Abstracts tagged "COVID-19"

Abstract Number: 0952 • ACR Convergence 2021
Outcomes of COVID-19 Infection in Patients with Primary Systemic Vasculitis and Polymyalgia Rheumatica: Results from the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance Physician Registry
Sebastian Sattui¹, Richard Conway², Michael Putman³, Andrea Seet⁴, Kaley Beins⁵, Catherine Hill⁶, David Liew⁷, Sarah Mackie⁸, Puja Mehta⁹, Lorna Neill¹⁰, Gimena Gomez¹¹, Maria Salinas¹², Federico Maldonado¹³, Henrique Moriz¹⁴, Samia Studart¹⁵, NAFICE ARAUJO¹⁶, Ann Knight¹⁷, Davide Rozza¹⁸, Luca Quartuccio¹⁹, Maxime Samson²⁰, Stephane Bally²¹, Alexandre Maria²², Pascal Chazerain²³, Rebecca Hasseli²⁴, Ulf Müller-Ladner²⁵, Bimba Franziska Hoyer²⁶, Reinhard Voll²⁷, Rita Pinheiro Torres²⁸, Mariana Luis²⁹, Sandra Lúcia Ribeiro³⁰, Samar Al Emadi³¹, Jeffrey Sparks³², Tiffany Hsu³³, Kristin D'Silva³⁴, Naomi Patel³⁴, Leanna Wise³⁵, Emily Gilbert³⁶, Maria Valenzuela-Almada³⁷, Ali Duarte-Garcia³⁸, Manuel Ugarte-Gil³⁹, Emily Sirotich⁴⁰, Jean Liew⁴¹, Jonathan Hausmann⁴², Paul Sufka⁴³, Suleman Bhana⁴⁴, Rebecca Grainger⁴⁵, Wendy Costello⁴⁶, Lindsay Jacobsohn⁴⁷, Zara Izadi⁴, Anja Strangfeld⁴⁸, Elsa Frazão Mateus⁴⁹, Kimme Hyrich⁵⁰, Laure Gossec⁵¹, Loreto Carmona⁵², Saskia Lawson-Tovey⁵⁰, Lianne Kearsley-Fleet⁵³, Martin Schaefer⁵⁴, Milena Gianfrancesco⁴, Pedro Machado⁵⁵, Zachary Wallace³⁴, Jinoos Yazdany⁴ and Philip Robinson⁵⁶, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²St. James's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ³Medical College of Wisconsin, Brookfield, WI, ⁴University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁵Vasculitis Foundation, Kansas City, MO, ⁶Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, Australia, ⁷Austin Health, Heidelberg, Australia, ⁸School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ⁹University College London, London, United Kingdom, ¹⁰PMR GCA Scotland, Perth, United Kingdom, ¹¹Research Unit Argentine Society of Rheumatology, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¹²Hospital Privado Universitario de Córdoba, Cordoba, Argentina, ¹³Sanatorio Güemes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¹⁴Hospital das Clinicas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Pernambuco, Brazil, ¹⁵HOSPITAL GERAL DE FORTALEZA, Fortaleza, Brazil, ¹⁶Instituto de ASsistencia Medica ao Servidor Publico Estadual de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ¹⁷Rheumatology, Institute of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, ¹⁸Epidemiology Research Unit, Italian Society of Rheumatology, Rome, Italy, ¹⁹Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Udine, Udine, Italy, ²⁰CHU Dijon Bourgogne, Hpital Franois Mitterrand, Dijon, Dijon, France, ²¹Nephrology and Dialysis Service, Metropole Savoie Hospital Center, Chambery, France, ²²Department of Internal Medicine and Multiorganic Diseases, Saint-Eloi University Hospital of Montpellier, Montpellier, France, ²³Department of Rheumatology and Internal Medicine, Diaconesses Croix Saint Simon Hospital, Paris, France, ²⁴Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Campus Kerckhoff, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Bad Nauheim, Germany., Bad Nauheim, Germany, ²⁵JLU Giessen, Campus Kerckhoff, Dept. Rheum & Clin Immunol, Bad Nauheim, Germany, ²⁶Universittsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany, ²⁷Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, ²⁸Rheumatology Service, Egas Moniz Hospital, Lisboa Occidental Hospital Centre, Lisbon, Portugal, ²⁹Department of Rheumatology, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portuga, Coimbra, Portugal, ³⁰Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Amazonas, Brazil, ³¹Hamad medical corporation, Doha, Qatar, ³²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Jamaica Plain, MA, ³⁴Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ³⁵LAC+USC/Keck Medicine of USC, Pasadena, CA, ³⁶Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ³⁷Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³⁸Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³⁹Hospital Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, Essalud/Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru, ⁴⁰McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ⁴¹Boston University, Boston, MA, ⁴²Boston Children's Hospital / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Cambridge, MA, ⁴³HealthPartners, Eagan, MN, ⁴⁴Crystal Run Health, Montvale, NJ, ⁴⁵University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand, ⁴⁶Irish Children's Arthritis Network, Bansha, Ireland, ⁴⁷University of California San Francisco, Antioch, CA, ⁴⁸Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁴⁹Liga Portuguesa Contra as Doenças Reumáticas (LPCDR), Lisbon, Portugal, ⁵⁰University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁵¹Sorbonne Université and Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France, ⁵²Instituto de Salud Musculoesqueltica (InMusc), Madrid, Spain, ⁵³Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁵⁴German Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin, Germany, ⁵⁵Centre for Rheumatology & Department of Neuromuscular Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁵⁶University of Queensland School of Clinical Medicine, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Herston, Australia
Background/Purpose: Patients with primary systemic vasculitis (PSV) and polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) may be at high risk for poor COVID-19 outcomes due to the treatments used,…
Abstract Number: 1183 • ACR Convergence 2021
Efficacy of Rapid Transition of a Musculoskeletal/Rheumatology/Dermatology Course to Online Learning During COVID-19 Pandemic
Elise Belilos and Megan Bader, NYU Long Island School of Medicine, Mineola, NY
Background/Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented challenges for medical students and faculty with the abrupt transition to online learning in March 2020. At NYU Long…
Abstract Number: 1535 • ACR Convergence 2021
Low Incidence and Transient Elevation of Autoantibodies Post mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination
Rebecca Blank¹, Rebecca Haberman², Rochelle Castillo², marie Samanovic³, Parvathy Vasudevanpillai Girija⁴, Paula Rackoff¹, Gary Solomon⁵, Natalie Azar⁶, Pamela Rosenthal⁷, Peter Izmirly⁴, Jonathan Samuels⁸, Brian Golden⁹, Soumya Reddy⁷, Steven B. Abramson⁴, Mark Mulligan³ and Jose Scher⁴, ¹New York University, New York, NY, ²NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, ³NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁴New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁵NYU Langone School of Medicine, Hartsdale, NY, ⁶NYU Langone, New York, NY, ⁷NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁸NYU Langone, Rye Brook, NY, ⁹NYU Langone Medical Center - NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Recent studies have shown high rates of autoantibody production in patients hospitalized with COVID-19, including antinuclear antibodies (ANA) and antibodies associated with antiphospholipid syndrome.…
Abstract Number: 1553 • ACR Convergence 2021
Low-dose Tocilizumab in the Treatment of COVID-19 Pneumonitis: 90-day Mortality Follow-up
Lauren He¹, Garth Strohbehn² and Pankti Reid³, ¹University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²VA Ann Arbor Center for Clinical Management and Research, Chicago, IL, ³University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: Tocilizumab (TCZ) for treatment of severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia decreases the probability of progression to invasive mechanical ventilation (CORIMUNO-TOCI) or death (REMAP-CAP,…
Abstract Number: 1594 • ACR Convergence 2021
COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Changes in Health Routines and Self-Reported Physical Functioning Among Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients
Laura Plantinga¹, Courtney Hoge¹, C. Barrett Bowling², Charmayne Dunlop-Thomas¹, Brad Pearce¹, S Sam Lim³ and Cristina Drenkard¹, ¹Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ²Duke University, Durham, NC, ³Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
Background/Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic was disruptive to individual health routines. Changes in health routines may worsen disease management and reduce opportunities for physical activity, both…
Abstract Number: 1612 • ACR Convergence 2021
Factors Associated with COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Individuals with Rheumatic Disease
Kristin Wipfler¹, Adam Cornish¹, Alison Freifeld², Patricia Katz³ and Kaleb Michaud², ¹FORWARD, The National Databank for Rheumatic Diseases, Omaha, NE, ²University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ³University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: COVID-19 vaccination efforts are ongoing and there is a need to understand factors associated with vaccine hesitancy. Individuals with rheumatic diseases have been uniquely…
Abstract Number: 1928 • ACR Convergence 2021
In Vitro and In Vivo Evidence for DOCK8 as a Risk Allele for Cytokine Storm Syndrome, Including COVID-19 and MIS-C

Randy Cron¹, Mingce Zhang¹, Niansheng Chu², Devin Absher³, John Bridges¹, Amanda Schnell¹, Anshul Vagrecha⁴, Shannon Lozinsky⁴, Suchitra Acharya⁴, Carolyn Levy⁴, Winn Chatham¹ and Edward Behrens², ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL, ⁴Hofstra/Northwell School of Medicine, Hempstead, NY
Background/Purpose: Cytokine storm syndromes (CSS) are frequently fatal complications of a variety of oncologic, rheumatic, and infectious diseases. Many patients with CSS possess heterozygous missense…
Abstract Number: 0074 • ACR Convergence 2021
Association of Anti-phospholipid Antibodies (aPL) with Poor Clinical Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19
David Yaich¹, Brandon Ptak¹, Emma Roellke¹, Erin Miller¹, Juliet Kim¹, Juan Gaztanaga¹, Wendy Drewes¹, James Ciancarelli², Jasmin Divers¹, Megan Winner¹, Amy Rapkiewicz¹ and Steven Carsons³, ¹NYU Langone Hospital - Long Island, Mineola, NY, ²NYU Hospital Hospital- Long Island, Mineola, NY, ³NYU Long Island School of Medicine, Mineola, NY
Background/Purpose: Critically ill patients with COVID-19 infection have a profound hypercoagulable state and can often develop thromboses in many different vascular beds. Given the presence…
Abstract Number: 0099 • ACR Convergence 2021
First Results of the BELCOMID Study: BELgian Cohort Study of COVID-19 in Immune Mediated Inflammatory Diseases (IMID)
Kurt de Vlam¹, Jeroen Geldhof², Marie Truyens³, Joao Sabino⁴, Marc ferrante⁴, Jo Lambert³, Hilde lapeere³, Tom hillary⁴, an Van Laethem⁴, Triana Lobaton³, severine vermeire⁴, Barbara Neerinckx¹ and Patrick Verschueren⁵, ¹University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ²University Hospital Gent, Gent, Belgium, ³university hospital gent, gent, ⁴university hospitals leuven, leuven, ⁵University Hospitals Leuven - KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium
Background/Purpose: It has been suggested that 100% of SARS-CoV2 infections leads to development of specific IgG antibodies that remain detectable for a long period of…
Abstract Number: 0119 • ACR Convergence 2021
Worsened Depression but Improved Fatigue Were the Main Impacts of Severe Lockdown in Non- COVID Infected Australian Fibromyalgia Patients
Benjamin Worcester¹, Emma Guymer² and Geoffrey Littlejohn², ¹Monash Health, Melbourne, Australia, ²Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Background/Purpose: To gauge the impact of severe COVID-19 related lockdown restrictions on the mental and physical wellbeing of Australian fibromyalgia patients and their recovery following…
Abstract Number: 0618 • ACR Convergence 2021
Post-acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 and Serological Response in a Cohort of Patients with Rheumatic Diseases
Alice Fike¹, Omer Pamuk², Yiming Luo³, Jun Chu⁴, Yanira Ruiz-Perdomo³, Sarfaraz Hasni³, Pravitt Gourh³ and James Katz⁴, ¹National Institutes of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Washington, DC, ²NIH/NIAMS, Bethesda, MD, ³National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ⁴National Institutes of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: The longitudinal experience of COVID-19 illness in patients with rheumatic diseases is emerging. Reports from the general population have described post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2…
Abstract Number: 0961 • ACR Convergence 2021
Proteomic Profiling of MIS-C Patients Reveals Heterogeneity Relating to Interferon Gamma Dysregulation and Vascular Endothelial Dysfunction
Caroline Diorio¹, Rawan Shraim¹, Laura Vella¹, Josephine Giles², Amy Baxter², Derek Oldridge², Scott Canna¹, Sarah Henrickson¹, Kevin Mcnerney¹, Frances Balamuth¹, Chakkapong Burudpakdee¹, Jessica Lee¹, Tomas Leng¹, Alvin Farrell¹, Michele Lambert¹, Kathleen Sullivan¹, John Wherry³, David Teachey¹, Hamid Bassiri¹ and Edward Behrens¹, ¹Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³UPenn, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: Multi-system Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) is a major complication of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic in pediatric patients. Children…
Abstract Number: 1278 • ACR Convergence 2021
Clinical Outcomes in a Cohort of Puerto Ricans with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus After SARS CoV-2 Infection
Ariana González-Meléndez¹ and Luis Vilá², ¹University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, PR, ²University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Background/Purpose: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is of particular concern for people with autoimmune rheumatic diseases and for those who are immunosuppressed given the…
Abstract Number: 1536 • ACR Convergence 2021
Acceptability of Vaccines Against COVID-19 and Other Preventable Infections Among Patients with Rheumatic Disease
Sara Tedeschi¹, Jack Ellrodt¹, Jacklyn Stratton¹, Leah Santacroce¹, Paulette Chandler¹, Ellen Gravallese² and Daniel Solomon³, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Chestnut Hill, MA, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Newton, MA
Background/Purpose: Vaccination against preventable infections is widely recommended for patients with systemic rheumatic disease. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted variability in attitudes toward vaccination, particularly…
Abstract Number: 1554 • ACR Convergence 2021
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Patients with Rheumatic and Other Diseases
Valeria Valerio¹, Emmanouil Rampakakis², Marie Hudson³, Sasha Bernatsky³, Elizabeth M. Hazel³ and Ines Colmegna⁴, ¹Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada, ²JSS Medical Research, Montréal, QC, Canada, ³McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁴The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada
Background/Purpose: Vaccination is fundamental to reduce COVID-19 risk and its complications. Vaccine hesitancy is a threat to COVID-19 vaccination uptake. We assessed the frequency of…

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