Abstracts tagged "COVID-19"

Abstract Number: 0641 • ACR Convergence 2020
Cohort of Rheumatic Patients Treated with Rituximab and COVID-19: Does Rituximab Treatment Increases the Severity of SARS-COV2 Infection?
Antía García-Fernández¹, Fernando López-Gutiérrez¹, Jesús Loarce-Martos¹, Ivan Del Bosque-Granero², Laura Calvo-Sanz¹, Boris Blanco-Cáceres¹, Cristina Pijoan-Moratalla¹, Lourdes Villalobos-Sánchez³, 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: There are very few studies reporting COVID-19 in patients with rheumatic diseases, without clear evidence supporting more frequent or severe disease in these patients.…
Abstract Number: 1339 • ACR Convergence 2020
COVID-19 in Patients with Inflammatory Arthritis: A Prospective Study on the Effects of Comorbidities and DMARDs on Clinical Outcomes
Rebecca Haberman¹, Rochelle Castillo¹, Alan Chen², Di Yan¹, Deborah Ramirez², Vaish Sekar², Robert Lesser², Gary Solomon², Andrea Neimann², Rebecca Blank¹, Peter Izmirly³, Dan Webster⁴, Alexis Ogdie⁵, Andrea Troxel², Samrachana Adhikari² and Jose Scher¹, ¹NYU School of Medicine, New York City, ²NYU Langone Health, New York City, ³New York University, New York, NY, ⁴Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, ⁵Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has quickly emerged as the most challenging global health crisis in a generation. Affecting initially China, New York City (NYC) quickly…
Abstract Number: 1783 • ACR Convergence 2020
Experience of Pregnant Rheumatology Outpatients from a Tertiary Hospital in New York City During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Bessie Stamm¹, Gregory Vitone², Marianna Frey³, JoAnn Vega¹, Jane Salmon³, Mary Crow³, Vivian Bykerk³, Michael Lockshin¹, Lisa Sammaritano¹, Lisa Mandl³ and Medha Barbhaiya¹, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, Barbara Volcker Center for Women and Rheumatic Diseases, New York, NY, ²Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, ³Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: We aimed to evaluate the experience of pregnant rheumatology patients during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City.Methods: We emailed a…
Abstract Number: 0019 • ACR Convergence 2020
Lasting COVID-19 Impacts on US Rheumatology Practices
Lynn Price¹, Gianna Melendez¹ and Phil Pouliot¹, ¹spherix global insights, Exton, PA
Background/Purpose: In late 2019, a novel, highly contagious coronavirus (COVID-19), was discovered in China and quickly spread throughout the world, equating to arguably the largest…
Abstract Number: 0454 • ACR Convergence 2020
Anticytokine Therapies for Inflammatory Rheumatic Disease (IRD) Are Associated with Reduced Hospitalisation Following Community COVID-19 Infection; Results of the Trinity Rheumatology and Covid-19 Registry – TRACR
Rachael Flood¹, Richard Conway², David Kane¹ and Ronan Mullan¹, ¹Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ²St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Background/Purpose: Anticytokine biological disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (bDMARD), which are widely prescribed for Inflammatory Rheumatological Diseases (IRD) are currently undergoing clinical trials for the treatment…
Abstract Number: 0602 • ACR Convergence 2020
Labor Impact of SARS-COV-2 Pandemic in Argentine Rheumatologists
Scarafia Santiago¹, Emilio Buschiazzo², María Victoria Martire³, César Graf⁴ and Rodrigo Garcia Salinas⁵, ¹Hospital Municipal "San Cayetano", Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina, ²Hospital Señor del Milagro, Salta., Salta, Salta, Argentina, ³Instituto Médico Platense, La Plata, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁴Sociedad Argentina de Reumatología, Paraná, Entre Rios, Argentina, ⁵Hospital Italiano La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
Background/Purpose: The novel coronavirus SARS2-COV-2 has precipitated the present outbreak of COVID-19, the worldwide spread has strong impact on general population and on healthcare workers.…
Abstract Number: 0643 • ACR Convergence 2020
Use of Biologic Treatment and Risk to Be Admitted for COVID-19 Infection
Carlos González¹, Luis Menchén¹, Indalecio Monteagudo¹, Ofelia Baniandrés², Juan Carlos Nieto Gonzalez¹, Ignacio Marín-Jiménez¹, Ana Herranz-Alonso¹, Carmen Lobo-Rodríguez¹, Amparo López-Esteban¹, Ana López¹, Arantza Ais-Larisgoitia¹, Esther Chamorro de Vega¹, Paloma Morales de los Ríos¹, Maria Jesús Lizcano¹, Jose Maria Alvaro-Gracia¹ and Sonia García de San-José¹, ¹CEIMI, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, ²CEIMI, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: To analyze the risk of admission for COVID19 infection and outcome of patients treated with b/tsDMARD from our center, to compare with all patients…
Abstract Number: 1379 • ACR Convergence 2020
Clinical Outcomes Among Participants with Diffuse Systemic Sclerosis Contracting COVID-19 During Clinical Studies of Lenabasum: A Case Series
Robyn Domsic¹, Lorinda Chung², Jerry Molitor³, Robert Spiera⁴, Bradley Bloom⁵, Barbara White⁶ and Quinn Dinh⁶, ¹University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Stanford University School of Medicine and Palo Alto VA Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, ³University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, USA, New York, NY, ⁵Corbus Pharmaceuticals Inc, Norwood, MA, ⁶Corbus Pharmaceuticals, Norwood, MA
Background/Purpose: Patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) may be at increased risk for severe outcomes with COVID-19, given the high rate of immunosuppressive medication use, underlying…
Abstract Number: 1884 • ACR Convergence 2020
Disease Activity in an Axial Spondyloarthritis Cohort During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Jean Liew¹, Maria Castillo², Ethan Zaccagnino², Patricia Katz³, Nigil Haroon⁴ and Lianne Gensler⁵, ¹University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ³University of California, San Francisco, Novato, CA, ⁴University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Response to the global coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in shelter-in-place orders and major changes to how people go about their daily lives.…
Abstract Number: 0020 • ACR Convergence 2020
Characteristics of Rheumatology Outpatients with Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19 During the Pandemic in New York City
Medha Barbhaiya¹, Gregory Vitone², Marianna Frey³, Deanna Jannat-Khah⁴, Candace Feldman⁵, Lindsay Lally³, Anne Bass⁶, Jane Salmon³, Mary Crow³, Michael Lockshin¹, Vivian Bykerk³ and Lisa Mandl³, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, Barbara Volcker Center for Women and Rheumatic Diseases, New York, NY, ²Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, ³Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁴Hospital for Special Surgery, New York City, NY, ⁵Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁶Hospital for Special Surgery/Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: The incidence and disease severity of COVID-19 in rheumatic disease patients, who may be at higher risk due to underlying immune dysregulation and use…
Abstract Number: 0458 • ACR Convergence 2020
Rapid Implementation of a Multidisciplinary COVID-19 Cytokine Storm Syndrome Task Force
Bibi Ayesha¹, Anand Kumthekar¹, Ruchi Jain², Sneha Patel³, Manish Ramesh¹, Denisa Ferastraoaru⁴, Golda Hudes⁴, Merhunisa Karagic⁴, Sheema Zafar¹, Rachel Bartash⁴, Natalia Vasquez-Canizares⁵, Elizabeth Kitsis⁶, Clement Tagoe⁷, Dawn Wahezi⁵, Tamar Rubinstein⁸ and Anna Broder³, ¹Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, ²Montefiore Medical Center, Irvington, NY, ³Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, ⁴Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, ⁵Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ⁶Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁷Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Fresh Meadows, NY, ⁸Albert Einstein College of Medicine / Montefiore Medical Center, White Plains, NY
Background/Purpose: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infected patients present with a state of ongoing inflammation and an exaggerated inflammatory state due to unregulated cytokine release called the…
Abstract Number: 0605 • ACR Convergence 2020
How Did SARS-CoV2/COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Rheumatology Practice in Latin America? A Regional Survey from PANLAR
Daniel Fernández-Ávila¹, Julián Barahona-Correa¹, Diana Romero-Alvernia¹, Sergio Kowalski², Ana María Sapag Durán³, Antonio Cachafeiro Vilar⁴, Belia Lucía Meléndez Muñoz⁵, Carlos Santiago Pastelín⁶, Daniel Palleiro Rivero⁷, Dina María Arrieta⁸, Guillermo Pons-Estel⁹, Jossiell Then Báez¹⁰, Manuel Ugarte-Gil¹¹, Mario Cardiel¹², Nelly Colman¹³, Nilmo Chávez Pérez¹⁴, Paula Burgos¹⁵, Rubén Montufar¹⁶, Sayonara Sandino¹⁷, Yurilis Fuentes-Silva¹⁸ and Enrique Soriano¹⁹, ¹Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Hospital Universitario San Ignacio, Bogota, Colombia, ²Unidad de Investigación PANLAR. Universidade Federal do Paraná, Paraná, Brazil, ³Hospital Universitario Japonés, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, ⁴Pacífica Salud - Hospital Punta Pacífica,, Ciudad de Panamá, Panama, ⁵Hospital de la Policía Nacional N1 Quito, Quito, Ecuador, ⁶Instituto Hondureño de la Seguridad Social, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, ⁷Instituto Nacional de Reumatología del Uruguay - Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay, ⁸Hospital México, San José de Costa Rica, Costa Rica, ⁹Centro Regional de Enfermedades Autoinmunes y Reumáticas (GO-CREAR), Rosario, Argentina, ¹⁰Hospital Metropolitano de Santiago (HOMS), Santiago, Dominican Republic, ¹¹Servicio de Reumatología. Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen and Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru, ¹²Centro de Investigación Clínica de Morelia, Morelia, Mexico, ¹³Hospital de Clínicas - Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Asunción, Paraguay, ¹⁴Instituto Guatemalteco de Seguridad Social, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala, ¹⁵Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile, ¹⁶Consultorio de Especialidades del Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social, San Salvador, El Salvador, ¹⁷Policlínica Nicaragüense, Managua, Nicaragua, ¹⁸Centro Clínico Universitario de Oriente - Universidad de Oriente, Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, ¹⁹Department of Public Health, Instituto Universitario, Escuela de Medicina Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rheumatology Unit, Internal Medicine Services, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Capital Federal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Background/Purpose: Since December 2019, a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic was declared. Social isolation became a mainstay for the prevention of disease expansion. Outpatient follow-up of…
Abstract Number: 0644 • ACR Convergence 2020
Characterizations of Cytokine Storm Associated with COVID19
Ofer Perzon¹, Avi Abutbul¹, Sigal Sviri¹ and Dror Mevorach¹, ¹Hadassah-University Hospital, Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
Background/Purpose: COVID-19, the name given to the clinical syndrome associated with the newly recognized virus SARS-CoV-2 has become pandemic with mortality estimated based on reports…
Abstract Number: 1416 • ACR Convergence 2020
Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Patients Living with Vasculitis
Shubhasree Banerjee¹, Michael George², Kalen Young³, Shilpa Venkatachalam⁴, Jennifer Gordon⁵, Cristina Burroughs⁶, David Curtis⁷, Marcela Ferrada⁸, Kelly Gavigan⁹, Peter C. Grayson¹⁰, Joyce Kullman¹¹, Jeffrey R Curtis¹², Dianne Shaw³, William Nowell¹³ and Peter Merkel², ¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Vasculitis Foundation, Kansas City, ⁴Global Healthy Living Foundation, Upper Nyack, ⁵Temple University, Philadelphia, ⁶University of South Florida, Tampa, ⁷Global Healthy Living Foundation, New York City, ⁸Systemic Autoimmunity Branch, Vasculitis Translational Research Program, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ⁹Global Healthy Living Foundation, Upper Nyack, NY, ¹⁰Systemic Autoimmunity Branch, National Institutes of Health, NIAMS, Bethesda, MD, ¹¹Vasculitis Foundation, Kansas City, MO, ¹²Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ¹³Global Healthy Living Foundation, New York City, NY
Background/Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to impact how patients with vasculitis interact with health care systems due to concerns about infections. This study…
Abstract Number: 1961 • ACR Convergence 2020
Decreased Visits in RISE Practices Due to the SARS-CoV-2 Global Pandemic
Jing Li¹, Sarah Ringold², Jeffrey R Curtis³, Kaleb Michaud⁴, Tracy Johansson⁵, Jinoos Yazdany⁶ and Gabriela Schmajuk⁷, ¹University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Seattle Children's, Seattle, WA, ³Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁵Adult / ACR Test Training Program #4, Atlanta, GA, ⁶UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ⁷University of California, San Francisco, Atherton, CA
Background/Purpose: The SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic has resulted in major disruptions to medical care, including rheumatology. We aimed to understand the changes in clinical visit counts…

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