Abstracts tagged "Lupus nephritis"

Abstract Number: 0648 • ACR Convergence 2022
Pathogenic Anti-C1q Antibodies Potentiate Activation of the Classical Complement Pathway in a Subset of Lupus Nephritis Patients
Edmund Chang¹, Julian Low², Ellen Cahir-McFarland², Henk-Andre Kroon², Yaisa Andrews-Zwilling², Ted Yednock² and Ann Mongan², ¹Annexon Biosciences, Brisbane, CA, ²Annexon Biosciences, South San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: In LN, excess immune complexes lead to nephrotic deposition of C1q and C4d, the latter of which has been correlated with circulating C4d and…
Abstract Number: 1360 • ACR Convergence 2022
Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of North American Youth with Lupus Nephritis Requiring Dialysis Treated with Cyclophosphamide
Christine Wang¹, Rebecca Sadun², Wenru Zhou³, Kristen Miller³, Claire Palmer³, Stacy P Ardoin⁴, Christine Bacha⁵, Emily Hause⁶, Joyce Hui-Yuen⁷, Nicole Ling⁸, Maria Pereira⁹, Meredith Riebschleger¹⁰, Kelly Rouster-Stevens¹¹, Aliese Sarkissian¹², Julia Shalen¹³, William Soulsby¹⁴, Marinka Twilt¹⁵, Eveline Wu¹⁶, Laura Lewandowski¹⁷, Scott Wenderfer¹⁸ and Jennifer Cooper¹⁹, ¹Children's Hospital of Colorado/University of Colorado, Denver, CO, ²Duke University, Durham, NC, ³University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Nationwide Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ⁵Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, ⁶University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁷Cohen Children’s Medical Center, Hofstra-Northwell School of Medicine, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Queens, NY, ⁸UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ⁹Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ¹⁰University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ¹¹Emory University/Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, ¹²University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ¹³Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ¹⁴University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ¹⁵Alberta Children's Hospital, Calgary, AB, Canada, ¹⁶University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, ¹⁷NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ¹⁸British Columbia Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ¹⁹University of Colorado/Children's Hospital Colorado, Denver, CO
Background/Purpose: Few studies have evaluated the clinical characteristics and outcomes of youth with lupus nephritis (LN) treated with cyclophosphamide (CYC) who initially required kidney replacement…
Abstract Number: 1716 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Transcriptomic Landscape of Nephritic Kidneys Reveals Mechanisms for End Organ Resistance to Damage in Lupus-prone Mice
Andrea Daamen¹, Hongyang Wang², Prathyusha Bachali³, Shu Man Fu², Amrie Grammer⁴ and Peter Lipsky¹, ¹AMPEL BioSolutions, Charlottesville, VA, ²University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, ³AMPEL BioSolutions, Redmond, WA, ⁴AMPEL LLC, Charlottesville, VA
Background/Purpose: Pathologic inflammation is a major driver of kidney damage in lupus nephritis (LN), but the immune mechanisms of disease progression and risk factors for…
Abstract Number: PP13 • ACR Convergence 2022
How Becoming Engaged in My Care with Specialized Tools and Support Helped Me Find My Personal Lupus Triggers and Regain Control of My Health
Tonya Hinton-Green, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: My story begins in the ER where I was diagnosed with lupus right after my 22nd birthday.For the next 25 years I went from…
Abstract Number: 0059 • ACR Convergence 2022
Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs of Management of Lupus Nephritis in Adult and Juvenile Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Kenneth Kalunian¹, Janice Ma², Konrad Pisarczyk², Richard Leff³, Kiruthi Palaniswamy⁴ and Li Long⁴, ¹University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ²Maple Health Group, LLC, New York, NY, ³Kezar Life Sciences, South San Francisco, CA, ⁴Kezar Life Sciences, Inc., South San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Lupus nephritis (LN) is one of the most serious complications of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), which develops in about one-third of SLE patients within…
Abstract Number: 0357 • ACR Convergence 2022
Voclosporin Is Effective in Achieving Proteinuria Treatment Targets in Lupus Nephritis Defined by EULAR/ERA Recommendations
Hans-Joachim Anders¹, Raymond Federico², Vanessa Birardi³ and Henry Leher³, ¹University of Munich, Munich, Germany, ²Aurinia Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Victoria, BC, Canada, ³Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc, Rockville, MD
Background/Purpose: Pooled data from the Phase 2 AURA-LV and Phase 3 AURORA 1 studies demonstrated that adding voclosporin, a novel calcineurin inhibitor, to mycophenolate mofetil…
Abstract Number: 0650 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Association of Urinary C9 to CD59 Ratio with Tubulointerstitial Fibrosis in Lupus Nephritis
Shudan Wang¹, Masako Suzuki², Daming Shao³, Muhammad Hamza Bukhari⁴, Brianna Lally⁵, Michael Belmont⁶, Jennifer Aguilan², Simone Sidoli², Anna Broder⁷ and J. Michelle Kahlenberg⁸, ¹Montefiore Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, ²Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ³Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, NY, ⁴Norwalk Hospital/Yale University, Norkwalk, VA, ⁵University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, Madison, WI, ⁶NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁷Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ, ⁸University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Background/Purpose: Animal and human studies suggest that terminal complement activation has a pathogenic role in tubulointerstitial fibrosis, which is a strong predictor of irreversible kidney…
Abstract Number: 1371 • ACR Convergence 2022
Juvenile Onset SLE in India-Data from a Multi-institutional Inception (INSPIRE) Cohort of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Amita Aggarwal¹, Liza Rajasekhar², Parasar Ghosh³, Ashish J Mathew⁴, Chengappa Kavadichanda⁵, Vineetha Shobha⁶, Ranjan Gupta⁷, Saumya Ranjan Tripathy⁸, Manish Rathi⁹, Avinash Jain¹⁰ and Able Lawrence¹, ¹Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India, ²Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Madhapur, India, ³Govt of West Bengal, Kolkata, India, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, ⁴Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁵JIPMER, Pondicherry, Puducherry, India, ⁶St. John’s Medical College Hospital, Bangalore, India, ⁷All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, ⁸SCB medical college, Cuttack, India, ⁹PGIMER Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India, ¹⁰SMS Medical College, Lucknow, India
Background/Purpose: Most Lupus cohorts across the globe have poor representation of patients from South Asia who are ethnically different. We explored the clinical features and…
Abstract Number: 1717 • ACR Convergence 2022
Deficiency of IL-23 Receptor in Podocytes of MRL/lpr lupus-prone Mice Abrogates the Development of Lupus Nephritis Despite IgG Deposition in the Glomeruli
Afroditi Boulougoura¹, Hao Li¹, Rhea Bhargava¹, Wenliang Pan¹, Abhigyan Satyam¹, Isaac Stillman² and George Tsokos¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Interleukin 23 (IL-23) is involved in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). IL-23 is elevated in the sera of patients with active SLE…
Abstract Number: PP26 • ACR Convergence 2022
Chronically Catherine: A Sex and the City-Inspired Autobiographical Column for Disabled Young Adults on Subjects We Really Care About – Like Disabled Dating and How Hot Cheetos Saved My Life
Catherine Ames¹, Courtney Wells² and Kristine Carandang¹, ¹Young Patients' Autoimmune Research & Empowerment Alliance, San Diego, CA, ²University of Wisconsin-River Falls; Young Patients' Autoimmune Research and Empowerment Alliance, St. Paul, MN
Background/Purpose: What if Carrie Bradshaw, sex advice columnist, fashionsta, and all around icon from Sex and the City were chronically ill? Or disabled? That's the…
Abstract Number: 0066 • ACR Convergence 2022
Identifying Childhood-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Lupus Nephritis, and End-Stage Kidney Disease Definitions Within an Administrative Claims Database
Emily Smitherman¹, Rouba Chahine¹, Aimee Hersh² and Jeffrey Curtis³, ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ³University of Alabama at Birmingham, Hoover, AL
Background/Purpose: Data is lacking regarding modern real-world practices and disease outcomes of individuals with childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (cSLE) and lupus nephritis, especially across multiple…
Abstract Number: 0358 • ACR Convergence 2022
Long-term Safety and Efficacy of Voclosporin in Hispanic and Latino Patients with Lupus Nephritis
Ellen M. Ginzler¹, Amit Saxena², Victoria Bal³, Vanessa Birardi⁴ and Henry Leher⁴, ¹SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Department of Medicine, Brooklyn, NY, ²NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ³Aurinia Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Victoria, BC, Canada, ⁴Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc, Rockville, MD
Background/Purpose: The AURORA 1 study demonstrated that addition of voclosporin to MMF and low-dose steroids significantly increased complete renal response rates at 52 weeks, with…
Abstract Number: 0651 • ACR Convergence 2022
Inflammatory Dendritic Cell Drive Intra-renal T Cells to Double-negative T Cell in Lupus Nephritis
Latha Prabha Ganesan, Shane Bruckner, Noushin Saljoughian, James Turman, Murugesan Rajaram, Brad Rovin, Wael Jarjour and Samir Parikh, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Background/Purpose: The pathogenesis of lupus nephritis (LN) is incompletely understood stalling progress and resulting in suboptimal patient outcomes. We previously identified a novel inflammatory dendritic…
Abstract Number: 1376 • ACR Convergence 2022
Eculizumab Is Safe as an Adjunctive Therapy in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus with Severe Refractory Nephritis with or Without Thrombotic Microangiopathy in Children
Maria Pereira¹, Angela Chun¹, Leigh Stubbs¹ and Marietta De Guzman², ¹Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²Baylor College of Medicine/ Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX
Background/Purpose: Eculizumab is a monoclonal antibody that prevents the cleavage of C5, which inhibits the formation of the terminal complement complex. It is approved in…
Abstract Number: 1718 • ACR Convergence 2022
Parenchymal INFγ Response Regulates Murine Lupus Nephritis
Minjung Kim¹, Anthony Marinov¹, Mark Shlomchik² and Jeremy Tilstra², ¹University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, ²University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: Lupus nephritis is the most common life-threatening end-organ complication of SLE. Interstitial infiltrates, specifically T cells, are major predictors of disease outcomes. We recently…

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