Abstracts tagged "COVID-19"

Abstract Number: 0631 • ACR Convergence 2021
Provider Assessment of Telehealth Utility During COVID-19
Catherine Howe¹, Isaac Smith¹, Robert Overton², Ricardo Henao², Nicoleta Economou-Zavlanos², Jayanth Doss³, Megan Clowse⁴ and David Leverenz³, ¹Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, ²Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, ³Duke University, Durham, NC, ⁴Duke University, Chapel Hill, NC
Background/Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic forced the provision of telehealth care to rheumatology patients with a broader range of diagnoses and disease activity than previously studied.…
Abstract Number: 0963 • ACR Convergence 2021
Immunogenicity of COVID-19 Vaccines in Patients with Autoimmune and Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases (AIIRDs)
Gordon Lam¹, Andrew Laster², Sarah McCarter², Heather Gladue³, Ahmad Kashif², Erin Siceloff², Victoria Lackey³, Cheryl Robertson³, Ashley Toci² and Leonard Calabrese⁴, ¹Arthritis and Osteoporosis Consultants of the Carolinas, Cornelius, NC, ²Arthritis and Osteoporosis Consultants of the Carolinas, Charlotte, NC, ³Arthritis & Osteoporosis Consultants of the Carolinas, Charlotte, NC, ⁴Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Background/Purpose: AIIRD patients may have a blunted immune response to the COVID-19 vaccines, but this is largely uncharacterized as these individuals were not included in…
Abstract Number: 1411 • ACR Convergence 2021
Decreased Use of Ultrasound Fast-track Pathways of Giant Cell Arteritis Due to COVID-19 Pandemic: A Potential Risk for Permanent Visual Loss
Fernando Montero¹, Juan Molina², ISABEL CASTREJON³, Julia Martínez Barrio¹, Juan Carlos Nieto¹ and Jose Maria Alvaro-Gracia¹, ¹Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, ²Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Maran, Madrid, Spain, ³Pfizer Spain, Chicago
Background/Purpose: The implementation of ultrasound (US) fast-track pathways (FTP), aiming at an early diagnosis of giant cell arteritis (GCA), has led to a decrease in…
Abstract Number: 1538 • ACR Convergence 2021
Adverse Events After SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Among Rheumatology Outpatients in New York City
Medha Barbhaiya¹, Deanna Jannat-Khah¹, Jonah Levine¹, Huong Do¹, Lindsay Lally¹, Vivian Bykerk² and Lisa Mandl¹, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²Division of Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York City, NY
Background/Purpose: Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 is important for patients with systemic rheumatic diseases (SRDs), who may be at increased risk of severe outcomes post-COVID-19 infection. However,…
Abstract Number: 1556 • ACR Convergence 2021
Mortality Rate Related to COVID-19 in Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases (RMDs)
Ines Perez - Sancristobal¹, Dalifer Freites¹, Leticia Lopez Pedraza², Maria Paula Alvarez Hernandez¹, Jose Ignacio Colomer³, Alfredo Madrid - Garcia², Benjamin Fernandez¹, Cristina Vadillo¹, Luis Rodriguez Rodriguez⁴, Arkaitz Mucientes², Leticia Leon - Mateos² and Lydia Abasolo⁵, ¹Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Reumathology, Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ²Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Reumathology, Madrid, Spain, ³Fundación para la Investigación Biomedica, Reumathology, Madrid, Spain, ⁴Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain, ⁵Rheumatology Department, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: In patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) and infected with Covid – 19, a) we want to assess the mortality rate (MR) related…
Abstract Number: 1598 • ACR Convergence 2021
Trends in Medication Interruptions and Associations with Disease Flares During a Public Health Crisis: Longitudinal Data from Patients with Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Tiffany Dharia¹, Michael George², SHILPA VENKATACHALAM³, Shubhasree Banerjee², Joshua Baker², David Curtis⁴, Maria I. Danila⁵, Kelly Gavigan⁴, Peter Merkel², Dianne Shaw⁶, Jeffrey Curtis⁷ and William Nowell⁴, ¹Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Global Healthy Living Foundation, New York, NY, ⁴Global Healthy Living Foundation, Upper Nyack, NY, ⁵University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁶Vasculitis Foundation, Kansas City, MO, ⁷Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has had substantial impact on the care of patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARDs), resulting in frequent medication interruptions early in…
Abstract Number: 1619 • ACR Convergence 2021
Where Do Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) and Pediatric COVID-19 Fit Under the Cytokine Storm Syndrome Umbrella?
Randy Cron and Daniel Reiff, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Although COVID-19 has been less severe in the pediatric population, with cases more likely to be mild or asymptomatic, there remains a proportion of…
Abstract Number: 0084 • ACR Convergence 2021
COVID-19 Pneumonia in Two Hospitals: Similar Outcomes Despite Differential Use of Tocilizumab
Leanna Wise¹, Lauren Mathias², Wendy Mack², Aarya Kafi³, Yash Kothari², Omkar Rao³ and William Stohl⁴, ¹LAC+USC/Keck Medicine of USC, Pasadena, CA, ²University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ³University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, ⁴University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: A substantial number of patients with COVID-19 pneumonia develop a hyperinflammatory state. The anti-IL-6 receptor (IL-6R) mAb tocilizumab (TCZ) has been used in such…
Abstract Number: 0102 • ACR Convergence 2021
Differential Impact of TNFi, JAKi and Rituximab on the Outcome of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in RMD Patients
Anne Regierer¹, Rebecca Hasseli², Martin Schaefer¹, Bimba Franziska Hoyer³, Andreas Krause⁴, Hanns-Martin Lorenz⁵, Alexander Pfeil⁶, Jutta Richter⁷, Tim Schmeiser⁸, Anja Strangfeld⁹, Hendrik Schulze-Koops¹⁰, Reinhard Voll¹¹, Christof Specker¹² and Ulf Müller-Ladner¹³, ¹German Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin, Germany, ²Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Bad Nauheim, Germany, ³Universittsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany, ⁴Immanuel Hospital, Berlin, Germany, ⁵University Hospital Heidelberg Germany, Heidelberg, Germany, ⁶Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany, ⁷Rheumatology and Hiller Research Unit, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany, ⁸Private Practice, Cologne, Germany, ⁹Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ¹⁰Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine IV, University of Munich, Munich, Germany, ¹¹Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, ¹²Evangelisches Krankenhaus, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Essen, Germany, ¹³JLU Giessen, Campus Kerckhoff, Dept. Rheum & Clin Immunol, Bad Nauheim, Germany
Background/Purpose: Due to the impressive efforts of the global scientific rheumatology community, increasing evidence about inflammatory rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD) specific risk factors in…
Abstract Number: 0196 • ACR Convergence 2021
A Single Center, Double Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Anakinra in Adult Patients with Features of Cytokine Storm Syndrome in COVID-19
Lesley Jackson¹, Randy Cron¹, Nitasha Khullar², Christopher Chapleau³, Dongmei Sun⁴ and Winn Chatham¹, ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³UAB Pharmacy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Some patients with COVID-19 develop respiratory distress and cytokine storm syndrome (CSS) which is characterized by hyperinflammation and may progress to multi-organ failure. Anakinra…
Abstract Number: 0649 • ACR Convergence 2021
Optimizing SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Timing in Rituximab-Treated Patients with Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases: A Quality Improvement Intervention
Daniel Magliulo¹, Stefanie Wade² and Vasileios Kyttaris³, ¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, ²Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³BIDMC, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Experience with rituximab (RTX) in autoimmune rheumatic disease (AIRD) has shown a clear association with hypogammaglobulinemia, serious infections, and impaired humoral response to certain…
Abstract Number: 0964 • ACR Convergence 2021
Rituximab Treatment Dramatically Reduces Neutralizing Humoral Response to mRNA SARS-COV-2 Vaccines in Patients with Autoimmune Diseases
Samuel Bitoun¹, Julien Henry², Christelle Vauloup Fellous³, Raphaele Seror⁴, Lina Mouna³, Candie Joly⁵, Delphine Desjardins⁵, Marie Bitu⁵, Roger Le Grand⁶, Anne-Marie Roque Afonso³ and Xavier Mariette⁷, ¹Hôpital Bicêtre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris-Saclay, INSERM UMR 1184 FHU CARE, Paris, France, ²Hôpital Bicêtre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris-Saclay, INSERM UMR 1184 FHU CARE, Le Plessis Robinson, France, ³AP–HP, Hôpital Paul-Brousse, Department of Virology, University Paris Saclay, INSERM U1193,, Villejuif, France, ⁴Hôpital Bicêtre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris-Saclay, INSERM UMR 1184, FHU CARE FHU CARE, Le kremlin Bicetre, France, ⁵Paris-Saclay University, Inserm UMR 1184, FHU CARE, CEA, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France, ⁶UMR1184, IDMIT Department, Université Paris-Saclay, Inserm, CEA, Fontenay Aux Roses, France, ⁷Université Paris- Saclay, Rheumatology, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: The global COVID-19 pandemic is starting to be controlled by massive vaccination. Some immunosuppressed patients have already paid a high price to the pandemic…
Abstract Number: 1420 • ACR Convergence 2021
Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Response in a Multi-Racial/Ethnic Cohort of Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Peter Izmirly¹, Mimi Kim², Marie Samanovic-Golden³, Ruth Fernandez Ruiz⁴, Sharon Ohana³, Alexis Engel⁵, Kristina Deonaraine¹, Mala Masson⁴, Xianhong Xie⁶, Amber Cornelius⁴, Ramin Herati⁴, Rebecca Haberman⁴, Jose Scher¹, Allison Guttmann³, Rebecca Blank⁷, Ben Plotz³, Mayce Haj-Ali⁴, Brittany Banbury³, Sara Stream⁸, Ghadeer Hasan³, Gary Ho³, Paula Rackoff⁷, Ashira Blazer³, H. Michael Belmont³, Amit Saxena³, Mark Mulligan⁴, Robert Clancy⁴ and Jill Buyon³, ¹New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, ²Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Larchmont, NY, ³NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁴NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁵NYU Langone Health, New Yok, NY, ⁶Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ⁷New York University, New York, NY, ⁸NYU Langone Health, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Since the Phase 3 clinical studies of all three COVID-19 vaccines excluded patients on immunosuppressants or immune-modifying drugs within 6 months of enrollment, data…
Abstract Number: 1539 • ACR Convergence 2021
High Disease Activity, as Assessed by RAPID3, Increases Risk of Hospitalization and Predicts Lower Chance of Recovery from COVID-19 in a Cohort of Tertiary Care Rheumatology Patients
Matas Orentas¹, Sonali Khandelwal², Michael Grant², Yanyu Zhang¹, Najia Shakoor² and Sobia Hassan¹, ¹RUMC, Chicago, IL, ²Rush University, Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: There is a need to understand which patients with rheumatologic diseases may be at highest risk for poor COVID-19 related outcomes so that both…
Abstract Number: 1557 • ACR Convergence 2021
Immunogenicity and Safety of an Inactivated Virus Vaccine Against SARS-CoV-2 in Patients with Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases
Ana Medeiros-Ribeiro¹, Nadia Aikawa¹, Carla Gonçalves Schahin Saad¹, Emily Figueiredo Vieira Neves Yuki¹, Tatiana do Nascimento Pedrosa¹, Solange Fusco¹, Priscila Rojo¹, Rosa Pereira¹, Samuel Shinjo¹, Danieli Andrade¹, Percival Sampaio-Barros¹, Carolina Ribeiro¹, Giordano Deveza¹, Victor Adriano de Oliveira Martins¹, Clovis Artur Silva¹, Marta Lopes¹, Alberto Duarte¹, Leila Antonangelo¹, Ester Sabino¹, Esper Kallas¹, Sandra Gofinet Pasoto² and Eloisa Bonfá¹, ¹Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ²Hospital das Clinicas de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Background/Purpose: Brazil is among the countries with the highest numbers of confirmed cases and deaths by COVID-19. CoronaVac (SARS-CoV-2 inactivated vaccine) has been largely used…

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