Abstracts tagged "interstitial lung disease"

Abstract Number: 038 • 2023 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
HLA-DRB1*15 Alleles in Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis with Lung Disease and Macrophage Activation Syndrome in Italy
Claudia Bracaglia¹, Manuela Pardeo¹, Maria Troiano², Giuseppe Testa², Ivan Caiello¹, Arianna De Matteis³, Matteo Trevisan¹, Franco Locatelli⁴, Marco Andreani² and Fabrizio De Benedetti¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, IRCCS Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Roma, Italy, ²Laboratory of Transplant Immunogenetics, Department of Haematology/Oncology, Cell and Gene, IRCCS Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Roma, Lazio, Italy, ³Division of Rheumatology, IRCCS Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesu', Roma, Italy, ⁴Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Department of Hematology/Oncology, Cell and Gene Therapy, Roma, Italy
Background/Purpose: Systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA) is characterized by unique clinical features and it is considered as a polygenic autoinflammatory disease. Macrophage activation syndrome (MAS)…
Abstract Number: 095 • 2023 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Associated Lung Disease in Europe
Claudia Bracaglia¹, Francesca Minoia², Christoph Kessel³, Sebastiaan Vastert⁴, Manuela Pardeo¹, Alessia Arduini¹, Sarka Fingerhutova⁵, Irina Nikishina⁶, Ozge Basaran⁷, Nural Kiper⁸, Mikhail Kostik⁹, Mia Glerup¹⁰, Roberta Caorsi¹¹, AnnaCarin Horne¹², Giovanni Filocamo², Helmut Wittkowski³, Marija Jelusic¹³, Jordi Anton¹⁴, Samira Khaldi-Plassart¹⁵, Alexandre Belot¹⁵, Gerd Horneff¹⁶, Seraina Palmer Sarrott¹⁷, Elvira Cannizzaro Schneider¹⁸, Lampros Fotis¹⁹, Pavla Dolezalova⁵, Angelo Ravelli²⁰, Seza Ozen⁷ and Fabrizio De Benedetti¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, IRCCS Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Roma, Italy, ²Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Grande Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy, ³Department of Pediatric Rheumatology & Immunology, WWU Medical Center (UKM), Muenster, Germany, ⁴Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, Department of Pediatric Immunology and Rheumatology, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Utrecht, Netherlands, ⁵Centre for Paediatric Rheumatology and Autoinflammatory Diseases, Department of Paediatrics and Inherited Metabolic Disorders, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, ⁶V.A. Nasonova Research Institute of Rheumatology, Moscow, Russia, ⁷Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, ⁸Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, ⁹Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, ¹⁰Department of Pediatrics, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, ¹¹Department of Pediatrics and Rheumatology, IRRCS Istituto G. Gaslini, Genova, Italy, ¹²Department of pediatric rheumathology Karolinska University Hospital and Department of pediatrics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, ¹³Department of Paediatrics, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, University Hospital Centre, Zagreb, Croatia, ¹⁴Pediatric Rheumatology, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ¹⁵Pediatric Nephrology, Rheumatology, Dermatology Unit, Hôpital Femme Mère Enfant, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France, ¹⁶Pediatrics, Asklepios Clinic Sankt Augustin, Sankt Augustin, Germany, ¹⁷Paediatric Rheumatology University Children’s Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ¹⁸Paediatric Rheumatology University Children’s Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ¹⁹Pediatric Rheumatology Division, 3rd Department of Pediatrics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,‘’ATTIKON’’ General University Hospital, Athens, Greece, ²⁰IRRCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini and Università degli Studi di Genova, Genova, Italy
Background/Purpose: Chronic parenchymal lung disease (LD) is a new emerging severe life-threatening complication of sJIA. The number of sJIA patients with LD is apparently increasing…
Abstract Number: 098 • 2023 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Characterization of Pulmonary Nodules in Juvenile-onset Systemic Sclerosis: A Single Center Case-Series
Jonathan Li¹, Franziska Rosser¹, Sameh Tadros¹ and Kathryn Torok², ¹UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: Given the high prevalence of intestinal lung disease (ILD) in systemic sclerosis (SSc) and the low sensitivity of pulmonary function testing for diagnosing ILD,…
Abstract Number: 0123 • ACR Convergence 2022
Increase of Serum Endothelin-1 Levels in Patients with Interstitial Lung Disease Associated with Autoimmune Diseases
Sara Remuzgo-Martinez¹, Belén Atienza-Mateo¹, Veronica Pulito-Cueto¹, Fernanda Genre¹, Víctor M. Mora-Cuesta¹, David Iturbe-Fernández¹, Virgi Portilla¹, María Sebastián Mora-Gil¹, J Gonzalo Ocejo-Vinyals², Oreste Gualillo³, Alfonso Corrales¹, Santos Castañeda⁴, Raquel Lopez Mejias⁵, José M. Cifrián¹ and Miguel Ángel González-Gay⁶, ¹Research Group on Genetic Epidemiology and Atherosclerosis in Systemic Diseases and in Metabolic Bone Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System, IDIVAL; and Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ²Department of Immunology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ³Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago, SERGAS (Servizo Galego de Saude) and IDIS (Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago), NEIRID Lab (Neuroendocrine Interactions in Rheumatology and Inflammatory Diseases), Research Laboratory 9, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, IIS-Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ⁵IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ⁶Department of Medicine and Psychiatry, Universidad de Cantabria; Rheumatology Division, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla; Research group on genetic epidemiology and atherosclerosis in systemic diseases and in metabolic diseases of the musculoskeletal system, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain. Cardiovascular Pathophysiology and Genomics Research Unit, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) may occur in patients with a rheumatic autoimmune disease (AD), increasing their morbidity and mortality [1]. In this regard, the…
Abstract Number: 0522 • ACR Convergence 2022
Cohort Enrichment Strategies for Progressive Interstitial Lung Disease in Systemic Sclerosis from EUSTAR
Anna-Maria Hoffmann-Vold¹, Cathrine Brunborg¹, Paolo Airò², Lidia P. Ananyeva³, László Czirják⁴, Serena Guiducci⁵, Eric Hachulla⁶, MENGTAO LI⁷, Carina Mihai⁸, Gabriela Riemekasten⁹, Petros P. Sfikakis¹⁰, Gabriele Valentini¹¹, Otylia Kowal-Bielecka¹², Yannick Allanore¹³ and Oliver Distler⁸, ¹Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ²Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Unit, ASST Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy, ³V.A. Nasonova Research Institute of Rheumatology, Moscow, Russia, ⁴Medical school of Pécs, Pecs, Hungary, ⁵University of Firenze, Firenze, Italy, ⁶University of Lille, Lille, France, ⁷Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases, Ministry of Science & Technology, Key Laboratory of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Ministry of Science & Technology, Beijing, China, ⁸Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, ⁹University Clinic Schleswit-Holstein (UKSH), Luebeck, Germany, ¹⁰Joint Academic Rheumatology Program, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece, ¹¹Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Napoli, Italy, ¹²Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland, ¹³Department of Rheumatology A, Descartes University, APHP, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: Enrichment strategies from clinical trials for progressive systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD) have been partly successful but have not been tested in a…
Abstract Number: 1122 • ACR Convergence 2022
Short Peripheral Blood Leukocyte Telomere Length in Rheumatoid Arthritis – Interstitial Lung Disease
Pierre-Antoine Juge¹, Tracy Doyle², Seoyeon Lee³, Avram Walts⁴, Anthony Esposito⁵, Sergio Poli de Frias⁶, Ritu R. Gill⁷, Hiroto Hatabu⁸, Mizuki Nishino⁸, Michael Weinblatt⁹, Nancy A. Shadick⁶, Kristen Demoruelle¹⁰, Ivan O. Rosas¹¹, Benjamin granger¹², Kevin D Deane¹³, Bruno Crestani¹⁴, Paul Wolters¹⁵, Philippe Dieude¹⁶ and Joyce Lee¹³, ¹Rheumatology department, Bichat Hospital, Paris, France, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, ⁴Department of medicine, National Jewish Hospital, Denver, CO, ⁵Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Medicine, Boston, MA, ⁶Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁷Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Radiology Department, Boston, MA, ⁸Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ¹⁰Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, ¹¹Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ¹²Sorbonne Université, INSERM, Institut Pierre Louis d’Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, PEPITES, F75013, Paris, France, Paris, France, ¹³University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, CO, ¹⁴Hopital Bichat, Paris University, Paris, France, ¹⁵UCSF, SF, ¹⁶Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: Shortened telomere lengths (TL) have been associated with interstitial lung disease (ILD), in particular idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Given the phenotypic overlap between IPF…
Abstract Number: 1528 • ACR Convergence 2022
Nintedanib in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease (SSc-ILD) and Organ Damage: Data from the SENSCIS Trial
Janet Pope¹, Susanna Proudman², Wendy Stevens³, Joerg Henes⁴, Rozeta Simonovska⁵, Margarida Alves⁶ and Yannick Allanore⁷, ¹University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ²Rheumatology Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital, and Discipline of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, ³Department of Rheumatology, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, Melbourne, Australia, ⁴Center for Interdisciplinary Clinical Immunology, Rheumatology and Auto-inflammatory Diseases (INDIRA), University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, ⁵mainanalytics GmbH, Sulzbach (Taunus), Germany, Sulzbach (Taunus), Germany, ⁶Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH, Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany, ⁷Department of Rheumatology A, Descartes University, APHP, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: The Scleroderma Clinical Trials Consortium Damage Index (SCTC-DI) was developed to quantify organ damage in patients with SSc. We assessed outcomes in the SENSCIS…
Abstract Number: 2049 • ACR Convergence 2022
ILD Associated with Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome Is Frequently Progressive
Anna-Maria Hoffmann-Vold¹, Håvard Fretheim¹, Phoung Phoung Diep¹, Karoline Lerang², Birgir Gudbransson¹, Helena Andersson¹, Øyvind Midtvedt¹, Torhild Garen¹, Michael Durheim¹, Trond Mogens Aaløkken¹, Øyvind Palm¹ and Øyvind Molberg², ¹Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ²Department of Rheumatology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Oslo, Norway
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) in primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) has been reported to be present in 10-15% of patients, but ILD progression in pSS-ILD…
Abstract Number: 0132 • ACR Convergence 2022
Pleuroparenchymal Fibroelastosis: A Special Clinical Situation in Patients with Interstitial Lung Disease Associated with Connective Tissue Diseases. Descriptive Study from a Referral Centre
Belén Atienza-Mateo¹, Sara Remuzgo-Martinez¹, Diego Ferrer², Gerardo Blanco Rodríguez³, Sheila Izquierdo Cuervo², Víctor M. Mora-Cuesta¹, David Iturbe-Fernández¹, Ricardo Blanco⁴, José M. Cifrián¹ and Miguel Ángel González-Gay⁵, ¹Research Group on Genetic Epidemiology and Atherosclerosis in Systemic Diseases and in Metabolic Bone Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System, IDIVAL; and Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ²Department of Pneumology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ³Department of Radiology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ⁴Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ⁵Department of Medicine and Psychiatry, Universidad de Cantabria; Rheumatology Division, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla; Research group on genetic epidemiology and atherosclerosis in systemic diseases and in metabolic diseases of the musculoskeletal system, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain. Cardiovascular Pathophysiology and Genomics Research Unit, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Background/Purpose: Pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis (PPFE) is a rare interstitial lung disease (ILD) that can be idiopathic or associated with a variety of different conditions, including connective…
Abstract Number: 0585 • ACR Convergence 2022
Baricitinib Inhibits Proinflammatoly Cytokine Production, Proliferation and Cell Migration in Human Lung Fibroblasts
Takeo Isozaki¹, Rei Takahashi², Kohei Maeda², Toshihiro Tanioka², Kunika Shimizu³, Kazutaka Kawamori³, Noriko Konishi⁴, Shinichiro Nishimi³, Sho Ishii³, Kuninobu Wakabayashi³ and Tsuyoshi Kasama³, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ²Division of Pathogenesis and Translational Medicine, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Showa University School of Pharmacy, Tokyo, Japan, ³Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Shinagawa-ku, Japan, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by inflammation and joint destruction. Baricitinib is a selective small molecule inhibitor of JAK 1…
Abstract Number: 1123 • ACR Convergence 2022
Excess of Rare Deleterious Variants Within JAK-STAT Pathway – Related Genes in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Associated Interstitial Lung Disease
Pierre-Antoine Juge¹, Steven Gazal², Raphaël Borie³, Lidwine Wemeau⁴, Marie-Pierre Debray⁵, Sebastien Ottaviani⁶, Sylvain Marchand Adam⁷, Christophe Richez⁸, Hilario Nunes⁹, Pascal Richette¹⁰, Caroline Kannengiesser¹¹, Jérome Avouac¹², Jean Sibilia¹³, René-Marc Flipo¹⁴, Vincent Cottin¹⁵, Thierry Schaeverbeke¹⁶, Martin Soubrier¹⁷, Nathalie Saidenberg-Kermanac’h¹⁸, Dominique Valeyre¹⁹, Catherine Boileau¹¹, Bruno Crestani²⁰ and Philippe Dieude²¹, ¹Rheumatology department, Bichat Hospital, Paris, France, ²University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ³Pulmonology department, Bichat Hospital, Paris, France, ⁴Pulmonology department, Lille University hospital, Lille, France, ⁵Radiology department, Hôpital Bichat, Paris, France, ⁶Hopital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris, France, ⁷Pulmonology department, Tours University Hospital, Tours, France, ⁸Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, ⁹Pulmonology department, Hopital Avicenne, Bobigny, France, ¹⁰Department of Rheumatology, Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France, ¹¹Genetic Department, Bichat hospital, Paris, France, ¹²Rheumatology Department, Cochin hospital, Paris, France, ¹³University Hospital of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, ¹⁴Hôpital Roger Salengro, Lille, France, ¹⁵Coordinating Reference Center for Rare Pulmonary Diseases, Louis Pradel Hospital, University of Lyon, INRAE, Lyon, France, ¹⁶FHU ACRONIM, University Hospital of Bordeaux, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, ¹⁷Gabriel-Montpied Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand, France, ¹⁸Rheumatology Department, Avicenne Hospital, Bobigny, France, ¹⁹Pulmonology department, Avicenne Hospital, Bobigny, France, ²⁰Hopital Bichat, Paris University, Paris, France, ²¹Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with RA. To date, there are no specific treatments available…
Abstract Number: 1531 • ACR Convergence 2022
Continued Treatment with Nintedanib in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease (SSc-ILD): Three-Year Data from SENSCIS-ON
Yannick Allanore¹, Madelon Vonk², Oliver Distler³, Arata Azuma⁴, Maureen Mayes⁵, Alexandra James⁶, Veronika Kohlbrenner⁷, Margarida Alves⁸, Dinesh Khanna⁹ and Kristin Highland¹⁰, ¹Department of Rheumatology A, Descartes University, APHP, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France, Paris, France, ²Department of Rheumatology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands, ³Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, ⁴Department of Pulmonary Medicine and Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan, ⁵Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunogenetics, University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, ⁶Elderbrook solutions GmbH, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany, ⁷Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA, Ridgefield, CT, ⁸Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH, Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany, ⁹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Scleroderma Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ¹⁰Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, Cleveland, OH
Background/Purpose: In the randomized placebo-controlled SENSCIS trial in patients with SSc-ILD, nintedanib reduced the rate of decline in forced vital capacity (FVC) (mL/year) over 52…
Abstract Number: 2164 • ACR Convergence 2022
Profibrotic Alveolar Macrophages as a Potential Biomarker in Systemic Sclerosis-associated Interstitial Lung Disease
Nikolay Markov¹, Karolina Senkow¹, Anthony Esposito², Jonathan Puchalski³, Mridu Gulati³, Erica Herzog³, Danielle Antin-Ozerkis⁴, Mary Carns⁵, Alyssa Williams⁶, Nic Page⁶, Alexander Misharin¹ and Monique Hinchcliff⁷, ¹Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Medicine, Boston, MA, ³Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ⁴Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ⁵Northwestern University Division of Rheumatology, Chicago, IL, ⁶Yale University, New Haven, CT, ⁷Yale School of Medicine, Westport, CT
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a leading cause of death in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). Previously, profibrotic monocyte-derived alveolar macrophages (MoAM) expressing (SPP1,…
Abstract Number: 0134 • ACR Convergence 2022
Combination Treatment with Baricitinib and Pulse Steroids in Severe COVID19: A
Francesco Ferro¹, Elena Elefante², Italiano Nazzareno², Gaetano La Rocca³, Davide Schilirò², Michele Moretti², Roberto Mozzo⁴, De Simone Luigi⁴, Chiara Baldini⁵ and Marta Mosca², ¹Clinical and Experimental Medicine Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ²University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ³University of Pisa, Rheumatology Unit, Palermo, Palermo, Italy, ⁴Anesthesiology & Intensive Care Unit/Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy, ⁵University of Pisa, Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Background/Purpose: Growing evidence from RCTs and real-life experiences has highlighted important similarities between severe COVID19 and rapidly progressive interstitial lung diseases (RP-ILD) occurring in connective…
Abstract Number: 0587 • ACR Convergence 2022
Increase of Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1 Linked to Lung Damage of Interstitial Lung Disease in Patients with Autoimmune Diseases
Veronica Pulito-Cueto¹, Sara Remuzgo-Martinez¹, Fernanda Genre¹, Belén Atienza-Mateo¹, David Iturbe-Fernández¹, Víctor M. Mora-Cuesta¹, Leticia Lera-Gómez¹, Diana Prieto-Peña¹, Virgi Portilla¹, Ricardo Blanco², Oreste Gualillo³, Alfonso Corrales¹, José M. Cifrián¹, Raquel Lopez Mejias⁴ and Miguel Ángel González-Gay⁵, ¹Research Group on Genetic Epidemiology and Atherosclerosis in Systemic Diseases and in Metabolic Bone Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System, IDIVAL; and Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ²Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ³Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago, SERGAS (Servizo Galego de Saude) and IDIS (Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago), NEIRID Lab (Neuroendocrine Interactions in Rheumatology and Inflammatory Diseases), Research Laboratory 9, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, ⁴IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ⁵Department of Medicine and Psychiatry, Universidad de Cantabria; Rheumatology Division, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla; Research group on genetic epidemiology and atherosclerosis in systemic diseases and in metabolic diseases of the musculoskeletal system, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain. Cardiovascular Pathophysiology and Genomics Research Unit, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Background/Purpose: Intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) regulates leukocyte recruitment from circulation to sites of inflammation, being considered as a marker of underlying endothelial damage [1]. Moreover,…

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