Abstracts tagged "Disease Activity"

Abstract Number: 0811 • ACR Convergence 2020
Long-term Opioid Use in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Treated with Sarilumab
Janet Pope¹, Amy Praestgaard², Hubert van Hoogstraten³, Melitza Iglesias-Rodriguez², Serge Perrot⁴, Yvonne Lee⁵, Anthony Sebba⁶ and Ernest Choy⁷, ¹Department of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, St. Joseph's Health Centre, London, ON, Canada, ²Sanofi, Cambridge, MA, ³Sanofi, Bridgewater, NJ, ⁴Paris Descartes University, Paris, Ile-de-France, France, ⁵Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ⁶Arthritis Associates, Palm Harbor, Tampa, FL, ⁷CREATE Centre, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Prescription opioids are routinely used in patients with RA. However, use of opioids should be minimized to prevent abuse and addiction. Chronic opioid use…
Abstract Number: 0939 • ACR Convergence 2020
Maintenance of Remission After Withdrawal of Etanercept or Methotrexate in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis in Sustained Remission on Combination Therapy: Results from a Randomized, Double-blind, Controlled Trial
Jeffrey R Curtis¹, Paul Emery², Elaine Karis³, Boulos Haraoui⁴, Vivian Bykerk⁵, Priscilla Yen³, Gregory Kricorian⁶ and James Chung³, ¹Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds and NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK, Leeds, United Kingdom, ³Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, ⁴Rheumatology Institute of Montréal, Montreal, Canada, ⁵Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁶Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients (pts) in remission on combination therapy (Combo) of methotrexate (MTX)+etanercept (ETN) face ongoing medication burden and long-term safety/tolerability concerns related…
Abstract Number: 1213 • ACR Convergence 2020
Discrepancy Between the Multi-biomarker Disease Activity Score and Clinical Disease Activity Scores in a 2‑Part, Multicenter Study of Repository Corticotropin Injection (Acthar® Gel) for Patients with Persistently Active Rheumatoid Arthritis
Roy Fleischmann¹, Jingyu Liu², Julie Zhu², Oscar Segurado³ and Daniel Furst*⁴, ¹Southwestern Medical Center, Metroplex Clinical Research Center, Dallas, TX, ²Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, Bedminster, NJ, ³SSI Strategy, San Jose, CA, ⁴Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: Assessment of disease activity in RA with validated measures, such as the Disease Activity Score with 28 joint count and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (DAS28-ESR)…
Abstract Number: 1353 • ACR Convergence 2020
Achievement of Remission Is Associated with Improvement in Functionality in Certolizumab Pegol-Treated Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis, Irrespective of Pre-Existing Radiographic Structural Damage
Laura Coates¹, Désirée van der Heijde², Lars Erik Kristensen³, William Tillett⁴, Jason Eells⁵, Tommi Nurminen⁶ and Atul Deodhar⁷, ¹University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ²Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ³The Parker Institute Copenhagen Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg, Denmark, ⁴Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath, UK; Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath, Bath, UK, Bath, United Kingdom, ⁵UCB Pharma, Slough, United Kingdom, ⁶UCB Pharma, Monheim am Rhein, Germany, ⁷Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR
Background/Purpose: Pre-existing structural damage in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) has been suggested to impact therapeutic improvements in disease activity and functional outcomes.1,2 Here we…
Abstract Number: 1714 • ACR Convergence 2020
Disease Activity Trajectories for Early and Established Rheumatoid Arthritis: Real World Results from a Rheumatoid Arthritis Cohort
Mohammad Movahedi¹, Angela Cesta², Xiuying Li³ and Claire Bombardier⁴, ¹Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, Toronto, Canada, ⁴Institute for Work and Health, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Description of disease activity status in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) at fixed points in time modelled as continuous (e.g. number of swollen joints…
Abstract Number: 1803 • ACR Convergence 2020
Ability of Innate, Adaptive, and TNF-Superfamily Immune Pathways to Characterize Disease Activity and Inform a Refined Lupus Disease Activity Immune in a Confirmatory Cohort of SLE Patients
Melissa Munroe¹, Wade DeJager², Susan Macwana², Ly Tran², Joel Guthridge², Eldon Jupe³, Daniele DeFreese³, Ryan Newhardt³, Mohan Purushothaman³, Sanjiv Sharma³, Nancy Redinger², Teresa Aberle², Stan Kamp², Cristina Arriens², Eliza Chakravarty², Joan Merrill⁴ and Judith James⁵, ¹Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation/Progentec Diagnostics, Inc., Oklahoma City, OK, ²Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ³Progentec Diagnostics, Inc., Oklahoma City, OK, ⁴Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, ⁵Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation;Department of Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center;Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Edmond, OK
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease driven by complex immune dysregulation, involving altered immune mediators and accumulation of autoantibody (AutoAb) specificities.…
Abstract Number: 1983 • ACR Convergence 2020
Trajectories of Disease Activity in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Registry
Natalie Shiff¹, Peter Shrader², Colleen Correll³, Anne Dennos⁴, Thomas Phillips² and Timothy Beukelman⁵, ¹Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²Duke University, Durham, ³University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Duke University, Durham, NC, ⁵University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: To describe data-derived 2-year trajectories of disease activity in patients with recently diagnosed juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) as measured by the clinical Juvenile Arthritis…
Abstract Number: 0166 • ACR Convergence 2020
Prevalence and Impact of Unacceptable Symptom State Among Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis: Results from the National Psoriasis Foundation’s 2019 Annual Survey
Alexis Ogdie¹, George Gondo², Joseph Merola³, Stacie Bell⁴ and Alice Gottlieb⁵, ¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²National Psoriasis Foundation, Portland, OR, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Newton, MA, ⁴National Psoriasis Foundation, Portland, ⁵Department of Dermatology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Despite many efficacious therapies for PsA, many patients do not achieve remission. Ongoing disease activity leads to many downstream effects including diminished functional ability,…
Abstract Number: 0312 • ACR Convergence 2020
Dactylitis Is Associated with Greater Disease Severity, Ultrasound Synovitis, and Erosive Damage, in Very Early DMARD Naïve Psoriatic Arthritis
Sayam Dubash¹, Oras Alabas², Xabier Michelena², Gabriele De Marco³, Leticia Garcia-Montoya², Richard Wakefield², Ai Lyn Tan², Philip Helliwell⁴, Paul Emery⁵, Dennis McGonagle² and Helena Marzo-Ortega², ¹The University of Leeds, Leeds Institute for Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, Leeds, UK, Leeds, England, United Kingdom, ²The University of Leeds, Leeds Institute for Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, Leeds, UK, Leeds, United Kingdom, ³The University of Leeds, Leeds Institute for Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, Leeds, UK, Treviglio, Italy, ⁴Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ⁵Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds and NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK, Leeds, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Dactylitis is a hallmark feature of Psoriatic arthritis (PsA), defined as a uniform swelling of a finger or toe (“sausage digit”). It is associated…
Abstract Number: 0573 • ACR Convergence 2020
Effects of Successive Switches of Two Different Biosimilars of Etanercept on Outcomes in Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases in Daily Practice
Uta Kiltz¹, Styliani Tsiami², Xenofon Baraliakos¹ and Juergen Braun¹, ¹Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Ruhr-University Bochum, Herne, Germany, ²Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet Herne, Ruhr-University Bochum, Herne, Germany
Background/Purpose: A single switch from an originator to a biosimilar product has been shown to be safe and effective in the treatment of rheumatic musculoskeletal…
Abstract Number: 0827 • ACR Convergence 2020
Comparative Clinical Efficacy of Sarilumab versus Upadacitinib over 12 Weeks: Matching-Adjusted Indirect Comparison Analysis
Thomas Huizinga¹, Ernest Choy², Amy Praestgaard³, Hubert van Hoogstraten⁴, Patrick R LaFontaine³, Patricia Guyot⁵, Daniel Aletaha⁶, Ulf Müller-Ladner⁷, Yoshiya Tanaka⁸, Jeffrey R Curtis⁹ and Roy Fleischmann¹⁰, ¹Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²CREATE Centre, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, ³Sanofi, Cambridge, MA, ⁴Sanofi, Bridgewater, NJ, ⁵Sanofi, Chilly-Mazarin, France, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna,, Vienna, Austria, ⁷Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Justus-Liebig University, Campus Kerckhoff, Bad Nauheim, Germany, ⁸The First Department of Internal Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan, ⁹Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ¹⁰Southwestern Medical Center, Metroplex Clinical Research Center, Dallas, TX
Background/Purpose: Sarilumab, an IL-6 receptor inhibitor, and upadacitinib, a Janus kinase (JAK) 1 inhibitor, are both approved for the treatment of patients with moderately to…
Abstract Number: 0940 • ACR Convergence 2020
In Patients with Inflammatory Arthritides Central Pain Sensitization Is Strictly Associated with Functional Disability
Giovanni Adami¹, Angelo Fassio¹, Elisabetta Gerratana², Alessandro Giollo¹, Camilla Benini¹, Luca Idolazzi¹, Elisabetta Vantaggiato¹, Davide Gatti¹ and Maurizio Rossini¹, ¹Rheumatology Unit, University of Verona, Verona, Italy, ²Rheumatology Unit, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
Background/Purpose: Long-term nociceptive pain, as in inflammatory arthritides, can cause Central Sensitization (CS) to pain. CS Inventory (CSI) is a validated screening instrument for clinicians to…
Abstract Number: 1228 • ACR Convergence 2020
Baricitinib 2-mg Provides Greater Improvements in Patient-Reported Outcomes Across All Disease Activity Levels Compared to Placebo: Post-hoc Analyses of RA-BEACON and RA-BUILD Trials
Clifton Bingham III¹, Bochao Jia², Jianmin Wu², Amanda Quebe², Carol Kannowski², Susan Otawa², Yun-Fei Chen², Kirstin Griffing², Dongyi He³ and Dalton Sholter⁴, ¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, ³Shanghai Guanghua Hospital, Shanghai, Shanghai, China (People's Republic), ⁴University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Background/Purpose: Baricitinib (BARI) improved patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in patients with insufficient response or intolerance to ≥1 tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) or other biological disease-modifying…
Abstract Number: 1357 • ACR Convergence 2020
Comparative Efficacy of Janus Kinase Inhibitors and TNF Inhibitors in Ankylosing Spondylitis: A Network Meta-Analysis
Adela Castro¹, Jesus Diaz², Guillermo Quiceno³ and John Cush⁴, ¹UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX, ²Universidad de los Andes, Dallas, TX, ³UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ⁴University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX
Background/Purpose: Active ankylosing spondylitis (AS) has been associated with poor quality of life and work disability in up to 50% of patients (1). There is…
Abstract Number: 1715 • ACR Convergence 2020
Longitudinal Patterns of Remission in Real-World Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients: Results from the Canadian Early Arthritis Cohort (CATCH)
Orit Schieir¹, Glen Hazlewood², Susan Bartlett³, Marie-France Valois³, Louis Bessette⁴, Gilles Boire⁵, Carol Hitchon⁶, Edward Keystone⁷, Janet Pope⁸, Carter Thorne⁹, Diane Tin⁹, Vivian Bykerk¹⁰ and Canadian Early Arthritis Cohort (CATCH) Investigators¹¹, ¹Canadian Early Arthritis Cohort Study, Montreal, Canada, ²University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ³McGill University, Montreal, Canada, ⁴Laval University, Quebec, Canada, ⁵Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada, ⁶University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ⁷The Rebecca MacDonald Centre for Arthritis, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada, ⁸Department of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, St. Joseph's Health Centre, London, ON, Canada, ⁹Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ¹⁰Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ¹¹Canadian Early Arthritis Cohort (CATCH) Study, Toronto, Canada
Background/Purpose: Early diagnosis and rapid initiation of DMARDs following a treat-to-target approach have made remission a realizable goal for many persons living with RA. Despite…

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