Abstracts tagged "Cohort Study"

Abstract Number: 0469 • ACR Convergence 2022
Factors Associated with Corticosteroid Dosing in the Management of Giant Cell Arteritis
Loukas Kakoullis and Shiv Sehra, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA
Background/Purpose: Corticosteroids are the cornerstone of therapy in patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA). Tapering regiments vary considerably in both dose and duration, while relapses…
Abstract Number: 1070 • ACR Convergence 2022
Discordance of Patient, Physician and Nurse Practitioner Assessment of Disease Burden in Systemic Sclerosis
Maylen Nordgård Carstens¹, Håvard Fretheim¹, Imon Barua¹, Henriette Didriksen², Torhild Garen¹, Øyvind Midtvedt¹, Øyvind Molberg³ and Anna-Maria Hoffmann-Vold¹, ¹Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ²Oslo University Hospital, Moss, Norway, ³Department of Rheumatology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Oslo, Norway
Background/Purpose: Assessment of disease burden is crucial in the management of systemic sclerosis (SSc). The patient global assessment (PatGA) is a patient self-reported measure widely…
Abstract Number: 1449 • ACR Convergence 2022
Incidence and Risk Factors for Active Tuberculosis in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study
Lifan Zhang¹, xiaoqing zou², Lantian Xie³, Jianghao Liu³, zhengrong yang⁴, qifei cao⁴, Chunlei Li⁵, Xiaochuan Sun⁵, Fengchun ZHANG⁶, Yan Zhao⁷, Xiaofeng Zeng⁸ and Xiaoqing Liu¹, ¹Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal medicine, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Disease, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College; Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Peking Union Medical College, International Clinical Epidemiology Network; Center for Tuberculosis Research, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, ²Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal medicine, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Disease, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College; School of Population Medicine and Public Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, ³Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, ⁴Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal medicine, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Disease, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, ⁵Department of Internal medicine, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Disease, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, ⁶Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China, ⁷Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Key Laboratory of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China, ⁸Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases (NCRC-DID), Beijing, China
Background/Purpose: The burden of tuberculosis (TB) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in China are both the second largest in the world. Patients with SLE are…
Abstract Number: 1858 • ACR Convergence 2022
A Multi-center Clinical Cohort Study of Chinese Anti-synthetase Syndrome Patients
mingwei tang¹, Qian Wang¹, wei Wei², Pingting Yang³, Xinwang Duan⁴, Hongbin Li⁵, Chanyuan Wu⁶, JIULIANG ZHAO⁷, jia shi¹, Xiaomei Leng⁸, Xinping Tian¹, MENGTAO LI⁹, Yan Zhao¹ and Xiaofeng Zeng¹⁰, ¹Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China, ²Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China, ³The First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China, ⁴the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China, ⁵Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot City, China, ⁶Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China, ⁷Beijing Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China, ⁸Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Beijing, China, ⁹Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases, Ministry of Science & Technology, Key Laboratory of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Ministry of Science & Technology, Beijing, China, ¹⁰Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases (NCRC-DID), Beijing, China
Background/Purpose: Based on the Chinese Rheumatology Data Center Inflammatory Myopathy Registry (CRDC-MYO), this study aimed to describe the baseline characteristics of a subgroup of patients…
Abstract Number: 2088 • ACR Convergence 2022
Achieving Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Control or Low Lupus Disease Activity State Is Associated with Lower Rates of Organ Damage: Results from the Hopkins Lupus Cohort
Jacob N. Hunnicutt¹, Mary E. Georgiou², Anna Richards², Holly Quasny³, Laurence S Magder⁴, Daniel W. Goldman⁵ and Michelle Petri⁵, ¹GlaxoSmithKline, Value Evidence and Outcomes, Collegeville, PA, ²GlaxoSmithKline, Value Evidence and Outcomes, Brentford, United Kingdom, ³GlaxoSmithKline, Clinical Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC, ⁴University of Maryland, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Baltimore, MD, ⁵Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Baltimore, MD
Background/Purpose: The treatment target for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is remission or, if this cannot be reached, the lowest disease activity achievable with the least…
Abstract Number: 0080 • ACR Convergence 2022
Utilization of Biologic and Targeted Disease Modifying Antirheumatic Therapy in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Breast Cancer
Juan Ruiz¹, Chi-Fang Wu², Hui Zhao², Sharon Giordano², Suja Rajan³ and Maria Suarez-Almazor⁴, ¹The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, ²The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, ³University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX, ⁴MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Background/Purpose: Biologic and targeted synthetic disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARD and tsDMARD) are immunosuppressant, and there have been concerns that they might impact tumor immunity…
Abstract Number: 0514 • ACR Convergence 2022
Renal Response Outcomes of North American Youth with Proliferative Lupus Nephritis Treated with the EuroLupus versus NIH Cyclophosphamide Dosing Regimen
Christine Wang¹, Rebecca Sadun², Wenru Zhou³, Kristen Miller³, Claire Palmer³, Stacy P Ardoin⁴, Christine Bacha⁵, Emily Hause⁶, Joyce Hui-Yuen⁷, Nicole Ling⁸, Maria Pereira⁹, Meredith Riebschleger¹⁰, Kelly Rouster-Stevens¹¹, Aliese Sarkissian¹², Julia Shalen¹³, William Soulsby¹⁴, Marinka Twilt¹⁵, Eveline Wu¹⁶, Laura Lewandowski¹⁷, Scott Wenderfer¹⁸ and Jennifer Cooper¹⁹, ¹Children's Hospital of Colorado/University of Colorado, Denver, CO, ²Duke University, Durham, NC, ³University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Nationwide Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ⁵Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, ⁶University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁷Cohen Children’s Medical Center, Hofstra-Northwell School of Medicine, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Queens, NY, ⁸UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ⁹Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ¹⁰University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ¹¹Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine; Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, ¹²University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ¹³Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ¹⁴University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ¹⁵Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ¹⁶University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, ¹⁷NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ¹⁸British Columbia Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ¹⁹Children's Hospital of Colorado/University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
Background/Purpose: There have been no published studies comparing renal outcomes of youth with proliferative lupus nephritis (LN) treated with the lower-dose EuroLupus (EL) cyclophosphamide (CYC)…
Abstract Number: 1071 • ACR Convergence 2022
Trimethoprim Sulfamethoxazole Use in Patients with Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis Treated with Rituximab
Arielle Mendel¹, Hassan Behlouli², Cristiano Moura², Evelyne Vinet¹, Jeffrey Curtis³ and Sasha Bernatsky², ¹McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada, ²Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada, ³Division of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) prophylaxis is recommended during induction of ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) to prevent pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP), and may also reduce the risk…
Abstract Number: 1484 • ACR Convergence 2022
Management of the Heightened Risk for Clinical Events from Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (ASCVD) in an Established Cohort of Lupus Erythematosus Patients
Megan Zhao¹, Kevin Williams², Douglas Jacoby³, Rui Feng⁴ and Victoria Werth⁵, ¹Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, ²Temple University Hospital System, Philadelphia, ³University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, ⁴University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, ⁵Philadelphia VAMC, Philadelphia, PA, USA and Department of Dermatology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Background/Purpose: Lupus erythematosus (LE) patients are at heightened risk of clinical events, chiefly heart attacks and strokes, caused by ASCVD. To address this problem, we…
Abstract Number: 1875 • ACR Convergence 2022
Assessment of Antibody Levels to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Patients with Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies Receiving Treatment with Intravenous Immunoglobulin
Sangmee Bae¹, emmanuelle Faure-Kumar¹, Jennifer Wang², Ani Shahbazian², linh Truong², Howard Yang², Maureen McMahon¹, John FitzGerald¹ and Christina Charles-Schoeman³, ¹University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ²UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ³Division of Rheumatology, University of California, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, CA
Background/Purpose: Antibodies to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have been reported in pooled donor plasma and intravenous immunoglobulin products (IVIG) since May 2020 (C…
Abstract Number: 2138 • ACR Convergence 2022
Real-world Persistence and Treatment Patterns in Psoriatic Arthritis Patients Treated with Anti-IL17 Therapy
BEATRIZ E. JOVEN¹, Concepción Fito Manteca², Enrique Rubio³, Enrique Raya Álvarez⁴, Alba Pérez⁵, Raquel Hernández⁶, Sara Manrique Arija⁷, Mercedes Núñez⁸, Silvia Díaz⁸, Luis Trancho⁸, Sebastian Moyano⁸, Alessandra Lacetera⁹, Noelia Alfaro-Oliver⁹ and Rosario Garcia-Vicuña¹⁰, ¹Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain, ²Hospitalario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, ³Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla, Spain, ⁴Hospital Universitario San Cecilio, Granada, Spain, ⁵Hospital Puerta del Mar, Cádiz, Spain, ⁶Virgen de Valme University Hospital, Sevilla, Spain, ⁷Hospital Regional Universitario Málaga, Málaga, Spain, ⁸Lilly, Alcobendas, Spain, ⁹OXON Epidemiology, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁰Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, IIS-Princesa, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: Interleukin-17A inhibitors (anti-IL17) have provided an additional treatment option in the management of the psoriatic arthritis (PsA). This study aims to describe the patient…
Abstract Number: 0092 • ACR Convergence 2022
Characterizing Levels of Specialist Care Received by Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Clinical Characteristics, Emergency Care, Hospitalization, and Costs Among Commercially-insured Adults in the United States
Sandra Sze-jung Wu¹, Allison Perry², Helen Varker³, Christine Dube¹ and Gary Bryant⁴, ¹AstraZeneca, Wilmington, DE, ²IBM Watson Health, Cambridge, MA, ³Merative, Cambridge, MA, ⁴AstraZeneca, New Castle, DE
Background/Purpose: Heterogeneous SLE manifestations can delay referral and diagnosis by a rheumatologist (rheum) in as many as 75% of patients (pts) with SLE.1 After diagnosis,…
Abstract Number: 0675 • ACR Convergence 2022
Clinical Characteristics and Factors Associated with Relapse and Mortality in Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage Among Patients with Antiphospholipid Syndrome: A Multi-Center Retrospective Cohort
Jose A Meade-Aguilar¹, Gabriel Figueroa Parra¹, Hannah Langenfeld², Rodrigo Cartin-Ceba¹, Ulrich Specks¹, Cynthia Crowson³ and Ali Duarte-Garcia¹, ¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³Mayo Clinic, Eyota, MN
Background/Purpose: Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is associated with diffuse alveolar hemorrhage (DAH). However, only case reports and small case series are available in the literature. We…
Abstract Number: 1111 • ACR Convergence 2022
Sarcoidosis Rates in BCG-Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Young Adults: A Danish Register-Based Study
Matthew Baker¹, Emese Vágó², Suzanne Tamang³, Erzsébet Horváth-Puhó² and Henrik Sørensen², ¹Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ²Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, ³Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences, Redwood City, CA
Background/Purpose: The inciting factor or antigen exposure that initiates sarcoidosis remains unknown. However, an infectious trigger such as Mycobacterium spp. or Propionibacterium acnes infection may…
Abstract Number: 1486 • ACR Convergence 2022
Derivation and Internal Validation of a Disease-specific Cardiovascular Risk Prediction Model for Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis and Psoriasis
Keith Colaco¹, Ker-Ai Lee², Vinod Chandran³, Paula Harvey⁴, Richard Cook², Vincent Piguet⁴, Dafna Gladman⁵ and Lihi Eder⁶, ¹University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, ³Departments of Medicine and Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto/ Schroeder Arthritis Institute, Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Women's College Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Toronto Western Hospital, Schroeder Arthritis Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶Women’s College Research Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Cardiovascular risk in patients with psoriatic disease (PsD) may be underestimated by conventional scoring systems. We derived and internally validated a 5-year disease-specific cardiovascular…

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