Abstracts tagged "Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs (Dmards)"

Abstract Number: 0927 • ACR Convergence 2022
Review of 167,990 Same Day RAPID3, CDAI Scores for 61,312 Patients Receiving DMARD Treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis; Evaluations of Disease Assessments and Treatment Discontinuation
Nehad Soloman¹, Kent Kwas Huston², Jasvinder singh³, Simon Helfgott⁴, Andrew Frick⁵, Scott Milligan⁵ and Colin Edgerton⁶, ¹Arizona Arthritis & Rheumatology Associates, P.C., Peoria, AZ, ²Kansas City Physician Partners Center for Rheumatic Disease, Kansas City, MO, ³University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁵Trio Health, Louisville, CO, ⁶Articularis Healthcare, Sullivans Island, SC
Background/Purpose: Treatment efficacy for rheumatoid arthritis is often measured through disease assessments containing subjective input from the provider, the patient, or both. Here we compare…
Abstract Number: 1210 • ACR Convergence 2022
Use of Biologic or Targeted Synthetic Disease Modifying Anti-rheumatic Drugs and the Risk of Lymphoma in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Namrata Singh¹, Alexander Peterson², Aaron Baraff², Ajay Gopal³, Nicholas Smith⁴, Jennifer Barton⁵, Jeffrey Curtis⁶ and Noel Weiss³, ¹University of Washington, Bellevue, WA, ²VA Puget Sound, SEATTLE, WA, ³University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ⁴VA Puget Sound/University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ⁵VA Portland Health Care System/OHSU, Portland, OR, ⁶University of Alabama at Birmingham, Hoover, AL
Background/Purpose: Epidemiologic studies suggest that disease duration and degree of inflammatory activity of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are associated with lymphoma development [1]. Whether the decrease…
Abstract Number: 1586 • ACR Convergence 2022
Sustained Remission Following the Discontinuation of Tofacitinib in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (XANADU Study): A Multicenter, Prospective, and Randomized Controlled Study
Satoshi Kubo¹, Yusuke Miyazaki², Koichi Amano³, Kiyoshi Matsui⁴, Hideto Kameda⁵, Yoshino Inoue⁶, Shingo Nakayamada⁶, Takehisa Ogura⁷, Yuko Kaneko⁸, Kunihiro Yamaoka⁹ and Yoshiya Tanaka¹⁰, ¹Department of Advanced Targeted Therapies, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyusyu Fukuoka, Japan, ²The First Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kiakyusyu Fukuoka, Japan, ³Saitama Medical Center, Kawagoe, Japan, ⁴Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan, ⁵Toho University, Tokyo, Japan, ⁶First Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyusyu Fukuoka, Japan, ⁷Toho university, Meguro-ku, Japan, ⁸Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, ⁹Department of Rheumatology and Infectious Diseases, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan, ¹⁰University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyusyu Fukuoka, Japan
Background/Purpose: To investigate sustained remission following the discontinuation of tofacitinib in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).Methods: RA patients who had an inadequate response to methotrexate…
Abstract Number: 1960 • ACR Convergence 2022
Impact of Delaying Initiation of Methotrexate by One Month on the Outcome of RA at One Year
Theresa Than¹, Emmanuelle Dernis², Olivier BROCQ³, Bruno Fautrel⁴, Helena HUGUET⁵, Liana Euller-Ziegler⁶, Lindsay BUSTAMENTE-CENCI⁶, Olivier Vittecoq⁷, Marie-christine PICOT⁵, Cédric Lukas⁸, Claire DAIEN⁹, Charlotte Hua¹⁰, Marlène Genty⁵, Helene Che⁵, Anouck REMY-MOULARD¹¹, Frederic LIOTE¹², Martin Soubrier¹³, Cécile GAUJOUX-VIALA¹⁴, Arnaud Constantin¹⁵, Alain Saraux¹⁶, Emilie Ducourau¹⁷, Stephanie RIST¹⁸, CARINE SALLIOT¹⁹, Nada IBRAHIM-NASSER¹⁸, Clara qUINTEN¹⁸, Vincent Goeb²⁰ and Jacques Morel¹, ¹University and CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, France, ²LE MANS general hospital, LE MANS, France, ³Centre hospitalier Princesse-Grace, Monaco, France, ⁴Sorbonne University Paris, France and Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, Paris, France, Paris, France, ⁵CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, France, ⁶CHRU Nice, Nice, France, ⁷CHU de Rouen, ROUEN, France, ⁸University Hospital Centre Montpellier, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France, ⁹University Hospital, Saint-Gély-du-Fesc, France, ¹⁰La Lettre du Rhumatologue, Paris, France, ¹¹CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, Chad, ¹²University of Paris, Paris, France, ¹³Gabriel-Montpied Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand, France, ¹⁴CHU Nîmes, Univ Montpellier (IDESP), Nîmes, France, ¹⁵Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France, ¹⁶CHU Brest, Brest, France, ¹⁷CH Orleans, Chambray Les Tours, France, ¹⁸CH orleans, Orleans, France, ¹⁹CHR orleans, Orleans, France, ²⁰CHU Amiens, Amiens, France
Background/Purpose: It is recommended that vaccinations should be performed prior to start methotrexate (MTX) knowing that delaying initiation of background therapy may have an impact…
Abstract Number: 2147 • ACR Convergence 2022
Cumulative Dose and Exposure Time to Methotrexate Were Not Shown to Be Predictors of Hepatic Fibrosis by Elastography – A Monocentric Cohort Study
Filipe Pinheiro¹, Rui Gaspar², Bruno Fernandes³, Armando Peixoto², Guilherme Macedo² and Iva Brito⁴, ¹Rheumatology Department, Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João, Porto, Portugal, ²Gastroenterology Deparment, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de São João, Porto, Portugal, ³Rheumatology Deparment, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de São João, Porto, Portugal, ⁴Pediatric and Young Adult Rheumatology Unit, Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João, Porto, Portugal
Background/Purpose: Methotrexate is an immunomodulatory agentu sed in several inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), spondyloarthritis (SpA) or inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Despite being…
Abstract Number: 0113 • ACR Convergence 2022
Escalation to Biologics After Methotrexate Among US Veterans with Rheumatoid Arthritis Living in Rural versus Urban Areas
Anisha Naik¹, Katherine Wysham², Bryant England³, Punyasha Roul⁴, Michael George⁵, Joshua Baker⁵, Jennifer Barton⁶, Jean Liew⁷, Una Makris⁸, Gail Kerr⁹, Grant Cannon¹⁰, Ted Mikuls¹¹ and Namrata Singh¹², ¹VA Puget Sound, Seattle, WA, ²VA Puget Sound/University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ³University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁴UNMC, Omaha, NE, ⁵University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁶VA Portland Health Care System/OHSU, Portland, OR, ⁷Boston University, Boston, MA, ⁸UT Southwestern Medical Center and Dallas VA, Dallas, TX, ⁹Washington DC VAMC/Georgetown and Howard Universities, Washington, DC, ¹⁰Retired, Salt Lake City, UT, ¹¹Division of Rheumatology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ¹²University of Washington, Bellevue, WA
Background/Purpose: Timely diagnosis and initiation of appropriate treatments are imperative to improve outcomes for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Racial and ethnic disparities in RA…
Abstract Number: 0306 • ACR Convergence 2022
Maintenance of Disease Activity and Treatment Persistence in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Who Switched from Combination to TNF Inhibitor Monotherapy: Results from the Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness (RISE) Registry
Gabriela Schmajuk¹, Nevin Hammam², Jing Li³, David Collier⁴, Greg Kricorian⁵ and Scott Stryker⁶, ¹UCSF / SFVA, San Francisco, CA, ²Rheumatology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt, PASADENA, CA, ³University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁴Amgen Inc., Simi Valley, CA, ⁵Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, ⁶Amgen Inc., San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Data regarding the maintenance of disease activity (DA) and treatment persistence in patients (pts) who switched from combination therapy to monotherapy for the management…
Abstract Number: 0571 • ACR Convergence 2022
National Rollout of a Medication Safety Dashboard to Improve Testing for Latent Infections Among Biologic/targeted Synthetic DMARD Users Within the Veterans Health Administration: Initial Results
Anna Montgomery¹, Gary Tarasovsky², Mary Whooley², Jennifer Barton³, Karla Miller⁴, Holly Mitchell⁵, Jo Dana², Kimberly Reiter⁶, Elizabeth Wahl⁷, Karine Rozenberg-Ben-Dror⁸, Jing Li⁹ and Gabriela Schmajuk¹⁰, ¹University of California San Francisco, Reno, NV, ²San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, ³VA Portland Health Care System/OHSU, Portland, OR, ⁴University of Utah Division of Rheumatology/VA Salt Lake City Health Care, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁵Ralph H. Johnson VA Hospital, Mount Pleasant, SC, ⁶Albuquerque VA Medical Center, Albuquerque, NM, ⁷VA Puget Sound Healthcare System, Seattle, WA, ⁸Greater Lakes Region/VISN 12 Dept Veterans Affairs, Hines, IL, ⁹University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ¹⁰UCSF / SFVA, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Guidelines recommend testing for latent hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and tuberculosis (TB) infection prior to initiating biologics or targeted synthetic…
Abstract Number: 0798 • ACR Convergence 2022
Uncovering the Relationship Between COVID-19 Outcome Severity and Rheumatic Disease
Natalie Allcott¹, Neha Gupta¹, Namita Raghavan¹, Huzaefah Syed² and Stamatina Danielides³, ¹VCU, Richmond, VA, ²Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA, ³Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Glen Allen, VA
Background/Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused great concern amongst immunocompromised patients, especially those with rheumatic diagnoses. While much has been learned in the past two…
Abstract Number: 0928 • ACR Convergence 2022
Use of Disease Modifying Anti-rheumatic Drugs and Risk of Multiple Myeloma in US Veterans with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Namrata Singh¹, Alexander Peterson², Aaron Baraff², Sarah Chung³, David Coffey⁴, Bryant England⁵, Pankti Reid⁶, Joshua Baker⁷, Jennifer Barton⁸, Nicholas Smith⁹, Ted Mikuls¹⁰ and Noel Weiss³, ¹University of Washington, Bellevue, WA, ²VA Puget Sound, SEATTLE, WA, ³University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ⁴University of Miami, Miami, FL, ⁵University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁶University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, ⁷University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁸VA Portland Health Care System/OHSU, Portland, OR, ⁹VA Puget Sound/University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ¹⁰Division of Rheumatology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Background/Purpose: Biologic (b) and targeted synthetic (ts) DMARDs used in the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) target inflammatory pathways implicated in the pathogenesis of multiple…
Abstract Number: 1211 • ACR Convergence 2022
Impact of Change in Biologic Disease Modifying Antirheumatic Drug Therapy on Disease Activity Measures: Findings from a Large Contemporaneous Real-World Longitudinal Database of RA Patients
Zhaohui Su¹, Lauren Stevens², Tom Brecht¹, Jessica Paulus¹ and Stefan Weiss³, ¹OM1, Inc., Boston, MA, ²OM1, Inc., Lexington, KY, ³OM1, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC
Background/Purpose: While many clinical trials provide direct comparisons between biologic disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARD) and nonbiologic DMARDs (nDMARD), there is a need to better…
Abstract Number: 1590 • ACR Convergence 2022
Pain and Treatment Switching Among Patients in the CorEvitasTM Rheumatoid Arthritis Registry
Joshua Baker¹, J Morel Symons², Jud C Janak³, Oksana Pugach³, Elizabeth Kohl³, Miao Yu³, Dave Webb⁴, Alan A Martin⁴, Didier Saurigny⁵ and Marguerite Bracher⁵, ¹University of Pennsylvania and Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, ²GlaxoSmithKline, Collegeville, PA, ³CorEvitas, LLC, Waltham, MA, ⁴GlaxoSmithKline, Brentford, United Kingdom, ⁵GlaxoSmithKline, Stevenage, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: For many patients with RA on targeted therapies, the chronic burden of pain leads to therapies being deemed suboptimally effective and may affect treatment…
Abstract Number: 1981 • ACR Convergence 2022
Rho-GTPase Expression Recruits CD14+ Cells to Joints in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Predicts Good Response to JAK-inhibitor Treatment
Eric Malmhäll-Bah¹, Karin Andersson², Nina Oparina², Sofia Töyrä Silfverswärd³, Malin Erlandsson² and Maria Bokarewa³, ¹Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, ²Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Goteborg, Sweden, ³Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden
Background/Purpose: While examining arthritis development in GGTaseI-deficient mice, we found that hyperactive Rho-GTPases regulate the thymic egress of CD4+ T cells to the peripheral lymphoid…
Abstract Number: 2149 • ACR Convergence 2022
Cycling versus Swapping Strategies in Psoriatic Arthritis: Results from the Rheumatic Diseases Portuguese Register
Francisca Guimarães¹, Maria Pontes-Ferreira¹, Catarina Soares¹, Hugo Parente², Carolina Ochôa Matos³, Roberto Costa³, Daniela Oliveira⁴, Catarina Abreu⁵, Rafaela teixeira⁶, Sofia Ferreira Azevedo⁷, João Madruga-Dias⁸, Filipe Araújo⁹, Carla Campinho Ferreira¹⁰, Daniela Santos-Faria² and José Tavares-Costa², ¹Rheumatology department, Unidade Local de Saúde do Alto Minho, Ponte de Lima, Viana do Castelo, Portugal, ²Rheumatology department, Unidade Local de Saúde do Alto Minho, Ponte de Lima, Portugal, ³Rheumatology Department, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte, Lisboa, Portugal, ⁴Rheumatology Department, Centro Hospitalar Universitário São João, Porto, Portugal, ⁵Rheumatology Department, Hospital Garcia de Orta, Lisboa, Portugal, ⁶Rheumatology department, Centro Hospitalar Tondela-Viseu, Viseu, Portugal, ⁷Rheumatology Department, Centro Hospitalar do Baixo Vouga, Aveiro, Portugal, ⁸Rheumatology Service, Centro Hospitalar Médio Tejo, Tomar, Portugal, ⁹Rheumatology and Osteoporosis Unit, Hospital de Sant´Ana, SCML, Lisboa, Portugal, ¹⁰Rheumatology Department, Hospital de Braga, Braga, Portugal
Background/Purpose: This study aimed to compare the effectiveness and safety of switching to a second tumour necrosis factor alfa inhibitor (TNFi) – "cycling group" -…
Abstract Number: 0136 • ACR Convergence 2022
Sarcoidosis Incidence After mTOR Inhibitor Treatment
Matthew Baker¹, Emese Vágó², Yuhan Liu¹, Rong Lu¹, Suzanne Tamang³, Erzsébet Horváth-Puhó² and Henrik Sørensen², ¹Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ²Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, ³Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences, Redwood City, CA
Background/Purpose: Mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitors are effective in animal models of granulomatous disease, but their benefit in patients with sarcoidosis is unknown. We…

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