Abstracts tagged "Clinical research"

Abstract Number: 311 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Comparative Effectiveness of Ayurveda and Conventional Care in Knee Osteoarthritis – a Randomized Controlled Trial
Christian Kessler^1,2, Kartar Dhiman³, Abhimanyu Kumar⁴, Thomas Ostermann⁵, Shivenarain Gupta^6,7, Antonio Morandi⁸, Martin Mittwede^7,9, Elmar Stapelfeldt², Michaela Spoo², Katja Icke¹, Andreas Michalsen^1,2 and Claudia Witt^1,10, ¹Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité University Medical Center, Berlin, Germany, ²Department for Complementary Medicine, Immanuel Hospital Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ³Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS), New Delhi, India, New Delhi, India, ⁴All India Institute of Ayurveda, New Delhi, India, ⁵Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Witten Herdeckey, Witten, Germany, ⁶Department of Kaya Cikitsa, J.S. Ayurveda College & P.D. Patel Ayurveda Hospital, Nadiad, India, ⁷European Academy of Ayurveda, Birstein, Germany, ⁸Ayurvedic Point, School of Ayurvedic Medicine, Milan, Italy, ⁹Department of Theology and Religious Sciences, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, ¹⁰Institute of Complementary and Integrative Medicine, University Hospital and University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: Ayurveda is used to treat knee osteoarthritis (OA) despite limited evidence. We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of complex multimodality Ayurvedic treatment in comparison…
Abstract Number: 717 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
NSAID Use and Functional Impairment in Ankylosing Spondylitis
Mark Hwang¹, Seth Eisen¹, MinJae Lee², Michael Ward³, Lianne S. Gensler⁴, Prabha Ranganathan⁵, Johnathan Jia⁶, Amirali Tahanan², Matthew A. Brown⁷, Mohammad H. Rahbar², Michael Weisman⁸ and John D. Reveille⁹, ¹Internal Medicine-Rheumatology, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, ²Biostatistics/Epidemiology/Research Design (BERD) Core | Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences, University of Texas-McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, ³NIH/NIAMS, Bethesda, MD, ⁴Medicine/Rheumatology, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ⁵Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, ⁶University of Texas-McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, ⁷The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Brisbane, Australia, ⁸Rheumatology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁹Rheumatology, University of Texas-McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX
Background/Purpose: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory disease with significant burden to patients and society. NSAIDs are the first line pharmacologic therapy in…
Abstract Number: 848 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Efficacy of Prucalopride in the Treatment of Systemic Sclerosis-Related Intestinal Involvement: Results from an Open Label Cross-over Study
Barbara Vigone¹, Monica Caronni¹, Adriana Severino¹, Chiara Bellocchi², Anna Rita Baldassarri³, Gaia Montanelli⁴, Alessandro Santaniello¹ and Lorenzo Beretta¹, ¹Scleroderma Unit, Referral Center for Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano, Milan, Italy, ²Scleroderma Unit, Referral Center for Systemic Autoimmune Diseases,, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano, Milan, Italy, ³Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano, Milan, Italy, ⁴Scleroderma Unit, Referral Center for Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Background/Purpose: The gastrointestinal tract (GIT) is frequently affected in SSc patients as a consequence of a reduction in enteric propulsive forces. Due to intestinal involvement,…
Abstract Number: 867 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Termination of Tocilizumab-Treatment in Giant Cell Arteritis: Follow-up of Patients after the RCT (ClinicalTrials.gov registration number: NCT01450137)
Sabine Adler¹, Stephan Reichenbach², Stefan Kuchen³, Felix Wermelinger⁴, Diana Dan⁴, Michael Seitz⁴ and Peter M. Villiger⁴, ¹Rheumatology, Immunology, Allergology, University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland, ²Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, ³Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergology, University of Bern, Bern, MD, Switzerland, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergology, University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Abstract Number: 948 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Subcutaneous Abatacept in Patients with Polyarticular-Course Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis and Inadequate Response to Biologic or Non-Biologic Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs: Pharmacokinetics, Efficacy and Safety
DJ Lovell¹, N Ruperto², N Tzaribachev³, G Vega-Cornejo⁴, I Louw⁵, A Berman^6,7, I Calvo⁸, R Cuttica⁹, G Horneff¹⁰, F Avila-Zapata¹¹, J Anton¹², R Cimaz¹³, E Solau-Gervais¹⁴, R Joos¹⁵, G Espada¹⁶, X Li¹⁷, M Nys¹⁸, R Wong¹⁷, S Banerjee¹⁷, Hermine I. Brunner¹⁹, A Martini²⁰ and For Pediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organization (PRINTO)/Pediatric Rheumatology Collaborative Study Group (PRCSG), ¹Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ²Istituto G. Gaslini Pediatria II Reumatologia, Genoa, Italy, ³Pediatric Rheumatology, Bad Bramstedt, Germany, ⁴Clinica de Rheumatología y Enfermedades Autoinmunes (CREA), Hospital México Americano, Guadalajara Jalisco, Mexico, ⁵Panorama Medical Centre, Cape Town, South Africa, ⁶Universidad Nacional de Tucuman and Centro Médico Privado de Reumatología, Tucumán, Argentina, ⁷Universidad Nacional de Tucuman and Centro Médico Privado de Reumatología, Tucuman, Argentina, ⁸Hospital Univ. La Fe, Valencia, Spain, ⁹Hospital General de Niños Pedro de Elizalde, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¹⁰Centre Paediatric Rheumatology, Asklepios Clinic Sankt Augustin, Sankt Augustin, Germany, ¹¹Star Medica Hospital, Merida, Mexico, ¹²Unitat de Reumatologia Pediàtrica, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain, ¹³Pediatrics, Ospedale Pediatrico Anna Meyer, Florence, Italy, ¹⁴Hôpital de la Miletrie, Poitiers, France, ¹⁵University Hospital Gent, Gent, Belgium, ¹⁶Cramer 1853 4°C, Hospital de Ninos Dr Ricardo Gutierrez, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¹⁷Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, ¹⁸Bristol-Myers Squibb, Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium, ¹⁹Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ²⁰Istituto G. Gaslini Pediatria II Reumatologia and University of Genova, Genoa, Italy
Background/Purpose: IV abatacept (ABA) 10 mg/kg every 4 weeks was well tolerated and effective in reducing the signs and symptoms of polyarticular-course juvenile idiopathic arthritis…
Abstract Number: 1048 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Differences in Clinical Manifestations of SLE Across Four Racial/Ethnic Groups: The California Lupus Surveillance Project (CLSP)
Ernest Maningding¹, Jinoos Yazdany², Laura Trupin², Chris Tonner³, Charles G. Helmick⁴ and Maria Dall'Era⁵, ¹Internal Medicine, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, CA, ²Medicine/Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ³Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁴CDC, Atlanta, GA, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: The CLSP is a population-based registry of individuals with SLE residing in San Francisco County, California from 2007 – 2009. The registry has a…
Abstract Number: 1209 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Sporadic Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (sHLH): A Polygenic Disease? a Report of French National, Prospective, Cohort of 205 Patients
Coralie Bloch-Queyrat^1,2, Jean Philippe Jais³, Marine Gil⁴, Brigitte Bader-Meunier⁵, Olivier Hermine^6,7 and Genevieve de Saint-Basile⁴, ¹Clinical Research Unit, University Hospital Paris Seine Saint Denis, AP-HP, Bobigny, France, ²Laboratory of cellular and molecular mechanisms of hematological disorders and therapeutic implications INSERM U 1163 / CNRS ERL 8254 Institut IMAGINE, Paris, paris, France, ³Biostatstical Departement, Department of biostatistics Necker Enfants Malades Hospital, AP-HP, Paris, France, ⁴Normal and pathological homeostasis of the immune system laboratory Institut IMAGINE Paris, Paris, France, ⁵Pediatric Rheumatology & Immunology, Pediatric Rheumatology & Immunology, Necker hospital, Imagine Institution, Paris, France, ⁶Department of Hematology, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France, ⁷Laboratory of cellular and molecular mechanisms of hematological disorders and therapeutic implications INSERM U 1163 / CNRS ERL 8254 Labex on Red cell and iron metabolism Institut IMAGINE, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: The role of genetic factors in the occurrence and/or severity of sHLH is not yet known. Therefore, from 2010 to 2016, we performed a…
Abstract Number: 1316 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Clinical Features and Outcomes of Prosthetic Joint Septic Arthritis: The Gender Effect
Mary Louise Fowler¹, Sarah B. Lieber², Andy Moore³, Robert Shmerling⁴ and Ziv Paz², ¹Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ²Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, ³Division of Rheumatology, Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁴Rheumatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: In developed countries, certain health outcomes are worse among men. For example, in the US, life expectancy for men is 5 years shorter than…
Abstract Number: 1321 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Distinguishing Features of Polymicrobial Septic Arthritis
Sarah B. Lieber¹, Andy Moore², Robert Shmerling³, Mary Louise Fowler⁴ and Ziv Paz¹, ¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, ²Division of Rheumatology, Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³Rheumatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, ⁴Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Little is known about patients with polymicrobial septic arthritis (SA) and how they may differ from those with SA due to a single organism.…
Abstract Number: 1362 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Associations Between 25-Hydroxyvitamin D, Parathyroid Hormone, and Cathelicidin Concentrations with Inflammation and Cardiovascular Risk in Subjects with Pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Varsha Gupta¹, Vin Tangpricha², Eric Yow³, Grace McComsey⁴, Laura E. Schanberg⁵, Angela B. Robinson⁶ and APPLE Investigators Group, ¹Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, ²Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, ³Biostatistics, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, ⁴Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Rheumatology, and Geographic Medicine, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital / Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, ⁵Department of Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ⁶Pediatric Rheumatology, Rainbow Babies and Childrens Hospital, Cleveland, OH
Background/Purpose: Previous studies have shown associations between reduced serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) levels, inflammation, and disease activity in pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus (pSLE). The goal…
Abstract Number: 1369 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Features Distinguishing Clinically Hypo- and Amyopathic Juvenile Dermatomyositis (CAJDM) from Juvenile Dermatomyositis (JDM)
Gulnara Mamyrova¹, Takayuki Kishi², Nastaran Bayat², Ira N. Targoff³, Lan Wu², Olcay Y. Jones^1,4, Rodolfo Curiel¹, Frederick W. Miller² and Lisa G. Rider^1,2, ¹Rheumatology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, ²Environmental Autoimmunity Group, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ³University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁴Pediatrics, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Clinically Amyopathic Juvenile Dermatomyositis (CAJDM) is a distinct clinical phenotype of JDM in which patients (pts) often have characteristic JDM rashes with little…
Abstract Number: 2520 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Multi-Biomarker Disease Activity (MBDA) Score and Prediction of Radiographic Progression in a Randomized Study of Patients with Early RA Treated with Methotrexate Alone or with Adalimumab
Cecilie Heegaard Brahe¹, Mikkel Østergaard², Julia Sidenius Johansen³, Nadine A. Defranoux⁴, Ching Chang Hwang⁵, Xingbin Wang⁴, Rebecca J. Bolce⁴, Eric H. Sasso⁴, Kim Hørslev-Petersen⁶, Kristian Stengaard-Pedersen⁷, Lykke Midtbøll Ørnbjerg⁸, Peter Junker⁹, Torkell Ellingsen¹⁰, Palle Ahlquist¹¹, Hanne Lindegaard¹², Asta Linauskas¹³, Annette Schlemmer¹⁴, Mette Yde Dam¹⁵, Ib Tønder Hansen¹⁶, Tine Lottenburger¹¹, Christian G. Ammitzbøll¹⁷, Anette Jørgensen¹⁷, Sophine B. Krintel⁸, Johnny Lillelund Raun¹⁸ and Merete Lund Hetland^3,19, ¹Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Denmark, Glostrup, Denmark, ²Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, ³Danish Rheumatologic Biobank and DANBIO registry, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Gentofte and Herlev University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁴Crescendo Bioscience Inc., South San Francisco, CA, ⁵Biostatistics, Crescendo Bioscience Inc., South San Francisco, CA, ⁶King Christian X Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Graasten, Denmark, ⁷Rigshospitalet (Glostrup and Blegdamsvej), Århus University Hospital, Odense University Hospital, Herlev/Gentofte Hospital, Slagelse Sygehus, Chr X hospital (University of South Denmark) and Zitelab Aps, DANBIO Registry and Departments of Rheumatology, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁸Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁹Department of Rheumatology C, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark, ¹⁰Department of Rheumatology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, DK, Odense, Denmark, ¹¹Department of Medicine, Vejle Regional Hospital, Vejle, Denmark, ¹²The DANBIO registry and the Danish Departments of Rheumatology, Odense, Denmark, ¹³The DANBIO registry and the Danish Departments of Rheumatology, Copenhagen, Denmark, ¹⁴9Department of Rheumatology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark, ¹⁵Diagnostic Centre, Silkeborg Regional Hospital, Silkeborg, Denmark, ¹⁶Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, ¹⁷Department of Rheumatology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, ¹⁸King Christian X Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, South Jutland Hospital, Graasten, Denmark, ¹⁹Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Denmark,, Copenhagen, Denmark
Background/Purpose: The multi-biomarker disease activity (MBDA) score, which combines 12 serum biomarkers to measure RA disease activity on a scale of 1−100, has been found…
Abstract Number: 2440 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Using Patient-Relevant Variables to Describe the Disease Course in Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Jaime Guzman¹, Andrew Henrey², Thomas Loughin², Roberta Berard³, Natalie Shiff⁴, Roman Jurencak⁵, Susanne Benseler⁶, Lori B. Tucker⁷ and ReACCh-Out Investigators, ¹Rheumatology, Division of Rheumatology, BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ²Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, ³Children's Hospital of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ⁴Pediatric Rheumatology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, ⁵University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ⁶Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute/University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁷Rheumatology, BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Background/Purpose: To define distinct disease course groups among children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) based on observed changes in quality of life, pain, medication requirements,…
Abstract Number: 2754 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics (PK) and Pharmacodynamics of BI 655064, an Antagonistic Anti-CD40 Antibody Following Single-Dose Administration in Chinese and Japanese Healthy Volunteers
Jiyoon Kim¹, Yasuhiro Tsuda², Kazuhiko Yamamoto³, Ralf Thiedmann⁴, Corinna Schoelch⁴, Stephen Norris⁵, Steven Padula⁶, Juergen Steffgen⁴ and In-Jin Jang⁷, ¹Boehringer Ingelheim Korea Ltd., Seoul, South Korea, ²Clinical PK/PD department, Nippon Boehringer-Ingelheim.Co.,Ltd., Kobe, Japan, ³Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, ⁴Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach, Germany, ⁵Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Ridgefield, CT, ⁶Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Ingelheim, Germany, ⁷Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
Background/Purpose: The CD40-CD40L pathway may play a major role in autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis or SLE. Blocking this pathway may be a promising new…
Abstract Number: 3145 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Efficacy and Safety of Modified-Release Prednisone in Patients with Polymyalgia Rheumatica: Results of a Multicenter, Randomized, Active-Controlled Phase 3 Study
Maurizio Cutolo¹, Michael Hopp², Stefan Liebscher², Bhaskar Dasgupta³ and Frank Buttgereit⁴, ¹Research Laboratory and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, Genova, Italy, ²Medical Science, Mundipharma Research GmbH & Co. KG, Limburg, Germany, ³Rheumatology, Southend University Hospital, Essex, United Kingdom, ⁴Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose: Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is characterized by persisting proximal pain and morning stiffness of the neck, shoulder and hip girdles of 2 weeks' duration, an…

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