Abstracts tagged "Disease Activity"

Abstract Number: 1361 • ACR Convergence 2023
Effect of Zen/Doria Remission and Glucocorticoid Dosage on the Pregnancy Outcome of SLE: Retrospective Study in Two Japanese Tertiary Referral Centers
Takehiro Nakai¹, Nanase Honda², Sho Fukui³, Ayako Kitada¹, Naoto Yokogawa⁴ and Masato Okada¹, ¹St. Luke's International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, ²Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, Fuchu-shi, Japan, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, Taito City, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: Achieving remission is one of the treatment targets in the lupus care and it is also important in preventing the prevalence of adverse pregnancy…
Abstract Number: 1448 • ACR Convergence 2023
Association of Disease Activity and Anti-Double Stranded DNA Antibodies Titers with Echocardiographic Parameters in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients
Natalia Guajardo-Jauregui¹, Iris Colunga², José Ramón Azpiri-López², Dionicio A. Galarza-Delgado², Jesus Alberto Cardenas-De la Garza³ and Rosa Arvizu-Rivera⁴, ¹Hospital Universitario Dr. José Eleuterio González, Monterrey, Mexico, ²Hospital Universitario UANL, Monterrey, Mexico, ³Hospital Universitario "Dr. José Eleuterio González", San Nicolas, Mexico, ⁴Hospital Universitario "Dr. José Eleuterio Gonzalez", Escobedo, Mexico
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic inflammatory disease that involves the deposition of immunocomplexes on vital organs, including the heart. Cardiovascular disease is…
Abstract Number: 1905 • ACR Convergence 2023
Implementation of the Clinical Disease Activity Index to Optimize Treat-to-Target Management of Rheumatoid Arthritis at the University of North Carolina Hospitals Rheumatology Specialty Clinic
Rumey Ishizawar¹, Thuyvan Phan² and Steven Takacs³, ¹University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, ²University of North Carolina Hospitals Department of Pharmacy, Apex, NC, ³University of North Carolina Faculty Physicians, Chapel Hill, NC
Background/Purpose: The 2021 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) guidelines for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) recommend a treat-to-target approach to optimize clinical outcomes. This…
Abstract Number: 2264 • ACR Convergence 2023
Proposal for Defining Moderate and Severe Activity States in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Impact on Flares and Other Outcomes
Ivonne Lourdes Mamani Velarde¹, Iñigo Rúa-Figueroa², Sara García Pérez¹, Irene Altabás González³, CORAL Mourino Rodriguez⁴, Norman Jiménez⁵, JULIA MARTINEZ BARRIO⁶, Maria Galindo-Izquierdo⁷, Jaime Calvo- Alén⁸, Celia Eurasquin⁹, Belen Serrano Benavente¹⁰, Esther Uriarte Isacelaya¹¹, Eva Tomero Muriel¹², Mercedes Freire González¹³, Ricardo Blanco¹⁴, Eva Salgado-Pérez¹⁵, Paloma Vela¹⁶, Antonio Fernandez-Nebro¹⁷, Alejandro Olivé-Marqués¹⁸, Clara Sanguesa Gomez¹⁹, Javier Narvaez²⁰, Raúl Menor-Almagro²¹, Jose Rosas²², José Ángel Hernández Beriain²³, JAVIER MANERO²⁴, Elena Aurrecoechea Aguinaga²⁵, Oihane Ibarguengoitia-Barrena²⁶, Carlos Montilla-Morales²⁷, Gema Bonilla²⁸, Vicente Torrente-Segarra²⁹, Ana Paula Cacheda³⁰, Maria J. García-Villanueva³¹, Clara Moriano Morales³², Concepción Fito Manteca³³, Nuria Lozano Rivas³⁴, Cristina Bohórquez³⁵ and Jose-Maria Pego-Reigosa³⁶, ¹University Hospital of Vigo, Department of Rheumatology. IRIDIS Group (Investigation in Rheumatology and Immune-Diseases), Galicia Sur Health Research Institute (IISGS), Vigo, Spain, ²Rheumatology, Hospital de Gran Canaria Doctor Negrin, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, ³Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital of Vigo. IRIDIS Group (Investigation in Rheumatology and Immune-Diseases), Vigo, Spain, ⁴Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Vigo. IRIDIS (Investigation in Rheumatology and Immune-Mediated Diseases) Group, Galicia Sur Health Research Institute, Vigo, Spain, ⁵IIRIDIS (Investigation in Rheumatology and Immune-Mediated Diseases) Group, Galicia Sur Health Research Institute., Vigo, Spain, ⁶Rheumatology, Gregorio Marañon University Hospital, Madrid, Spain, ⁷Rheumatology, University Hospital of 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain, ⁸Rheumatology, Bioaraba Research Unit, Hospital Universitario Araba, Vitoria, Spain, ⁹Department of Rheumatology, Doctor Negrín University Hospital, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, ¹⁰Rheumatology Department Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, ¹¹Rheumatology, University Hospital of Donosti, San Sebastián, Spain, ¹²Rheumatology, Hospital La Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ¹³Rheumatology department, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña (CHUAC). Instituto de Investigación Biomédica A Coruña (INIBIC), A Coruña, Spain, ¹⁴Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ¹⁵Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital of Ourense, Ourense, Spain, ¹⁶Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital of Alicante, Alicante, Spain, ¹⁷Hospital Regional Universitario de Málaga, Malaga, Spain, ¹⁸Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, ¹⁹Severo Ochoa Hospital, Madrid, Spain, ²⁰Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain, ²¹Rheumatology, Hospital Jerez, Puerto De Santa María, Spain, ²²Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Villajoyosa, Alicante, Spain, ²³Rheumatology, Hospital Insular de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, ²⁴Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Zaragoza, Spain, ²⁵Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Sierrallana, Torrelavega, Spain, ²⁶Galdakao-Usansolo University Hospital, Bilbao, Spain, ²⁷Rheumatology, University Hospital of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, ²⁸Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Clínico Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain, ²⁹Department of Rheumatology, Hospital de Sant Joan Despí Moises Broggi,, Sant Joan Despí, Spain, ³⁰Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Son Llatzer, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, ³¹Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain, ³²Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de León, León, Spain, ³³Complejo Universitario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, ³⁴Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain, ³⁵Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Príncipe de Asturias, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, ³⁶Rheumatology, Hospital do Meixoeiro, Vigo, Spain
Background/Purpose: In systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), there is no definition of states of moderate and severe SLE activity. How these states may influence different disease…
Abstract Number: 2476 • ACR Convergence 2023
Defining Cutoffs for Disease Activity States in Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Based on the Systemic Juvenile Arthritis Disease Activity Score
Silvia Rosina¹, Ana Isabel Rebollo Gimenez², Letizia Tarantola¹, Yulia Vyzhga¹, Luca Carlini³, Elisa Patrone⁴, Maria Katsikas⁵, Claudia Saad-Magalhaes⁶, Dalia El-Ghoneimy⁷, Yasser El Miedany⁸, Raju Khubchandani⁹, Priyankar Pal¹⁰, Gabriele Simonini¹¹, Giovanni Filocamo¹², Maurizio Gattinara¹³, Fabrizio De Benedetti¹⁴, Davide Montin¹⁵, Adele Civino¹⁶, Muatasem Alsuweiti¹⁷, Valda Stenevicha¹⁸, Vyacheslav Chasnyk¹⁹, Ekaterina Alexeeva²⁰, Sulaiman Al-Mayouf²¹, Soamarat Vilayuk²², Angela Pistorio²³ and Angelo Ravelli²⁴, ¹IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, UOC Reumatologia e Malattie Autoinfiammatorie, Genova, Italy, ²IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, UOC Reumatologia e Malattie Autoinfiammatorie, Genoa, Italy, ³IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, UOC Servizio di Sperimentazioni Cliniche Pediatriche, PRINTO, Genoa, Italy, ⁴IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, UOC Servizio di Sperimentazioni Cliniche Pediatriche, PRINTO, Genova, Italy, ⁵Hospital de Pediatria Juan P Garrahan, Servicio de Inmunologia/Reumatologia, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁶Sao Paulo State University, Botucatu, Brazil, ⁷PAIR Unit, Children's Hospital Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, ⁸Ain Shams University, Italian Hospital St Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt, ⁹SRCC Childrens Hospital, Mumbai, India, ¹⁰Institute of Child Health, Pediatric Medicine, Kolkata, India, ¹¹Rheumatology Unit, ERN ReConnet Center, Meyer Children's Hospital IRCCS, Florence Italy. NeuroFARBA Department, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, ¹²Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda-Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Pediatric Rheumatology, Milan, Italy, ¹³Istituto Gaetano Pini, Divisione di Reumatologia, Milan, Italy, ¹⁴Bambino Gesu Children's Hospital, Division of Rheumatology, Rome, Italy, ¹⁵Immunology and Rheumatology Unit, Regina Margherita Children Hospital, Turin, Italy, ¹⁶P.O. Vito Fazzi, Uo Pediatria - Sezione Reumatologia e Immunologia Pediatrica, Lecce, Italy, ¹⁷King Hussein Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, Amman, Jordan, ¹⁸Department of Paediatrics, Riga Stradins University, Children University Hospital, Riga, Latvia, ¹⁹Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Pediatrics, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, ²⁰Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia, ²¹King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ²²Mahidol University Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand, ²³Direzione Scientifica, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy, ²⁴Direzione Scientifica, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genova, Italy
Background/Purpose: The systemic Juvenile Arthritis Disease Activity Score (sJADAS) is a composite disease activity (DA) score specifically validated for use in systemic JIA (sJIA), whose…
Abstract Number: 0365 • ACR Convergence 2023
Establishing a Multidisciplinary Registry for Temporomandibular Joint Arthritis in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: Insights into Patient Outcomes and Management Challenges
Stacey Tarvin¹, Amy Rakestraw², Jessica Lee², N. Shaun Matthews³, Susan H. Ballinger² and Christina M. Sparks², ¹Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health, Indianapolis, IN, ²Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, ³Indiana University School of Dentistry, Indianapolis, IN
Background/Purpose: Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) arthritis, a condition frequently overlooked in patients with JIA, can result in joint damage if not promptly treated. Such damage presents…
Abstract Number: 0520 • ACR Convergence 2023
How Do Early Disease Activity and Early Clinical Response Associate with Long-Term Outcomes with Ixekizumab in Radiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis?
Sofia Ramiro¹, Cedric Lukas², Louis Bessette³, Pendleton Wickersham⁴, Soyi Liu-Leage⁵, Tommaso Panni⁵, Rebecca Bolce⁵, Boris Janos⁵, Michael Nissen⁶ and James Cheng-Chung Wei⁷, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, France, ³Centre de l'Ostéoporose et de Rhumatologie de Québec, Quebec City, QC, Canada, ⁴Arthritis Associates PA, San Antonio, TX, ⁵Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, ⁶Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland, ⁷Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Department of Rheumatology, Taichung, Taiwan
Background/Purpose: The ASAS-EULAR recommendations for the management of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) advise that a patient be assessed for biological disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (bDMARD) treatment response…
Abstract Number: 0839 • ACR Convergence 2023
Efficacy and Safety of Nipocalimab in Patients with Moderate to Severe Active Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA): The Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blinded, Placebo-controlled Phase 2a IRIS-RA Study
Peter C. Taylor¹, Georg Schett², Fowzia Ibrahim³, Bei Zhou⁴, Jocelyn H. Leu⁵, Sophia G. Liva⁵, Qingmin Wang⁵, Ricardo Rojo Cella⁵, Chetan S. Karyekar⁵ and Kaiyin Fei⁵, ¹Nuffield Department of Orthopedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ²Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, ³Janssen Research & Development, LLC, High Wycombe, United Kingdom, ⁴Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Chesterbrook, PA, ⁵Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Spring House, PA
Background/Purpose: RA is a chronic inflammatory disease associated with autoantibodies. Despite the use of targeted therapies, up to half of patients fail to achieve remission…
Abstract Number: 1075 • ACR Convergence 2023
Impact of Immunosuppression on the Safety and Efficacy of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Patients with Rheumatic Autoimmune Disease: Experience from the Canadian Research Group of Rheumatology in Immuno-Oncology (CanRIO)
Lourdes Gonzalez Arreola¹, Carrie Ye², Marie Hudson³, Janet Roberts⁴, Janet Pope⁵, Thomas Appleton⁵, Sabrina Hoa⁶, Aurore Fifi-Mah⁷, Nancy Maltez⁸, Alexandra Saltman⁹, Megan Himmel⁹, Ines Colmegna¹⁰, Alexandra Ladouceur¹¹, Anthony Obrzut¹, Jeremiah Tan¹², David Moon², Tatiana Nevskaya⁵, Emma Schmidt¹³, Lindsay Cho⁴, Nader Toban¹⁴ and Shahin Jamal¹⁵, ¹Arthritis Research Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ²University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ³McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁴Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, ⁵University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ⁶University of Montreal, Brossard, QC, Canada, ⁷University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁸The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ⁹University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁰The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada, ¹¹Department of Rheumatology of McGill University and CHU-Bordeaux, Montréal, QC, Canada, ¹²Arthritis Research Canada, Vancouver, Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ¹³University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ¹⁴Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Dollard-des-Ormeaux, QC, Canada, ¹⁵Vancouver Coastal Health, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Background/Purpose: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) have changed the landscape of treatment for many cancers. However, most cancer clinical trials for ICI excluded patients with pre-existing…
Abstract Number: 1377 • ACR Convergence 2023
Characterization of Pulmonary Manifestations of Sjögren Syndrome: A Multicenter Retrospective Study
Loïc Meudec¹, Cindy Marques², Pierre-Antoine Juge³, Robin Dhote⁴, Anne-Laure Fauchais⁵, Emanuelle Dernis⁶, Olivier Vittecoq⁷, Alain SARAUX⁸, Jacques-Eric Gottenberg⁹, Eric Hachulla¹⁰, Véronique Le Guern¹¹, Philippe Dieudé¹², Marie-Pierre Debray¹³, Antoine Beurnier¹⁴, Raphaele Seror¹⁵, Xavier Mariette¹⁶ and Gaetane Nocturne¹⁷, ¹CHU Kremlin-Bicêtre, Rheumatology, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France, ²CHU Pitié Salpétrière, Internal Medicine 1, Paris, France, ³Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Department of Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Avicenne, Bobigny, France, ⁵Dupuytren Hospital, Limoges, France, ⁶CH Le Mans, Le Mans, France, ⁷CHU Rouen, Rheumatology, Rouen, France, ⁸CHU Brest, Brest, France, ⁹Rheumatology Department, Strasbourg University Hospital, Strasbourg, France, ¹⁰CHU Lille, Département de Médecine Interne et Immunologie Clinique, Centre de Référence des Maladies Auto-immunes Systémiques Rares du Nord et Nord-Ouest de France (CeRAINO), Lille, France, ¹¹APHP Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France, ¹²Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Bichat-Claude Bernard University Hospital, INSERM UMR1152, University de Paris Cité, Department of Rheumatology, Paris, France, ¹³CHU Bichat, Radiology, Paris, France, ¹⁴CHU Kremlin-Bicêtre, Functional Explorations, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France, ¹⁵University Hospital Paris Saclay, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France, ¹⁶Université Paris-Saclay, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France, ¹⁷APHP, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
Background/Purpose: Sjögren disease (Sjo) is a systemic immune-related disease with pulmonary manifestations occurring in up to 16% of patients [1], including interstitial lung disease (SS-ILD)…
Abstract Number: 1451 • ACR Convergence 2023
Evaluation of Changes in SLE Patients’ Phenotype at Disease Onset, and Assessment of Disease Activity, Damage and Therapy at Diagnosis and During Follow up in the Last Forty Years: Preliminary Data of a Single Center Experience
Micaela Fredi¹, Silvia Ebe Lucia Della Pina¹, Claudia Barison¹, Chiara Orlandi¹, Marzia Tedeschi², Mai Chiara², Cecilia Nalli¹ and Franco Franceschini¹, ¹Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, ASST Spedali Civili of Brescia, Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy, ²University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease associated with a high degree of variability at onset, which may make SLE diagnosis challenging, with…
Abstract Number: 1907 • ACR Convergence 2023
Selection of a Candidate Instrument to Assess Flare in Osteoarthritis with Content Matching with Endorsed Domains
Fabiana Queiroga¹, Marita Cross², Lara Maxwell³, Leigh Callahan⁴, sam michel Cembalo⁵, Thomas Buttel², Cindy Copenhaver⁶, Jonathan Epstein⁷, david Hunter⁸, Lauren King⁹, Lyn March² and Francis Guillemin¹⁰, ¹Université de Lorraine, Antibes, France, ²University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, ³OMERACT, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ⁴The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁵OMERACT, Nancy, France, ⁶OMERACT, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁷Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France, ⁸Sydney Musculoskeletal Health, University of Sydney, St. Leonards, Australia, ⁹Clinical Associate, Division of Rheumatology, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁰Université de Lorraine, EA 4360 Apemac, Nancy, France
Background/Purpose: The Outcome Measures in Rheumatology group (OMERACT) developed methodological steps to select instrument(s) to assess content appropriateness of outcomes, as well as tools to…
Abstract Number: 2270 • ACR Convergence 2023
Factors Associated with Discordance Between Patient and Physician Perception of Disease Activity Among Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: An International Collaborative Study
Shounak Ghosh¹, Rajagopal Sankara Narayanan², Katie Bechman³, Ioannis Parodis⁴, Esha Kadam⁵, Wanruchada Katchamart⁶, Phonpen Akarawatcharangura Goo⁷, Abraham Edgar Gracia-Ramos⁸, Parikshit Sen⁹, Elena Nikiphorou³, Sreoshy Saha¹⁰, Ai Lyn Tan¹¹, Tsvetelina Velikova¹², Marcin Milchert¹³, Johannes Knitza¹⁴, Carlo Caballero¹⁵, Dey Dzifa¹⁶, Hector Chinoy¹⁷, COVAD Study Group¹⁸, Rohit Aggarwal¹⁹, Vikas Agarwal²⁰, Latika Gupta²¹ and Chris Wincup²², ¹CMRI Hospital, Kolkata, India, ²Narayana Medical College, Nellore, India, ³King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁴Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁵Seth Gordhandhas Sunderdas Medical College and King Edwards Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India, ⁶Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, ⁷Department of Medicine, Queen Savang Vadhana Memorial Hospital, Chonburi, Thailand, ⁸Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital, National Medical Center "La Raza", Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Av. Jacaranda S/N, Col. La Raza, Del. Azcapotzalco, C.P. 02990, Mexico City, Mexico, ⁹Maulana Azad Medical College, 2-Bahadurshah Zafar Marg, New Delhi, Delhi-110002, India., Dalhi, India, ¹⁰Mymensingh Medical College, Faridpur, Bangladesh, ¹¹University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ¹²Department of Clinical Immunology, Medical Faculty, University Hospital "Lozenetz", Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia, Bulgaria, ¹³Department of Internal Medicine, Rheumatology, Diabetology, Geriatrics and Clinical Immunology, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland, ¹⁴Department of Internal Medicine 3 Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ¹⁵Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia, ¹⁶Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Ghana School of Medicine and Dentistry, College of Health Sciences, Korle-Bu, Accra, Ghana, ¹⁷The University of Manchester, Sale, United Kingdom, ¹⁸-, -, ¹⁹University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²⁰Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow, India, ²¹Royal Wolverhampton Trust, Wolverhampton/University of Manchester, United Kingdom, ²²King's College Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: The management of SLE relies on regular assessment of disease activity. However, patient perception of disease activity can be highly variable and may be…
Abstract Number: 2484 • ACR Convergence 2023
Optimizing the Care of the Rheumatic Patient with Rheumatologist-Pharmacist Co-management
Ruchi Patel¹, Kristen Salava¹, Eric Newman², Joseph Chronowski¹, Dante Grassi¹, Hillary Harris³, Amanda Young¹, Idorenyin Udoeyo², Lisa Schroeder², David Bulbin⁴, David Pugliese⁵ and Jonida Cote⁶, ¹Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, ²Geisinger, Danville, PA, ³Geisinger, Wilkes Barre, PA, ⁴Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA, ⁵Geisinger Health System, Wilkes-Barre, PA, ⁶Geisinger Medical Center, Orefield, PA
Background/Purpose: More effective teamwork can improve patient care. We studied the effect of a Rheumatologist-Pharmacist Co-management program on the quality of care of rheumatology patients…
Abstract Number: 0377 • ACR Convergence 2023
Disease Activity and New Medication Start at Two Consecutive Registry Visits for Patients with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Melissa Mannion¹, Monica Aswani², Kristine Hearld², Emily Smitherman², Livie Huie³ and Jeffrey R Curtis⁴, ¹University of Alabama at Brimingham, Birmingham, AL, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³University of Alabama at Birmingham, Gardendale, AL, ⁴Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: The goal of treatment for patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is inactive or minimal disease activity and escalating medication for active disease is…

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