Abstract Number: 119 • 2020 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Actual Medication Usage of Patients with Juvenile Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Using Japanese Health Insurance Database
Background/Purpose: Background: Immunosuppressive therapy is the mainstay of treatment of child systemic lupus erythematosus (cSLE). However until very recently, the treatment of cSLE lacked uniformity.…Abstract Number: 2764 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Incidence, Characteristics and Management of Giant Cell Arteritis in France: A Study Based on National Health Insurance Claims Data
Background/Purpose: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is an immune-mediated, primary systemic vasculitis that affects large and medium-sized arteries. GCA may cause vision loss in up to…Abstract Number: 2856 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Do Patients with Moderate or High Disease Activity Escalate RA Therapy According to Treat-to-Target Principles? Results from the Acr’s RISE Registry
Background/Purpose: Routine measurement of RA disease activity and adjustment of drug therapy to attain remission or low disease activity is recommended by the ACR and…Abstract Number: 1660 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Depression Has a Greater Impact on Psoriatic Arthritis Than Rheumatoid Arthritis
Background/Purpose: Depression has been shown to be more common in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), than in the general population. The…Abstract Number: 212 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Treatment Patterns in Large Vessel Arteritis (Giant Cell Arteritis and Temporal Arteritis): Findings from a Large Contemporaneous Real-World Cohort in the US
Background/Purpose: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common form of primary systemic vasculitis with annual incidence as high as 27 per 100,000 in persons…Abstract Number: 1014 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Rheumatic Disease Data Refinery: A Case Study in Integrative Genomics Reveals Complex IFN Signatures in Therapeutic Studies in SLE
Background/Purpose: Over the past 15 years, more than 10,000 whole tissue biopsies from patients with rheumatic diseases have been deposited into publicly available gene expression…Abstract Number: 1019 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Molecular Profiling of RA Patients Suggests a Differential Involvement of Adaptive and Innate Cell Populations in Response to Anti-TNF Treatment
Background/Purpose: Despite the success of anti-TNF therapies in RA, ~ 30 % of patients are non-responders. Several studies have focused on understanding the biology underlying…Abstract Number: 1712 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Microbial and Metabolic MULTI-Omic Correlations in Systemic Sclerosis Patients
Background/Purpose: The gastro-intestinal tract (GIT) is frequently involved in Systemic sclerosis (SSc). Perturbation in the gut microbiota may affect the body well-being and function and…Abstract Number: 1780 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Prognostic Factors in Patients with Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis Requiring Hospitalization- a 10 Year Nationwide Analysis
Background/Purpose: Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (GPA) is a form of systemic vasculitis with necrotizing granulomatous inflammation commonly involving upper and lower respiratory tracts, necrotizing glomerulonephritis and…Abstract Number: 1865 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Novel Approach to Arthritis Surveillance Suggests a Much Higher Prevalence of Arthritis Among US Adults Than Previous Estimate
Background/Purpose: Current national estimates of arthritis prevalence in the United States rely on a single survey question about doctor-diagnosed arthritis from the National Health Interview…Abstract Number: 1964 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Risk of Hydroxychloroquine Toxic Retinopathy and Its Risk Factors in the Treatment of Rheumatic Diseases: A Systematic Review
Background/Purpose: Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is widely used in the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and other rheumatic diseases. While generally well-tolerated and…Abstract Number: 2827 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Novel Statistical Method to Resolve Cellular Heterogeneity in Disease Tissues: Integrating Transcriptomic Data in Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP) – RA Network Phase 1 Data
Background/Purpose: Detecting distinct cellular subsets in disease tissues is key to understanding the pathogenesis of immune diseases, for example in synovial tissues in rheumatoid arthritis…Abstract Number: 2910 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Comparison of Clinical and Ultrasound Measures of Disease Activity in a Large National ‘Real Life’ Cohort of RA Patients
Background/Purpose: Clinical measures of disease activity, such as the DAS-score and ultrasound (US) scores of disease activity can be sometimes yield discordant results. Little research…Abstract Number: 2923 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Propensity Score-Matched Study of Organ Damage in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus from the BLISS Long-Term Extension Trials Versus the Toronto Lupus Cohort: A Post Hoc Longitudinal Analysis
Background/Purpose: Two Phase 3, randomized controlled trials (BLISS 52/76) studied the efficacy and safety of belimumab plus standard of care (SoC) in systemic lupus erythematosus…Abstract Number: 9 • 2017 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Biologically-Based Approach for Classifying Chronic Childhood Arthritis
Background/Purpose: Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) comprises a heterogeneous group of conditions that share chronic arthritis as a common characteristic. International uniformity in classifying JIA, based…