Abstracts tagged "Inflammation"

Abstract Number: 1635 • ACR Convergence 2024
Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Therapy Monitoring in Giant Cell Arteritis – Impact on Disease Management
Matthias Froehlich¹, Michael Gernert², Marc Schmalzing³, Patrick-Pascal Strunz⁴, Hanna Labinsky⁵, Thorsten A. Bley⁶ and Konstanze V. Guggenberger⁶, ¹Uniklinikum Wuerzburg, Medizinische Klinik II, Wuerzburg, Germany, ²Medicine II, Division Rheumatology/Clinical Immunology, University Hospital of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, ³University Hospital Wuerzburg, Würzburg, Germany, ⁴University hospital of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany, ⁵University Hospital Würzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany, ⁶University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
Background/Purpose: Imaging techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are a cornerstone for the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis (GCA). In the further course of…
Abstract Number: 1920 • ACR Convergence 2024
Admixture Mapping and Gene-Based Analysis Identifies Rare Variants in Genes in the IL-13 and TGFβ Signaling Pathways in African Americans with Systemic Sclerosis
Jordan Hicks¹, Daniel Shriner², Ami Shah³, Maureen Mayes⁴, Ayo P. Doumatey², Amy R. Bentley¹, Robyn Domsic⁵, Thomas Medsger, Jr⁶, Paula Ramos⁷, Richard Silver⁸, Virginia Steen⁹, John Varga¹⁰, Vivien Hsu¹¹, Lesley Ann Saketkoo¹², Dinesh Khanna¹⁰, Elena Schiopu¹³, Jessica Gordon¹⁴, Lindsey Criswell¹⁵, Heather Gladue¹⁶, Chris Derk¹⁷, Elana Bernstein¹⁸, S. Louis Bridges¹⁴, Victoria Shanmugam¹⁹, Lorinda Chung²⁰, Suzanne Kafaja²¹, Reem Jan²², Marcin Trojanowski²³, Avram Goldberg²⁴, Benjamin Korman²⁵, James W. Thomas²⁶, Elaine Remmers²⁷, Adebowale Adeyemo², Charles Rotimi², Fredrick Wigley²⁸, Francesco Boin²⁹, Daniel Kastner³⁰ and Pravitt Gourh³¹, ¹National institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, ²Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ³Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University, Ellicott City, MD, ⁴UTHealth Houston Division of Rheumatology, Houston, TX, ⁵Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁶Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Verona, PA, ⁷Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ⁸Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ⁹Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, ¹⁰University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ¹¹Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Division, Rutgers-RWJ Medical School, South Plainfield, NJ, ¹²New Orleans Scleroderma and Sarcoidosis Patient Care and Research Center, Louisiana State University and Tulane University Medical Schools, New Orleans, LA, ¹³Division of Rheumatology, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, Martinez, GA, ¹⁴Division of Rheumatology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, ¹⁵Genomics of Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease Section, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, Bethesda, MD, ¹⁶Arthritis & Osteoporosis Consultants of the Carolinas, Charlotte, NC, ¹⁷Division of Rheumatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ¹⁸Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, ¹⁹NIH Office of Autoimmune Disease Research in the Office of Research on Women's Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, Bethesda, MD, ²⁰Stanford University, Woodside, CA, ²¹Division of Rheumatology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ²²Section of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²³Department of Rheumatology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ²⁴NYU Langone Health - NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, Lake Success, NY, ²⁵University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, ²⁶NIH Intramural Sequencing Center, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ²⁷Medical Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ²⁸Johns Hopkins University, Division of Rheumatology, Baltimore, MD, Baltimore, MD, ²⁹Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ³⁰National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD, ³¹National Institutes of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: There are significant racial disparities in systemic sclerosis (SSc), with an increased disease burden and worse outcomes among African American (AA) individuals. Reasons for…
Abstract Number: 2079 • ACR Convergence 2024
Understanding Relapse Patterns in Anti-HMGCR Statin-induced IMNM: A Detailed Comparative Study
Silvia Grazzini¹, Angeles Galindo-Feria², Edoardo Conticini¹, Ingrid Lundberg³ and Maryam Dastmalchi⁴, ¹Università di Siena, Siena, Italy, ²Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, ³Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁴Karolinska University hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Statin-induced immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy (IMNM) is a recently recognized subtype of idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM). This condition is marked by the sudden onset of…
Abstract Number: 2574 • ACR Convergence 2024
Tear Biomarkers for Monitoring Disease Activity and Progression of Noninfectious Chronic Anterior Uveitis in Children
Mariia Pavlenko¹, Ilaria Maccora², Mekibib Altaye³, hermine brunner⁴, Alexandra Duell³, Megan Quinlan-Waters³, Alyssa Sproles¹, Sherry Thornton⁵, Virginia Miraldi Utz³ and sheila Angeles-Han⁶, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children`s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ²?PhD student, in the Area of Drugs and Innovative Treatments, NeuroFARBA Department, University of Florence. Meyer Children's Hospital, Florence Italy, Firenze, Florence, Italy, ³Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁴Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, ⁵Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, ⁶Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH
Background/Purpose: Childhood chronic anterior uveitis (CAU) can be idiopathic (iCAU) or associated with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA-U). Ocular complications occur in 50% of affected children. …
Abstract Number: 0047 • ACR Convergence 2024
Asthma Is Associated with Increased Serum IgA Antibodies to Citrullinated Peptide Antigenscompared to Healthy Controlsin Discovery and Validation Cohorts
Drayton Rorah¹, Linh Ngo² and Scott Matson³, ¹University of Kansas, Internal Medicine, Kansas City, KS, ²University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, ³University of Kansas, Kansas City, MO
Background/Purpose: The connection between airway inflammation as seen in patients with asthma and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been suggested by previous epidemiologic studies. For instance,…
Abstract Number: 0271 • ACR Convergence 2024
Intercritical Gout Represents a Systemic Inflammatory State
Tanner Ourada¹, Austin Wheeler², Michael Duryee², Bryant England², Richard Reynolds³, James O'Dell², Jeff Newcomb², Michael Pillinger⁴, Robert Terkeltaub⁵, Ryan Ferguson⁶, Mary Brophy⁶, Tony Merriman⁷ and Ted Mikuls², ¹University of Nebraska-Medical Center: College of Medicine, Omaha, NE, ²University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ³University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York,, NY, ⁵Retired, San Diego, CA, ⁶Veterans Affairs, Boston, MA, ⁷University of Alabama at Birmingham, Homewood, AL
Background/Purpose: The presence of systemic inflammation during gout flares is well characterized. While initial research suggests inflammation persists in intercritical gout, these reports have come…
Abstract Number: 0572 • ACR Convergence 2024
Synergistic Impact of the Non-radiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis Subtype and Female Sex on First-Line Biologic Discontinuation : A Study of Interaction Effects
Patricia Remalante-Rayco¹, Emmanuel Baja², Zeynep Baskurt³, Tina Chim⁴, Robert Inman⁵, Leonila Dans⁶ and Nigil Haroon⁷, ¹Schroeder Arthritis Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Institute of Clinical Epidemiology, National Institutes of Health, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines, ³Department of Biostatistics, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada, ⁴Schroeder Arthritis Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada, ⁵University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶Department of Clinical Epidemiology, College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines, ⁷Department of Medicine/Rheumatology, University Health Network, Schroeder Arthritis Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Recent evidence suggests lower response rates to tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) among women with non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (nr-axSpA). However, there is a paucity…
Abstract Number: 0882 • ACR Convergence 2024
Brepocitinib, a Selective TYK2/JAK1 Inhibitor Under Evaluation for the Treatment of Dermatomyositis, Reduces Inflammatory Cytokine Signaling and Interferon-induced Apoptosis in Primary Human Epidermal Keratinocytes
Jiří Vencovský¹, Alexandra Goriounova², Lisa McConnachie² and Brendan Johnson², ¹Institute of Rheumatology and Department of Rheumatology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ²Priovant Therapeutics, Durham, NC
Background/Purpose: Dermatomyositis (DM) is characterized by inflammatory and degenerative changes of skin and muscle and upregulation of Type I IFN-regulated gene and protein levels in…
Abstract Number: 1088 • ACR Convergence 2024
Prospective Evaluation of Carotid Atherosclerosis, Urate Deposits and Inflammation After One Year of Treatment in Newly Diagnosed Gout
Cristina Rodríguez Alvear, Agustín Martínez Sanchís, Irene Calabuig Sais and Mariano Andrés, Rheumatology section, Dr. Balmis General University Hospital-ISABIAL, Alicante, Spain, Alicante, Spain
Background/Purpose: Carotid atherosclerosis is prevalent in patients with gout. A prior cross-sectional study at our hospital demonstrated an association between tophi and positive Power Doppler…
Abstract Number: 1656 • ACR Convergence 2024
Loss of Nr4a1 Expression Protects Cartilage During Post-traumatic Osteoarthritis
Katherine Escalera-Rivera, Jennifer Jonason and Jennifer Anolik, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
Background/Purpose: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a complex disease involving pathological processes in joint tissues such as the cartilage and synovium. Cartilage is degraded by matrix metalloproteinases…
Abstract Number: 1959 • ACR Convergence 2024
A 3-arm, Randomized, Open-label, Parallel Active Controlled, Multicentre International Study to Compare the Response of Ultrasound-assessed Synovitis to Baricitinib, Alone and Combined with Methotrexate versus Etanercept in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
ESPERANZA NAREDO¹, Otto Olivas-Vergara², Pablo E. Borges², Sheila Recuero-Díaz², Fernando Saraiva³, Joana Martinho³, Filipa Costa³, Catarina Tenazinha³, Margarida Monteiro³, Ana Teresa Melo³, Ana Rodriguez-García⁴, Carlos A. Guillén-Astete⁵, Boris A. Blanco-Cáceres⁴, Alina L. Boteanu⁴, Antonio Mera-Varela⁶, Eva Pérez Pampín⁶, Yolanda López Golán⁶, Cristina Campos Fernández⁷, Jorge Juan Fragío Gíl⁷, roxana gonzalez mazarío⁷, Juan José De Agustín⁸, Gustavo Añez Sturchio⁹, Luis Coronel Tarancon⁸, Esther Vicente-rabaneda¹⁰, Santos Castañeda¹⁰, Irene Llorente-Cubas¹⁰, Maria S. Stoenoiu¹¹, NZEUSSEU TOUKAP Adrien¹², Ilaria Padovano¹³, Helene Gouze¹³, Ariane Leboime¹³, Maxime Breban¹⁴, Jaqueline Uson¹⁵, Virginia Villaverde¹⁶, Martina Steiner¹⁷, Cristina Vergara Dangond¹⁷, Maria Beatriz Paredes Romero¹⁷, Santiago Muñoz Fernández¹⁸, Carolina Pérez-García¹⁹, Juan Antonio Meraz-Ostiz¹⁹, Stephanie Finzel²⁰, Anna-Maria Kanne²¹, Aránzazu Mediero²², Carmen Herencia²³, Gabriel Herrero-Beaumont²⁴ and Raquel Largo²², ¹Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain, ²Department of Rheumatology and Joint and Bone Research Unit. Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz and IIS-FJD, Madrid, Spain, ³Rheumatology Department, Unidade Local de Saúde de Santa Maria. Rheumatology Research Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Lisbon, Portugal, ⁴Rheumatology Department. Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, Madrid, Spain, ⁵Rheumatology Department. Ramon y Cajal University Hospital, Madrid, Spain, ⁶Department of Rheumatology. Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, ⁷Department of Rheumatology. Hospital General Universitario de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, ⁸Image and Technics Unit, Department of Rheumatology. Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain, ⁹Department of Rheumatology. Hospital Arnau de Vilanova, Lleida, Spain, ¹⁰Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ¹¹Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium, ¹²Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Université catholique de Louvain, St.-Lambrechts-Woluwe, Belgium, ¹³Departement of Rheumatology, Hopital Ambroise Paré, Boulogne-Billancourt, Spain, ¹⁴Departement of Rheumatology, Hopital Ambroise Paré, Departement of Rheumatology, Hopital Ambroise Paré, Spain, ¹⁵Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de Móstoles. University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁶Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de Móstoles, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁷Department of Rheumatology. Hospital Universitario Infanta Sofía., Madrid, Spain, ¹⁸Hospital Universitario Infanta Sofía. Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁹Department of Rheumatology, Hospital del Mar of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ²⁰Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, DE, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, ²¹Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, ²²Joint and Bone Research Unit. IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain, ²³Joint and Bone Research Unit. IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, M, Spain, ²⁴Department of Rheumatology and Joint and Bone Research Unit. Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz and IIS-FJD. Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: To demonstrate non-inferiority of the response of musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSKUS)-assessed synovitis to baricitinib, alone and plus MTX vs. etanercept plus MTX in patients with…
Abstract Number: 2107 • ACR Convergence 2024
Deep Immunophenotyping of Knee Osteoarthritis Patients Reveals Alterations in T Cell, Treg, and Monocyte Subpopulations
Montana Barrett¹, Gabby dyson², Nicholas Hannebutt³, Aleksander Szymczak², Cindy Miranda⁴ and Matlock Jeffries², ¹University of Oklahoma, Cement, OK, ²Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ³Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Spencer, OK, ⁴Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Yukon, OK
Background/Purpose: Previous studies have suggested low-level chronic inflammation plays a key role in knee osteoarthritis (OA) development and progression, although attention has mostly been focused…
Abstract Number: 2583 • ACR Convergence 2024
Apremilast Reduces Axial Inflammation in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis as Assessed by CANDEN MRI Scoring: Results from a Phase 4 Study
Mikkel Ostergaard¹, Walter Maksymowych², Robert Lambert², Mikael Boesen³, Guillermo J. Valenzuela⁴, Michael R. Bubb⁵, Olga Kubassova⁶, Xenofon Baraliakos⁷, Carlo Selmi⁸, Stephen Colgan⁹, Yuri Klyachkin¹⁰, Cynthia Deignan¹¹, Zhenwei Zhou¹¹ and Philip Mease¹², ¹Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen and Center for Rheumatology, Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Glostrup, Denmark, ²University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ³Copenhagen University Hospital, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁴Guillermo Valenzuela MD PA/ IRIS Rheumatology, Plantation, FL, ⁵University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ⁶Image Analysis Group, Philadelphia, PA, ⁷Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet Herne, Ruhr-University Bochum, Herne, Germany, ⁸Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Rozzano, Italy, ⁹Amgen, Halton Hills, ON, Canada, ¹⁰Amgen, Lexington, KY, ¹¹Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, ¹²Swedish Medical Center/Providence St. Joseph Health; University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Apremilast is an oral phosphodiesterase-4 inhibitor with a unique immunomodulatory mechanism of action and is approved for the treatment of psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Although…
Abstract Number: 0048 • ACR Convergence 2024
Role of the Chemokine CCL22 in Rheumatoid Arthritis Development
Marcelo Afonso¹, Masa Filipovic¹, Alexandra Argyriou², Alexandra Circiumaru³, Mikael Ringh¹, Konstantin Carlberg¹, Vijay Joshua¹, Szu-Jing Chen¹, Marianne Engström¹, Heidi Wähämaa¹, Tomas Ekström¹, Marc H Wadsworth II⁴, Ravi Kumar¹, Aaron Winkler⁵, Vivianne Malmström¹, Anca Catrina¹, Karine Chemin¹, Aase Hensvold¹ and Bence Réthi¹, ¹Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ²Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden, ³Division for Rheumatology, Karolinska Institutet; Center for Rheumatology, Academic Specialist Center, Stockholm region, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁴Pfizer, Cambridge, ⁵Pfizer Inc., Cambridge, MA
Background/Purpose: Understanding alterations of the immune homeostasis in individuals at risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can be a key to achieve earlier diagnosis and prevention.…
Abstract Number: 0275 • ACR Convergence 2024
Targeting IRAK4 in Monosodium Urate Crystals Induced Inflammation
Sadiq Umar¹ and Sriram Ravindran², ¹University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²University of Illinois, Chicago
Background/Purpose: Gout, the leading cause of inflammatory arthritis, is becoming increasingly prevalent worldwide, affecting both developed and developing countries. This condition results from the deposition…

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