Abstracts tagged "DMARDs"

Abstract Number: 1669 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Serum Survivin Predicts Responses to Treatment in Active Rheumatoid Arthritis
Adrian Levitsky¹, Malin C. Erlandsson², Ronald F. van Vollenhoven¹ and Maria I. Bokarewa², ¹Department of Medicine, Unit for Clinical Therapy Research, Inflammatory Diseases (ClinTRID), The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, ²Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Survivin is an oncological biomarker. In rheumatoid arthritis (RA), elevated serum survivin is common and has been used to predict disease onset and progressive…
Abstract Number: 2783 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
What Is the Rate of Primary and Secondary Failure of Anti-TNF in RA Patients? Data from a Rheumatoid Arthritis Cohort
Edward C. Keystone¹, Mohammad Movahedi^2,3, Angela Cesta², Xiuying Li², Sandra Couto², Emmanouil Rampakakis³, John S. Sampalis^3,4, Claire Bombardier^2,5,6 and OBRI Investigators, ¹The Rebecca MacDonald Centre For Arthritis, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³JSS Medical Research, St-Laurent, QC, Canada, ⁴McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁵University of Toronto, Department of Medicine (DOM) and Institute of Health Policy Management, and Evaluation (IHPME), Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Although the majority of RA patients respond to treatment with anti-TNF agents, some patients present with refractory disease (1ry failure) while others show some…
Abstract Number: 705 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Sex Differences in Psoriatic Arthritis: Evaluation of a Real-Life Cohort of 2,118 Italian Patients Treated with Methotrexate
Carlo Selmi^1,2, Elena Generali³, Greta Carrara⁴, Carlo Alberto Scirè⁴ and RECORD Study Group of the Italian Society for Rheumatology, ¹BIOMETRA Department, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, ²Internal Medicine- Unit of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Rozzano, Italy, ³Internal Medicine- Unit of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Rozzano (MI), Italy, ⁴Epidemiology Unit – Italian Society for Rheumatology (SIR), Milano, Italy
Background/Purpose: The influence of sex in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) features and treatment outcomes has not been fully elucidated. We investigated the differences between sexes in…
Abstract Number: 1676 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis of Combination Treatments in Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drug Experienced Patients with Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis: Analysis of American College of Rheumatology Criteria Scores 20, 50, and 70: An Update
Michelle E. Orme¹, Charles Hawes² and Stephen A. Mitchell³, ¹ICERA consulting UK, Swindon, United Kingdom, ²Pfizer UK, Surrey, United Kingdom, ³Abacus International UK, Bicester, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Biologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) in combination with conventional DMARDs provide patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and an inadequate response to conventional DMARDs…
Abstract Number: 2790 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Leflunomide/Hydroxychoroquine Combination Treatment Additively Inhibits T Cell Receptor/Toll-like Receptor 9-Triggered Th1 and Th17 Cytokine Secretion
E.H.M. van der Heijden^1,2, S.A.Y. Hartgring¹, S. Hiddingh¹, A.A. Kruize², T.R.D.J. Radstake^1,3 and J.A.G. van Roon¹, ¹Laboratory for Translational Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, ²Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, ³Department of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome (pSS) is a systemic auto-immune disease, leading to an exocrinopathy of mainly salivary and lachrymal glands. T- and B-cell-driven immunity is…
Abstract Number: 707 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Change of Enthesial Involvement Under Treatment Was Independent from the Therapeutic Strategy in Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis within the Scqm Cohort
Ruediger Mueller¹, Toni Kaegi², Nicole Graf³, Johannes von Kempis⁴ and J.J. Luime⁵, ¹Rheumatology, MD, St. Gallen, Switzerland, ²Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland, ³graf biostatistics, Winterthur, Switzerland, ⁴Rheumatology, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Enthesitis is one of the potential extra-axial manifestations found in patients with spondyloarthritis (SpA). Enthesitis can be quantified using the MASES (Maastrich Ankylosing Spondylitis…
Abstract Number: 1932 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
IL-17A-Low CCR6+ Th Cell Populations of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Are Pathogenic, Multidrug Resistant and Associated with DMARD and Glucocorticoid Treatment Response
Jan Piet van Hamburg¹, Sandra M.J. Paulissen², Nadine Davelaar¹, Mieke Hazes³ and Erik Lubberts¹, ¹Rheumatology and Immunology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ²Room Nb-84, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ³Rheumatology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: CCR6+ T-helper (Th) cells and their pro-inflammatory cytokines including IL-17A are implicated in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, within the CCR6+ Th…
Abstract Number: 2837 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Sulfasalazine Comedication: A Predictor of Reduced Long-Term Anti-TNF Switch in Ankylosing Spondylitis
Andrea Y. Shimabuco, Celio R. Gonçalves, Julio C. B. Moraes, Mariana G Waisberg, Percival D Sampaio-Barros, Cláudia Goldenstein-Schainberg, Eloisa Bonfá and Carla G.S. Saad, Rheumatology Division, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Background/Purpose: Anti-TNF agents are efficacious in the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis (AS). The switch to another TNF blockage can be an alternative in cases of…
Abstract Number: 942 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Update in the Management of Biologic Response Modifiers and Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs Following Coccidioidomycosis
Usman Ajaz¹, Neil M. Ampel², Varun Bhalla³, Jeffrey R. Lisse⁴ and Dominick Sudano⁵, ¹Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, ²Department of Infectious Disease, Southern AZ VA Medical Center, Tucson, AZ, ³University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, ⁴Arizona Arthritis Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, ⁵Rheumatology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Background/Purpose: In the Southwestern United States, Coccidioidomycosis (cocci) or Valley fever is an endemic fungal infection. It typically presents as a self-limited pulmonary illness. Patients…
Abstract Number: 2051 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Risk for Lower Intestinal Perforations in RA Patients Treated with Tocilizumab in Comparison to Treatment with TNF Inhibitors, Rituximab, Abatacept or Conventional Synthetic Dmards
Anja Strangfeld¹, Adrian Richter², Peter Herzer³, Karin Rockwitz⁴, Winfried Demary⁵, Martin Aringer⁶, Angela Zink⁷ and Joachim Listing⁸, ¹Epidemiology, German Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin, Germany, ²German Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin, Germany, ³Rheumatologist, Scientific Advisory Board, München, Germany, ⁴Rheumatologic Practice, Goslar, Germany, ⁵Rheumatologist, Hildesheim, Germany, ⁶Rheumatology, Medicine III, University Clinical Center, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany, ⁷Epidemiologie, Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum, Berlin, Germany, ⁸Epidemiology, DRFZ, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose: Interleukin-6 has a direct protective effect on intestinal cells. Although several cases of lower intestinal perforations (LIP) were reported in clinical trials of tocilizumab…
Abstract Number: 3102 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Increasing Circulating Adiponectin after DMARD Initiation Is Associated with Radiographic Progression in Early Aggressive RA, Regardless of Treatment Strategy
Jon T. Giles¹, S. Louis Bridges Jr.², James R. O'Dell³, Stacey Cofield⁴, George Howard⁵, Jeffrey R. Curtis⁶ and Larry W. Moreland⁷, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY, ²Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³Rheumatology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁴School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁵Biostatistics, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁶University of Alabama at Birmingham, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Birmingham, AL, ⁷Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: Higher levels of circulating adiponectin have been linked to radiographic progression in RA in observational studies, but never studied in the context of early…
Abstract Number: 959 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Results from the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Systemic JIA Consensus Treatment Plans Pilot Study
Yukiko Kimura¹, Timothy Beukelman², Esi Morgan-DeWitt³, Kelly L. Mieszkalski⁴, Thomas Brent Graham⁵, Maria F. Ibarra⁶, Norman Ilowite⁷, Marisa S. Klein-Gitelman⁸, Karen Onel⁹, Sampath Prahalad¹⁰, Marilynn G. Punaro¹¹, Sarah Ringold¹², Dana Toib¹³, Heather Van Mater¹⁴, Pamela F. Weiss¹⁵, Laura Schanberg¹⁶ and the CARRA Registry Investigators, ¹Pediatric Rheumatology, Joseph M Sanzari Children’s Hospital, Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ, ²Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³Pediatric rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁴Rheumatology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ⁵Pediatric Rheumatology, Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, Nashville, TN, ⁶Pediatric Rheumatolgy, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, ⁷Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, NY, ⁸Division of Rheumatology, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ⁹Pediatric Rheumatology, Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ¹⁰Rheumatology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ¹¹Texas Scottish Rite Hospital, Dallas, TX, ¹²Pediatrics, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, ¹³Pediatric Rheumnatology, St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, PA, ¹⁴Duke Pediatric Rheumatology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ¹⁵Rheumatology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ¹⁶Duke University, Durham, NC
Background/Purpose: Systemic JIA (sJIA) in usual practice is commonly treated with several agents, including glucocorticoids (GC), methotrexate (MTX) and biologic agents, most commonly IL1 or…
Abstract Number: 2143 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Safety Analysis of Tofacitinib 5mg Twice Daily Administered As Monotherapy or in Combination with Background Conventional Synthetic Dmards in a Phase 3 Rheumatoid Arthritis Population
Alan J Kivitz¹, Boulos Haraoui², Jeffrey Kaine³, Vanessa Castellano⁴, Eustratios Bananis⁴, Carol A Connell⁵, Elaine Hoffman⁵ and Liza Takiya⁶, ¹Altoona Center for Clinical Research, Duncansville, PA, ²Institut de Rhumatologie de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, ³Sarasota Arthritis Research Center, Sarasota, FL, ⁴Pfizer Inc, Collegeville, PA, ⁵Pfizer Inc, Groton, CT, ⁶Pfizer Inc, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Tofacitinib is an oral Janus kinase inhibitor for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In Phase 3 (P3) studies, tofacitinib demonstrated safety and efficacy…
Abstract Number: 3196 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Predictive Biomarkers for Response or Non-Response to MTX Monotherapy in Early RA
Karen Hambardzumyan¹, Rebecca J. Bolce², Saedis Saevarsdottir³, Kristina Forslind^4,5, Johan A Karlsson⁶ and Ronald F. van Vollenhoven¹, ¹Department of Medicine, Unit for Clinical Therapy Research, Inflammatory Diseases (ClinTRID), The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, ²Crescendo Bioscience Inc., South San Francisco, CA, ³Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, The Karolinska Institute and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁴Departments of Rheumatology, Helsingborgs Hospital and University of Lund, Helsingborg and Lund, Sweden, ⁵Department of Medicine, Helsingborgs Lasarett, Section of Rheumatology, Helsingborg, Sweden, ⁶Section of Rheumatology, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Background/Purpose: In early rheumatoid arthritis (eRA), a clinically significant proportion of patients may respond to first-line treatment with methotrexate (MTX). A priori identification of patients…
Abstract Number: 970 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Efficacy and Safety of Sarilumab in Combination with Csdmards in Patients with Active Rheumatoid Arthritis Who Were Inadequate Responders or Intolerant of Anti–TNF-Î± Therapy: Results from a Phase 3 Study
Roy Fleischmann¹, Geraldo Castelar-Pinheiro², Jan Brzezicki³, Pawel Hrycaj⁴, Yong Lin⁵, Janet van Adelsberg⁶, Neil Graham⁷, Hubert van Hoogstraten⁵, Deborah Bauer⁵ and Gerd Burmester⁸, ¹University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ²Discipline of Rheumatology, Rio de Janeiro State University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ³Centrum Kliniczno-Badawcze, Elblag, Poland, ⁴Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland, ⁵Sanofi, Bridgewater, NJ, ⁶Clinical Science, Regeneron Pharmaceutials, Inc., Tarrytown, NY, ⁷Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Tarrytown, NY, ⁸Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose: The investigational agent sarilumab is a human mAb directed against the IL-6 receptor. The phase 3 MOBILITY study (NCT01061736) evaluated the efficacy and safety…

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