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

Abstract Number: 1958 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Increased Risk of Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteremia in Rheumatoid Arthritis – What Is the Impact of Glucocorticoids, Biologic Disease-Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs and Disease Activity: A Danish Nationwide Nested Case-Control Study in the DANBIO Registry
Sabine Dieperink¹, Bente Glintborg², Frank Mehnert³, Mette Nørgaard³, Louise Bruun Oestergaard⁴, Thomas Benfield⁵, Christian Torp-Pedersen⁶, Andreas Petersen⁷ and Merete Lund Hetland¹, ¹Copenhagen University Hospital - Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Denmark, ²Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Virum, Denmark, ³Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, ⁴Copenhagen University Hospital - Herlev and Gentofte, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁵Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁶Copenhagen University Hospital - North Zealand, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁷Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
Background/Purpose: Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB) has high mortality.[1] We have previously identified an approximately doubled risk in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA),[2] but the role…
Abstract Number: 2146 • ACR Convergence 2022
Efficacy of Upadacitinib in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis and Prior Exposure to Anti-TNF Therapy in the SELECT-PsA 2 Trial Through 2 Years
Philip J Mease¹, Rodrigo Luppino Assad², Shigeyoshi Tsuji³, Pascal Richette⁴, Arathi Setty⁵, Erin McDearmon-Blondell⁶, Tianming Gao⁵, Sandra Ciecinski⁶ and Filip Van den bosch⁷, ¹Swedish Medical Center/Providence St. Joseph Health, Seattle, WA, ²Department of Internal Medicine, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ³Department of Orthopaedics and Rheumatology, Nippon Life Hospital, Osaka, Japan, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France, ⁵AbbVie, Inc., North Chicago, IL, ⁶AbbVie, Inc., Mettawa, IL, ⁷Department of Internal Medicine and Paediatrics, Ghent University and VIB Centre for Inflammation Research, Ghent, Belgium
Background/Purpose: Patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) who experience anti-TNF failure and switch to another TNF inhibitor as second- or third-line therapy typically show poorer responses…
Abstract Number: 0105 • ACR Convergence 2022
Supplemental Primary Dose of the COVID-19 Vaccine in Immunosuppressed Patients on DMARDs and Biologic Agents
Archanaa Murugan¹, Ximena Ruiz² and Leslie Harris Jr.¹, ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham- Internal Medicine- Montgomery, Montgomery, AL, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham- Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Montgomery, AL
Background/Purpose: Immunosuppressive states can attenuate the immunogenicity of the COVID-19 vaccines. Some studies have shown an improved immune response with a supplemental primary dose. In…
Abstract Number: 0296 • ACR Convergence 2022
Characteristics and Treatment-selection in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and with Inadequate Response to Janus Kinase Inhibitors
Yusuke Miyazaki¹, Shingo Nakayamada², Satoshi Kubo³, Koshiro Sonomoto², Yoshino Inoue², shunsuke fukuyo², Kentaro Hanami² and Yoshiya Tanaka⁴, ¹The First Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kiakyusyu Fukuoka, Japan, ²First Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyusyu Fukuoka, Japan, ³Department of Advanced Targeted Therapies, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyusyu Fukuoka, Japan, ⁴University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyusyu Fukuoka, Japan
Background/Purpose: Janus kinase inhibitors (JAKinib) are effective in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA); however, some patients show an inadequate response to JAKinibs (JAKinib-IR). This study…
Abstract Number: 0542 • ACR Convergence 2022
ASAS-EULAR Recommendations for the Management of Axial Spondyloarthritis: 2022 Update
Sofia Ramiro¹, Elena Nikiphorou², Alexandre Sepriano³, Augusta Ortolan⁴, Casper Webers⁵, Xenofon Baraliakos⁶, Robert Landewé⁷, Filip Van den bosch⁸, Boryana Boteva⁹, Ann Bremander¹⁰, Philippe Carron¹¹, Adrian Ciurea¹², floris van Gaalen¹, Pal Geher¹³, Lianne Gensler¹⁴, Josef Hermann¹⁵, Manouk de Hooge¹⁶, Marketa Husakova¹⁷, Uta Kiltz¹⁸, Clementina Lopez-Medina¹⁹, Pedro Machado²⁰, Helena Marzo-Ortega²¹, Anna Molto²², Victoria Navarro-Compán²³, Michael Nissen²⁴, Fernando Pimentel-Santos²⁵, Denis Poddubnyy²⁶, Fabian Proft²⁶, Martin Rudwaleit²⁷, Mark Telkman⁹, Sizheng Zhao²⁸, Nelly Ziade²⁹ and Désirée van der Heijde³⁰, ¹Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Leiden University Medical Center & King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ³Leiden University Medical Centre, Portela Loures, Portugal, ⁴University of Padova/Leiden University Medical Center, Padova, Italy, ⁵Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands, ⁶Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet Herne, Herne, Germany, ⁷Amsterdam University Medical Center, Meerssen, Netherlands, ⁸Department of Internal Medicine and Paediatrics, Ghent University and VIB Centre for Inflammation Research, Ghent, Belgium, ⁹Patients with Arthritis and Rheumatism (PARE) working group, EULAR, Zürich, Switzerland, ¹⁰Danish Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, University Hospital of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg, Denmark, ¹¹Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium, ¹²University Hospital Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, ¹³Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, ¹⁴Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ¹⁵Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria, ¹⁶Ghent University Hospital, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, ¹⁷Department of Rheumatology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and Rheumatology Institute, Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, ¹⁸Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne, Germany, ¹⁹Reina Sofia University Hospital, Rheumatology Department, Jaén, Spain, ²⁰University College London, London, United Kingdom, ²¹Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust and University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ²²Rheumatology Department, Hôpital Cochin,Assistance Publique- Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France, ²³Department of Rheumatology, La Paz University Hospital, IdiPaz, Madrid, Spain, ²⁴Hopitaux Universitaires de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland, ²⁵NOVA Medical School; Universidade NOVA e Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, ²⁶Department of Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases and Rheumatology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ²⁷University of Bielefeld, Klinikum Bielefeld, Bielefeld; Germany Klinikum Bielefeld and Charité Berlin, Germany, and Gent University, Gent, Belgium, ²⁸University of Manchester, Liverpool, United Kingdom, ²⁹Saint-Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon, ³⁰Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Leiden, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Since the last update of the ASAS-EULAR recommendations for the management of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) in 2016, substantial new evidence has become available on…
Abstract Number: 0796 • ACR Convergence 2022
SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine in Axial Spondyloarthritis and Psoriatic Arthritis: Does Sulfasalazine Counterbalance TNFI Impaired Immunogenicity?
Carla Goncalves Schahin Saad¹, Matheus SR Silva², PERCIVAL SAMPAIO-BARROS¹, Julio Moraes³, Claudia G Schainberg², Celio Roberto goncalves¹, Andrea Shimabuco¹, Nadia Aikawa¹, Emily Figueiredo Neves Yuki¹, Sandra Gofinet Pasoto⁴, Leonard VK Kupa², Renato K Aoyama², Carlo Araujo¹, Clovis A. Silva⁵, ana Medeiros⁶ and Eloisa Silva Dutra de Oliveira Bonfa⁴, ¹Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ²Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, ³Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Jundiai, Brazil, ⁴Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ⁵Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP), São Paulo, Brazil, ⁶Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Jose Dos Campos, Brazil
Background/Purpose: Spondyloarthritis(SpA) patients are exposed to a variety of immunosuppressors capable of reduce humoral responses to vaccination. In context of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, assessment of…
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…

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