Abstracts tagged "COVID-19"

Abstract Number: 0794 • ACR Convergence 2022
Impact of Vaccination on Post-acute Sequelae of SARS CoV-2 Infection in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases
Naomi Patel¹, Yumeko Kawano², Xiaosong Wang², Xiaoqing Fu³, Claire Cook³, Kathleen Vanni², Grace Qian², Emily Banasiak², Emily Kowalski², yuqing zhang⁴, Jeffrey Sparks⁵ and Zachary Wallace³, ¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Sale Creek, TN, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Massachusetts General Hospital, Quincy, MA, ⁵Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) refers to persistent symptoms after the resolution of acute infection and is estimated to affect over 20% of COVID-19…
Abstract Number: 0991 • ACR Convergence 2022
Prior Use of Autoimmune Disease Treatments Among Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, or Myositis Hospitalized with COVID-19
Cassandra Calabrese¹, Gelareh Atefi², Kristin Evans³, Meghan Moynihan³, Liisa Palmer³ and Sandra Sze-jung Wu⁴, ¹Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland Heights, OH, ²AstraZeneca, Wilmington, DE, ³Merative, Cambridge, MA, ⁴AstraZeneca, Hockessin, DE
Background/Purpose: To compare use of autoimmune disease treatments between patients with and without severe COVID-19 (COVID) in cohorts of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE),…
Abstract Number: 1339 • ACR Convergence 2022
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Data from the Ontario Best Practices Research Initiative (OBRI)
Matthew Wong-Pack¹, Elliot Hepworth², Mohammad Movahedi³, Bindee Kuriya¹, Janet Pope⁴, Edward Keystone⁵, Carter Thorne⁶, VANDANA AHLUWALIA⁷, Angela Cesta⁸, Carol Mously⁸, Claire Bombardier¹, Arthur Lau⁹ and Sibel Aydin¹⁰, ¹University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ³Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ⁵Keystone Consulting Enterprises Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ⁷William Osler Health System, Brampton, ON, Canada, ⁸University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁹McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ¹⁰University of Ottawa, Rheumatology, Ottawa, Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: The COVID-19 Pandemic created challenges for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), including accessing the health care system, transition to unplanned virtual care, reduction in…
Abstract Number: 1776 • ACR Convergence 2022
COVID-19 Cases in Patients Treated with Secukinumab: Analysis from the Global Safety Database
Atul Deodhar¹, Andrew Blauvelt², Philip J Mease³, Effie Pournara⁴, Piotr Jagiello⁴, Weibin Bao⁵ and Abhishek Sharma⁶, ¹Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA, Portland, OR, ²Oregon Medical Research Center, Portland, OR, USA, Portland, OR, ³Swedish Medical Center/Providence St. Joseph Health, Seattle, WA, ⁴Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland, ⁵Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, NJ, ⁶Novartis Healthcare Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad, India
Background/Purpose: Although patients (pts) with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases who are taking immunosuppressive therapies are not at a significantly greater risk of SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory…
Abstract Number: 1949 • ACR Convergence 2022
Effectiveness of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Among Adolescents with Juvenile-onset Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases
amit ziv¹, Merav Heshin-Bekenstein², Ruby Haviv³, Shaye Kivity⁴, doron netzer⁵, shlomit yaron⁵, yoav schur⁵, tsipi egert⁶, yona egert⁶, yaron sela⁷, Philip Hashkes⁸ and Yosef Uziel⁹, ¹Meir Hospital, Kfar Saba, Israel, ²Dana Dwek Children's Hospital, Tel Aviv Medical Center Israel, Binyamina, Israel, ³Meir Medical Center, Ra'Anana, Israel, ⁴Meir Medical Center, Kefar Saba, Israel, ⁵Community Medical Services Division, Clalit Health Services, Tel Aviv, Israel, ⁶Inbar, NPO, Ramat Gan, Israel, ⁷The Research Center for Internet Psychology, School of Communications, Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel, ⁸Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel, ⁹Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba; Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Kfar Saba, Israel
Background/Purpose: Effectiveness of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents with juvenile-onset inflammatory rheumatic diseases (IRD) is unknown. Several studies suggested attenuated immunogenicity in patients…
Abstract Number: 2274 • ACR Convergence 2022
Factors Associated with Disease Flare Following SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination in People with Inflammatory Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases – Results from the Physician-Reported EULAR Coronavirus Vaccine (COVAX) Registry
Bayram Farisoğulları¹, Saskia Lawson-Tovey², Kimme Hyrich³, Laure Gossec⁴, Loreto Carmona⁵, Anja Strangfeld⁶, Elsa Mateus⁷, Martin Schaefer⁸, Ana Maria Rodrigues⁹, Eric Hachulla¹⁰, Jose A Gomez-Puerta¹¹, Marta Mosca¹², Patrick Durez¹³, Ludovic Trefond¹⁴, Tiphaine Goulenok¹⁵, Martina Cornalba¹⁶, Emoke Šteňová¹⁷, Inita Bulina¹⁸, Eva Strakova¹⁹, Julija Zepa²⁰, Nicolas Roux²¹, Olivier Brocq²², Viellard Eric²³, Bernd Raffeiner²⁴, Gerd Burmester²⁵, Xavier Mariette²⁶ and Pedro Machado²⁷, ¹Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine Division of Rheumatology, Ankara, Turkey, ²Centre for Genetics and Genomics Versus Arthritis, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK AND National Institute of Health Research Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, ³The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁴Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, ⁵Instituto de Salud Musculoesquelética (InMusc), Madrid, Spain, ⁶Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁷EULAR, Lisboa, Portugal, ⁸German Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin, Germany, ⁹Reuma.pt, Sociedade Portuguesa de Reumatologia, Lisbon, Portugal, ¹⁰University of Lille, LILLE, France, ¹¹Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ¹²Rheumatology Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ¹³Rheumatology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc – Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) – Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique (IREC), Brussels, Belgium, ¹⁴Université Clermont Auvergne, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Service de Médecine Interne, Hôpital Gabriel Montpied, INSERM U1071, Clermont-Ferrand, France, ¹⁵APHP, Paris, France, ¹⁶Dipartimento di Reumatologia e Scienze Mediche, ASST Gaetano Pini-CTO, Milano, Italy, ¹⁷University Hospital, Bratislava, Slovakia, ¹⁸Center of Rheumatology, Paul Stradins Clinical University hospital, Riga, Latvia, Riga, Latvia, ¹⁹Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty Hospital Prešov, Presov, Slovakia, ²⁰Riga Stradins University, Latvia, Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital, Centre of Rheumatology, Riga, Latvia, Riga, Latvia, ²¹Service de Rhumatologie, Hôpital Robert Schuman, Metz, France, ²²Rheumatology- CH Princesse Grace, Monaco, Monaco, ²³Private practice, St. Malo, France, ²⁴Department of Rheumatology, Central Hospital of Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy, ²⁵Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ²⁶Paris-Saclay University, Rueil Malmaison, Ile-de-France, France, ²⁷University College London, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: To investigate the frequency and factors associated with disease flare following vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 in people with inflammatory/autoimmune rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (I-RMD).Methods: The…
Abstract Number: 0081 • ACR Convergence 2022
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Rheumatology Services in a Universal Healthcare Setting in Canada: A Population-based Study
Timothy Kwok¹, Bindee Kuriya¹, Lauren King¹, Lihi Eder², Carter Thorne³, Zhiyin Li⁴, therese stukel⁴, longdi fu⁴, alexander Kopp⁴ and Jessica Widdifield⁵, ¹University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Women’s College Research Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ⁴ICES, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: We sought to describe changes in service delivery and access to rheumatologists in terms of changes in weekly total office visit volumes, telemedicine visits,…
Abstract Number: 0270 • ACR Convergence 2022
Lower mRNA-anti SARS-Cov2 Induced IgG Antibody Responses to S1, S2 and RBD May Result from a Delayed IgA and IgM Class Switch in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Kristin Schmiedeberg¹, Irene Abela², Nicolas Vuilleumier³, Johannes von Kempis⁴ and Andrea Rubbert-Roth⁵, ¹Cantonal Hospital St Gallen, St.Gallen, Switzerland, ²Institute of Medical Virology, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, ³Laboratory Medicine Division, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Cantonal Hospital St.Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Cantonal Clinic St Gallen, St.Gallen, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: Anti-SARS-CoV2 mRNA vaccination may result in blunted humoral immune responses with lower peak titers and a different kinetic in patients with rheumatic diseases receiving…
Abstract Number: 0710 • ACR Convergence 2022
Risk Factors Associated with COVID-19 Breakthrough Infection Among Patients with Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases: A Cohort Study
Naomi Patel¹, Xiaosong Wang², Xiaoqing Fu³, Yumeko Kawano², Claire Cook³, Kathleen Vanni², Grace Qian², Emily Banasiak², Emily Kowalski², yuqing zhang⁴, Jeffrey Sparks⁵ and Zachary Wallace³, ¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Sale Creek, TN, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Massachusetts General Hospital, Quincy, MA, ⁵Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Some patients with rheumatic disease on DMARDs may be at increased risk of poor response to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and thus breakthrough COVID-19 infections. We…
Abstract Number: 0779 • ACR Convergence 2022
Early Experience of Breakthrough COVID-19 Infections in Patients Who Received Pre-exposure Prophylaxis with Tixagevimab/cilgavimab
Cassandra Calabrese¹, Elizabeth Kirchner², alexandra villa forte², Rula Hajj-Ali³, Carol Langford⁴, james Fernandez², Alise Carlson², Brandon Moss², Vickie Sayles⁴, Andrea Pallotta², Alice kim² and Leonard Calabrese⁴, ¹Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland Heights, OH, ²Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, ³Cleveland Clinic, Hunting Valley, OH, ⁴Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Background/Purpose: Patients receiving B cell depleting therapies (BCDT) for immune mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) have high risk of poor COVID-19 outcomes and strategies for COVID-19…
Abstract Number: 0795 • ACR Convergence 2022
Post-Acute COVID-19 Sequalae (PACS) with New-onset Rheumatological Complications
Neel Thanavala¹, Kiho Son², Nardien Sedhom², Snehal Somalwar³, Zil Patel¹, Rameen Jamil², Carmen Venegas², Ashutosh Thakar², Agnes Yuen⁴, Melanie Kjarsgaard², Susan Waserman², Mylinh Duong², Parameswaran Nair², Christopher Carlsten⁴, Maggie Larche², Terence Ho², Sarah Svenningsen², KONSTANTINOS TSELIOS⁵ and Manali Mukherjee², ¹The Research Institute of St. Joe's Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ²McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ³The Research Institute of St Joe's Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ⁴University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁵McMaster University, Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Post-Acute Sequalae of COVID-19 (PASC), prevalent in ~20-30% of convalescent COVID-19 patients is characterized by new/persistent symptoms after the initial recovery. Certain autoantibodies have…
Abstract Number: 0993 • ACR Convergence 2022
SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Side Effects and Infections in SLE
Laura Yan¹, Arielle Mendel², Evelyne Vinet², Fares Kalache³, Jennifer Lee¹, Popi Panaritis² and Sasha Bernatsky¹, ¹Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada, ²McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada, ³McGill University Health Center, Montréal, QC, Canada
Background/Purpose: SLE patients are an especially vulnerable population in the face of the COVID pandemic due to their dysregulated endogenous immune system, further downregulated by…
Abstract Number: 1341 • ACR Convergence 2022
Clinical Outcomes of COVID-19 Vaccination and Booster in Patients with Autoimmune Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases
Silera Holguin Balbuena, Anna Radisic, Sarah Goodman, Shreya Gor, Beatrice Wood, Alexander Shahin, Kelara Samuel, Rahul Mhaskar and John Carter, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Background/Purpose: The spread of COVID-19 began in December 2019 and quickly escalated into a global pandemic resulting in millions of deaths. Many factors are associated…
Abstract Number: 1778 • ACR Convergence 2022
More Than Half of RA Patients with a Lifetime History of Mood Disorders or Anxious and Depressed During COVID-19 Pandemic
Susan Bartlett¹, orit schieir², Marie-France Valois², Diane Tin³, Glen Hazlewood⁴, Louis Bessette⁵, Gilles Boire⁶, Carol Hitchon⁷, Janet Pope⁸, Carter Thorne⁹ and Vivian Bykerk¹⁰, ¹McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada, ³The Arthritis Program Research Group, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ⁴University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁵Centre de l'Ostoporose et de Rhumatologie de Québec, Québec, QC, Canada, ⁶Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, ⁷University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ⁸University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ⁹Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ¹⁰Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Chronic stress and chronic disease are risk factors for anxiety and depression. In Canadians with RA, pandemic-related stress was exacerbated by delayed access to…
Abstract Number: 1961 • ACR Convergence 2022
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Induced Antibody Titers and IFN-g Responses Are Decreased in Persons with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Older Age
Holly Dudley¹, megan O'Mara², Ann Auma¹, Jenny Gong³, Yael Ross⁴, Natalie Gurevich², Larraine Gordesky⁵, Nora Singer⁶, Lenche Kostadinova⁷, Brigid Wilson⁷, David Zidar⁷, Christopher King¹, David Canaday¹, Carey Shive¹, Maya Mattar⁸ and Donald Anthony⁹, ¹Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, ²Cleveland Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, ³Case Western School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, ⁴Case Western Reserve University at MetroHealth Medical Center, Atlanta, GA, ⁵MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, ⁶The MetroHealth System at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, ⁷VA Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, ⁸Louis Stokes VA Medical Center, Mayfield Heights, OH, ⁹Case, VA, Metro, Chardon, OH
Background/Purpose: People with autoimmune diseases have worse outcomes if infected by SARS-CoV2. In particular, persons with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), have lower antibody responses to COVID-19…

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