Abstracts tagged "Early Rheumatoid Arthritis"

Abstract Number: 72 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Altered Serologic Responses to Epstein Barr Virus Precede Clinical Disease Development in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Heather M. Berens¹, Elizabeth A. Bemis², M. Kristen Demoruelle¹, John B. Harley³, Judith A. James⁴, Jess Edison⁵, Kevin D. Deane¹, Jill M. Norris⁶ and V. Michael Holers¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, ²Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO, ³Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology (CAGE), Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁴University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, ⁶Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO
Background/Purpose: EBV infects B cells and is associated with several autoimmune diseases, including RA. Prior studies have shown that patients with active classified RA…
Abstract Number: 1492 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Methotrexate Response in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Predicted Using a Somamer Proteomic Assay
Carol Hitchon¹, Victor Spicer¹, Nathalie Carrier², Ang Gao¹, Hani El-Gabalawy¹, John Wilkins¹ and Gilles Boire³, ¹University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ²Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux de l'Estrie -Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, ³Rheumatology Division, Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux de l'Estrie - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke and Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
Background/Purpose: Available clinical tools do not adequately identify treatment non-responders in early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) leading to delayed disease control. Tools informed by molecular phenotype…
Abstract Number: 310 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Trajectory of Grade 1 Erosions in the Feet of Patients with Early RA
Mary-Clair Yelovich¹, Hanyan Zou¹, Siobhan Deshauer¹, Saara Totterman², Karen A. Beattie³ and Maggie Larche⁴, ¹McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ²Qmetrics Technologies, Pittsford, NY, ³Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ⁴St Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: The identification of erosions plays a critical role in the management of RA, as the presence of erosions denotes more aggressive disease requiring more…
Abstract Number: 1493 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Clinical Predictor Factors Associated with Sustained Disease Activity Among Patients with Early Rheumatoid Arthritis
Gabriela Gonzalez and Juan Molina, Rheumatology, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients the disease outcome has an unpredictable course and may differ even with an early diagnosis and treatment. Low disease…
Abstract Number: 313 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Do Musculoskeletal Ultrasound and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Identify Synovitis and Tenosynovitis at the Same Joints and Tendons? – a Comparative Study in Patients Presenting with Early Arthritis and Clinically Suspect Arthralgia
Aleid C. Boer¹, Sarah Ohrndorf², Debbie M. Boeters¹, Robin M ten Brinck¹, Gerd R. Burmester², Marion Kortekaas¹ and Annette H.M. van der Helm-van Mil^1,3, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ³Department of Rheumatology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: In the diagnostic process of RA, the use of advanced imaging techniques like musculoskeletal ultrasound (US) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been recommended.…
Abstract Number: 1934 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
microRNA Targeting IL-33 Gene As Biomarker to Predict Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Patients with Early Rheumatoid Arthritis
Isaac T. Cheng¹, Qing Shang², Jiayun Shen³, Martin Li³, Queenie Mak², Kitty Y Kwok⁴, Isaac CW Yim⁵, Edmund Kwok Ming Li², Priscilla Wong¹, Ronald ML Yip⁶, Steve H Pang⁶ and Lai-Shan Tam⁷, ¹Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, The Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong, China, ²Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ³Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ⁴Department of Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ⁵Department of Medicine, Tseung Kwan O Hospital, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ⁶Department of Medicine, Kwong Wah Hospital, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ⁷Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, The Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Background/Purpose: Patients with RA had increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Interleukin 33 (IL-33) plays an important role in pathogenesis of RA and development of…
Abstract Number: 533 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Association between Inflammation and Changes in Kidney Function in Patients with Early Rheumatoid Arthritis
Ganna Prytkova¹, Dmytro Rekalov² and Daryna Nikitina¹, ¹Rheumatology, Zaporizhzhya Regional Clinical Hospital, Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine, ²Department of Internal Diseases, Zaporizhzhya Regional Clinical Hospital, Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine
Background/Purpose: One of the most severe visceral manifestations of RA is nephropathy. The key symptoms of renal dysfunction (RD) are microalbuminuria (MA), β-2-microglobulinuria (β-2M), reduced…
Abstract Number: 2505 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Sociodemographic Factors Are Predictors of Poorer Clinical Outcome Trajectories in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis: Results from the Singapore Early Arthritis Cohort
Yuhan Zou¹, Peter P.M. Cheung^2,3, Lay Kheng Teoh⁴ and Manjari Lahiri^2,3, ¹Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, ²Division of Rheumatology, University Medicine Cluster, National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, ³Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, ⁴National University Hospital, Division of Rheumatology, University Medicine Cluster, Singapore, Singapore
Background/Purpose: Variable outcomes in early rheumatoid arthritis (ERA) may be explained by heterogeneous latent disease activity trajectories, the predictors of which are not well defined.…
Abstract Number: 563 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Efficacy and Safety of Abatacept in Combination with MTX in Early, MTX-Naïve, Anti-Citrullinated Protein Antibody–Positive Patients with RA: Primary and 1-Year Results from a Phase IIIb Study
Paul Emery¹, Yoshiya Tanaka², Vivian P. Bykerk³, Tom W.J. Huizinga⁴, Gustavo Citera⁵, Marleen Nys⁶, Sean E. Connolly⁷, Alyssa Johnsen⁷ and Roy Fleischmann⁸, ¹University of Leeds and Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Leeds, United Kingdom, ²University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan, ³Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁴Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁵Instituto de Rehabilitación Psicofísica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁶Bristol-Myers Squibb, Braine L’Alleud, Belgium, ⁷Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, ⁸Metroplex Clinical Research Center, Dallas, TX
Background/Purpose: In patients (pts) with early (disease duration ≤24 months [mths]), MTX-naïve RA and poor prognostic factors including anti-citrullinated protein antibody (ACPA) positivity (+), abatacept…
Abstract Number: 2845 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Close Relationship between a Novel Visceral Adiposity Index and Bone Microstructure in Female Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients: A 1-Year Follow-up Study By HR-pQCT
Jiang Yue^1,2, Priscilla Wong¹, James F Griffith³, Jiankun XU⁴, Fan XIAO⁵, Dongze Wu^1,2, Edmund Li¹, Lydia Ho Pui Tam⁶, Martin Li⁷, Tena K. Li¹, Tracy Y. Zhu⁸, Vivian W. Hung⁸, Ling Qin⁹ and Lai-Shan Tam¹⁰, ¹Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, The Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong, China, ²Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, The Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ³Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, The Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, ⁴Department of Orthopedics & Traumatology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ⁵Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, The Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ⁶Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ⁷Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ⁸Bone Quality and Health Centre of the Department of Orthopedics & Traumatology, The Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, ⁹Bone Quality and Health Centre of the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, The Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, hongkong, Hong Kong, ¹⁰Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, The Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Background/Purpose: Background: Obesity has been traditionally considered to protect the skeleton against osteoporosis and fracture. Recently, body fat, specifically visceral adipose tissue (VAT), has been…
Abstract Number: 576 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
An Analysis of Early Introduction of Adalimumab and Subsequent Bio-Free Condition in the Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Satoshi Ito¹, Yoichi Kurossawa^1,2, Eriko Hasegawa^1,2, Daisuke Kobayashi^1,2, Shinji Taniguhi¹, Asami Abe¹, Hiroshi Otani¹, Kiyoshi Nakazono¹, Akira Murasawa¹, Ichiei Narita² and Hajime Ishikawa¹, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Niigata Rheumatic Center, Shibata, Japan, ²Division of Clinical Nephrology and Rheumatology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan
Background/Purpose: HOPEFUL-1 trial showed efficacy of combination therapy with adalimumab (ADA) plus methotrexate (MTX) in MTX naïve patients with active early rheumatoid arthritis (eRA). In…
Abstract Number: 2873 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Remaining Pain and Widespread, Non-Inflammatory Pain Distribution during the First 12 Months after RA Diagnosis
Yvonne C. Lee¹, Orit Schieir², Marie-France Valois³, Susan J. Bartlett⁴, Gilles Boire⁵, Boulos Haraoui⁶, Carol A Hitchon⁷, Edward C. Keystone⁸, Diane Tin⁹, Carter Thorne¹⁰, Janet E. Pope¹¹ and Vivian P. Bykerk¹², ¹Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²McGill University, Montreal, ON, Canada, ³McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁴Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁵Rheumatology Division, Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux de l'Estrie - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke and Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, ⁶Institut de Recherche en Rhumatologie de Montréal (IRRM), Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁷University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ⁸Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁹The Arthritis Program, Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ¹⁰University of Toronto, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ¹¹Department of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ¹²Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: The incidence of fibromyalgia is highest in the first 12 months after RA diagnosis,1 indicating that this period may represent a critical window during…
Abstract Number: 588 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Acr Hybrid Analysis: Blinded Data from the Ongoing Phase IIb Trial with the EP4 Receptor Antagonist CR6086 in DMARD-Naïve Patients with Early Rheumatoid Arthritis
Cristina Vitalini, Beatrice Barbetta, Giampaolo Giacovelli, Nadia Brambilla, Massimo D'Amato, Federica Girolami and Lucio C. Rovati, Clinical Research Department, Rottapharm Biotech, Monza, Italy
Background/Purpose: The ACR Hybrid, officially recommended by the ACR as a revision to the ACR20/50/70 response criteria, combines the ACR20/50/70 scores with the mean percent…
Abstract Number: 2898 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Increased Frequency of Circulating CD4+CXCR5-PD1hi Peripheral Helper T (cTph) Cells in Patients with Seropositive Early Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)
Paula Fortea-Gordo¹, Laura Nuño², Alejandro Villalba², Diana Peiteado³, Irene Monjo⁴, Paloma Sanchez-Mateos⁵, Amaya Puig-Kröger⁶, Alejandro Balsa¹ and Maria Eugenia Miranda-Carus¹, ¹Rheumatology, Hospital La Paz - IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain, ²Rheumatology, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain, ³Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain, ⁴Rheumatology, Rheumatology, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain, ⁵Immunology, Hospital Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain, ⁶Immuno-oncology, Hospital Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: A novel population of CD4+ T cells with B cell helping capacity has been described in the synovial tissues and peripheral blood of seropositive…
Abstract Number: 589 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
DAS28-CRP Versus DAS28-ESR and Thresholds for Disease Activity Category: Blinded Data from the Ongoing Phase IIb Trial with the EP4 Receptor Antagonist CR6086 in DMARD-Naïve Patients with Early Rheumatoid Arthritis
Cristina Vitalini, Beatrice Barbetta, Giampaolo Giacovelli, Nadia Brambilla, Massimo D'Amato, Federica Girolami and Lucio C. Rovati, Clinical Research Department, Rottapharm Biotech, Monza, Italy
Background/Purpose: In most patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) the 28-Joint Disease Activity Score (DAS28) values calculated using C-reactive protein (CRP) are lower than those calculated…

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