Abstracts tagged "Infection"

Abstract Number: 0262 • ACR Convergence 2023
Destructive Arthritis in Whipple Disease. a Single-center Case Series of 14 Patients
Xavier Puéchal¹, Philippe Blanche², Olivier Fogel³, Omar Al Tabaa⁴, Roba Ghossan⁴, Xavier Ayral⁴, Jerome AVOUAC⁵, Maxime Breban⁶ and Yannick ALLANORE⁷, ¹National Referral Center for Rare Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Paris, France, ²Department of Internal Medicine, National Referral Center for Rare Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France, ³HOPITAL COCHIN AP-HP, Service de Rhumatologie, Paris, France, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, National Referral Center for Rare Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France, ⁵Rheumatology A Department, Hôpital Cochin, AP-HP Centre - Université Paris Cité, Paris, France, ⁶Department of Rheumatology, Boulogne-Billancourt, France, ⁷Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: Whipple disease is a chronic, curable, systemic bacterial infection caused by Tropheryma whipplei. The classic form usually begins with recurrent arthritis, followed years later…
Abstract Number: 1065 • ACR Convergence 2023
Association Between COVID-19 and Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs
Ogheneyoma Akpoviroro¹, Nathan Sausers², Oghenetejiro Akpoviroro³, Queeneth Uwandu¹, Myriam Castagne⁴, Elga Rodrigues⁴, Lefulesele Khoalone¹, sara Humayun¹ and Jameson Woodard¹, ¹Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, Wilkes-Barre, PA, ²Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, ³Mater Dei Hospital, Msida, Malta, ⁴Boston University, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Describe patients(pts) hospitalized with COVID-19C(C19) who were on disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) before admission(BA); assess if clinical outcomes differed from pts without BA…
Abstract Number: 1671 • ACR Convergence 2023
Use of Metagenomic Microbial Plasma Cell-Free DNA Next-Generation Sequencing Assay in Outpatient Rheumatology Practice
Rachel Jenkins, Matthew Samec, Courtney Arment and Matthew Koster, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose: Metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) of microbial cell-free DNA (mcfDNA) allows for non-invasive broad-range pathogen detection from plasma. The Karius test (KT) is a commercially…
Abstract Number: 2285 • ACR Convergence 2023
Vaccine Uptake in Women with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) – Study Update
J. Patricia Dhar¹, Hannah Forsythe², Louis Saravolatz¹ and Susanna Szpunar³, ¹Ascension St. John Hospital and Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, ²Michigan Department of Human and Health Services, Lansing, MI, ³Ascension St. John Hospital, Detroit, MI
Background/Purpose: Infections are a major cause of morbidity & mortality in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), including vaccine-preventable infections. SLE patients are considered to…
Abstract Number: 0200 • ACR Convergence 2023
Herpes Zoster Prevalence in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases
Rodrigo J. Castillo-de la Garza¹, Jorge A. Esquivel-Valerio², Emmanuel Campos-Tinajero², Anahí Carrazco Chapa³, Gisela García Arellano⁴, Axel A. De Leon-Perez², Pablo Gamez-Siller² and Dionicio A. Galarza-Delgado⁵, ¹Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico, ²Hospital Universitario "Dr. José Eleuterio González", Monterrey, Mexico, ³Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico, ⁴Hospital Universitario "Dr. José Eleuterio González", Monterrey, Mexico, ⁵Hospital Universitario UANL, Monterrey, Mexico
Background/Purpose: Herpes zoster (HZ) is a painful rash that is commonly known as shingles. People that had a primary infection caused by the varicella-zoster virus…
Abstract Number: 0295 • ACR Convergence 2023
Pneumocystis Jirovecii Pneumonia in Patients with Inflammatory Myopathies
Cody Bruggemeyer¹, Sanket Shah², Didem Saygin³ and Mike Putman⁴, ¹Medical College of Wisconsin, Wauwatosa, WI, ²Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ³University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Background/Purpose: Pneumocystis Jirovecii Pneumonia (PJP) is an opportunistic fungal infection with high morbidity and mortality rates. Few studies to date have assessed the incidence of…
Abstract Number: 1227 • ACR Convergence 2023
Serious Infections Following Rituximab Administration in Children with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Jordan Roberts¹, Anna Faino², Mersine Bryan¹, Jonathan Cogen¹ and Esi Morgan¹, ¹Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, ²Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Rituximab has been associated with high rates of infection among adults with systemic lupus erythematosus. However, studies of infection risk following rituximab among children…
Abstract Number: 1674 • ACR Convergence 2023
Severe Infections in Patients with VEXAS Syndrome: A Study from the French VEXAS Group
Benjamin de Valence de Minardiere¹, Marion Delaune², Yann Nguyen³, Vincent Jachiet⁴, Mael Heiblig⁵, Alexis Jean⁶, Pierrick Henneton⁷, stanislas Riescher-tuczkiewicz⁸, Philippe Guilpain⁷, Hervé Lobbes⁹, Guillaume Le Guenno¹⁰, Nicolas Schleinitz¹¹, Valentin Lacombe¹², Vincent Langlois¹³, Roderau Outh¹⁴, Julien Vinit¹⁵, Jean-Philippe Martellosio¹⁶, Paul Decker¹⁷, Alexandre Vlakos¹⁸, Thomas Moulinet¹⁹, Yannick Dieudonne²⁰, Adrien Bigot²¹, Louis Terriou²², Bertrand De Maleprade²³, Guillaume Denis²⁴, Jonathan Broner²⁵, Marie Kostine²⁶, Sébastien Humbert²⁷, Benjamin Terrier²⁸, Sophie Georgin-Lavialle²⁹, Olivier Fain³⁰, Arsène Mekinian¹, Marjolaine MORGAND¹, Thibault Comont² and Jerome Hadjadj¹, ¹Department of Internal Medicine, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, AP-HP, Paris, France, ²Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France, ³Department of Internal Medicine, Hôpital Beaujon, AP-HP, Clichy, France., Montmorency, France, ⁴Service de médecine interne et Inflammation-Immunopathology-Biotherapy Department (DMU i3), Sorbonne Université, AP-HP, Hôpital Saint Antoine, Paris, France, ⁵Hematology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon-Sud Hospital, Pierre-Bénite, France, ⁶Internal Medicine Department, Bordeaux University, Faculty of Medicine, Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France, ⁷CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, France, ⁸CHU de Nantes, Nantes, France, ⁹CHU de Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France, ¹⁰Internal Medicine Department, Clermont-Ferrand University, Faculty of Medicine, Estaing University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand, France, ¹¹Aix Marseille university, AP-HM, Marseille, France, ¹²Internal Medicine Department, Anger Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand, France, ¹³Service de Médecine Interne, Hôpital Jacques Monod, Le Havre, France, ¹⁴Internal Medicine Department, Perpignan Hospital Center, Perpignan, France, ¹⁵Service de Médecine Interne, CH William Morey, Chalon sur Saône, France., Chalon sur Saône, France, ¹⁶Service de médecine interne, maladies infectieuses et tropicales, CHU de Poitiers, Poitiers, France, ¹⁷Nancy hospital, France, Nancy, France, ¹⁸Vesoul Hospital, Vesoul, France, ¹⁹Department of Internal Medicine, Centre hospitalier universitaire de Nancy, Nancy, France, ²⁰Department of Clinical Immunology and Internal Medicine, National Reference Centre for Systemic Autoimmune Diseases (CNR RESO), Strasbourg University Hospital, Strasbourg, France, ²¹Internal Medicine Department, Tours University, Faculty of Medicine, Tours University Hospital, Tours, France, ²²Service de Médecine Interne et Immunologie Clinique, CHU Lille, Lille, France, ²³Rouen hospital, France, Rouen, France, ²⁴Service d'hématologie, CH de Rochefort, Rochefort, France, ²⁵CHU de Nimes, Nimes, France, ²⁶Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France, ²⁷Besançon University Hospital, Besançon, France, ²⁸Department of Internal Medicine, Hôpital Cochin, AP-HP, Paris, France, ²⁹AP-HP, Tenon hospital, Paris, France, ³⁰Hopital SAINT ANTOINE APHP, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: VEXAS (Vacuoles, E1 Enzyme, X-Linked, Autoinflammatory, Somatic) syndrome is an autoinflammatory monogenic disease caused by inactivating somatic mutations in the UBA1 gene and characterized…
Abstract Number: 2293 • ACR Convergence 2023
Recurrent Intracellular Infections Cluster Together in Patients of SLE with Lymphopenia and Active Disease
Rudrarpan Chatterjee¹, Sarit Pattanaik², Durga P Misra¹, Vikas Agarwal¹, Able Lawrence¹, Ramnath Misra³ and Amita Aggarwal¹, ¹Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow, India, ²SCB Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack, Odisha, Cuttack, India, ³Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, KIIT University, Lucknow, India
Background/Purpose: Infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We studied whether infections cluster together and which patients are…
Abstract Number: 001 • 2023 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Serious Infections Among Children with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in the Pediatric Health Information System
Jordan Roberts, Anna Faino, Mersine Bryan, Jonathan Cogen and Esi Morgan, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: High rates of serious infection have beenreported in pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus (pSLE), but modern care practices including pneumococcal vaccination, changing corticosteroid use, and…
Abstract Number: 092 • 2023 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Procalcitonin Levels in Patients with Juvenile Dermatomyositis Compared to Healthy Controls
Christopher Costin¹, Gabrielle Morgan², Lutfiyya Muhammad³, Amer Khojah⁴, Marisa Klein-Gitelman¹, Yvonne Lee⁵ and Lauren Pachman⁶, ¹Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ³Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ⁴Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, ⁵Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁶Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine. Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago; Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute of Chicago, Lake Forest, IL
Background/Purpose: Patients with JDM are at increased risk of infection due to increased aspiration risk and immunosuppression. Procalcitonin (PCT) is a biomarker of infection, that…
Abstract Number: 136 • 2023 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Incidence and Disease Burden of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis After Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions in the COVID-19 Era: A Nationwide Observational Study in Korea
Je Hee Shin¹, Jung Yoon Pyo², Minkyung Han³, Myeongjee Lee³, Sung Min Lim¹, Jee Yeon Baek¹, Ji Young Lee¹, Ji-Man Kang¹, InKyung Jung³ and Jong Gyun Ahn¹, ¹Severance Children's Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ²Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ³Department of Biomedical Systems Informatics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Background/Purpose: Several countries have implemented non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We investigated the impact of NPIs on the incidence of…
Abstract Number: L16 • ACR Convergence 2022
Innovative Anti-pneumococcal Vaccine Strategies versus Standard Vaccination Regimen in Patients with ANCA-associated Vasculitides Receiving Rituximab Therapy: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial (PNEUMOVAS)
Benjamin Terrier¹, Laura Richert², Grégory Pugnet³, Olivier Aumaitre⁴, Olivier Moranne⁵, Elisabeth Diot⁶, Alexandre Karras⁷, Fabrice Bonnet⁸, Claire De Moreuil⁹, Eric Hachulla¹⁰, Thomas Le Gallou¹¹, Céline Lebas¹⁰, Francois Maurier¹², Cédric Rafat⁷, Maxime Samson¹³, Jean-Francois Augusto¹⁴, Grégoire Couvrat-Devergne¹⁵, Cécile Janssen¹⁶, Thierry Martin¹⁷, Thomas Quemeneur¹⁸, Pierre-Louis Caron¹⁹, Cécile-Audrey Durel²⁰, Khalil El Karoui⁷, Aurélie Grados²¹, Mathieu Puyade²², Virginie Rieu⁴, Yurdagul Uzunhan²³, Jean-Francois Viallard⁸, Xavier Puéchal⁷, Loic Guillevin⁷, Noémie Huchet⁸, Hendy Abdoul⁷, Carine Bellera⁸, Frédéric Batteux⁷ and Odile Launay⁷, ¹Cochin Hospital, Paris, France, ²EUCLID, Bordeaux, France, ³CHU, Toulouse, France, ⁴CHU, Clermont-Ferrand, France, ⁵CHU, Nimes, France, ⁶CHU, Tours, France, ⁷CHU, Paris, France, ⁸CHU, Bordeaux, France, ⁹CHU, Brest, France, ¹⁰CHU, Lille, France, ¹¹CHU, Rennes, France, ¹²CH, Metz, France, ¹³CHU, Dijon, France, ¹⁴CHU, Angers, France, ¹⁵CH, La Roche sur Yon, France, ¹⁶CH, Annecy, France, ¹⁷CHU, Strasbourg, France, ¹⁸CH, Valenciennes, France, ¹⁹CHU, Grenoble, France, ²⁰CHU, Lyon, France, ²¹CH, Niot, France, ²²CHU, Poitiers, France, ²³CHU, Bobigny, France
Background/Purpose: Patients receiving glucocorticoids plus rituximab (RTX) show an increased risk of infection, especially invasive pneumococcal infections. Vaccine responses to influenza, Streptococcus pneumoniae and SARS-CoV-2…
Abstract Number: 0151 • ACR Convergence 2022
Novel Innate Immunity Predictors of Infections in Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies Patients: A Cohort Study
Diana Gómez-Martín¹, jiram torres-Ruiz¹, victor Hugo Tovar-Méndez², Fabiola Cassiano-Quezada³, Daniel Alberto Carrillo-Vázquez⁴, Alfredo Pérez-Fragoso⁴, Nancy Mejía-Rodríguez⁵ and guillermo Juárez-Vega⁵, ¹INCMNSZ, Ciudad de México, Mexico, ²Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Ciudad de México, Mexico, ³Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Ciudad de México, Mexico, ⁴Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Ciudad de México, Mexico, ⁵Red de Apoyo a la Investigación. UNAM, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Background/Purpose: Risk factors associated with the development of infections in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) have not been fully addressed, particularly those related to…
Abstract Number: 0785 • ACR Convergence 2022
Humoral Immune Responses Following Four SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Doses or COVID-19 Infection in Patients with Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases on Immunosuppressive Therapy: A Prospective Cohort Study
Hilde Ørbo¹, Kristin Hammersbøen Bjørlykke², Joe Sexton¹, Anne Therese Tveter¹, Ingrid Jyssum¹, Ingrid Egeland Christensen¹, David Warren³, Tore K. Kvien¹, Adity Chopra⁴, Grete Birkeland Kro³, Jørgen Jahnsen², Ludvig A. Munthe³, Espen Haavardsholm¹, Gunnveig Grødeland³, Sella Aarrestad Provan¹, Kristin Kaasen Jørgensen², Silje Watterdal Syversen¹ and Guro Løvik Goll¹, ¹Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ²Akershus University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ³Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ⁴Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Background/Purpose: Patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) on immunosuppressive therapy have impaired humoral immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. This study aimed to assess serologic response…

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