Abstracts tagged "Late-Breaking 2021"

Abstract Number: L11 • ACR Convergence 2021
Cardiovascular Risk of Hydroxychloroquine in the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Retrospective Cohort Study
ELVIRA D'ANDREA¹, Rishi Desai², Mengdong He³, Robert Glynn⁴, Hemin Lee², Michael Weinblatt², Daniel Solomon⁵ and Seoyoung Kim², ¹Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁵Brigham and Women's Hospital, Newton, MA
Background/Purpose: Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is a commonly used 1st-line disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the U.S., while methotrexate (MTX) is…
Abstract Number: L12 • ACR Convergence 2021
Neither Add-on nor Withdrawal of Methotrexate Impacts Efficacy of IL12/23 Inhibition in Active PsA: Data from a Multicenter Investigator-initiated Randomized Placebo-controlled Clinical Trial on Arthritis, Dactylitis, Enthesitis, Psoriasis, QoL and Function
Michaela Koehm¹, Tanja Rossmanith², Ann Christina Foldenauer², Eva Herrmann³, Herbert Kellner⁴, Uta Kiltz⁵, Jürgen Rech⁶, Gerd Burmester⁷, David Kofler⁸, Jan Brandt-Jürgens⁹, Christin Jonetzko¹⁰, Harald Burkhardt¹ and Frank Behrens¹, ¹Rheumatology Goethe-University Frankfurt and Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP, Frankfurt, Germany, ²Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP, Frankfurt, Germany, ³Institute for Biostatistics and Mathematical Modeling, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, ⁴Praxis Prof. Dr. Kellner, München, Germany, ⁵Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne, Germany, ⁶Department of Internal Medicine 3 - Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, 91054,, Erlangen, Germany, ⁷Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Germany and DRFZ, Berlin, Germany, ⁸Universitätsklinikum Köln, Med. Klinik I f. Innere Medizin Immunologische Ambulanz, Köln, Germany, ⁹Rheumatologische Schwerpunktpraxis im Ärztehaus am Walter-Schreiber-Platz, Berlin, Germany, ¹⁰Fraunhofer Insitute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP, Frankfurt, Germany
Background/Purpose: Methotrexate (MTX) is often used as first-line DMARD-therapy in active psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Randomized clinical trials usually require treatment failure or intolerance of csDMARD/MTX…
Abstract Number: L13 • ACR Convergence 2021
Efficacy and Safety of Subcutaneous Belimumab (BEL) and Rituximab (RTX) Sequential Therapy in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: The Phase 3, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled BLISS-BELIEVE Study
Cynthia Aranow¹, Cornelia Allaart², Zahir Amoura³, Ian N Bruce⁴, Patricia Cagnoli⁵, Richard Furie¹, Paul Peter Tak⁶, Murray Urowitz⁷, Ronald van Vollenhoven⁸, Kenneth L Clark⁶, Mark Daniels⁹, Norma Lynn Fox¹⁰, Yun Irene Gregan¹⁰, James Groark¹¹, Robert B Henderson⁹, Mary Oldham⁹, Don Shanahan⁹, Andre van Maurik⁹, David A Roth¹⁰ and YK Onno Teng², ¹Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Great Neck, NY, ²Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ³Centre National de reference pour le Lupus, Service de Medecine Interne 2, Institut E3M, Hopital Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France, ⁴NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust and Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁵University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁶GlaxoSmithKline (At the time of the author's contribution to this study), Stevenage, United Kingdom, ⁷Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Lupus Clinic, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁸Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam Rheumatology Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁹GlaxoSmithKline, Stevenage, United Kingdom, ¹⁰GlaxoSmithKline, Collegeville, PA, ¹¹GlaxoSmithKline (At the time of the author's contribution to this study), Collegeville, PA
Background/Purpose: Disease control remains an unmet need in SLE. The rationale for sequential BEL and RTX therapy in SLE was previously published.1 This study evaluated…
Abstract Number: L14 • ACR Convergence 2021
Effect of Avacopan, a Selective C5a Receptor Inhibitor, on Kidney Function in Patients with ANCA-Associated Vasculitis
David Jayne¹, Peter Merkel², Annette Bruchfeld³, Duvuru Geetha⁴, Alexandre Karras⁵, John Niles⁶ and Pirow Bekker⁷, ¹University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, ⁴Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁵Hopital Europeen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, ⁶Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁷ChemoCentryx, Inc., San Carlos, CA
Background/Purpose: Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis is a life- or organ-threatening condition in which patients experience severe inflammation of small blood vessels; renal disease is…
Abstract Number: L15 • ACR Convergence 2021
A Predictive Diagnostic Model for IgA Vasculitis Based on a Metabolomic Approach
Alexandre Boissais¹, Hélène Blasco², Patrick Emond³, Antoine Lefevre², Adrien Bigot⁴, denis Mulleman⁵, François Maillot⁴ and Alexandra Audemard-Verger⁴, ¹Medical University of Tours, Tours, France, ²Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department, Tours, France, ³In vitro Nuclear Medicine Department, Tours, France, ⁴Department of Internal Medicine, Tours, France, ⁵Rheumatology Department, Tours, France
Background/Purpose: IgA vasculitis is a rare systemic disease that is life-threatening mainly due to digestive or renal involvement. To date, there is no reliable diagnostic…
Abstract Number: L16 • ACR Convergence 2021
Breakthrough COVID-19 Infections Post-vaccination Among Immunocompromised Patients with Autoimmune or Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis from a U.S. Nationally-sampled Electronic Medical Record Data Repository
Jasvinder Singh¹, Namrata Singh², Alfred Anzalone³, Amy Olex⁴, Jing Sun⁵, Vithal Madhira⁶ and Rena Patel⁷, ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²University of Washington, Bellevue, WA, ³University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, ⁴Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, ⁵Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁶Palila Software, Reno, NV, ⁷Unviersity of Washington, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: National U.S. data on breakthrough COVID-19 infection in people with autoimmune or inflammatory rheumatic diseases (AIRD) are limited. Our objective was to assess whether breakthrough COVID-19 infections were increased post-COVID-19-vaccination…

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