Abstracts tagged "Disease Activity"

Abstract Number: 2686 • ACR Convergence 2025
Impact of autoimmunity, disease activity and treatment on the time course of bone density, microstructure and biomechanics in inflammatory arthritis.
Koray Tascilar¹, Alp Temiz¹, Filippo Fagni², Arnd Kleyer³, Louis Schuster¹, Stephan Kemenes¹, Sara Bayat¹, David Simon⁴ and Georg Schett⁵, ¹Department of Medicine ³ - Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ²Department of Medicine ³ - Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Bayern, Germany, ³Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Erlangen, Bayern, Germany, ⁴Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Berlin, Germany, ⁵Uniklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, Erlangen, Germany
Background/Purpose: RA and PsA follow different pathomechanisms and incur disease-specific erosive and osteoproliferative bone changes. We used data from a large cohort of RA and…
Abstract Number: 0431 • ACR Convergence 2025
Calprotectin Serum levels: a potential neutrophil activation biomarker to monitor treatment response in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Sangeeta Kumari¹, Eric meldrum¹, Josephine Stein¹, Tirza Bruurmijn¹, Robin de Jong², Katerina Pardali¹, Maarten Kraan¹, Renato Chirivi¹, Rogier Thurlings³ and Michael Nurmohamed², ¹Citryll BV, Oss, Netherlands, ²Reade, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ³Radboudumc, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Calprotectin is a protein highly expressed in myeloid cells and its elevated presence in blood, and the GI tract is associated with immune mediated…
Abstract Number: 0500 • ACR Convergence 2025
Is Methotrexate Tapering Possible In Stable RA? Clinical Observations of Methotrexate Tapering At Two Tertiary Care Centers
Sama Hajizadeh¹, Tarun Sharma¹, Peri Newman², Julio Hernandez², Rayford June³, Erik Lehman², Nicole Wilson¹, Nancy Olsen⁴ and Sharon Banks⁵, ¹Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Penn State Health/ Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, ³Penn State College of Medicine/Lebanon VA Medical Center, Hummelstown, PA, ⁴Penn State University/Milton S Hershey, Hershey, PA, ⁵Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA
Background/Purpose: In our previous Rheumatoid Arthritis Medication TAPering (RheumTAP) cohort study of patients with stable RA in remission on biologics +/- methotrexate at Allegheny Health…
Abstract Number: 0648 • ACR Convergence 2025
Real World Comparative Use of Anifrolumab in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus: A Multicenter Cohort Study
Rajaie Namas¹, Sarah Al Qassimi², Rowaida Abdou³, Jawahir Alameri², Reem Alblooshi⁴, Fatima Abdulla⁴, Muriel Ghosn⁴, Amir Malik⁴, Raghda Almaashari⁴, Fulvio Salvo⁴, Mohamed Abuzakouk⁴, Atheer Al Ansari⁵, Hazem Helmy Ali Rifaai⁵, Ahlam Almarzooqi⁶, Asia Mubashir⁷, Ahmed Aldhaheri⁴, Suzan Attar⁸ and Mohamed Elarabi⁹, ¹Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Detroit, MI, ²Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, ³NMC Specialty Hospital Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, ⁴Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, ⁵Mediclinic, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, ⁶Emirates Health Services, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, ⁷Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, ⁸King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, ⁹Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Hannon, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease characterized by multiorgan organ damage, and early mortality. Anifrolumab (ANI), a human monoclonal antibody targeting the…
Abstract Number: 1315 • ACR Convergence 2025
High-resolution thermography and Artificial Intelligence to evaluate and classify Rheumatoid Arthritis
Kale Mayor¹, Joey Mercier¹, Yuxi Long², David Robinson¹, Pingzhao Hu², Hani El-Gabalawy¹ and Liam O'Neil¹, ¹University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ²Western University, London, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune polyarthritis that typically affects the small joints of the hands and feet. While imaging modalities such as ultrasound…
Abstract Number: 1435 • ACR Convergence 2025
Impact of Treatment With Upadacitinib on Non-Nociceptive Pain and Its Relevance for the Presence of Residual Symptoms in Axial Spondyloarthritis: Results from a Multicountry Observational Study
Denis Poddubnyy¹, Victoria Navarro-Compan², Neil Basu³, Mohammad Naffaa⁴, Tianming Gao⁵, Christopher Saffore⁶, Jamie Urbanik⁷, Bhumik Parikh⁸, Peter Taylor⁹ and Philip J. Mease¹⁰, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Department of Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases and Rheumatology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Department of Epidemiology, German Rheumatism Research Centre, Berlin, Germany, ²Department of Rheumatology, La Paz University Hospital, IdiPaz, Madrid, Spain, ³Institute of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, ⁴The Azriel's Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel; The Rheumatology Unity, Galilee Medical Center, Naharyia, Israel, ⁵AbbVie, North Chicago, IL, ⁶AbbVie Inc., waukegan, IL, ⁷AbbVie, Grayslake, IL, ⁸AbbVie, Hillsborough Township, NJ, ⁹University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ¹⁰Department of Rheumatology, Providence-Swedish Medical Center and University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Upadacitinib (UPA), an oral JAK inhibitor, has demonstrated improvements in inflammation and nociceptive pain in late phase clinical trials of patients with axSpA.1,2,3 However,…
Abstract Number: 1661 • ACR Convergence 2025
Artificial Intelligence applied to Patient Reported Outcomes and Passive Physiologic Sensor Data can Accurately Classify Low Disease Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
Jeffrey Curtis¹, Yujie Su², sam Barskiy³, Emily Holladay³, Shilpa Venkatachalam⁴, David Curtis⁵, Tapan Mehta³ and Fenglong Xie⁶, ¹Foundation for Advancing Science, Technology, Education and Research, Birmingham, AL, ²Foundation for Advancing Science, Technology, Education and Research (FASTER), Hoover, AL, ³University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴Global Healthy Living Foundation, New York, NY, ⁵Global Healthy Living Foundation, Meriden, ⁶The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) and remote physiologic monitoring (RPM) programs have the potential to capture data between clinical visits and provide information back to…
Abstract Number: 2246 • ACR Convergence 2025
Different Populations, Different SDAI Cut-Off? A Proposal for a New Remission Threshold in Brazilian RA Patients from a National Multicenter Study
Lucas Pires¹, Alisson Pugliesi¹, Cleandro Pires², Ana Carolina Hidaka³, Vitor Cruz⁴, Manoel Barros Bertolo¹, Ana Paula Reis⁵, Rina Dalva Neubarth Giorgi⁶, Leticia Pereira⁷, Sebastião Cezar Radominski⁸, Ivanio Alves Pereira⁹, Maria Fernanda Brandão de Resende Guimarães¹⁰, Paulo Louzada Junior¹¹, Maria de Fátima Lobato da Cunha Sauma¹², Karina Bonfiglioli¹³, Claiton Viegas Brenol¹⁴, Licia Maria Henrique da Mota² and Geraldo da Rocha Castelar Pinheiro⁷, ¹Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil, ²UNB, Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil, ³UNB, Brasilia, Brazil, ⁴UFG, Goias, Brazil, ⁵UniCEUB, Brasilia, Brazil, ⁶IAMSPE, São Paulo, Brazil, ⁷UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ⁸UFPR, Curitiba, Brazil, ⁹UFSC, Florianopolis, Brazil, ¹⁰UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, ¹¹USP-RP, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, ¹²UFPA, Belem, Brazil, ¹³USP-SP, São Paulo, Brazil, ¹⁴UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Background/Purpose: Remission criteria in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) have continuously evolved to balance the risks of both overtreatment and undertreatment. The most recent update includes the…
Abstract Number: 2404 • ACR Convergence 2025
Clinical features of Elderly-onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Jessica Dai¹, Erin Carter², Mala Masson³, Amit Saxena⁴, H Michael Belmont⁵, Peter Izmirly⁶ and Jill Buyon⁴, ¹New York University Grossman School of Medicine, Tenafly, NJ, ²New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, ³NYU Langone Medical Center- Division of Rheumatology, New York, NY, ⁴NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁵NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁶New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystemic chronic disease characterized by a wide range of clinical and serological manifestations. It most commonly affects young…
Abstract Number: 2703 • ACR Convergence 2025
Longitudinal Changes on Cranial Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Relapsing Giant Cell Arteritis
Ruoheng Zeng¹, Ryan Rebello², Konstanze Guggenberger³, Joshua Baker⁴, Shubhasree Banerjee⁴, Robert Kurtz⁴, Naomi Amudala⁴, Peter Merkel⁴ and Rennie Rhee⁴, ¹University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, ²St. Joseph’s Hospital at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ³University Hospital of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany, ⁴University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: There is a need for better tools to monitor disease activity in giant cell arteritis (GCA). Prior studies demonstrated that vascular enhancement on cranial…
Abstract Number: 0176 • ACR Convergence 2025
Development and Validation of an Accurate Patient Reported Outcome Measure-based Disease Activity Score to Enable Remote Monitoring in RA
Agnes Looijen¹, Paco Welsing², Sytske Anne Bergstra³, Annette van der Helm-van Mil³ and Pascal de Jong⁴, ¹Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ²Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, Utrecht, Netherlands, ³LUMC, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁴Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: For RA patients, regular monitoring of disease activity is essential, but in-person assessments may not always be feasible due to the increasing pressure on…
Abstract Number: 0439 • ACR Convergence 2025
Osteoarthritis and Other Degenerative Musculoskeletal Disorders Are Common and Often Associated with Active Inflammation in Difficult-to-Treat Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Cross-Sectional Cohort
Blanche QUERE¹, Grégoire CORMIER², LE GOFF Benoit³ and Adrien LE PLUART⁴, ¹CHU de Nantes, Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France, ²Centre Hospitalier département de Vendée, La Roche Sur Yon, France, ³CHU Nantes, Nantes, France, ⁴CHU Nantes, Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
Background/Purpose: Despite advances in therapeutic strategies, a subset of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) continues to experience persistent symptoms. In 2022, the EULAR proposed a…
Abstract Number: 0514 • ACR Convergence 2025
Transitional Monocytes and Innate T Cell Populations Help Distinguish Ro Seropositive vs Ro Seronegative Sjögren’s Disease Using Whole Blood Immunophenotyping
Nicholas Bauer¹, Rufei Lu¹, Carla Guthridge¹, Tayte Stephens², Benjamin Jones³, Wade DeJager⁴, Susan Macwana¹, Caroline Shiboski⁵, Alan Baer⁶, Christopher Lessard¹, Astrid Rasmussen¹, Stephen Shiboski⁵, Judith James¹, Linda F. Thompson¹, Blake M. Warner⁷, A. Darise Farris¹ and Joel Guthridge¹, ¹Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ³Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁴Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, ⁵University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁶Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁷National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Blood immunophenotyping reveals systemic immune alterations and therapeutically actionable molecular endotypes in Sjögren’s Disease (SjD). Reported changes include reduced memory B cells, plasmacytoid dendritic…
Abstract Number: 0657 • ACR Convergence 2025
Preliminary Analysis Of Open-Label Dose-Titration Phase Of SLE Treatment With N-Acetylcysteine (SNAC) Shows Evidence For Potential Improvement Of SLEDAI, BILAG, ADHD And Fatigue Scores In Patients With Active SLE
FNU Ruchi¹, Ioana Coman¹, Bryan Blaker¹, Lucero Blaker¹, Joy Park², Jorge Cabezas¹, Dilip Rao¹, +Xiaojing Wang¹, Aparna Godavarthy¹, Marlene Marte Furment³, Sandy Nasr⁴, Sravani Lokineni⁵, Christina Donath⁴, SARA KAHLOWN⁶, Damira Sereda¹, Binod Kc¹, Ilya Ivyanskiy¹, Bhavya Poudyal⁷, Arthur Weinstein⁸, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman⁹, Michael Weisman¹⁰, Cynthia Aranow¹¹, Mariko Ishimori¹⁰, Kyriakos Kirou¹², Jihad Ben Gabr¹³, Sheetal Rayancha¹⁴, Nancy Olsen¹⁵, Fotios Koumpouras¹⁶, Judith Lin¹⁷, Stephen Faraone¹, Daniel Wallace¹⁸, Michael McDermott¹⁹ and Andras Perl²⁰, ¹SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, ²Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, ³Medical Affiliates of Cape Cod, Hyannis, MA, ⁴SUNY Upstate University Hospital, Syracuse, NY, ⁵Deaconess Hospital, Evansville, IN, ⁶Suny upstate medical university, Camillus, NY, ⁷SUNY Upstate Medical University, Cicero, NY, ⁸retired from clinical practice, volunteer academic faculty, Claremont, CA, ⁹Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ¹⁰Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, LOS ANGELES, CA, ¹¹Institute of Molecular Medicine, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, ¹²Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ¹³Division of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, ¹⁴SUNY Upstate Medical University, Jamesville, NY, ¹⁵Penn State University/Milton S Hershey, Hershey, PA, ¹⁶Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ¹⁷Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, ¹⁸Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Studio City, CA, ¹⁹University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, ²⁰SUNY, Syracuse, NY
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease of unknown etiology with mortality still approaching 10% in 5 years. The major causes of death…
Abstract Number: 1317 • ACR Convergence 2025
The Association Between Insomnia and Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of 546,822 Patients
Mohamed Abdelsalam¹, Maryam Lasheen², Menat Alla Ayman Ali Mahdy³, Hadeer Hafez⁴, Nourhan Abouelella⁵, Mohamed Al-Adl⁶ and Mohamed Reda Awad⁷, ¹Misr University For Science and Technology, ⁶ october, Al Jizah, Egypt, ²Misr University For Science and Technology, Helwan, Al Qahirah, Egypt, ³Misr University For Science and Technology, Nasr City, Al Qahirah, Egypt, ⁴⁶th October University, ⁶ october, Al Jizah, Egypt, ⁵Faculty of Medicine, Misr University for Science and Technology, ⁶ october, Al Jizah, Egypt, ⁶Faculty of medicine Al-Azhar University Cairo, Nasr City, Egypt, ⁷Al Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt, Giza, Al Jizah, Egypt
Background/Purpose: Insomnia and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are caught in a snowball effect, where chronic pain disrupts sleep and causes poor sleep quality, which in turn…

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