Abstracts tagged "opportunistic infections and rheumatoid arthritis (RA)"

Abstract Number: 1227 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Indicator Opportunistic Infections after Biological Treatment in Rheumatoid Arthritis, 10 Years Follow up in Clinical Practice
Leticia Leon^1,2, Marina Peñuelas³, Francisco Javier Candel³, Dalifer Freites Núñez⁴, Luis Rodriguez-Rodriguez⁵, Zulema Rosales Rosado⁶ and Lydia A Alcazar⁷, ¹Rheumatology Department, Hospital Clínical San Carlos, and IdISSC, Madrid, Spain, ²Health Sciences, Universidad Camilo Jose Cela, Madrid, Spain, ³Microbiology, Microbiology Department. Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain., Madrid, Spain, ⁴Rheumatology, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain, ⁶Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain, ⁷Rheumatology Department and Heath Research Institute (IdISSC), Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: Biologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) may be associated with opportunistic infections. Our purposes were to describe their incidence in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) taking bDMARDs,…
Abstract Number: 2410 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Serious Infection Risk in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Compared to Patients with Non-Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases: A US National Cohort Study
Bella Y. Mehta¹, Sofia Pedro², Gulsen Ozen³ and Kaleb Michaud⁴, ¹Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery/Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ²National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases, Wichita, KS, ³Rheumatology, Marmara University, School of Medicine, Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁴University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Background/Purpose: Serious infections (SI) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are a perpetual concern. We compared the risk by first and recurrent SIs in patients…
Abstract Number: 482 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Incidence of Opportunistic Infections in Rheumatoid Arthritis Treated with Biological Agents
Alejandro Gomez-Gomez^1,2, Zulema Rosales^1,2, Leticia Leon², Juan A Jover², Luis Rodriguez-Rodriguez² and Lydia Abasolo², ¹Rheumatology, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain, ²Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose With the expanding use of Biological Agents (BA), in particular TNF inhibitors, opportunistic infections (OI) are a major concern in Rheumatology. Our purposes were…
Abstract Number: 2093 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Rates of Opportunistic Infections Among Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Switching Biologic Therapy
John Baddley¹, Shuo Yang², Klye Brizendine³, Scott DuVall⁴, Kevin L. Winthrop⁵, Mary J. Burton⁶, Nivedita M. Patkar⁷, Elizabeth S. Delzell⁸, Monika M. Safford⁹, Jasvinder A. Singh¹⁰, Iris E. Navarro¹¹, Grant W. Cannon¹², Ted R. Mikuls¹³, Lang Chen¹¹, Kenneth G. Saag¹⁴, Kimberly Alexander¹⁵, Pavel Napalkov¹⁵, Aaron Kamauu¹⁶ and Jeffrey R. Curtis¹⁷, ¹Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Clinical Immunology/Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³Infectious Disease, Birmingham, AL, ⁴VA Salt Lake City Health Care System and University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁵Dept of Infectious Disease, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, ⁶VA Hospital, Jackson, MS, ⁷Immunology/Rheumatology, Univ of Alabama-Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁸Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁹Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ¹⁰Department of Medicine, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, ¹¹Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ¹²Division of Rheumatology, George E. Wahlen VA Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT, ¹³Omaha VA Medical Center and University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ¹⁴Div Clinical Immun & Rheum, Univ of Alabama-Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ¹⁵Epidemiology, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, ¹⁶Anolinx, Bountiful, UT, ¹⁷Rheumatology & Immunology, Univ of Alabama-Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: The incidence of opportunistic infections (OIs) in patients on biologics is low, but may approach several cases per 100 person-years (PY). Data on risks…