Abstracts tagged "Disease Activity"

Abstract Number: 0489 • ACR Convergence 2023
Prediction of Low Disease Activity in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis 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 with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) in previous randomized clinical trials [1]. There is only limited…
Abstract Number: 0597 • ACR Convergence 2023
Efficacy of Anifrolumab in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Overall and Organ-Specific SLEDAI-2K Improvements: Results from the Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Phase 3 Long-Term Extension Study
Richard A. Furie¹, Kenneth Kalunian², Eric Morand³, Ian Bruce⁴, Susan Manzi⁵, Yoshiya Tanaka⁶, Kevin Withrop⁷, Ihor Hupka⁸, Micki Hultquist⁹, Raj Tummala⁹, Gabriel Abreu¹⁰, Catharina Lindholm¹⁰ and Hussein Al-Mossawi¹¹, ¹Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Great Neck, NY, ²University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ³Monash University, Centre for Inflammatory Diseases, Melbourne, Australia, ⁴University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁵Lupus Center of Excellence, Autoimmunity Institute, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁶University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan, ⁷Oregon Health & Science University, Schools of Medicine and Public Health,, Portland, OR, ⁸BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, Warsaw, Poland, ⁹BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD, ¹⁰BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden, ¹¹BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: SLE is a systemic autoimmune disease requiring long-term treatment. In this placebo-controlled phase 3 TULIP long-term extension (LTE) study,1 the impact of anifrolumab in…
Abstract Number: 1025 • ACR Convergence 2023
Embedding Treat to Target Principles in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patient Education in Routine Care of Ethnic Minority Patients
Sharon Dowell¹, Mercedes Quinones², Tahereh Jamshidi³, Ilona Jileaeva⁴, Oshoze Kadiri⁴ and Gail Kerr⁵, ¹NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital, Jonesboro, AR, ²Washington DC VA Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, ³Howard University Hospital, Bethesda, MD, ⁴Howard University, Washington, DC, ⁵Washington DC VAMC/Georgetown and Howard Universities, Washington, DC
Background/Purpose: A successful treat to target (T2T) strategy in ethnic minority (EM) patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) could improve patient outcomes and help reduce healthcare…
Abstract Number: 1299 • ACR Convergence 2023
Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Who Never Use a Biological During Their Disease Course Represent a Subgroup of Patients Likely to Achieve Sustained DMARD-free Remission
Judith Heutz¹, Pascal de Jong¹, Annette van der Helm-van Mil² and Elise van Mulligen¹, ¹Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ²Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: According to the 2022 EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) complete cessation of DMARDs is not advisable due to a high…
Abstract Number: 1429 • ACR Convergence 2023
Longitudinal Evaluation of the Novel Psoriatic Arthritis 5-Thermometer Scale (PsA-5Ts) Domains During Treatment with Guselkumab: Pooled Analysis of Three Phase 3, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-Controlled Studies
Carlo Selmi¹, Fausto Salaffi², Sibel Aydin³, Enrique Soriano⁴, Emmanouil Rampakakis⁵, Mohamed Sharaf⁶, Miriam Zimmermann⁷, Frederic Lavie⁸, Peter Nash⁹ and Philip J. Mease¹⁰, ¹Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Humanitas Research Hospital / Internal Medicine, Humanitas University, Rozzano, Italy, ²Polytechnic University of Marche, Department of Clinical and Molecular Sciences, Carlo Urbani Hospital, Ancona, Italy, ³Department of Medicine, Ottawa Hospital Riverside Campus, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ⁴Rheumatology Section, Internal Medicine Services, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, and University Institute Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁵McGill University, Department of Pediatrics / JSS Medical Research, Scientific Affairs, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁶Immunology, Janssen MEA, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, ⁷Immunology, Janssen Medical Affairs, LLC, Zug, Switzerland, ⁸The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, Paris, France, ⁹School of Medicine, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, ¹⁰Swedish Medical Center/Providence St. Joseph Health and University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: PsA-5Ts is a simple multidimensional composite measure, assessing pain, fatigue, physical function, skin problems, and depression, recently developed to measure overall health in PsA…
Abstract Number: 1757 • ACR Convergence 2023
Quantitative Assessment of Synovial Vascularity Using Power Doppler Index in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Psoriatic Arthritis Patients with High Disease Activity
Michał Jakubaszek, Maria Maślińska and Brygida Kwiatkowska, National Institute of Geriatrics Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Warsaw, Poland
Background/Purpose: Usefulness of quantitative assessment of synovial vascularity in ultrasound (US) imaging in patients with active RA and PsA (peripheral arthritis). Additionally the assessment of…
Abstract Number: 2220 • ACR Convergence 2023
Factors Associated with Achieving Remission in Patients with Early Peripheral Spondyloarthritis: 10-Year Results from the German Spondyloarthritis Inception Cohort
Murat Torgutalp¹, Xu Peng¹, Fabian Proft², Valeria Rios Rodriguez¹, Judith Rademacher¹, Mikhail Protopopov¹, Hildrun Haibel¹, Martin Rudwaleit³, Joachim Sieper¹ and Denis Poddubnyy⁴, ¹Charité Universitatsmedizine - Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ²Department of Gastroenterology, Infectiology and Rheumatology (including Nutrition Medicine), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ³University of Bielefeld, Klinikum Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, ⁴Department of Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases and Rheumatology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose: Depending on leading manifestation, Spondyloarthritis (SpA) is classified as axial (axSpA) or peripheral SpA (pSpA). Achieving of remission/inactive disease is key goal in treatment…
Abstract Number: 2336 • ACR Convergence 2023
Identification of Urine Metabolites Linked to Disease Activity That Are Modulated by Anifrolumab in a Phase 2 LN Trial Using Untargeted Metabolomics Analysis
David Jayne¹, Eduardo Mysler², Zahir Amoura³, Patrick Gavin⁴, Erik Allman⁴, Cristina Di Poto⁴, Xiang Tian⁴, Sonja Hess⁴, Eszter Csomor⁵, Philip Brohawn⁴, Daniel Muthas⁵, Adam Platt⁶, Hussein Al-Mossawi⁶, Catharina Lindholm⁵ and Nicola Ferrari⁶, ¹University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ²Organizacion Medica de Investigacion, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ³French National Reference Center for SLE, Hôpital La Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France, ⁴BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD, ⁵BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden, ⁶BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: LN is a severe complication of SLE, affecting 21%–48% of patients.1 Development of noninvasive diagnostic tests for LN is ongoing; urinary biomarkers have good…
Abstract Number: 039 • 2023 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Towards the Definition of Cutoff Values for Disease Activity States in Systemic JIA Using the Systemic Juvenile Arthritis Disease Activity Score
Ana Isabel Rebollo-Giménez¹, Yulia Vyzhga², Luca Carlini³, Silvia Rosina⁴, Elisa Patrone¹, Maria Katsikas⁵, Claudia 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 Stanevicha¹⁸, Vyacheslav Chasnyk¹⁹, Ekaterina Alexeeva²⁰, Sulaiman M Al-Mayouf²¹, Soamarat Vilaiyuk²² and Angelo Ravelli²³, ¹IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, UOC Reumatologia e Malattie Infiammatorie, Genova, Italy, ²IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, UOC Reumatologia e Malattia Infiammatorie, Genova, Italy, ³IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, UOC Reumatologia e Malattie Autoinfiammatorie, Genova, Italy, ⁴IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genova, Italy, ⁵Hospital de Pediatria Juan P. Garrahan, Department of Immunology/Rheumatology, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁶São Paulo State University, Pediatric Rheumatology Division, Botucatu, Brazil, ⁷Children's Hospital, Ain Shams University, Pediatric Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology Unit, Cairo, Egypt, ⁸Ain Shams University, Department of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Cairo, Egypt, ⁹Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre, Department of Paediatrics, Mumbai, India, ¹⁰Institute of Child Health, Pediatric medicine, Kolkata, India, Kolkata, India, ¹¹IRCCS Meyer Children’s Hospital, Rheumatology Unit, Florence, Italy, ¹²Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda-Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Pediatric Rheumatology, Milano, Italy, ¹³Istituto Gaetano Pini, Rheumatology Unit, Milano, Italy,, Genova, ¹⁴Division of Rheumatology, IRCCS Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Roma, Italy, ¹⁵Regina Margherita Children Hospital, Immunology and Rheumatology Unit, Turin, Italy, ¹⁶Ospedale Vito Fazzi, Paediatric Immunology/Rheumatology Service, Lecce, Italy, ¹⁷King Hussein Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics - Pediatric Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology Clinic, Amman, Jordan, ¹⁸University Children Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Riga, Latvia, ¹⁹Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Department of Hospital Pediatrics, St. Petersburg, Russia, ²⁰Federal State Autonomous Institution “National Medical Research Center of Children's Health”, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia, ²¹King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Alfaisal University, Department of Pediatric Rheumatology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ²²Mahidol University Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital Department of Pediatrics, Bangkok, Thailand, ²³IRRCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini and Università degli Studi di Genova, Genova, Italy
Background/Purpose: Systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA) accounts up to 15% of all patients with JIA and is distinctfrom the other disease categories due to the…
Abstract Number: 060 • 2023 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Are the Levels of Cytokines Good Biomarkers for Smoldering Disease Activity in Childhood-Takayasu Arteritis?
Gleice Clemente¹, Maria Teresa Terreri², Bruno Gualano³, Clovis Silva⁴ and Alexandre Wagner De Souza¹, ¹Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ²UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil, ³Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, ⁴Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Background/Purpose: Biomarkers for disease activity in adult Takayasu arteritis (TA) have been studied exhaustively, but there are inconsistencies among the studies (1). Childhood-TA (c-TA) differs…
Abstract Number: 064 • 2023 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Towards the Development of Composite Parent-Centered Disease Activity Scores for Juvenile Dermatomyositis
Silvia Rosina¹, Ana Isabel Rebollo-Giménez², Letizia Tarantola³, Roberta Naddei⁴, Alessandro Consolaro², Angela Pistorio⁵ and Angelo Ravelli⁶, ¹IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genova, Italy, ²IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, UOC Reumatologia e Malattie Infiammatorie, Genova, Italy, ³Università degli Studi di Genova, Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Riabilitazione, Oftalmologia, Genetica e Scienze Materno-Infantili (DiNOGMI), Genova, Italy, ⁴Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche Traslazionali, Napoli, Italy, ⁵IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Direzione Scientifica, Genova, Italy, ⁶IRRCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini and Università degli Studi di Genova, Genova, Italy
Background/Purpose: Increasing attention has been recently paid to the development of parent- and child-centered composite DAS for the assessment of health status of children with…
Abstract Number: 065 • 2023 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Relationship Between Arthritis and Uveitis Disease Activity in Children with JIA
Meghana Karumuri¹, Megan Quinlan-Waters², Alexandra Duell², Kelly Rogers², Sheila Angeles-Han³ and Patricia Vega-Fernandez², ¹Michigan State University, Novi, MI, ²Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ³Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH
Background/Purpose: Uncontrolled uveitis can lead to visual complications in 50% of children with JIA associated uveitis (JIA-U). While arthritis and uveitis are not considered to…
Abstract Number: 076 • 2023 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
COVID-Distress in Children with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Brooke Rezmer¹, Michelle Adler², Tamar Rubinstein³, Andrea Knight⁴ and Natoshia Cunningham⁵, ¹Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Grand Rapids, MI, ²Michigan State University, East Lansing, ³Children's Hospital at Montefiore, New York, NY, ⁴The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI
Background/Purpose: Psychological symptoms are common in childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (cSLE) and may impact other psychological and health-related outcomes. Mental health problems such as anxiety…
Abstract Number: 119 • 2023 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Laser Flare Photometery in the Pediatric Rheumatology Clinic as a Screening Tool for Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Associated Uveitis
Kaleo Ede¹, Michael Shishov², Elisa Wershba², Nikita Goswami², Sabrina Gorry², Malin Jospeh², Lucia Mirea² and James O'neil², ¹Phoenix Children's Hosptial; University of Arizona College of Medicine- Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, ²Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ
Background/Purpose: Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) is the most common chronic rheumatic disease in childhood, affecting 1 to 22 per 100,000 children. JIA-associated uveitis is known…
Abstract Number: 0344 • ACR Convergence 2022
Therapeutic Thresholds of Hydroxychloroquine Blood Levels: Physiologic and Social Determinants of Low Hydroxychloroquine Blood Levels
Shivani Garg¹, Betty Chewning², Brad Astor³ and Christie Bartels⁴, ¹University of Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, ²University of Wisconsin, School of Pharmacy, Madison, WI, ³University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, ⁴University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
Background/Purpose: Lupus, the leading cause of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in young women, is treated with Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) which is primarily excreted by kidneys. Yet…

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