Abstracts tagged "Late-Breaking 2016"

Abstract Number: 7L • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Overall Reduction in Acute Flares during Treatment with Febuxostat Compared with Placebo over 2 Years in Patients with Early Gout
Nicola Dalbeth¹, Kenneth G. Saag², William Palmer³, Hyon K. Choi³, Barbara Hunt⁴, Patricia MacDonald⁴, Ulrich Thienel⁵ and Lhanoo Gunawardhana⁴, ¹University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁴Takeda Pharmaceuticals International, Deerfield, IL, ⁵RRD International, Rockville, MD

Background/Purpose: No clinical trials have previously investigated the frequency of acute flares in early gout or the benefit of instituting urate-lowering therapy (ULT) earlier in…
Abstract Number: 8L • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study of Bimagrumab in Patients with Sporadic Inclusion Body Myositis
Anthony A. Amato¹, Umesh Badrising², Olivier Benveniste³, Merrilee Needham⁴, Hector Chinoy⁵, Min Wu⁶, Barbara Koumaras⁶, Ana de Vera⁷, Dimitris A. Papanicolaou⁶ and Michael G. Hanna⁸, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ³Department of Internal Medicine, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Pierre et Marie-Curie University, Paris, France, ⁴Fiona Stanley Hospital, IIID Murdoch University and Notre Dame University, Perth, Australia, ⁵Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, NIHR Manchester Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁶Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, NJ, ⁷Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland, ⁸MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom

Background/Purpose: Bimagrumab (BYM338) is a novel fully human monoclonal antibody that binds competitively to activin type II receptors with greater affinity than natural inhibitory ligands…
Abstract Number: 9L • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Efficacy and Safety of Canakinumab in Patients with Colchicine-Resistant Familial Mediterranean Fever, Hyper-Immunoglobulin D Syndrome/Mevalonate Kinase Deficiency and TNF Receptor-Associated Periodic Syndrome: 40 Week Results from the Pivotal Phase 3 Umbrella Cluster Trial
Fabrizio De Benedetti¹, Joost Frenkel², Inmaculada Calvo³, Marco Gattorno⁴, Michel Moutschen⁵, Pierre Quartier⁶, Ozgur Kasapcopur⁷, Seza Ozen⁸, Jordi Anton⁹, Isabelle Koné-Paut¹⁰, Helen Lachmann¹¹, Hal M. Hoffman¹², Eldad Ben-Chetrit¹³, Anna Shcherbina¹⁴, Michaël Hofer¹⁵, Philip J Hashkes¹⁶, Andrew Zeft¹⁷, Karine Lheritier¹⁸, Yankun Gong¹⁹, Antonio Speziale¹⁸ and Guido Junge¹⁸, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù IRCCS, Rome, Italy, ²University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, ³Pediatric Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario i Politecnic La Fe, Valencia, Spain, ⁴Pediatric Rheumatology, G. Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy, ⁵C.H.U. Sart-Tilman, Liege, Belgium, ⁶Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, Paris, France, ⁷Department of Pediatric Rheumatology, Cerrahpasa Medical School, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁸Department of Pediatrics, Division of Rheumatology, Hacettepe University Children's Hospital, Ankara, Turkey, ⁹Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain, ¹⁰Department of Paediatric Rheumatology, Hôpital Kremlin Bicetre, University of Paris SUD, Paris, France, ¹¹UK National Amyloidosis Centre, University College London Medical School, London, United Kingdom, ¹²University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ¹³Rheumatology Unit, Hadassah—Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel, ¹⁴Immunology, Federal Research and Clinical Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology, Moscow, Russian Federation, ¹⁵Unité romande d’immuno-rhumatologie pédiatrique, CHUV, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, ¹⁶Pediatrics Rheumatology; Shaare-Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel, ¹⁷Pediatrics Rheumatology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ¹⁸Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland, ¹⁹Beijing Novartis Pharma Co. Ltd., Beijing, China

Background/Purpose: Evidence points to the role of abnormal IL-1β production in familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), hyper-immunoglobulin D syndrome/mevalonate kinase deficiency (HIDS/MKD) and TNF receptor-associated periodic…
Abstract Number: 10L • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Efficacy and Safety of Tofacitinib, an Oral Janus Kinase Inhibitor, in Patients with Active Psoriatic Arthritis and an Inadequate Response to Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors: OPAL Beyond, a Randomized, Double Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Phase 3 Trial
Dafna D Gladman¹, William Rigby², Valderilio F Azevedo³, Frank Behrens⁴, Ricardo Blanco⁵, Andrzej Kaszuba⁶, Elizabeth Kudlacz⁷, Cunshan Wang⁷, Sujatha Menon⁷, Thijs Hendrikx⁸ and Keith S Kanik⁷, ¹University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Rheumatology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Med Ctr, Lebanon, NH, ³Federal University of Parana and Edumed Health Research Center and Biotech, Curitiba, Brazil, ⁴Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, ⁵Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ⁶Specialstyczne Gabinety Lerkarskie "DERMED", Lodz, Poland, ⁷Pfizer Inc, Groton, CT, ⁸Pfizer Inc, Collegeville, PA

Background/Purpose: Tofacitinib is an oral Janus kinase inhibitor under investigation for treatment of PsA. In this first study of tofacitinib in patients (pts) with active…

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