Abstracts tagged "Disease Activity"

Abstract Number: 0608 • ACR Convergence 2025
Strong Correlation Between SLEDAI and SLE-DAS in the Spanish Population: Assessment of Discordant Patients
Elena Heras Recuero¹, Antia Garcia Fernandez², Cristina Gomez-Moreno³, Ivan Ferraz Amaro⁴, Javier Llorca⁵ and Miguel A. González-Gay⁶, ¹Hospital Fundacion Jimenez Dias, Madrid, Spain, ²Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain, ³Fundacion Jiménez Díaz School of Nursing, Madrid, Autonomous University Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ⁴Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, ⁵CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP) and Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain, ⁶Department of Rheumatology and Joint and Bone Research Unit, Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz, and Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain, and Medicine and Psychiatry Department, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
Background/Purpose: Assessing disease activity in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is essential for effective treatment. SLEDAI-2K uses dichotomous items, while SLE-DAS incorporates both dichotomous and continuous…
Abstract Number: 1310 • ACR Convergence 2025
Naturalized Language Processing Based Extraction of Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Measures from the Electronic Health Record
Elizabeth Park¹, Iram Kamdar², Reid Weisberg¹, Andy Nguyen¹, Joan Bathon³, Jon Giles⁴, Chunhua Weng⁵ and Elana Bernstein¹, ¹Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, ²Columbia University Data Science Institute, New York, NY, ³Columbia University, NEW YORK, NY, ⁴Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, ⁵Columbia University Department of Biomedical Informatics, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: A treat-to-target approach in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) requires intense monitoring of RA disease activity with measures such as the clinical disease activity index (CDAI).…
Abstract Number: 1430 • ACR Convergence 2025
Redefining BASDAI cut-offs: implications for patients’ eligibility for initiating biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic treatment in axial spondyloarthritis
Stylianos Georgiadis¹, Lykke Ørnbjerg¹, Brigitte Michelsen², Tore K. Kvien², Mehrdad Shoae Kazemi¹, Bente Glintborg¹, Anne Gitte Loft³, Rita Fonseca⁴, Helena Santos⁵, Andreas Reich⁶, Anne C. Regierer⁶, Jarno Rutanen⁷, Laura Kuusalo⁸, Gary Macfarlane⁹, Gareth T. Jones⁹, Adrian Ciurea¹⁰, Michael J. Nissen¹¹, Bjorn Gudbjornsson¹², Olafur Palsson¹³, Ziga Rotar¹⁴, Katja Perdan Pirkmajer¹⁵, Daniela Di Giuseppe¹⁶, Merete Hetland¹⁷ and Mikkel Ostergaard¹⁸, ¹Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Denmark, ²Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ³Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, ⁴Unidade Local de Saúde de Entre Douro e Vouga, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, ⁵Instituto Português de Reumatologia, Lisbon, Portugal, ⁶German Rheumatology Research Center, Berlin, Germany, ⁷Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland, ⁸Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland, ⁹University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, ¹⁰University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ¹¹Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland, ¹²Landspitali University Hospital; Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, ¹³University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, ¹⁴University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ziri, Slovenia, ¹⁵University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ¹⁶Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medicine Solna, Clinical Epidemiology Division, Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden, ¹⁷Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research (COPECARE) and DANBIO, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup; Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, ¹⁸Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Center for Rheumatology, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Denmark
Background/Purpose: In patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), high disease activity is a key indication for biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (bDMARD) initiation. The Axial Spondyloarthritis Disease…
Abstract Number: 1566 • ACR Convergence 2025
Factors Associated with Patient and Physician Global Assessments in Early Systemic Sclerosis
Ellen Romich¹, Alexis Ogdie², Peter Merkel³, Alisa Stephens Shields³, Jessica Alvey⁴, Shervin Assassi⁵, Elana Bernstein⁶, Sonali Bracken⁷, Flavia Castelino⁸, Lorinda Chung⁹, Luke Evnin¹⁰, Tracy Frech¹¹, Jessica Gordon¹², Faye Hant¹³, Monica Harding¹⁴, Laura Hummers¹⁵, Dinesh Khanna¹⁶, Kimberly Lakin¹², Dorota Lebiedz-Odrobina¹⁴, Yiming Luo⁶, Ashima Makol¹⁷, Maureen Mayes¹⁸, Zsuzsanna McMahan¹⁹, Jerry Molitor²⁰, Duncan Moore²¹, Carrie Richardson²², Ami Shah¹⁵, Ankoor Shah²³, Brian Skaug²⁴, Virginia Steen²⁵, John VanBuren¹⁴, Elizabeth Volkmann²⁶, Carleigh Zahn¹⁶ and Nora Sandorfi³, ¹University of Pennsylvania, Media, PA, ²Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Wilmington, DE, ³University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Utah Data Coordinating Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, UTHealth Houston, Houston, Texas, USA, Houston, TX, ⁶Columbia University, New York, NY, ⁷Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA, Apex, NC, ⁸Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁹Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ¹⁰Scleroderma Research Foundation, San Francisco, CA, ¹¹Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ¹²Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ¹³Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ¹⁴University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ¹⁵Johns Hopkins Rheumatology, Baltimore, MD, ¹⁶University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ¹⁷Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ¹⁸UT Health Houston Division of Rheumatology, Houston, TX, ¹⁹UT Health Houston, Houston, TX, ²⁰University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²¹Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, ²²Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²³Duke University, Durham, NC, ²⁴UTHealth Houston Division of Rheumatology, Houston, TX, ²⁵Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, ²⁶Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of California, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: Global assessments by patients and physicians provide unique but complementary perspectives of disease severity. This study aimed to determine the clinical and patient-reported factors…
Abstract Number: 2148 • ACR Convergence 2025
Initial MRI Findings as Predictors of Disease Phenotype in Juvenile Dermatomyositis: A Comparative Study of Myositis Specific Antibodies NXP2-Positive and Myositis Specific Antibody-Negative Patients in a Large Tertiary Hospital
Juan Torres Sanchez¹, Pritish Bawa², Andrea Ramirez¹, MaiLan Nguyen³, Amit Thakral⁴, Xiaofan Huang¹, J Herman Kan² and Marietta De Guzman¹, ¹Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²Texas Childrens Hospital, Houston, TX, ³Baylor College of Medicine, Austin, TX, ⁴Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX
Background/Purpose: Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is the most common idiopathic inflammatory myopathy of childhood, characterized by proximal muscle weakness and distinctive cutaneous findings. Magnetic resonance imaging…
Abstract Number: 2349 • ACR Convergence 2025
Classification of “Difficult-to-Manage Axial Spondyloarthritis”: A Real-World Cohort Study Evaluating the ASAS 2024 Criteria Over Time
Gözde Sevgi Kart bayram¹, Muhammed Çağrı Akdemir², Mustafa Ekici³, Gizem Ayan⁴, Büşra Fırlatan Yazgan¹, Erdinç Ünaldı³, Buğu Bulat¹, Ali Aytuğ Kuştaş³, Ali Akdoğan⁵, Omer Karadağ⁵, Şule Apraş Bilgen¹, Ali İhsan Ertenli¹, Sedat Kiraz³, Umut Kalyoncu¹ and Levent Kılıç¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey, Ankara, Turkey, ²Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Ankara, Turkey, Ankara, Turkey, ³Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey, Ankara, Ankara, Turkey, ⁴Ankara Research and Training Hospital, Ankara, Turkey, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey, Ankara
Background/Purpose: The concept of difficult-to-manage axial spondyloarthritis (D2M-axSpA)[1], may vary over time. Transitions between D2M and non-D2M classifications throughout the disease course remain unclear. This…
Abstract Number: 2683 • ACR Convergence 2025
Association of Genetic Risk for Pain Intensity with Longitudinal Disease Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Stevie Barry¹, Katie McMenamin², Austin Wheeler³, Bryant England³, Grant Cannon⁴, Brian Sauer⁵, Gary Kunkel⁶, Katherine Wysham⁷, Beth Wallace⁸, Andreas Reimold⁹, Gail Kerr¹⁰, Isaac Smith¹¹, John Richards¹², Iris Lee¹³, Rui Xiao¹, Sylvanus Toikumo¹⁴, Henry Kranzler¹⁴, Rachel Kember¹⁴, Scott Damrauer¹⁴, Michael Levin¹⁴, Michael George¹, Ted Mikuls³, Joshua Baker¹ and Thomas Riley¹, ¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, ³University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁴University of Utah and Salt Lake City VA, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁵Salt Lake City VA/University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁶University of Utah and George E Wahlen VAMC, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁷VA PUGET SOUND/UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, WA, ⁸Michigan Medicine, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁹Dallas VA Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ¹⁰Washington DC VAMC/Georgetown and Howard Universities, Washington, DC, ¹¹Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, ¹²Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA, ¹³Washington University in St Louis, Saint Louis, MO, ¹⁴University of Pennsylvania / Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VAMC, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: Guidelines recommend the use of composite scores to evaluate disease activity in RA and inform a treat-to-target approach. It is recognised that patient-reported components…
Abstract Number: 0425 • ACR Convergence 2025
High Density Lipoprotein Dysfunction in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis as Compared to Children without Rheumatologic Disease
Tahnee Spoden¹, Samira Nazzar Romero², Deborah McCurdy³, Alice Hoftman⁴, Sangmee Bae⁵, Jennifer Wang⁴, Ani Shahbazian⁴ and Christina Charles-Schoeman⁶, ¹UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ²Nemours Children's Health, Orlando, ³UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴UCLA, Los Angeles, ⁵UCLA Rheumatology, Los Angeles, CA, ⁶UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, CA
Background/Purpose: Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of mortality in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). Normally, high density lipoprotein (HDL) acts in a cardioprotective capacity…
Abstract Number: 0497 • ACR Convergence 2025
Drug Survival and Discontinuation Reasons of Eight Biological Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs in 1,182 Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Retrospective Study Using the Niigata Orthopedic Rheumatoid Arthritis Database (NOSRAD)
Nariaki Hao and Naoki Kondo, Division of Orthopedic Surgery, Niigata University Medical and Dental General Hospital, Niigata, Japan
Background/Purpose: To retrospectively evaluate drug survival and reasons for discontinuation of eight biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients using the Niigata…
Abstract Number: 0620 • ACR Convergence 2025
The usefulness of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio as a biomarker to predict lupus flares in patients under remission
Luis Daniel Fajardo Hermosillo and María Karina Lizbeth López Ramírez, Unidad Médica de Alta Especialidad, Hospital de Especialidades, Centro Médico Nacional de Occidente, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, GUADALAJARA, Jalisco, Mexico
Background/Purpose: Remission in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is described by the Definition of Remission in SLE (DORIS), but it is hardly achieved in clinical practice,…
Abstract Number: 1312 • ACR Convergence 2025
Evolution of patients with active rheumatoid arthritis: analysis of disease activity trajectories in a tertiary‑care rheumatology department
Elodie Portier¹, Olivier Fogel², Terkia Medkour³, Sophie Hecquet³ and Jérôme AVOUAC³, ¹Rheumatology department, Bicetre hospital, Le Kremlin Bicetre, France, ²AP-HP, Paris, France, ³Rheumatology department, Cochin hospital, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: The objective of this study was to identify clusters of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in clinical practice, according to evolution of disease activity…
Abstract Number: 1433 • ACR Convergence 2025
Identifying Predictors of Difficult-to-Manage Axial Spondyloarthritis: Real-World Insights from a Taiwanese Registry Cohort
Yen-An Chang and Ming-Han Chen, Division of Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan (Republic of China)
Background/Purpose: The concept of Difficult-to-Manage Axial Spondyloarthritis (D2M-ax-SpA) was recently introduced by the Assessment of Spondyloarthritis International Society (ASAS). According to this new definition, D2M-ax-SpA…
Abstract Number: 1608 • ACR Convergence 2025
Efficacy of Anti-IL-5/R Therapies on Specific Disease Manifestations of Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis
Peter Merkel¹, Arnaud Bourdin², Bernhard Hellmich³, Nader Khalidi⁴, David Jackson⁵, David Jayne⁶, Parameswaran Nair⁷, Christian Pagnoux⁸, Ulrich Specks⁹, Benjamin Terrier¹⁰, Lena Börjesson Sjö¹¹, Priya Jain¹², Aadarsh Lal¹³, Sofia Necander¹⁴, Claire Walton¹⁵ and Michael Wechsler¹⁶, ¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Department of Respiratory Diseases, Montpellier University Hospitals, Arnaud de Villeneuve Hospital, Montpellier, France, ³Klinik für Innere Medizin, Rheumatologie, Pneumologie, Nephrologie und Diabetologie, Medius Kliniken, Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der Universität Tübingen, Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany, ⁴Department of Medicine, McMaster University and St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, Canada, ⁵Guy’s Severe Asthma Centre, Guy's and St Thomas’ NHS Trust, London, and School of Immunology and Microbial Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁶University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ⁷Department of Medicine, McMaster University and St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ⁸Mount Sinai Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, and Canadian Vasculitis Research Network (CanVasc), Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ¹⁰Cochin Hospital, Paris, France, ¹¹Late-stage Respiratory & Immunology, BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca,, Gothenburg, Sweden, ¹²BioPharmaceuticals Medical, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ¹³Respiratory & Immunology, AstraZeneca, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, ¹⁴Late-stage Respiratory & Immunology, BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden, ¹⁵Late-Stage Respiratory and Immunology, BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ¹⁶Department of Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver
Background/Purpose: Results from the 1-year double-blind period and first year of the open-label extension (OLE) of the MANDARA trial (NCT04157348) demonstrated that over 60% of…
Abstract Number: 2158 • ACR Convergence 2025
Evaluating Nailfold Capillary Changes as Indicators of Disease Activity in Juvenile Dermatomyositis
Zilan Zheng¹, Laila Metni², Susan Kim³ and Jessica Neely⁴, ¹University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, ³UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco, CA, ⁴UCSF, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is a rare pediatric autoimmune myopathy characterized by skin and muscle inflammation, resulting in microvascular changes that can be visualized in…
Abstract Number: 2366 • ACR Convergence 2025
Association Between Skin and Joint Symptom Control and Patient-Reported Pain and Health Status Among Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis in the CorEvitas Psoriatic Arthritis/Spondyloarthritis Registry Initiating Biologic or Targeted Synthetic Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs
Philip J. Mease¹, Nicole Middaugh², Yolanda Muñoz Maldonado², Chao Song³, Skyler Peterson⁴, Robert Low³ and Alexis Ogdie⁵, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Providence-Swedish Medical Center and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²CorEvitas, LLC, Waltham, MA, ³UCB, Smyrna, GA, ⁴CorEvitas, LLC, Waltham, ⁵University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a chronic inflammatory condition primarily affecting the joints and skin.1 More severe symptoms are associated with lower health-related quality of…

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