Abstracts tagged "Outcome measures"

Abstract Number: 1362 • ACR Convergence 2022
Validation of the 2016 ACR/EULAR Myositis Response Criteria in Juvenile Dermatomyositis (JDM) Clinical Trials and Consensus Profiles
Hanna Kim¹, Didem Saygin², Christian Douglas³, john mcgrath³, Jesse Wilkerson³, angela Pistorio⁴, Ann Reed⁵, Chester Oddis⁶, Frederick Miller⁷, Jiří Vencovský⁸, Nicola Ruperto⁹, Rohit Aggarwal¹⁰ and Lisa G Rider⁷, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences; Juvenile Myositis Therapeutic and Translation Studies Unit, PTRB, NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ²University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ³Social and Scientific Systems, Inc., Durham, NC, ⁴IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy, ⁵Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, ⁶University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁷Environmental Autoimmunity Group, Clinical Research Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ⁸Institute of Rheumatology and Department of Rheumatology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ⁹IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini; PRINTO, Clinica Pediatrica e Reumatologia, Genova, Italy, ¹⁰Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) ACR-EULAR myositis response criteria (MRC) were developed based on absolute % changes in 6 core set measures (CSM) differentially weighted to…
Abstract Number: 1642 • ACR Convergence 2022
Mast Cells May Explain Sex Differences in Osteoarthritis Pain
Bella Mehta¹, Edward DiCarlo², Fei Wang³, Miguel Otero⁴, Eun Kyung Song⁵, Peter Sculco², Mark Figgie², Susan Goodman², William Robinson⁵ and Dana Orange⁶, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ²Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ³Weil Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, ⁴Hospital for Special Surgery Research Institute, New York, NY, ⁵Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, ⁶The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Women are at increased risk for knee osteoarthritis(OA) and report more severe pain than men at the time of total knee arthroplasty. It has…
Abstract Number: 2040 • ACR Convergence 2022
Metformin Improves Objective Measures of Dry Eyes and Focus Score in Sjögren′s Disease: A Retrospective Observational Study
Astrid Rasmussen¹, R. Hal Scofield², Kiely Grundahl¹, Lida Radfar², Christopher Lessard¹ and A. Darise Farris¹, ¹Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Background/Purpose: Metformin (dimethyl biguanide, Met) is a widely used, first-line antidiabetic drug with AMPK-dependent anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects. In vitro studies and human trials in…
Abstract Number: 2246 • ACR Convergence 2022
Rheumatoid Arthritis Patient Discordance with Provider Treatment Goals Is Associated with Poorer RA Outcomes
Kelly O'Neill¹, Pamela Sinicrope², Cynthia Crowson³, Kathryne Marks⁴, Rachel Giblon⁵, Elena Myasoedova² and John Davis², ¹Rheumatoid Patient Foundation, Winter Springs, FL, ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³Mayo Clinic, Eyota, MN, ⁴Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁵Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose: We previously reported on themes in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients' treatment goals which associated with aspects of rheumatology care such as presence of a…
Abstract Number: 0260 • ACR Convergence 2022
Impacts of Poor Prognostic Factors in Rheumatoid Arthritis on Clinical Outcomes and Treatment Choices from an Observational Cohort of Korean Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
You-Jung Ha¹, Seunghwan Shin², SE RIM CHOI³, Eun Ha Kang¹ and Yun Jong Lee¹, ¹Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea, ²Lunit Inc, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ³Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Background/Purpose: The primary target for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is achieving remission or low disease activity with proper use of DMARD. Besides controlling…
Abstract Number: 0634 • ACR Convergence 2022
Total Interstitial Inflammation Predicts Chronic Kidney Disease Progression in Patients with Lupus Nephritis
Minh Dien Duong¹, Shudan Wang², Daniel Schwartz³, Wenzhu B. Mowrey⁴, Anna Broder⁵ and Beatrice Goilav⁶, ¹The Children's Hospital of Montefiore / Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ²Montefiore Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, ³Montefiore Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ⁴Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ⁵Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ, ⁶Children's Hospital of Montefiore / Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Background/Purpose: Kidney biopsy is a gold standard for diagnosis and prognostication of lupus nephritis (LN). While interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy (IFTA) predict progression to…
Abstract Number: 1055 • ACR Convergence 2022
Associations of Potential Risk Factors with Severe Outcomes in Scleroderma Renal Crisis: Results from a Single Center Study
Alex Luta¹, Saloni Godbole¹ and Virginia Steen², ¹Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, ²Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
Background/Purpose: Scleroderma Renal Crisis (SRC) is a severe and life-threatening complication of Systemic Sclerosis (SSc). Given the rare nature of SSc, it is challenging to…
Abstract Number: 1364 • ACR Convergence 2022
Diffuse Juvenile Systemic Sclerosis Patients Show Distinct Organ Involvement and Have More Severe Disease in the Largest jSSc Cohort of the World. Results from the the Juvenile Scleroderma Inception Cohort
Ivan Foeldvari¹, Jens Klotsche², Ozgur Kasapcopur³, Amra Adrovic⁴, Kathryn Torok⁵, Maria Teresa Terreri⁶, Ana Paula Sakamoto⁷, Brian Feldman⁸, FLAVIO SZTAJNBOK⁹, Valda Stanevica¹⁰, Jordi Anton¹¹, Sindu Johnson¹², Raju Khubchandani¹³, Ekaterina Alexeeva¹⁴, Maria Katsicas¹⁵, Sujata Sawhney¹⁶, Vanessa Smith¹⁷, Simone Appenzeller¹⁸, Tadey Avcin¹⁹, Mikhail Kostik²⁰, Thomas Lehman²¹, Hana Malcova²², Edoardo Marrani²³, Clare Pain²⁴, Dieneke Schonenberg-Meinema²⁵, Walter Alberto Sifuentes-Giraldo²⁶, Natalia Vasquez-Canizares²⁷, Patricia Costa Reis²⁸, Mahesh Janarthanan²⁹, Dana Nemcova³⁰, Anjali Patwardhan³¹, Maria José Santos³², Sima Abu Alsaoud³³, Cristina Battagliotti³⁴, Lillemor Berntson³⁵, Blanca Bica³⁶, Jürgen Brunner³⁶, Rolando Cimaz³⁷, Despina Eleftheriou³⁸, Liora Harel³⁹, Gerd Horneff⁴⁰, Daniela Kaiser⁴¹, Tilmann Kallinich⁴², Dragana Lazarevic⁴³, Farzana Nuruzzaman⁴⁴ and Nicola Helmus⁴⁵, ¹Hamburger Zentrum für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie, Hamburg, Germany, ²German Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin, Germany, ³Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Cerrahpaşa Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁴Cerrahpaşa Medical School, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁵Pediatric Rheumatology, Children's Hospital of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁶Universidad Federal São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ⁷Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil, ⁸Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children; Child Health Evaluative Services, SickKids Research Institute; Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁹UFRJ/UERJ, São Paulo, Brazil, ¹⁰Children's Clinical University Hospital, Zemgales priekšpilseta, Riga, Latvia, ¹¹Pediatric Rheumatology, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ¹²University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹³SRCC Children's Hospital, Mumbai, India, ¹⁴National Medical Research Center of Children's Health, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation,, Moscow, Russia, ¹⁵Hospital Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¹⁶Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Sector 37 noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, ¹⁷Department of Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital – Department of Internal Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium – Unit for Molecular Immunology and Inflammation, VIB Inflammation Research Center (IRC), Gent, Belgium, ¹⁸Unicamp, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, ¹⁹University Children's Hospital University Medical Center Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ²⁰Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, ²¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²²Motol University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic, ²³University of Florence, Firenze, Italy, ²⁴Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom, ²⁵Emma Children’s Hospital, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²⁶Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal, Madrid, Spain, ²⁷Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, NY, ²⁸Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal, ²⁹SRI RAMACHANDRA INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH, Chennai, India, ³⁰Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ³¹University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, ³²Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Charneca da Caparica, Portugal, ³³Makassed, Jerusalem, Israel, ³⁴Hospital de Niños Dr Orlando Alassia, Santa Fe, Argentina, ³⁵Dept. of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, ³⁶UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ³⁷University of Milano, Milano, Italy, ³⁸Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, ³⁹Schneider Children's Medical center, Tel Aviv University, Nettnja, Israel, ⁴⁰Pediatrics, Asklepios Klinik Sankt Augustin GmbH, Sankt Augustin, Germany, ⁴¹Children's Hospital Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland, ⁴²Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Nuremberg, Germany, ⁴³Faculty of Medicine, University of Niš, Nis, Serbia, ⁴⁴Stony Brook Children's Hospital, East Setauket, NY, ⁴⁵Hamburg Centre for Pediatric and Adolescence Rheumatology, Hamburg, Germany
Background/Purpose: Juvenile systemic sclerosis (jSSc) is an orphan disease with a prevalence of 3 in 1 000 000 children. In adult patients there are significant…
Abstract Number: 1706 • ACR Convergence 2022
Clinical and Immunological Factors Associated with Chronic Post-COVID19 Syndrome 12 Months After Acute Infection
Emmanuel Abimelec Camacho-Morán¹, jiram torres-Ruiz¹, Jaquelin Lira-Luna¹, Ana Sofía Vargas-Castro², Alfredo Pérez-Fragoso¹, Miroslava Nuñez-Aguirre², Beatriz Alcalá-Carmona³, Abdiel Absalón-Aguilar³ and Diana Gómez-Martín¹, ¹INCMNSZ, Ciudad de México, Mexico, ²Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion "Salvador Zubiran", Ciudad de México, Mexico, ³Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Background/Purpose: Post-COVID19 syndrome has been defined as the persistence of symptoms and/or organic damage for more than three weeks after the presence of clinical infection…
Abstract Number: 2054 • ACR Convergence 2022
Towards a Novel Clinician-Reported Outcome Measure for SLE – Outcomes of an International Consensus Process
Kathryn Connelly¹, Laura Eades², Rachel Koelmeyer³, Darshini Ayton³, Vera Golder², Rangi Kandane-Rathnayake², Kate Gregory-Wong³, Hussein Al-Mossawi⁴, Jeanette Andersen⁵, Cynthia Aranow⁶, Laurent Arnaud⁷, Anca Askanase⁸, Subhashis Banerjee⁹, Catherine Barbey¹⁰, Hermine Brunner¹¹, Joy Buie¹², Laurie Burke¹³, Alain Cornet¹⁴, Karen Costenbader¹⁵, Maria Dall'Era¹⁶, Khadija Dantata¹⁷, Nikolay Delev⁹, Ann Eldred¹⁸, Alan Friedman¹⁹, Richard Furie²⁰, Sandra Garces²¹, Dennis Grasela²², Heath Guay²³, Oliver Guenther²⁴, Maria Juarez²⁵, Shelly Kafka²⁶, Kenneth Kalunian²⁷, Elaine Karis²⁸, Youmna Lahoud²⁹, Catharina Lindholm³⁰, Jeffrey Lockman³¹, Charlotte Lupton³², Justine Maller³³, Ashley Marion³⁴, Patrick Marquis³⁵, Joan Merrill³⁶, Thomas Morel³⁷, Marta Mosca³⁸, Yulia Pincus³⁹, Samantha Pomponi⁴⁰, Guillermo Pons-Estel⁴¹, Jorge Ross Terres³³, Cailin Sibley⁴², Maria Silk⁴³, Sanjeev Roy⁴⁴, Lee S Simon⁴⁵, Alessandro Sorrentino⁴⁶, Christian Stach⁴⁷, George Stojan⁴⁸, Ying Sun²⁴, Yoshiya Tanaka⁴⁹, Erik Thomas⁵⁰, Ronald van Vollenhoven⁵¹, Cristina Vazquez Mateo⁵⁰, Edward M Vital⁵², Victoria Werth⁵³, Eric Zollars²⁸, Qing Zuraw⁵⁴ and Eric Morand⁵⁵, ¹Monash Health, Camberwell, Australia, ²Monash University, Clayton, Australia, ³Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, ⁴AstraZeneca, Bucks, United Kingdom, ⁵Lupus Europe, Lupus DK, EULAR PARE, ERN ReCONNECT, Brussels, Belgium, ⁶Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, ⁷Hautepierre Hospital, University Hospital of Strasbourg, Rheumatology, Strasbourg, France, ⁸Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, ⁹Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, ¹⁰Biogen, Baar, Switzerland, ¹¹Division of Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati, OH, ¹²Lupus Foundation of America, Charleston, SC, ¹³LORA Group, Royal Oak, MD, ¹⁴Lupus Europe, Brussels, Belgium, ¹⁵Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ¹⁶University of California, Division of Rheumatology, San Francisco, CA, ¹⁷Lupus Foundation of America, Richmond Hill, GA, ¹⁸AbbVie, Inc., Lake Bluff, IL, ¹⁹AbbVie, Inc., Libertyville, IL, ²⁰Northwell Health, Great Neck, NY, ²¹Amgen, Inc., Almada, Portugal, ²²Bristol Myers Squibb, Lawrencevile, NJ, ²³AbbVie, Inc., Worcester, MA, ²⁴Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, ²⁵UCB Pharma, Slough, United Kingdom, ²⁶AbbVie, Inc., Norristown, PA, ²⁷University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ²⁸Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, ²⁹Biogen International GmbH, Milton, MA, ³⁰AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden, ³¹Bristol-Myers Squibb, New York, NY, ³²AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ³³Genentech, San Francisco, CA, ³⁴Lupus Foundation of America, Washington, DC, ³⁵Modus Outcomes, Cambridge, MA, ³⁶Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ³⁷UCB Pharma, Brussels, Belgium, ³⁸University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ³⁹Janssen, Flemington, NJ, ⁴⁰Bristol Myers Squibb, Lawrence Township, NJ, ⁴¹Centro Regional de Enfermedades Autoinmunes y Reumáticas, Rosario, Argentina, ⁴²Janssen Research & Development, San Diego, CA, ⁴³Eli Lilly, Carmel, IN, ⁴⁴Global Clinical Development, Ares Trading SA, an affiliate of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany,⁴⁵SDG LLC, West Newton, MA,⁴⁶AstraZeneca, Sollentuna, Sweden, ⁴⁷UCB Pharma, Monheim, ⁴⁸UCB Pharma, Baltimore, MD, ⁴⁹University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyusyu Fukuoka, Japan, ⁵⁰EMD Serono, an affiliate of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, ⁵¹Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁵²Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ⁵³University of Pennsylvania and Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵⁴Janssen Research and Development, LLC, Spring House, PA, ⁵⁵Monash University, Victoria; Department of Rheumatology, Monash Health, Melbourne, Australia
Background/Purpose: Most late-phase randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of novel drugs for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have failed to meet their primary endpoint or shown contradictory…
Abstract Number: PP15 • ACR Convergence 2022
Coordination of Care by a Healthcare Team for Unexpected and Unusual Side Effects Occurring During a Global Pandemic
Laura Genoves, Arthritis Foundation, Bainbridge Island, WA
Background/Purpose: I am a patient who lives with moderate to severe RA. My quality of life is dependent on medications such as a biologic, DMARDs…
Abstract Number: 0281 • ACR Convergence 2022
Clinical Outcomes of Filgotinib in Patients with RA Aged ≥65 Years: A Post Hoc Subgroup Analysis of Phase 2 and 3 Clinical Trials and Ongoing Long-Term Extensions
Maya Buch¹, BERNARD COMBE², Jose A Gomez-Puerta³, Roberto Felice Caporali⁴, jacques-eric gottenberg⁵, Paul Van Hoek⁶, Vijay Rajendran⁷, Pieter-Jan Stiers⁶, Katrien Van Beneden⁶, Daniel Aletaha⁸, Gerd Burmester⁹, Rene Westhovens¹⁰ and Yoshiya Tanaka¹¹, ¹University of Manchester and NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, ²Montpellier University, Montpellier, France, ³Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴University of Milan, Milano, Italy, ⁵Strasbourg University Hospital, Strasbourg, France, ⁶Galapagos NV, Mechelen, Belgium, ⁷Galapagos NV, Gent, Belgium, ⁸Medical University Vienna, Wien, Austria, ⁹Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ¹⁰University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ¹¹University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyusyu Fukuoka, Japan
Background/Purpose: Filgotinib (FIL) is a Janus kinase 1 preferential inhibitor approved for the treatment of moderate to severe active RA.1 It was previously reported that…
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: 1064 • ACR Convergence 2022
Test-retest Reliability for the Mawdsley Calcinosis Questionnaire for the Measurement of Calcinosis Burden in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis
Antonia Valenzuela¹, Anne-Marie Russell², Lorinda Chung³, Kelly Jensen⁴ and Lesley Ann Saketkoo⁵, ¹Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, ²University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, ³Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ⁴University of Colorado, Bellevue, WA, ⁵University Medical Center - Comprehensive Pulmonary Hypertension Center and ILD Clinic Programs // New Orleans Scleroderma and Sarcoidosis Patient Care & Research Centeris, New Orleans, LA
Background/Purpose: Calcinosis cutis is a debilitating manifestation in systemic sclerosis (SSc) responsible for a high burden of disability and hand dysfunction, contributing as much as…
Abstract Number: 1367 • ACR Convergence 2022
Patient and Physician Reported Outcomes of Juvenile Systemic Sclerosis Patients Significantly Improve over 12 Months Observation Period in the Juvenile Systemic Scleroderma Inception Cohort
Ivan Foeldvari¹, Jens Klotsche², Ozgur Kasapcopur³, Amra Adrovic⁴, Kathryn Torok⁵, Maria Teresa Terreri⁶, Brian Feldman⁷, Jordi Anton⁸, Maria Katsicas⁹, Valda Stanevica¹⁰, FLAVIO SZTAJNBOK¹¹, Simone Appenzeller¹², Tadey Avcin¹³, Mikhail Kostik¹⁴, Edoardo Marrani¹⁵, Walter Alberto Sifuentes-Giraldo¹⁶, Sindu Johnson¹⁷, Raju Khubchandani¹⁸, Dana Nemcova¹⁹, Maria José Santos²⁰, Cristina Battagliotti²¹, Lillemor Berntson²², Blanca Bica²³, Jürgen Brunner²³, Rolando Cimaz²⁴, Despina Eleftheriou²⁵, Liora Harel²⁶, Gerd Horneff²⁷, Mahesh Janarthanan²⁸, Tilmann Kallinich²⁹, Kirsten Minden³⁰, Anjali Patwardhan³¹, Dieneke Schonenberg-Meinema³², Vanessa Smith³³ and Nicola Helmus³⁴, ¹Hamburger Zentrum für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie, Hamburg, Germany, ²German Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin, Germany, ³Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Cerrahpaşa Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁴Cerrahpaşa Medical School, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁵Pediatric Rheumatology, Children's Hospital of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁶Universidad Federal São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ⁷Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children; Child Health Evaluative Services, SickKids Research Institute; Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁸Pediatric Rheumatology, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ⁹Hospital Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¹⁰Children's Clinical University Hospital, Zemgales priekšpilseta, Riga, Latvia, ¹¹UFRJ/UERJ, São Paulo, Brazil, ¹²Unicamp, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, ¹³University Children's Hospital University Medical Center Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ¹⁴Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, ¹⁵University of Florence, Firenze, Italy, ¹⁶Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁷University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁸SRCC Children's Hospital, Mumbai, India, ¹⁹Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ²⁰Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Charneca da Caparica, Portugal, ²¹Hospital de Niños Dr Orlando Alassia, Santa Fe, Argentina, ²²Dept. of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, ²³UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ²⁴University of Milano, Milano, Italy, ²⁵Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, ²⁶Schneider Children's Medical center, Tel Aviv University, Nettnja, Israel, ²⁷Pediatrics, Asklepios Klinik Sankt Augustin GmbH, Sankt Augustin, Germany, ²⁸SRI RAMACHANDRA INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH, Chennai, India, ²⁹Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Nuremberg, Germany, ³⁰Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ³¹University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, ³²Emma Children’s Hospital, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ³³Department of Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital – Department of Internal Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium – Unit for Molecular Immunology and Inflammation, VIB Inflammation Research Center (IRC), Gent, Belgium, ³⁴Hamburg Centre for Pediatric and Adolescence Rheumatology, Hamburg, Germany
Background/Purpose: Juvenile systemic sclerosis (jSSc) is an orphan disease with a prevalence of 3 in 1 000 000 children. The Juvenile Systemic Scleroderma Inception cohort…

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