Abstracts tagged "Disease Activity"

Abstract Number: 1497 • ACR Convergence 2022
How Does Time to Diagnosis and Gender Affect Treatment Outcomes in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis or Psoriatic Arthritis? – Real World Data from a German Observational Study with Secukinumab
Karolina Benesova¹, Oliver Hansen², Uta Kiltz³, Jan Brandt-Juergens⁴, Peter Kästner⁵, Elke Riechers⁶, Daniel Peterlik⁷, Christina Budden⁷, Annika Boas⁷, Stefanie Welle⁷ and Hans-Peter Tony⁸, ¹University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, ²Medizinische Abteilung V - Rheumatologie, Universitätsklinikum, Heidelberg, Germany, ³Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne, Germany, ⁴Rheumatologische Schwerpunktpraxis, Berlin, Germany, ⁵Ambulantes Rheumazentrum, Medizinisches Versorgungszentrum, Erfurt, Germany, ⁶Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany, ⁷Novartis Pharma GmbH, Nürnberg, Germany, ⁸Medizinische Klinik II - Rheumatologie/Immunologie, Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
Background/Purpose: In both, ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA), women typically have a longer delay in diagnosis.1,2 There is scientific evidence that prognosis for…
Abstract Number: 1667 • ACR Convergence 2022
Pre-existing Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Initiating Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors for Cancer Treatment: A Comparative Cohort Study Investigating RA Flare and Mortality
Kaitlin McCarter¹, Taylor Wolfgang¹, Senada Arabelovic¹, Xiaosong Wang¹, Kazuki Yoshida¹, Emily Banasiak¹, Grace Qian¹, Emily Kowalski¹, Kathleen Vanni¹, Nicole LeBoeuf¹, Elizabeth Buchbinder¹, Lydia Gedmintas¹, Lindsey MacFarlane¹, Deepak Rao¹, Nancy Shadick¹, Ellen Gravallese² and Jeffrey Sparks³, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: For patients with pre-existing RA, immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) for cancer treatment may trigger RA flares or other immune-related adverse events. Underlying altered immunity…
Abstract Number: 2064 • ACR Convergence 2022
Trajectories of Disease Activity in a Longitudinal Registry of Pediatric SLE
Siobhan Case¹, Larry Hill², Anne Dennos³, Thomas Phillips⁴, Laura Schanberg⁵, Emily von Scheven⁶, Andrea Knight⁷, Aimee Hersh⁸ and Mary Beth F. Son⁹, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, ³Duke University, Durham, NC, ⁴Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, ⁵Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ⁶University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁷The Hospital for Sick Children, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁸University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁹Division of Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus (pSLE) is associated with significant morbidity and multiorgan dysfunction. Single-center studies have described disease activity and damage trajectories for pSLE,…
Abstract Number: 2274 • ACR Convergence 2022
Factors Associated with Disease Flare Following SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination in People with Inflammatory Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases – Results from the Physician-Reported EULAR Coronavirus Vaccine (COVAX) Registry
Bayram Farisoğulları¹, Saskia Lawson-Tovey², Kimme Hyrich³, Laure Gossec⁴, Loreto Carmona⁵, Anja Strangfeld⁶, Elsa Mateus⁷, Martin Schaefer⁸, Ana Maria Rodrigues⁹, Eric Hachulla¹⁰, Jose A Gomez-Puerta¹¹, Marta Mosca¹², Patrick Durez¹³, Ludovic Trefond¹⁴, Tiphaine Goulenok¹⁵, Martina Cornalba¹⁶, Emoke Šteňová¹⁷, Inita Bulina¹⁸, Eva Strakova¹⁹, Julija Zepa²⁰, Nicolas Roux²¹, Olivier Brocq²², Viellard Eric²³, Bernd Raffeiner²⁴, Gerd Burmester²⁵, Xavier Mariette²⁶ and Pedro Machado²⁷, ¹Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine Division of Rheumatology, Ankara, Turkey, ²Centre for Genetics and Genomics Versus Arthritis, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK AND National Institute of Health Research Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, ³The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁴Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, ⁵Instituto de Salud Musculoesquelética (InMusc), Madrid, Spain, ⁶Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁷EULAR, Lisboa, Portugal, ⁸German Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin, Germany, ⁹Reuma.pt, Sociedade Portuguesa de Reumatologia, Lisbon, Portugal, ¹⁰University of Lille, LILLE, France, ¹¹Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ¹²Rheumatology Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ¹³Rheumatology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc – Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) – Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique (IREC), Brussels, Belgium, ¹⁴Université Clermont Auvergne, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Service de Médecine Interne, Hôpital Gabriel Montpied, INSERM U1071, Clermont-Ferrand, France, ¹⁵APHP, Paris, France, ¹⁶Dipartimento di Reumatologia e Scienze Mediche, ASST Gaetano Pini-CTO, Milano, Italy, ¹⁷University Hospital, Bratislava, Slovakia, ¹⁸Center of Rheumatology, Paul Stradins Clinical University hospital, Riga, Latvia, Riga, Latvia, ¹⁹Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty Hospital Prešov, Presov, Slovakia, ²⁰Riga Stradins University, Latvia, Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital, Centre of Rheumatology, Riga, Latvia, Riga, Latvia, ²¹Service de Rhumatologie, Hôpital Robert Schuman, Metz, France, ²²Rheumatology- CH Princesse Grace, Monaco, Monaco, ²³Private practice, St. Malo, France, ²⁴Department of Rheumatology, Central Hospital of Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy, ²⁵Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ²⁶Paris-Saclay University, Rueil Malmaison, Ile-de-France, France, ²⁷University College London, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: To investigate the frequency and factors associated with disease flare following vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 in people with inflammatory/autoimmune rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (I-RMD).Methods: The…
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…
Abstract Number: 0632 • ACR Convergence 2022
Single-cell Multiomic Profiling Differentiates Ancestral B Cell Pathologies Contributing to Lupus Disease Activity
Kevin Thomas, Miles Smith, Samantha Slight-Webb, Susan Macwana, Joseph Kheir, Carla J. Guthridge, Wade deJager, Christian Wright, Bolanle Adebayo, Judith James and Joel Guthridge, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK
Background/Purpose: Genetic ancestry impacts SLE prevalence, clinical presentation, and treatment response; however, the molecular underpinnings of this disparity remain poorly understood. Recent findings demonstrate that…
Abstract Number: 0937 • ACR Convergence 2022
Conventional Synthetic DMARDs Re-treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis Flare During Drug-free Follow-up: Rate, Dynamics and Quality of Clinical Response
Emanuele Bozzalla Cassione¹, Iolanda Mazzucchelli², Terenzj Luvaro², Blerina Xoxi², Ludovico De Stefano², Garifallia Sakellariou², Silvia Grignaschi², Mehrad Mansoubi², Serena Bugatti², Carlomaurizio Montecucco² and Antonio Manzo³, ¹University of Pavia, IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation, Milano, Milan, Italy, ²University of Pavia, IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation, Pavia, Italy, Pavia, Italy, ³IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation/University of Pavia, Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Background/Purpose: Drug-free (DF) remission, as a putative proxy of cure, has recently gained the attention of the scientific community as a desirable new target of…
Abstract Number: 1357 • ACR Convergence 2022
The ANCA-Associated Vasculitis Patient-Reported Outcome (AAV-PRO) Captures Depression and Health-Related Quality of Life More Than Disease Activity and Damage
Annika Maunz¹, Joerg Henes², Joanna Robson³, Johann Jacoby⁴, Bernhard Hellmich⁵ and Christian Löffler⁶, ¹Medius Kliniken - Teaching Hospital University of Tübingen, Kirchheim-Teck, Tübingen, Germany, ²Center for Interdisciplinary Clinical Immunology, Rheumatology and Auto-inflammatory Diseases (INDIRA), University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, ³UWE Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, ⁴University Hospital Tübingen, Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Applied Biometry, Tübingen, Germany, ⁵Klinik für Innere Medizin, Rheumatologie & Immunologie, Medius Kliniken, Universität Tübingen, Plochingen, Germany, ⁶Medius Kliniken - Teaching Hospital University of Tübingen,, Kirchheim Teck, Germany
Background/Purpose: The ANCA-associated vasculitis patient-reported outcome (AAV-PRO) is a new disease-specific PRO developed to capture the impact of having AAV and dealing with its treatment…
Abstract Number: 1498 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Association Between Sonographic Enthesitis with Sonographic Synovitis and Tenosynovitis in Psoriatic Arthritis
gavriel Balulu¹, Victoria Furer¹, Jonathan Wollman², David Levartovsky¹, Valerie Aloush¹, Ofir Elalouf¹, Hagit Sarbagil-Maman³, Liran Mendel², Sara Borok¹, Daphna Paran¹, Ori Elkayam³ and Ari Polachek¹, ¹Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, ²Department of Rheumatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, ³Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Background/Purpose: Enthesitis is considered a hallmark of psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Ultrasound (US) is considered a more accurate tool for the assessment of enthesitis compared to…
Abstract Number: 1725 • ACR Convergence 2022
Sex Differences in Autoimmune Pathogenesis and Systemic Response to High Fat Diet in Lupus-prone Mice
Gitanjali Lobo¹, Juan Meng², Xuhua Shi², Ronak Patel³, Laura Rivers⁴, Chad Hille⁵, Robert Quinet⁶, William Davis⁷, Jerald Zakem⁸, Chandana Keshavamurthy⁹, Tamika Webb-Detiege¹⁰, Zongbing You² and Xin Zhang¹¹, ¹Ochsner Clinic Foundation, Metairie, LA, ²Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, ³Ochsner, New Orleans, LA, ⁴Ochsner Medical Center, River Ridge, LA, ⁵Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA, ⁶Ochsner Health, River Ridge, LA, ⁷Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA, ⁸Ochsner Health Systems, Metairie, LA, ⁹ochsner medical center, Metairie, LA, ¹⁰University of Queensland/Ochsner Clinical School, New Orleans, LA, ¹¹Institution of Translational Research, Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, LA
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease characterized by chronic inflammation and the production of autoantibodies, leading to systemic multiorgan damage. SLE has…
Abstract Number: 2086 • ACR Convergence 2022
Remission and Low Disease Activity Are Associated with Lower Health Care Costs in an International Inception Cohort of Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Ann E Clarke¹, Manuel Ugarte-Gil², Megan Barber³, John Hanly⁴, Murray Urowitz⁵, Yvan St. Pierre⁶, Caroline Gordon⁷, Sang-Cheol Bae⁸, Juanita Romero-Diaz⁹, Jorge Sanchez-Guerrero¹⁰, Sasha Bernatsky⁶, Daniel Wallace¹¹, David Isenberg¹², Anisur Rahman¹³, Joan Merrill¹⁴, Paul R Fortin¹⁵, Dafna Gladman¹⁶, Ian N. Bruce¹⁷, Michelle Petri¹⁸, Ellen M. Ginzler¹⁹, Mary Anne Dooley²⁰, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman²¹, Susan Manzi²², Andreas Jönsen²³, Ronald van Vollenhoven²⁴, Cynthia Aranow²⁵, Meggan Mackay²⁵, Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza²⁶, S. Sam Lim²⁷, Murat Inanc²⁸, Kenneth Kalunian²⁹, Soren Jacobsen³⁰, Christine Peschken³¹, Diane Kamen³², Anca Askanase³³, Bernardo Pons-Estel³⁴ and Graciela Alarcón³⁵, ¹University of Calgary, Division of Rheumatology, Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, AB, Canada, ²Universidad Cientifica del Sur/Hospital Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen. EsSalud, Lima, Peru, ³Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Center (Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Site) and Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, ⁵University of Toronto, University Health Network, Schroeder Arthritis Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁷Rheumatology Research Group, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ⁸Hanyang University Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ⁹Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion SZ, Ciudad de México, Mexico, ¹⁰Mount Sinai Hospital and University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹¹Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ¹²University College London, London, United Kingdom, ¹³Centre for Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ¹⁴Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹⁵Centre ARThrite - CHU de Québec - Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada, ¹⁶Toronto Western Hospital, Schroeder Arthritis Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁷Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ¹⁸Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Baltimore, MD, ¹⁹SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Department of Medicine, Brooklyn, NY, ²⁰Raleigh Neurology Associates, Chapel Hill, NC, ²¹Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA, Chicago, IL, ²²Allegheny Health Network, Lupus Center of Excellence, Wexford, PA, ²³Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund, Section for Rheumatology, Lund University, Lund and Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, ²⁴Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²⁵Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, ²⁶Autoimmune Diseases Research Unit, Biocruces Bizkaia Health Research Institute, Hospital Universitario Cruces, UPV/EHU, Barakaldo, Spain, ²⁷Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ²⁸Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, Istambul, Turkey, ²⁹University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ³⁰Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, ³¹University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ³²Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ³³Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, ³⁴Grupo Oroño - Centro Regional de Enfermedades Autoinmunes y Reumáticas (GO-CREAR), Rosario, Argentina, ³⁵The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Oakland
Background/Purpose: Remission and low disease activity (LDA) are associated with decreased flares, damage, and mortality. However, little is known about the impact of disease activity…
Abstract Number: 0371 • ACR Convergence 2022
A Phase 2, Double-blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Multicenter Study to Evaluate Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability of JBT-101/Lenabasum in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, an Autoimmunity Centers of Excellence Study (ALE09)
Meggan Mackay¹, Robert Zurier², Diane Kamen³, Fotios Koumpouras⁴, Anca Askanase⁵, Kenneth Kalunian⁶, Steffan Schulz⁷, Giovanni Franchin⁸, Nancy Olsen⁹, Andreea Coca¹⁰, Roberto Caricchio¹¹, Maureen McMahon¹², Maria Dall'Era¹³, Amit Saxena¹⁴, Megan Clowse¹⁵, Stanley Ballou¹⁶, Linna Ding¹⁷, Beverly Welch¹⁸, Jessica Springer¹⁹, Andrew Shaw¹, Lynette Keyes-Elstein²⁰, Kaitlyn Steinmiller²¹, Amanda Mickey²¹, Cynthia Aranow¹ and Betty Diamond¹, ¹Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, ²Feinstein Institutes, Wyckoff, NJ, ³Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ⁴Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ⁵Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, ⁶University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ⁷Univ Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁸BronxCare, Feinstein Institutes, Manhasset, NY, ⁹Penn State University/Milton S Hershey, Hershey, PA, ¹⁰UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, ¹¹Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, ¹²University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ¹³University of California, Division of Rheumatology, San Francisco, CA, ¹⁴NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ¹⁵Duke University, Durham, NC, ¹⁶Case Western Reserve University - Metro Health, Cleveland, OH, ¹⁷NIH NIAID, Rhockvile, MD, ¹⁸NIAID/NIH, Bethesda, MD, ¹⁹NIH/NIAID, Rockville, MD, ²⁰Rho, Chapel Hill, NC, ²¹Rho Inc, Durham, NC
Background/Purpose: Musculoskeletal (MSK) symptoms are common in SLE, often associate with debilitating pain requiring immunosuppressive treatment. JBT-101 is a non-psychotropic, non-immunosuppressive, cannabinoid receptor 2 agonist…
Abstract Number: 0699 • ACR Convergence 2022
Effectiveness by Disease Severity in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis Treated with Apremilast in the CorEvitas Psoriatic Arthritis/Spondyloarthritis (PsA/SpA) Registry
Alexis Ogdie¹, Jacqueline O'Brien², Wendi Malley², Elizabeth Kohl², Kate Orroth³, Yuri Klyachkin⁴, Myriam Cordey⁵ and Philip J Mease⁶, ¹Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²CorEvitas, LLC, Waltham, MA, ³Amgen, Manhattan Beach, CA, ⁴Amgen, Lexington, KY, ⁵Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, ⁶Swedish Medical Center/Providence St. Joseph Health, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Clinical trials of the efficacy and safety of apremilast have shown a significant therapeutic effect on disease activity across clinically diverse PsA patients. Given…
Abstract Number: 0954 • ACR Convergence 2022
What Drives the BASDAI in Pregnant Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis? A Pooled Analysis of Four European Pregnancy Registries
Yvette Meissner¹, Nathalie Costedoat-Chalumeau², Rebecca Fischer-Betz³, Frauke Foerger⁴, Anna Molto⁵, Marianne Wallenius⁶ and Anja Strangfeld¹, ¹Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ²Inserm DR Paris 5, Paris, France, ³Uniklinik Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany, ⁴Inselspital Bern, Bern, Switzerland, ⁵Rheumatology Department, Cochin Hospital, APHP, Paris, France, ⁶St. Olav University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
Background/Purpose: The patient reported Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index (BASDAI) includes the six components fatigue, neck, back or hip pain, pain or swelling in…
Abstract Number: 1366 • ACR Convergence 2022
Developing a Mobile App to Facilitate Disease Activity Assessment in Localized Scleroderma
Suzanne Li¹, Xiaohu Li², Tara Lozy³ and Jiajun Chen⁴, ¹Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital, West Orange, NJ, ²Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, ³Center for Discovery and Innovation, Hackensack Meridian Health, Nutley, NJ, ⁴One Node Lab, League City, TX
Background/Purpose: Juvenile localized scleroderma (jLS) is an inflammatory and fibrosing disease that causes severe morbidity (e.g., hemiatrophy, arthropathy, seizures), with functional impairment found in >25%…

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