Abstracts tagged "COVID-19"

Abstract Number: 1546 • ACR Convergence 2021
Immune Responses to COVID-19 Vaccines in Patients Using Immunosuppressive Medication for Inflammatory Arthritis – An Observational Study of 1500 Patients
Ingrid Jyssum¹, Anne Therese Tveter¹, Fridtjof Lund-Johansen², Ludvig Munthe², Sella Provan¹, Kristin Jørgensen³, Gunnveig Grødeland², Grete Kro², David Warren², Joseph Sexton¹, Tore Kvien¹, Siri Mjaaland⁴, Espen Haavardsholm¹, John Torgils Vaage², Silje Watterdal Syversen¹ and Guro Goll¹, ¹Diakonhjemmet Hospital, OSLO, Norway, ²Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ³Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway, ⁴Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
Background/Purpose: To assess the strength and duration of the immunological response to COVID-19 vaccines in patients treated with immunosuppressive medication for inflammatory arthritis.Methods: Adult patients…
Abstract Number: 1564 • ACR Convergence 2021
Nailfold Capillaroscopy Characterization in COVID-19: A Case Control Study
Paola Estefania Bermudez Bermejo¹, RODOLFO JIMENEZ-SOTO¹, Alain Sanchez-Rodríguez¹, Alonso Turrent¹, Daniela Mercado- Velasco¹, Ian Bravo-Lee¹, Mariana Berenice Colli-Cortés², Everardo Alvarez Hernandez³ and MaryCarmen Amigo¹, ¹CENTRO MEDICO ABC, Mexico City, Mexico, ²Hospital Regional "General Ignacio Zaragoza" ISSSTE, Mexico City, Mexico, ³HOSPITAL GENERAL DE MEXICO, Mexico City, Mexico
Background/Purpose: Nailfold capillaroscopy is a relatively easy-to-access, low-cost clinical tool that could help identify early coagulopathy in subjects with SARS-CoV-2, but specific findings vs. controls…
Abstract Number: 1605 • ACR Convergence 2021
Health Related Quality of Life in Rheumatology Outpatients with COVID-19 from New York City over the Course of the Pandemic
Lisa Mandl¹, Jonah Levine¹, Vivian Bykerk² and Medha Barbhaiya¹, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²Division of Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York City, NY
Background/Purpose: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental and physical well-being of patients with systemic rheumatic diseases (SRDs) remains to be quantified. We…
Abstract Number: 1643 • ACR Convergence 2021
Increased Incidence of Pediatric SLE and Other Interferon Activated Diseases During COVID-19 Pandemic
Xinyu Dou¹, David Kaelber² and Hulya Bukulmez¹, ¹MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH, ²The MetroHealth System Campus of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Background/Purpose: COVID-19, as a member of the Coronavirus family, has been described to trigger host immune response via type I interferon (IFN) signaling pathways with…
Abstract Number: 0093 • ACR Convergence 2021
The Association of General and Covid-19-Specific Stress with Changes in Patient-Reported Outcomes and Comorbidities
Patricia Katz¹, Kristin Wipfler², Sofia Pedro³ and Kaleb Michaud⁴, ¹University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²FORWARD, The National Databank for Rheumatic Diseases, Omaha, NE, ³Forward, The National Databank for Rheumatic Diseases, Wichita, KS, ⁴University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Background/Purpose: We previously showed that perceived stress during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with concomitant increases in symptoms of depression and anxiety. In lupus alone,…
Abstract Number: 0110 • ACR Convergence 2021
Mortality in 2020 Due to COVID-19 in U.S. Adults with Rheumatic Diseases: Data from a Large, National, Multi-Rheumatic Disease Registry
Kaleb Michaud¹, Sofia Pedro², Rebecca Schumacher³, Mukund Kumar¹, Bryant England¹ and Alison Freifeld¹, ¹University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ²Forward, The National Databank for Rheumatic Diseases, Wichita, KS, ³Forward Databank, Wichita
Background/Purpose: Recent studies have detailed the excess death due to COVID-19 during the pandemic, yet few have examined these rates within a rheumatic disease population…
Abstract Number: 0457 • ACR Convergence 2021
Immunosuppression Attenuates Antibody and Neutralization Titers in Patients with Chronic Inflammatory Disease Following SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination
Michael Paley¹, Parakkal Deepak², Wooseob Kim², Monica Yang³, Alex Carividi³, Emanuel Demissie³, Alia A. El-Qunni,², Alem Haile², Katherine Huang², Baylee Kinnett², Mariel Liebeskind², Zhouming Liu², Lily E. McMorrow², Diana Paez³, Niti Pawar³, Dana Perantie², Rebecca E. Schriefer², Shannon Sides², Mahima Thapa², Sewuese Akuse⁴, Samantha Burdess², Abbey Rose², Lynne Mitchell², Salim Chahin², Matthew Ciorba², Jonathan Graf⁵, Patricia Katz³, Mehrdad Matloubian³, Jane O'Halloran², Rachel Presti², Gregory Wu², Sean Whelan², William Buchser², Lianne Gensler⁶, Mary Nakamura⁷, Ali H Ellebedy² and Alfred Kim², ¹Washington University in St. Louis, Olivette, MO, ²Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, ³University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁴Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, ⁵Ucsf, San Francisco, CA, ⁶Department of Rheumatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁷UCSF/SFVAHCS, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Individuals with chronic inflammatory diseases (CID) are frequently treated with immunosuppressive medications that can increase their risk of severe COVID-19. While novel mRNA-based SARS-CoV-2…
Abstract Number: 0880 • ACR Convergence 2021
Health Information Use by SLE Patients Pre and During COVID-19
Francesca Cardwell¹, Susan Elliott², May Choi³, Ricky Chin³, Yvan St.Pierre⁴, Leigha Rowbottom⁵, Murray Urowitz⁶, Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza⁷, Sasha Bernatsky⁸, Michelle Petri⁹, Susan Manzi¹⁰, Christine Peschken¹¹, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman¹², Paul R Fortin¹³, Jungmin Shin¹⁴, Sang-Cheol Bae¹⁵, Jiacai Cho¹⁶, Anselm Mak¹⁷, John Hanly¹⁸, Anca Askanase¹⁹, Juanita Romero-Diaz²⁰, Romina Nieto²¹, Bernardo A. Pons-Estel²², Ian N. Bruce²³, Daniel Wallace²⁴ and Ann Clarke⁵, ¹University of Waterloo, Burlington, ON, Canada, ²University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital | University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁴Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁵University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁶Center for Prognosis Studies in the Rheumatic Diseases, Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Lupus Clinic, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁷Hospital Universitario Cruces, University of the Basque Country, Bizkaia, Spain, ⁸McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁹Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ¹⁰Allegheny Health Network, Wexford, PA, ¹¹University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ¹²Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ¹³CHU de Quebec - Universite Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada, ¹⁴Hanyang University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ¹⁵Hanyang University Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ¹⁶National University Health System (NUHS), Singapore, Singapore, ¹⁷National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, ¹⁸Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, ¹⁹Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, ²⁰Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Ciudad de México, Federal District, Mexico, ²¹Hospital Provincial de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina, ²²Grupo Oroo - Centro Regional de Enfermedades Autoinmunes y Reumticas (GO-CREAR), Rosario, Argentina, ²³University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ²⁴Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: The spread of COVID-19 misinformation is especially serious for individuals with complex diseases like SLE; conflicting and/or unfounded information can complicate a patient’s health…
Abstract Number: 1083 • ACR Convergence 2021
Outcomes of COVID-19 Illness in Systemic Autoinflammatory Diseases and Changes in Flares During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An International Survey
Samira Nazzar Romero¹, Lakshmi Moorthy², Jennifer Tousseau³, Sivia Lapidus⁴, Mariana Correia Marques⁵, Leanne Mansfield⁶, Marinka Twilt⁷, Grant Schulert⁸, Maria Gutierrez⁹, Saskya Angevare¹⁰, Fatma Dedeoglu¹¹ and Karen Durrant¹², ¹University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ²Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, ³Autoinflamamtory Alliance, Lincoln, CA, ⁴The Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital, Hackensack Meridian Health, Montclair, NJ, ⁵UPMC Children`s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁶Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁷Alberta Children's Hospital, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁸Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁹John's Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, ¹⁰Autoinflammatory Alliance / Kaisz / ENCA as patient organizations, Amersfoort, Netherlands, ¹¹Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ¹²Autoinflammatory Alliance, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: The exaggerated inflammatory responses to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the paucity of data on COVID-19 infection risk in systemic autoinflammatory disease (SAID) patients posed…
Abstract Number: 1530 • ACR Convergence 2021
Evaluation of the Possible Different Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 Infection with Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors or with Rituximab in Rheumatic Patients
Simón Ángel Sánchez-Fernández¹, Luisa Marena Rojas Vargas¹, Leticia Del Olmo Pérez², Paula Virginia García Morales¹, Adela Alía Jiménez¹, José Antonio Carrasco Fernández¹ and Sandra Masegosa Casanova³, ¹Hospital La Mancha Centro, Alcázar de San Juan, Spain, ²Hospital Nuestra Señora del Prado, Talavera de la Reina, Spain, ³Hospital General de Tomelloso, Tomelloso, Spain
Background/Purpose: To assess whether two different biological therapies (BT), tumor necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFi) and ritixumab (RTX), are related to a different course and severity…
Abstract Number: 1547 • ACR Convergence 2021
Potential Predictors of Outcome for Anakinra Treatment in COVID-19 Patients with Macrophage Activation Syndrome
Shirkhan Amikishiyev¹, Rabia Deniz², Mehmet Guven Gunver³, Sarvan Aghamuradov¹, Nevzat Koca¹, Burak Ince¹, Murat Bektas¹, Gorkem Durak⁴, Murat Kose², Mustafa Erelel⁵, Arif Atahan Çağatay⁶, Sevgi Kalayoglu Besısık⁷, Figen Esen⁵ and Ahmet Gül⁸, ¹Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Division of Rheumatology, İstanbul, Turkey, ²Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Department of Internal Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey, ³Department of Biostatistics, Istanbul Medical Faculty, İstanbul, Turkey,, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁴Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Department of Radiology, İstanbul, Turkey, ⁵Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Department of Anesthesiology, İstanbul, Turkey, ⁶Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, İstanbul, Turkey, ⁷Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Division of Hematology and Therapeutic Apheresis Unit, İstanbul, Turkey, ⁸Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul University Istanbul School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
Background/Purpose: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) runs a severe course in a subset of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome and multiorgan failure, and a hyperinflammatory…
Abstract Number: 1589 • ACR Convergence 2021
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Rheumatology Patients
Rebecca Sadun¹, Amanda Eudy¹, Jennifer Rogers¹, Kai Sun², Lisa Criscione-Schreiber², Mithu Maheswaranathan², Jayanth Doss¹ and Megan Clowse³, ¹Duke University, Durham, NC, ²Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, ³Duke University, Chapel Hill, NC
Background/Purpose: Patients with rheumatic diseases on certain immunosuppressant medications are known to be at higher risk for severe COVID-19. The ACR recommends COVID-19 vaccination for…
Abstract Number: 1606 • ACR Convergence 2021
Telemedicine for Rheumatology Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Patient Perceptions and Preferences
Maria I. Danila¹, Kelly Gavigan², Esteban Rivera², William Nowell², Michael George³, Jeffrey Curtis⁴, Lisa Christopher-Stine⁵, Shubhasree Banerjee³, Peter Merkel³, Kalen Young⁶, Dianne Shaw⁶, Jennifer Gordon⁶ and Shilpa Venkatachalam², ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Global Healthy Living Foundation, Upper Nyack, NY, ³University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁵Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁶Vasculitis Foundation, Kansas City, MO
Background/Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the delivery of medical care and resulted in a substantial uptake in telemedicine care for patients with chronic conditions, including…
Abstract Number: 1671 • ACR Convergence 2021
COVID-19 in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Compared to Patients with Osteoarthritis During the Pandemic in New York City
Jonah Levine¹, Vivian Bykerk², Lindsay Lally¹, Lisa Mandl¹ and Medha Barbhaiya¹, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²Division of Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York City, NY
Background/Purpose: COVID-19 in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is poorly understood. A recent study of mostly men with RA demonstrated increased COVID-19 risk in RA…
Abstract Number: 0094 • ACR Convergence 2021
Characteristics Associated with Severe Outcomes in Patients with Systemic Rheumatic Diseases Hospitalized for COVID-19 in New York City
Caroline Siegel¹, Jacky Choi², Debra D'Angelo², Paul Christos², Lindsay Lally¹, Parag Goyal², Lisa Mandl¹ and Medha Barbhaiya¹, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Patients with systemic rheumatic diseases (SRD) are potentially at increased risk of severe outcomes from SARS-CoV-2 infection due to their underlying immune dysregulation and…

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