Abstracts tagged "Disease Activity"

Abstract Number: 0533 • ACR Convergence 2023
Remission in Axial Spondyloarthritis: Is There a Difference Between NSAIDs and b/tsDMARDs in Daily Practice?
Francesco Natalucci¹, Pauline KRUG², Angela DE SOUSA LEITE², Tatiana Sokolova³, Patrick Durez⁴, Maria S. Stoenoiu² and Adrien NZEUSSEU TOUKAP⁵, ¹UCLouvain University, Sermoneta, Italy, ²Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium, ³Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, ⁴UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium, ⁵Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, St.-Lambrechts-Woluwe, Belgium
Background/Purpose: Randomized-controlled trials (RCTs) done in axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) patients have shown that remission in axSpA (including nonradiographic axSpA) patients treated without b/tsDMARDs (TNFα blockers,…
Abstract Number: 0848 • ACR Convergence 2023
Performance of Serum MRP8/14, sCD14, IL-6 and Neutrophil CD64 in Isolation and in Combination for Differentiating Flare from Bacterial Infection in Febrile SLE Patients
Kishan Majithiya¹, Komal Singh¹, Pankti Mehta², Chengappa Kavadichanda³, seema Sharma¹, Able Lawrence¹ and Amita Aggarwal¹, ¹Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow, India, ²King George's Medical University, Mumbai, India, ³Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India
Background/Purpose: Disease flare and infections are the major causes of fever in a patient with SLE. It is vital to differentiate between these two as…
Abstract Number: 1218 • ACR Convergence 2023
Discovering the Potential Application of Digital Biomarkers for Inflammatory Arthritis Patients, a Design Thinking Approach; Preliminary Results of the Patients’ Perspective
patty de Groot¹, ilja Tchetverikov², Yvonne P. M. Goekoop-Ruiterman³, Wendy Olsder⁴, Rien Bakker⁵, Marc r. Kok⁶, Jasper Foolen⁷ and Jolanda J. Luime¹, ¹Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ²Albert Sweitzer Hospital, Dordrecht, Netherlands, ³Haga Ziekenhuis, The Hague, Netherlands, ⁴Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ⁵Consortium Beroepsonderwijs, Information Communication Technology, Amersfoort, Netherlands, ⁶Maasstad Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ⁷Eindhoven University of Technology deparment of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: The Inflammatory Arthritis (IA) patient population is growing, whilst facing a shortage of health care professionals (HCPs). It is impossible to meet the future…
Abstract Number: 1382 • ACR Convergence 2023
Efficacy of Tofacitinib Immunotherapy Suppresses Tfh and Tph Cells in Patients with Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome
Qinghong Liu¹ and Jing He², ¹Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China, ²Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, China
Background/Purpose: Primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by systemic involvement and lacks effective treatment options. The Janus kinase (JAK) pathway plays a…
Abstract Number: 1452 • ACR Convergence 2023
Inflammatory Markers and Left Ventricular Dysfunction in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
Audrey Hagiwara, Moumita Bose, Marianne Bernardo, Michael Nelson, Mariko Ishimori, Daniel Berman, C. Noel Bairey Merz, janet wei and Caroline Jefferies, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: Women with SLE have an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease. Many women with SLE frequently report chest pain in the absence of obstructive coronary…
Abstract Number: 1936 • ACR Convergence 2023
Higher Rates of Disease Control During the Coronavirus Pandemic in Pediatric Patients with Autoinflammatory Periodic Diseases on Canakinumab Treatment – Interim Data from the RELIANCE Registry
Gerd Horneff¹, Norbert Blank², Jasmin B. Kuemmerle-Deschner³, Joerg Henes⁴, Birgit Kortus-Goetze⁵, Prasad T. Oommen⁶, Anne Pankow⁷, Tobias Krickau⁸, Catharina Schuetz⁹, Ivan Foeldvari¹⁰, Juergen Rech¹¹, Frank Weller-Heinemann¹², Ales Janda¹³, Markus Hufnagel¹⁴, Florian M. Meier¹⁵, Frank Dressler¹⁶, Michael Borte¹⁷, Ioana Andreica¹⁸, Peter Wasiliew¹⁹, Michael Fiene²⁰, Daniel Windschall²¹, Martin Krusche²², Tania Kuempfel²³, Julia Weber-Arden²⁴ and Tilmann Kallinich²⁵, ¹Asklepios Klinik Sankt Augustin GmbH, Bonn, Germany, ²University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, ³med.uni-tuebingen, Tübingen, Germany, ⁴University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, ⁵Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology,University Hospital of Giessen and Marburg, Marburg, Germany, ⁶Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Clinical Immunology, Center for Child and Adolescent Health,Medical Faculty Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany, ⁷Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology,Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁸Pediatrics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuernberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany, ⁹Department of Pediatrics, Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus,Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, ¹⁰Hamburger Zentrum für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie, Hamburg, Germany, ¹¹University Clinic Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ¹²Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, Prof. Hess Children's Hospital, Bremen, Bremen, Germany, ¹³Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Medical Center Ulm, Ulm, Germany, ¹⁴Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Medical Center, Medical Faculty, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, ¹⁵Department of General Pharmacology and Toxicology, Goethe University Hospital and Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, ¹⁶Department of Paediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Children's Hospital, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, ¹⁷Hospital for Children & Adolescents, St. Georg Hospital, Leipzig, Germany, ¹⁸Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet Herne, Herne, Germany, ¹⁹Division of Pediatric Rheumatology and autoinflammation reference center Tuebingen, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, ²⁰Rheumatology Center Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany, ²¹Clinic of Paediatric and Adolescent Rheumatology, St. Josef-Stift Sendenhorst, Northwest German Center for Rheumatology, Sendenhorst, Germany, ²²UKE, Hamburg, Germany, ²³Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology, Biomedical Center and University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Muenchen, Germany, ²⁴Novartis Innovative Medicines, Nuernberg, Germany, ²⁵Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Critical Care Medicine, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Nuremberg, Germany
Background/Purpose: Pediatric patients with autoinflammatory diseases (AID) on Canakinumab (CAN) therapy have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic including SARS-CoV-2 infection, SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, and AID…
Abstract Number: 2271 • ACR Convergence 2023
Longitudinal Changes in Type 1 & Type 2 SLE Activity
Amanda Eudy¹, Jennifer Rogers², Daniel Wojdyla³, Kai Sun², Rebecca Sadun², Mithu Maheswaranathan⁴, Jayanth Doss², Lisa Criscione-Schreiber⁴ and Megan Clowse⁵, ¹Duke University, Raleigh, NC, ²Duke University, Durham, NC, ³Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, ⁴Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, ⁵Duke University, Chapel Hill, NC
Background/Purpose: The Type 1 & 2 SLE Model encompass symptoms classically attributed to inflammation, including arthritis, rash, serositis and nephritis (Type 1 SLE), and symptoms…
Abstract Number: 2513 • ACR Convergence 2023
Latent Class Analysis Identifies 2 Clinical Phenotypes of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-induced Inflammatory Arthritis
Laura Cappelli¹, Jamie Perin², Clifton Bingham³ and Ami Shah⁴, ¹Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ³Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Ellicott City, MD
Background/Purpose: : Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) for cancer treatment can cause inflammatory arthritis (IA). ICI-IA is a heterogeneous entity affecting peripheral joints, tendons, and rarely…
Abstract Number: 0003 • ACR Convergence 2023
Expanded Extrafollicular B Cells Were Improved by RTX in IgG4-related Disease
Yusho Ishii¹, Aakriti Alisha Arora¹, Scott Jenks¹, Iñaki Sanz² and Arezou Khosroshahi¹, ¹Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ²Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
Background/Purpose: IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is an immune-mediated disease characterized by fibrotic masses with expansion of IgG4-producing plasma cell in multiple organs such as pancreas, lacrimal…
Abstract Number: 0386 • ACR Convergence 2023
Functional Disability and Disease Activity Are Affected by Social Determinants of Health in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Mohammad Movahedi¹, Kangping Cui², George Tomilnson³, Angela Cesta³, xiuying Li³ and Claire Bombardier⁴, ¹Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: The relationship between social determinants of health (SDH) (e.g. income, education, and employment status) and disease outcomes in the RA population is not well…
Abstract Number: 0539 • ACR Convergence 2023
Impact of Extreme Baseline BASDAI and/or Maastricht AS Enthesitis Score on Treatment Response to Upadacitinib in Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis
Maxime Dougados¹, David Bulbin², Heather Jones³, Tianming Gao⁴, Anna Shmagel⁵, Thomas Poznanski⁶, Abhijeet Danve⁷ and Karl Gaffney⁸, ¹Université de Paris, Paris, France, ²Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA, ³AbbVie, Inc., Mettawa, IL, ⁴AbbVie, Inc., North Chicago, IL, ⁵AbbVie, Inc., Long Grove, IL, ⁶AbbVie, Inc., Plainfield, IL, ⁷Yale University, New Haven, CT, ⁸Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Axial SpA (axSpA) and FM manifest with overlapping clinical features such as pain, fatigue, and stiffness, yet their treatment is distinctly different. FM is…
Abstract Number: 0911 • ACR Convergence 2023
Spatial Transcriptomics Reveals Normal-density and Low-density Neutrophils Are More Prevalent Than Macrophages in Lupus Nephritis Glomeruli, and Urine DNA Methylation Analyses Capture Both Myeloid Populations
Sladjana Skopelja-Gardner¹, Joshua Skydel², Alecia Roy³, Brenna Kerin³, James Whitley³, Fred Kolling⁴, Noelle Kosarek⁴, Michelle Petri⁵, Andrea Fava⁶, Lucas Salas⁷ and Christopher Burns³, ¹Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, ²Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, ³Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, ⁴Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, ⁵Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Timonium, MD, ⁶Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁷Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH
Background/Purpose: Despite compelling evidence that normal-density (NDN) and low-density neutrophils (LDN) are activated in the blood of lupus patients, their role in lupus nephritis (LN)…
Abstract Number: 1236 • ACR Convergence 2023
Melanoma Differentiation-Associated Protein-5 in Juvenile Dermatomyositis: A Single Center Cohort
Dawn Gist¹, Sarah Molina², Maria Pereira³, Andrea Ramirez³, Cagri Yildirim-Toruner⁴ and Marietta De Guzman³, ¹Baylor College of Medicine Pediatrics Residency, Houston, TX, ²Baylor College of Medicine - Pediatrics Residency Program, Houston, TX, ³Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ⁴Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX
Background/Purpose: Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is an idiopathic inflammatory myopathy that causes muscle weakness, rash, vascular changes, or other organ involvement. The phenotypes may vary, and…
Abstract Number: 1390 • ACR Convergence 2023
Prediction of Low Disease Activity in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis Treated with Secukinumab in Real World – Data from a German Observational Study
Asmir Vodencarevic¹, Jan Brandt-Juergens², Daniel Peterlik¹, Benjamin Gmeiner¹ and Uta Kiltz³, ¹Novartis Pharma GmbH, Nürnberg, Germany, ²rheumatologische Schwerpunktpraxis, Berlin, Germany, ³Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne, Germany
Background/Purpose: Secukinumab (SEC) proved to be an effective treatment for patients suffering from ankylosing spondylitis (AS) in randomized clinical trials [1]. There is only limited…
Abstract Number: 1503 • ACR Convergence 2023
Disease Course and Complement as Predictors of Response to Standard of Care Plus Placebo in Patients with SLE: A Post Hoc Analysis of Dapirolizumab Pegol and Epratuzumab Clinical Trial Data
Christian Stach¹, Caroline Gordon², Vanessa Taieb³, George Stojan⁴ and Joan Merrill⁵, ¹UCB Pharma, Monheim am Rheim, Germany, ²Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ³UCB Pharma, Colombes, France, ⁴UCB, Baltimore, MD, ⁵Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK
Background/Purpose: High placebo responses pose challenges to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) clinical trials.1This analysis aims to identify predictors of standard of care plus placebo (SOC+PBO)…

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