Abstracts tagged "COVID-19"

Abstract Number: 1584 • ACR Convergence 2020
Telemedicine Visits During COVID-19 Improved Clinic Show Rates
Reem Alkilany¹ and Raymond Hong², ¹MetroHealth medical center, lakewood, OH, ²Metrohealth Medical center, Richfield, OH
Background/Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has tremendously affected the healthcare sector. State of Ohio officials recommended to hold in-person outpatient visits and elective procedures to limit…
Abstract Number: 0010 • ACR Convergence 2020
Antirheumatic Disease Therapies in Patients with COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Michael Putman¹, Yu Pei Eugenia Chock², Herman Tam³, Alfred Kim⁴, Sebastian Sattui⁵, Francis Berenbaum⁶, Maria (Maio) Danila⁷, Peter Korsten⁸, Catalina Sanchez Alvarez⁹, Jeffrey Sparks¹⁰, Laura Coates¹¹, Candace Palmerlee¹², Andrea Pierce¹³, Arundathi Jayatilleke¹⁴, Sindhu Johnson¹⁵, Adam Kilian¹⁶, Jean Liew¹⁷, Larry Prokop⁹, Hassan Murad⁹, Rebecca Grainger¹⁸, Zachary Wallace¹⁹ and Ali Duarte-Garcia⁹, ¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Yale School of Medicine, Greenwich, CT, ³The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, ⁵Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁶Sorbonne Universit�, Paris, France, ⁷University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, AL, ⁸University Medical Center Göttingen, Gottingen, Germany, ⁹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ¹⁰Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity; Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ¹¹University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ¹²12. Patient Research Partner, Berkeley, CA, ¹³Patient Research Partner, New York City, ¹⁴Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, ¹⁵University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁶George Washington University, Washington, DC, ¹⁷University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ¹⁸University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand, ¹⁹Massachusetts General Hospital, Newton, MA
Background/Purpose: Antirheumatic disease therapies have been used to treat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and its complications. There has been particular interest in the antimalarial agent…
Abstract Number: 0412 • ACR Convergence 2020
2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in Patients with Large-Vessels Vasculitis: Single-centre Experience in Paris
Chloé Comarmond¹, Mathilde Leclercq¹, Gaëlle Leroux², Cindy Marques², Alexandre Le Joncour³, Fanny Domont², Céline Hatte¹, Ségolène Toquet¹, Perrine Guillaume-Jugnot¹, Anne-Claire Desbois¹, Mathieu Vautier¹, Aude Rigolet¹, Yves Allenbach⁴, Olivier Benveniste⁵, David Saadoun² and Patrice Cacoub², ¹Assistance Publique des Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France, ²AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology, F-75013, Paris, France, Centre national de références Maladies Autoimmunes et systémiques rares et Maladies Autoinflammatoires rares, Paris, France, ³APHP, paris, France, ⁴Sorbonne Université, Paris, Ile-de-France, France, ⁵Sorbonne Université, paris, France
Background/Purpose: Advanced age and cardiovascular diseases are recognized as major comorbidities associated with severe forms of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute…
Abstract Number: 0520 • ACR Convergence 2020
Antiphospholipid Antibodies and Thrombotic Events in COVID-19 Patients Hospitalized in Medicine Ward
Alexandre Le Joncour¹, Corinne Frere¹, Isabelle Martin-Toutain¹, Paul Gougis¹, Pascale Ghillani-Dalbin¹, Georgina Maalouf¹, Matheus Vieira¹, Anne-Genevieve Marcelin¹, Joe-Elie Salem¹, Yves Allenbach², David Saadoun³, Olivier Benveniste⁴ and Patrice Cacoub¹, ¹APHP, paris, France, ²Sorbonne Université, Paris, Ile-de-France, France, ³AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology, F-75013, Paris, France, Centre national de références Maladies Autoimmunes et systémiques rares et Maladies Autoinflammatoires rares, PAris, France, ⁴Sorbonne Université, paris, France
Background/Purpose: A high prevalence of thrombotic events has been reported in critically ill COVID-19 patients but data on the prevalence of thrombosis in ward patients…
Abstract Number: 0629 • ACR Convergence 2020
COVID-19 Among Patients with Immune-mediated Inflammatory Diseases: A Descriptive Study
Jesús Loarce-Martos¹, Antía García-Fernández¹, Fernando López-Gutiérrez¹, Veronica Garcia², Laura Calvo-Sanz¹, Ivan Del Bosque-Granero², Cristina Pijoan-Moratalla¹, Lourdes Villalobos-Sánchez³, Boris Blanco-Cáceres¹, Javier Bachiller-Corral¹ and Mónica Vázquez¹, ¹Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain, ²Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ³Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid
Background/Purpose: Patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMID) have a higher risk of infections related to their disease, comorbidities or immunosuppressive treatments, but recent studies addressing…
Abstract Number: 1267 • ACR Convergence 2020
Perceived Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic Independently Associates with Worse Patient-Reported Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
Sarah Patterson¹, Laura Trupin², Kimberly DeQuattro¹, Cristina Lanata¹, Maria Dall'Era³, Jinoos Yazdany² and Patricia Katz², ¹UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ³Division of Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Causes and risk factors for variations in SLE disease activity and symptom severity are incompletely understood. Prior studies suggest a link between stressful life…
Abstract Number: 1585 • ACR Convergence 2020
Lessons Learned Through Rapid Quality Improvement for Telehealth Implementation in an Academic Rheumatology Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Julie Thomas¹, Dorota Lebiedz-Odrobina¹, Kyle Register¹, Francesca Ferrara¹, Danielle Barlow¹, Alicia Riddle¹ and Karla Miller², ¹University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ²Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, UT
Background/Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic created an urgent need for access to care while preserving patient safety through social distancing. Prior to the pandemic, patients were…
Abstract Number: 0011 • ACR Convergence 2020
Patients Receiving Cytokine Inhibitors Have Low Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection
David Simon¹, Koray Tascilar¹, Gerhard Krönke², Arnd Kleyer¹, Mario Zaiss³, Franz Heppt⁴, Christine Meder⁴, Raja Atreya⁵, Entcho Klenske⁵, Peter Dietrich⁵, Abdullah Abdullah⁵, Thorsten Kliem⁵, Giulia Corte⁶, Harriet Morf³, Moritz Leppkes⁵, Andreas Kremer⁵, Andreas Ramming³, Milena Pachowsky⁷, Florian Schuch⁸, Monika Ronneberger⁹, Stefan Kleinert¹⁰, Clara Maier¹¹, Axel Hueber¹², Karin Manger¹³, Bernhard Manger³, Carola Berking⁴, Matthias Tenbusch¹¹, Klaus Überla¹¹, Michael Sticherling³, Markus Neurath⁵ and Georg Schett¹⁴, ¹Department of Internal Medicine 3, Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nuremberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Bayern, Germany, ²Department of Internal Medicine 3, Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nuremberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Georgia, ³Department of Internal Medicine 3, Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nuremberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁴Department of Dermatology, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁵Department of Internal Medicine 1, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁶Department of Internal Medicine 3, Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nuremberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Gibraltar, ⁷Department of Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁸Rheumatology Clinical Practice Erlangen, Erlangen, Ghana, ⁹Rheumatology Clinical Practice Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ¹⁰Rheumatology-Nephrology Practice, Erlangen, Germany, ¹¹Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ¹²Sozialstiftung Bamberg, Sektion Rheumatologie, Bamberg, Germany, ¹³Rheumatology Practice Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany, ¹⁴Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen- Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
Background/Purpose: Therapeutic interventions for Immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) target cytokines, such as TNF-a, IL-6, IL-17 and IL-23, which are involved in the physiological and pathological…
Abstract Number: 0413 • ACR Convergence 2020
Coronavirus Infection and Vasculitis: Identifying Associations Mining the Biomedical Literature
Alicia Rodriguez Pla¹ and Rodrigo Cartin-Ceba², ¹Rheumatology. Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, ²Pulmonary. Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ
Background/Purpose: Based on recent publications suggesting an association between COVID-19 and vascular inflammation, our aim was to explore new associations between coronavirus infections and vasculitis…
Abstract Number: 0545 • ACR Convergence 2020
The Use of Tocilizumab and Tofacitinib in Patients with Resolved Hepatitis B Infection: A Case Series
Naomi Serling-Boyd¹, Amir Mohareb², Arthur Kim², Emily Hyle² and Zachary Wallace³, ¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Newton, MA
Background/Purpose: The use of immunosuppressive medications in patients with a history of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is associated with an increased risk of HBV…
Abstract Number: 0633 • ACR Convergence 2020
Vitamin D Serum Status in a Cohort of COVID-19 Patients
Alberto Sulli¹, Emanuele Gotelli¹, Sabrina Paolino¹, Andrea Casabella¹, Carmen Pizzorni¹, Elisa Alessandri¹, Vanessa Smith² and Maurizio Cutolo¹, ¹Research Laboratory and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, IRCCS San Martino Polyclinic, Genoa, Italy, ²Department of Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, VIB Inflammation Research Centre Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Background/Purpose: Vitamin D serum levels have been inversely associated with risk of pulmonary infections and autoimmune inflammatory disease activity and severity [1,2]. A possible role…
Abstract Number: 1274 • ACR Convergence 2020
COVID-19 in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Ruth Fernandez-Ruiz¹, Mala Masson¹, Mimi Kim², Benjamin Myers³, Rebecca Haberman⁴, Jose Scher⁴, Rochelle Castillo⁴, Allison Guttmann¹, Philip Carlucci¹, Kristina Deonaraine¹, Michael Golpanian⁵, Kimberly Robins¹, Miao Chang¹, H. Michael Belmont⁶, Jill Buyon⁷, Ashira Blazer⁶, Amit Saxena⁸ and Peter Izmirly⁹, ¹New York University School of Medicine, New York, ²Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, ³Cornell University, Ithica, NY, ⁴NYU School of Medicine, New York City, ⁵New York University, New York, NY, ⁶NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁷Department of Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁸NYU School of Medicine, New York, ⁹Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) represent a unique population in considering risk for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) with biologic, genetic, demographic, clinical and…
Abstract Number: 1604 • ACR Convergence 2020
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Rheumatology Practice: A Study in 15 Arab Countries
Nelly Ziade¹, Ihsane Hmamouchi², Lina El Kibbi³, Nizar Abdulateef⁴, Hussein Halabi⁵, Fatemah Abutiban⁶, Wafa Hamdi⁷, Manal el Rakawi⁸, Mervat Eissa⁹ and Basel Masri¹⁰, ¹Saint-Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon, Beirut, Lebanon, ²Temara Hospital, Laboratory of Biostatistics, Clinical Research and Epidemiology (LBRCE), Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco, Rabat, Morocco, ³Specialized Medical Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ⁴Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq, ⁵King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, ⁶Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Jaber Alahmed Alsabah hospital, State of Kuwait, Jahra, Kuwait, ⁷Department of Rheumatology, Kassab Institute of orthopedics, UR17SP04, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, Tunis El Manar University, Tunisia, Tunis, Tunisia, ⁸Departement of Rheumatology, Douera Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Saad Dahlab, Blida, Algeria, Blida, Algeria, ⁹Rheumatology Department, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, Cairo, Egypt, ¹⁰Jordan Hospital, Amman, Jordan, Amman, Jordan
Background/Purpose: To date, information about the impact of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic on rheumatology practice and on rheumatologists is limited.The primary objective of the…
Abstract Number: 0012 • ACR Convergence 2020
Experiences of Patients with Rheumatic Diseases in the US During the Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Kristin Wipfler¹, Yomei Shaw², Teresa Simon³, Adam Cornish¹, Bryant England⁴, Alexis Ogdie⁵, Patricia Katz⁶ and Kaleb Michaud⁴, ¹FORWARD, The National Databank for Rheumatic Diseases, Omaha, NE, ²FORWARD, The National Databank for Rheumatic Diseases, East Lansing, MI, ³Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (at time of analysis), Princeton, NJ, ⁴University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁵University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁶University of California, San Francisco, Novato, CA
Background/Purpose: Patients with rheumatic diseases such as RA and lupus have increased risk of infection and are treated with medications that may increase this risk…
Abstract Number: 0429 • ACR Convergence 2020
Prothrombotic Antiphospholipid Antibodies in COVID-19
Yu Zuo¹, Shanea Estes², Alex Ghandi³, Srilakshmi Yalavarthi³, Ramadan Ali³, Shi Hui³, Gautam Sule³, Kelsey Gockman³, Jacqueline Madison³, Melanie Zuo³, Wrenn Woodard³, Sean Lezak³, Njira Lugogo³, Yogendra Kanthi⁴ and Jason Knight¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ³University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, ⁴Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Ann Arbor
Background/Purpose: Patients with coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) are at high risk for thrombosis of arteries and veins. At the same time, COVID-19 lung histopathology has…

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