariko Ishimori⁴, Kyriakos Kirou⁵, Christina Donath¹, Sara Kahlown⁶, Damira Sereda¹, Marlene Marte Furment¹, Sandy Nasr⁷, Sravani Lokineni¹, rosalind Ramsey-Goldman⁸, Michael Weisman⁹, Arthur Weinstein¹⁰, Cynthia Aranow¹¹, Banki Katalin¹², Michael McDermott¹³, Daniel Wallace¹⁴ and Andras Perl¹, ¹SUNY, Syracuse, NY, ²SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, ³Penn State University/Milton S Hershey, Hershey, PA, ⁴Cedars-Sinai Health System, Los Angeles, CA, ⁵Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁶SUNY Upstate University Hospital, Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Fellowship Program, Syracuse, NY, ⁷SUNY Upstate University Hospital, syracuse, NY, ⁸Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁹Stanford University, Los Angeles, CA, ¹⁰Georgetown University, Pasadena, CA, ¹¹Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, New York, NY, ¹²SUNY Upstate University Hospital, Department of Pathology, Syracuse, NY, ¹³University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, ¹⁴Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease of unknown etiology with significant mortality attributed to infections due to toxicity of immunosuppressant medications. Our…
Abstract Number: 0289 • ACR Convergence 2023
Markers of Endothelial Damage Are Elevated in Patients with Dermatomyositis Associated Interstitial Lung Disease and Associated with Low Paraoxonase-1 Activity
Sangmee Bae¹, Ani Shahbazian¹, Jennifer Wang², Tiffany De Leon¹, Yuna Lee¹, srinivasa Reddy³ and Christina Charles-Schoeman⁴, ¹UCLA Rheumatology, Los Angeles, CA, ²University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ³UCLA Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, CA
Background/Purpose: Damage to the vascular endothelium is implicated in the pathogenesis of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) and its associated interstitial lung disease (ILD), with microvascular…
Abstract Number: 0572 • ACR Convergence 2023
Serum/ Urine Levels and Expression of CD163 in Lupus Nephritis
Erdem Gurel¹, Suzan Cinar², Ozge Hurdogan³, Yasemin Ozluk³, Isin Kilicaslan⁴, Sibel Varelci¹, Safak Mirioglu⁵, Yasemin Yalcinkaya⁶, Ahmet Gul⁶, Lale Ocal¹, Murat Inanc⁶ and Bahar Artim-Esen⁶, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul University Istanbul School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Department of Immunology, Aziz Sancar Institute of Experimental Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, ³Department of Pathology, Istanbul University Istanbul School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁴Department of Pathology, Istanbul University Istanbul School of Medicine, Istanbıl, Turkey, ⁵Division of Nephrology, Bezmialem Vakif University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
Background/Purpose: CD163 is a glycosylated membrane protein expressed in monocytes and macrophages that phagocytize the hemoglobin/haptoglobin complex. As a result of proinflammatory stimuli, CD163 is…
Abstract Number: 0771 • ACR Convergence 2023
A Modified Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis-Derived Composite Biomarker Score Is Associated with Interstitial Lung Disease Among U.S. Veterans with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Brent Luedders¹, Dana Ascherman², Daniel Kass³, Joshua Baker⁴, Michael Duryee¹, Yangyuna Yang¹, Punyasha Roul¹, K Wysham⁵, Paul Monach⁶, Andreas Reimold⁷, Gail Kerr⁸, Gary Kunkel⁹, Grant Cannon¹⁰, Jill Poole¹, Geoffrey Thiele¹, Ted R Mikuls¹¹ and Bryant England¹, ¹University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ²University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ³University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁴University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵VA Puget Sound/University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ⁶VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, ⁷University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ⁸Washington DC VAMC/Georgetown and Howard Universities, Washington, DC, ⁹University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ¹⁰University of Utah and Salt Lake City VA, Salt Lake City, UT, ¹¹Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Background/Purpose: Based on the overlap in peripheral blood biomarkers associated with rheumatoid arthritis interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD) and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a composite biomarker…
Abstract Number: 0938 • ACR Convergence 2023
Deconvolution of the Molecular Signature of Very Early Diagnosis of Systemic Sclerosis (VEDOSS) and Established Disease: A Biomarker Blueprint of Scleroderma Disease Continuum
Sunhwa Kim¹, Thierry Sornasse², Vishal Kakkar³, Rebecca Ross⁴, Yingtao Bi⁵, Hengcheng Hu², Lisa Hazelwood², Lauren Reinke-Breen⁶, jozsef karman⁷, Chris Butler², Jennifer Van Camp² and Francesco Del Galdo⁸, ¹AbbVie, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, ²AbbVie, Inc., North Chicago, IL, ³University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ⁴Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ⁵AbbVie, Inc., Worcester, MA, ⁶AbbVie, Inc., Vernon Hills, IL, ⁷AbbVie, Inc., San Francisco, CA, ⁸University of Leeds - Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Muskuloskeletal Medicine, Leeds, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune disease that affects multiple organs asynchronously, leading to highly variable fibrotic damage and consequent increased morbidity and mortality.…
Abstract Number: 1282 • ACR Convergence 2023
Proteomic Signature in Peripheral Blood and Sputum in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients with and Without Lung Involvement
Meliha Kapetanovic¹, Olivia Olsson², Jon Einarsson¹, Morteza Najibi³ and Ellen Tufvesson⁴, ¹Lund University and Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, ²Lund University, Faculty of Medicine, Lund, Sweden, ³Lund University, Institution for clinical sciences, section for rheumatology Lund, Lund, Sweden, ⁴Lund University, Institution for clinical scienses, section for lung medicine and allergy, Lund, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) related lung manifestations have a significantly impact the morbidity and mortality. Male gender and RF/ACPA positivity are known risk factors but…

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