Abstracts tagged "interstitial lung disease"

Abstract Number: 796 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Under Detection of Interstitial Lung Disease in Juvenile Systemic Sclerosis (jSSc) Utilizing Pulmonary Function Tests: Results from the Juvenile Scleroderma Inception Cohort
Ivan Foeldvari¹, Bernd Hinrichs ², Kathryn Torok ³, Maria José Santos ⁴, Ozgur Kasapcopur ⁵, Amra Adrovic ⁶, Valda Stanevicha ⁷, Flavio Sztajnbok ⁸, Maria Teresa Terreri ⁹, Ekaterina Alexeeva ¹⁰, Jordi Antón ¹¹, Maria Katsicas ¹², Vanessa Smith ¹³, Tadej Avcin ¹⁴, Rolando Cimaz ¹⁵, Mikhail Kostik ¹⁶, Thomas Lehman ¹⁷, Walter Sifuentes-Giraldo ¹⁸, Simone Appenzeller ¹⁹, Mahesh Janarthanan ²⁰, Monika Moll ²¹, Dana Nemcova ²², Dieneke Schonenberg ²³, Christina Battagliotti ²⁴, Lillemor Berntson ²⁵, Blanca Bica ²⁶, Juergen Brunner ²⁷, Patricia Costa Reis ²⁸, Despina Eleftheriou ²⁹, Liora Harel ³⁰, Gerd Horneff ³¹, Tilmann Kallinich ³², Dragana Lazarevic ³³, Kirsten Minden ³⁴, Susan Nielsen ³⁵, Farzana Nuruzzaman ³⁶, Anjali Patwardhan ³⁷, Yosef Uziel ³⁸ and Nicola Helmus ¹, ¹Hamburg Centre for Pediatric and Adolescence Rheumatology, Hamburg, Germany, ²Asklepios Klinik Nord - Heidberg, Hamburg, Germany, ³UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, ⁴Rheumatology department, Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal, ⁵Department of Pediatric Rheumatology, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁶Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁷Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia, ⁸Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ⁹Pediatric Rheumatology Unit, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ¹⁰National Medical Research Center of Children`s Health, Moscow, Russia, ¹¹Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain, ¹²Hospital de Pediatria, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¹³Dept. of Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium; Dept. of Internal Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; Unit for Molecular Immunology and Inflammation, VIB Inflammation Research Center (IRC), Ghent, Belgium, Gent, Belgium, ¹⁴Ljubljana University Medical Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ¹⁵University Hospital Meyer, Florence, Italy, ¹⁶Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, ¹⁷Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, ¹⁸Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁹UNICAMP Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ²⁰Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, India, ²¹University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, ²²General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic, ²³Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²⁴Children's Hospital Dr. Orlando Alassia, Santa Fee, Argentina, ²⁵Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden, ²⁶Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho (HUCFF/UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ²⁷Tirol Kliniken, Innsbruck, Austria, ²⁸Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal, ²⁹Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ³⁰Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, ³¹Asklepios Clinic Sankt Augustin, Sankt Augustin, Germany, ³²Charite, Berlin, Germany, ³³KC Niš, Niš, Serbia, ³⁴German Rheumatism Research Center and Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany, ³⁵Department of Pediatrics, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark., Copenhavn, Denmark, ³⁶Stony Brook Children's Hospital, Stony Brook, NY, ³⁷University of Missouri, Columbia, ³⁸Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel
Background/Purpose: Juvenile systemic sclerosis(jSSc) is an orphan disease with a prevalence in around 3 in a million children[1]. Pulmonary involvement in jSSc occurs in approximately 40…
Abstract Number: 1831 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Subtypes of Scleroderma Lung Involvement Associated with Burden of Disease and Outcomes
Sarah French¹, Kim Taylor ¹, Stephanie Rush ² and Francesco Boin ¹, ¹UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Pulmonary disease is a leading cause of mortality in scleroderma (SSc). Previous studies indicate that the coexistence of pulmonary hypertension (PH) and interstitial lung…
Abstract Number: 2603 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Course of Progressive Lung Fibrosis in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease (SSc-ILD) in the EUSTAR Database
Anna-Maria Hoffmann-Vold¹, Yannick Allanore ², Margarida Alves ³, Nicole Graf ⁴, Paolo Airò ⁵, Lidia P. Ananyeva ⁶, László Czirják ⁷, Serena Guiducci ⁸, Eric Hachulla ⁹, Mengtao Li ¹⁰, Carina Mihai ¹¹, Gabriela Riemekasten ¹², Petros Sfikakis ¹³, Gabriele Valentini ¹⁴, Otylia Kowal-Bielecka ¹⁵ and Oliver Distler ¹⁶, ¹Dept. of Rheumatology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Oslo, Norway, ²Dept. of Rheumatology A, Descartes University, APHP, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France, Paris, France, ³Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH, Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany, Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany, ⁴Graf Biostatistics, Winterthur, Switzerland, Winterthur, Switzerland, ⁵UO Reumatologia e Immunologia Clinica, Spedali Civili di Brescia, Brescia, Italy, Brescia, Italy, ⁶VA Nasonova Institute of Rheumatology, Moscow, Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia, ⁷Dept. of Rheumatology and Immunology, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary, Pécs, Hungary, ⁸Dept. of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Rheumatology, University of Florence, Italy, Florence, Italy, ⁹Dept. of Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Hôpital Claude Huriez, University of Lille, Lille, France, Lille, France, ¹⁰Dept. of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital (West Campus), Beijing, China, Beijing, China (People's Republic), ¹¹Dept. of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Zurich, Switzerland, ¹²Dept. of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Germany, Lübeck, Germany, ¹³Joint Rheumatology Programme, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece, Athens, Greece, ¹⁴Dipartimento di Medicina di Precisione, II Policlinico U.O. Reumatologia, Napoli, Italy, Napoli, Italy, ¹⁵Dept. of Rheumatology and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland, Bialystok, Poland, ¹⁶Dept. of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, Zürich, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: The course of systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD) is heterogeneous; some patients may experience rapid decline in lung function, while others have relatively…
Abstract Number: 843 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
High Lung Attenuation Measured with Quantitative Densitometry as a Surrogate Marker for Interstitial Lung Disease in RA: Association with Anti-CCP, Smoking, and Absence of Shared Epitope
Michail Alevizos¹, Sonye Danoff ², Dimitrios Pappas ¹, David Lederer ³, Cheilonda Johnson ⁴, Elana Bernstein ⁵, Joan Bathon ⁵ and Jon Giles ⁵, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Columbia University, New York, ²Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, ³Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Columbia University, New York, ⁴Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Columbia University, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Risk factors for rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD), a significant cause of morbidity and mortality, are poorly understood. RA-ILD detection is limited by…
Abstract Number: 1833 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Efficacy and Safety of Nintedanib in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease by Use of Mycophenolate at Baseline: Subgroup Analysis of the SENSCIS Trial
Kristin Highland¹, Oliver Distler ², Masataka Kuwana ³, Yannick Allanore ⁴, Shervin Assassi ⁵, Arata Azuma ⁶, Arnaud Bourdin ⁷, Christopher Denton ⁸, Jörg Distler ⁹, Anna Maria Hoffmann-Vold ¹⁰, Dinesh Khanna ¹¹, Maureen Mayes ⁵, Ganesh Raghu ¹², Madelon Vonk ¹³, Martina Gahlemann ¹⁴, Mannaig Girard ¹⁵, Susanne Stowasser ¹⁶, Donald Zoz ¹⁷, Aryeh Fischer ¹⁸ and Toby Maher ¹⁹, ¹Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, Cleveland, OH, ²Dept. of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, Zürich, Switzerland, ³Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, Nippon Medical School Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, ⁴Dept. of Rheumatology A, Descartes University, APHP, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France, Paris, France, ⁵Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunogenetics, University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA, Houston, TX, ⁶Department of Pulmonary Medicine and Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo, Japan, ⁷PhyMedExp, University of Montpellier, INSERM U1046, CNRS UMR 9214 and Department of Respiratory Diseases, University of Montpellier, CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, France, Montpellier, ⁸University College London Division of Medicine, Centre for Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases, London, UK, London, United Kingdom, ⁹Department of Internal Medicine 3 – Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, Erlangen, Germany, ¹⁰Department of Rheumatology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Oslo, Norway, ¹¹Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, Ann Arbor, ¹²University of Washington, Seattle, USA, Seattle, ¹³Department of Rheumatology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands, ¹⁴Boehringer Ingelheim (Schweiz) GmbH, Basel, Switzerland, Basel, Switzerland, ¹⁵Boehringer Ingelheim France S.A.S., Reims, France, Reims, France, ¹⁶Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH, Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany, Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany, ¹⁷Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA, Ridgefield, CT, ¹⁸University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado, USA, Denver, CO, ¹⁹National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK and National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Facility, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: In the SENSCIS trial in patients with systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD), nintedanib reduced the annual rate of decline in forced vital capacity…
Abstract Number: 2606 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Evolution of Systemic Sclerosis-Related Interstitial Lung Disease After Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Jacopo Ciaffi¹, Nina van Leeuwen ², Maaike Boonstra ², Lucia Kroft ³, Anne Schouffoer ³, Maarten Ninaber ², Thomas Huizinga ² and Jeska de Vries-Bouwstra ², ¹Leiden University Medical Center, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, ²Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ³Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Three trials demonstrated the overall superiority of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) compared to pulsed cyclophosphamide (CYC) in SSc. An improvement in forced…
Abstract Number: 2257 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Prevalence and Distinct Clinical Phenotype of Concomitant Sarcoidosis in Other Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases
Kristina E.N. Clark¹, Huw Beynon², Christopher P. Denton³ and Voon H. Ong⁴, ¹Centre of Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ²Department of Rheumatology, Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ³UCL Division of Medicine, Royal Free Campus, London, United Kingdom, ⁴Division of Medicine, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Lung involvement is common in both sarcoidosis (up to 90%) and autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARDs). Case reports have suggested distinct clinical manifestations when sarcoidosis…
Abstract Number: 375 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Only a Minor Proportion of Individuals with Anti-Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Autoimmunity Presents with the Clinical Picture of “Antisynthetase-Syndrome”
Johannes Knitza, Hannah Schenker, Georg Schett and Jörg Distler, Department of Internal Medicine 3, Rheumatology and Immunology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
Background/Purpose: Antisynthetase Syndrome is a rare and severe autoimmune inflammatory disease that is associated with autoimmunity against aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase and clinical signs of arthritis, myositis…
Abstract Number: 2422 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Pregnancy Outcomes in Patients with Interstitial Lung Disease Related to Autoimmune Disease and Sarcoidosis
Stephanie L. Giattino, Amanda M. Eudy and Megan E. B. Clowse, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Duke University, Durham, NC
Background/Purpose: Currently published data regarding pregnancy outcomes in patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD) related to autoimmune disease and sarcoidosis is limited, with widely variant…
Abstract Number: 384 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Patients with Anti-Synthetase Syndrome Have a Similar Prevalence and Severity of Interstitial Lung Disease to Systemic Sclerosis
Bret Sohn¹, Narender Annapureddy², Rosemarie Dudenhofer³, April Barnado¹, Leslie Crofford¹ and Erin Wilfong⁴, ¹Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ²Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ³Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ⁴Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Vanderbilt Unversity Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in connective tissue diseases (CTDs). The purpose of this study is to…
Abstract Number: 2708 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Current Management of Early Diffuse Cutaneous Systemic Sclerosis in US Scleroderma Centers
Rebecca B. Blank¹, Jessica K. Gordon², Jackie Szymonifka³, Shervin Assassi⁴, Elana J. Bernstein⁵, Flavia V. Castelino⁶, Robyn T. Domsic⁷, Faye N. Hant⁸, Monique Hinchcliff⁹, Kate Homer¹⁰, Ami A. Shah¹¹, Victoria Shanmugam¹², Virginia D. Steen¹³, Tracy M. Frech¹⁴ and Dinesh Khanna¹⁵, ¹Internal Medicine, New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Hospital, New York, NY, ²Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ³Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁴University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, ⁵Rheumatology, Columbia University, New York, NY, ⁶Rheumatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁷Medicine - Rheumatology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁸Rheumatology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ⁹Division of Rheumatology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL, ¹⁰Department of Internal Medicine, Rheumatology Division, Scleroderma Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ¹¹Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ¹²Rheumatology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, ¹³Rheumatology, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, ¹⁴Division of Rheumatology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ¹⁵Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Scleroderma Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Background/Purpose: Standard treatment for the diverse aspects of diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis (dcSSc) is not yet well defined although experts have described therapeutic algorithms. The…
Abstract Number: 389 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Risk Factors Associated with Mortality in Inflammatory Myositis: An Asian Perspective
Tyng Yu Chuah¹, Yu Heng Kwan², Nai Lee Lui³ and Warren Fong^4,5,6, ¹Department o Rheumatology and Immunology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore, ²Program in Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore, ³Rheumatology and Immunology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore, ⁴Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore, ⁵Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, ⁶Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
Background/Purpose: Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a heterogeneous group of autoimmune diseases with systemic involvement and excess mortality. We aim to describe the causes and…
Abstract Number: 2936 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Esophageal Erosion Predicts Progression of Lung Disease in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis
Silvia Laura Bosello¹, Enrico De Lorenzis¹, Gerlando Natalello², Giovanni Battista Canestrari¹, Laura Gigante¹, Lucrezia Verardi¹, Ludovica Berardini³ and Elisa Gremese¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A.Gemelli IRCCS, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy, ²Division of Rhematology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A.Gemelli IRCCS, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy, ³Division of Respiratory Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A.Gemelli IRCCS, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is the leading cause of death in Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) but its pathogenesis is not fully understood. Esophageal disease is…
Abstract Number: 525 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Low Interstitial Lung Disease Event Rate in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Pooled Post Hoc Analysis of Data from the Tofacitinib Clinical Development Program
Gustavo Citera¹, Eduardo Mysler², Hugo Madariaga³, Mario H Cardiel⁴, Oswaldo Castañeda⁵, Aryeh Fischer⁶, Pascal Richette⁷, Sandra Chartrand⁸, Jin Kyun Park⁹, Sander Strengholt¹⁰, Jose L Rivas¹¹, Amit Thorat¹², Tanya Girard¹³, Kenneth Kwok¹⁴, Lisy Wang¹⁵ and Dario Ponce de Leon¹⁶, ¹Instituto de Rehabilitación Psicofísica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ²Organización Médica de Investigación, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ³Clínica del Sur, Arequipa, Peru, ⁴Centro de Investigación Clínica de Morelia, Morelia, Mexico, ⁵Clínica Anglo Americana, Lima, Peru, ⁶Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, ⁷Lariboisière Hospital, Lariboisière, University of Paris 7, Paris, France, ⁸Department of Medicine, Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont affiliated to Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), ¹⁰Pfizer Inc, Capelle aan den IJssel, Netherlands, ¹¹Pfizer SLU, Madrid, Spain, ¹²Pfizer Ltd, Mumbai, India, ¹³Pfizer Inc, Montréal, QC, Canada, ¹⁴Pfizer Inc, New York, NY, ¹⁵Pfizer Inc, Groton, CT, ¹⁶Pfizer Inc, Lima, Peru
Background/Purpose: Tofacitinib is an oral Janus kinase inhibitor for the treatment of RA. Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a common extra-articular manifestation of RA,1 and…
Abstract Number: 2979 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Innovative Approaches for the Assessment of Interstitial Lung Disease in Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies: Ultrasound Evaluation of Pleural Irregularities and Semiquantitative and Quantitative Analysis of Lung CT
Simone Barsotti^1,2, Chiara Romei³, Elisa Cioffi⁴, Claudia Roncella⁵, Elisabetta Perrone³, Alessandra Tripoli¹, Marta Mosca¹, Fabio Falaschi³ and Rossella Neri⁶, ¹Rheumatology Unit, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ²Department of Medical Biotechnologies, University of Siena, Siena, Italy, ³Pisa University Hospital, II Radiology Unit, Pisa, Italy, ⁴Rheumatology Unit, Rheumatology Unit, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ⁵Pisa University Hospital, I Radiology Unit, Pisa, Italy, ⁶Rheumatology Unit, University of Pisa, PISA, Italy
Background/Purpose: Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) in patients with Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies (IIM) is associated to high mortality and morbidity. The study of pleural irregularities (PI)…

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