Abstracts tagged "rheumatoid arthritis"

Abstract Number: 1206 • ACR Convergence 2021
Serum Levels of Total IgA Anti-cyclic Citrullinated Protein Antibodies Predict 11-year Radiographic Outcome in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis
Elisabeth Rasmussen¹, Liv Thiele¹, Kristian Stengaard-Pedersen², Merete Hetland³, Kim Horslev-Petersen⁴, Peter Junker⁵, Mikkel Ostergaard⁶, Aida Hansen¹, Malene Hvid¹, Bent Deleuran¹ and Stinne Greisen¹, ¹Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, ²Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, ³DANBIO and COPECARE, Centre for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Denmark, ⁴Danish Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Haderslev, Denmark, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, Odense University Hospital, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark, ⁶Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, and Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Glostrup, Denmark
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by polyarticular synovitis and frequent occurrence of autoantibodies, playing a central role in disease progression. Anti-citrullinated peptide antibodies (ACPA)…
Abstract Number: 1222 • ACR Convergence 2021
Drug Response Is Associated with Changes in Specific MicroRNAs in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Qiong Wu¹, Sheau-Chiann Chen¹, Fei Ye¹, Joseph Solus¹, S. Louis Bridges, Jr.², Jeffrey Curtis³, C. Michael Stein¹ and Michelle Ormseth¹, ¹Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ²Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ³Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: MicroRNAs are markers and mediators of disease and drug response. Prior studies have proposed several miRNAs for prediction of drug response or monitoring drug…
Abstract Number: 1238 • ACR Convergence 2021
Low Patient Global Assessment of Disease Activity and Negative Rheumatoid Factor Are Strongly Associated with Likelihood of Maintaining Remission Following Tapering of Therapy in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Jeffrey Curtis¹, Paul Emery², Boulos Haraoui³, Greg Kricorian⁴, Priscilla Yen⁴, David Collier⁵ and Vivian Bykerk⁶, ¹Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds and Leeds NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds, United Kingdom, ³Institut de Rhumatologie de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁴Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, ⁵Amgen Inc., Simi Valley, CA, ⁶Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: According to ACR and EULAR recommendations, patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who persist in remission (REM) should consider tapering RA therapy. Identification of clinical…
Abstract Number: 1254 • ACR Convergence 2021
The Role of Regulatory T Cells (CD4+CD25+FOXP3) in Methotrexate Unresponsiveness in a Cohort of Naive Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
Anna Abou-Raya, Darwish ELHallous, Mohamed Ossama, Nahla Farahat, Mohamed Khaled and Suzan Abou-Raya, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic immune-mediated heterogenous disease characterized by a defect in the compartment of regulatory CD4+Foxp3+ T cells (Treg) which are…
Abstract Number: 1508 • ACR Convergence 2021
Decrease of Angiogenic T Cells Associated to the Presence of Interstitial Lung Disease in Patients with Connective Tissue Diseases
Verónica Pulito-Cueto¹, Sara Remuzgo-Martinez¹, Fernanda Genre¹, Belén Atienza-Mateo², Victor M. Mora-Cuesta³, David Iturbe-Fernández³, Leticia Lera-Gómez¹, Raquel Perez-Fernández¹, Pilar Alonso-Lecue⁴, Javier Rodriguez-Carrio⁵, Diana Prieto-Peña⁶, Virginia Portilla⁶, Ricardo BLANCO⁷, Alfosno Corrales⁶, José M. Cifrián⁸, Raquel López-Mejías¹ and Miguel Ángel gonzalez-Gay⁹, ¹Research group on Genetic Epidemiology and Atherosclerosis in Systemic Diseases and in Metabolic Bone Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ²Group "Research in genetic epidemiology and atherosclerosis of systemic diseases and in bone metabolic diseases of the locomotor system", IDIVAL; and Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ³Research group on Genetic Epidemiology and Atherosclerosis in Systemic Diseases and in Metabolic Bone Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System; Department of Pneumology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ⁴Research group on Genetic Epidemiology and Atherosclerosis in Systemic Diseases and in Metabolic Bone Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System, IDIVAL; Department of Pneumology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ⁵Deparment of Functional Biology, Immunology Area, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain., Oviedo, Spain, ⁶Research group on Genetic Epidemiology and Atherosclerosis in Systemic Diseases and in Metabolic Bone Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System, IDIVAL; Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ⁷Hospital University Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ⁸Research group on Genetic Epidemiology and Atherosclerosis in Systemic Diseases and in Metabolic Bone Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System, IDIVAL; Department of Pneumology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla; School of Medicine, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain, ⁹Research group on Genetic Epidemiology and Atherosclerosis in Systemic Diseases and in Metabolic Bone Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System, IDIVAL, Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla; School of Medicine, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain. Cardiovascular Pathophysiology and Genomics Research Unit, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is one of the most significant complications of connective tissue diseases (CTD) leading to an increase of the morbidity and…
Abstract Number: 1653 • ACR Convergence 2021
Positron Emission Tomography-Detected Uptake of 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose in Visceral and Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Is Associated with Articular Disease Activity and Arterial Inflammation in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Jon Giles¹, Joan Bathon², Hadil Zureigat³ and Ahmed Tawakol⁴, ¹Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Division of Rheumatology, New York, NY, ²Columbia University, New York, NY, ³Harvard University, Boston, MA, ⁴Harvard University/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) from people with RA contains more macrophages and expresses higher levels of cytokines, chemokines, and other inflammatory mediators compared with…
Abstract Number: 1669 • ACR Convergence 2021
Minimal Erosive Volume Needed for Radiographic Identification of Erosions in the Metacarpophalangeal Joints in Rheumatoid Arthritis. a Comparative Analysis of High Resolution Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography and Conventional Radiography
Rasmus Klose-Jensen, Josephine Therkildsen, Anne-Birgitte Garm Blavnsfeldt, Bente L. Langdahl, Anna Zejden, Jesper Thygensen, Kresten Krarup Keller and Ellen-Margrethe Hauge, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
Background/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to estimate the minimal erosive volume identified by High-Resolution peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography (HR-pQCT) needed in order to…
Abstract Number: 1685 • ACR Convergence 2021
Efficacy and Safety of Olokizumab in a Phase III Trial of Patients with Moderately to Severely Active Rheumatoid Arthritis Inadequately Controlled by Methotrexate – Placebo and Active Controlled Study
Eugen Feist¹, Saeed Fatenejad², Sergey Grishin³, Elena Korneva³, Evgeniy Nasonov⁴, Anna Rowińska-Osuch⁵, Mikhail Samsonov⁶ and Roy Fleischmann⁷, ¹Helios Department of Rheumatology, Vogelsang-Gommern, Germany, ²SFC Medica, LLC, Charlotte, NC, ³R-Pharm, Moscow, Russia, ⁴V.A. Nasonova Reseach Institute of Rheumatology, Moscow, Russia, ⁵MCM Polimedica, Warsaw, Poland, ⁶RPharm, Moscow, Russia, ⁷Metroplex Clinical Research Center and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Background/Purpose: Olokizumab (OKZ) is a humanized monoclonal antibody targeting IL-6 [1]. Here we present the results of a global phase III, head-to-head, randomized placebo (PBO)…
Abstract Number: 1701 • ACR Convergence 2021
Evaluation of Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Atherosclerosis in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients, Treated with Biological Agents: 6-month Follow-up
Georgios Papamichail¹, Theodora Markatseli², Athanasios Georgiadis³, Vasileios Xydis⁴, Haralampos Milionis¹, Alexandros Drosos² and Paraskevi Voulgari², ¹Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece, ²Rheumatology Clinic, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece, ³Private Practice, Ioannina, Greece, Athens, Greece, ⁴Radiology, Department of Radiology, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece, Ioannina, Greece
Background/Purpose: Despite new therapeutic approaches in RA, the mortality gap between RA patients and the general population persists, and may even be increasing. Cardiovascular (CV)…
Abstract Number: 1909 • ACR Convergence 2021
Impact of Antimalarial Adherence on Cardiovascular Mortality Among Patients with Newly Diagnosed Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Population-based Study
Md Rashedul Hoque¹, J. Antonio Avina-Zubieta², Diane Lacaille², Mary De Vera³, Yi Qian³, John Esdaile⁴ and Hui Xie⁵, ¹Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ²Arthritis Research Canada, Richmond, BC, Canada, ³University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁴Arthritis Research Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁵Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Background/Purpose: Literature has shown poor adherence to antimalarial (AM) medications in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients, with the percentage of adherers…
Abstract Number: PP08 • ACR Convergence 2021
Should I Get the COVID-19 Vaccine With My RA? Using Evidence-Based Resources for Decision-Making
Aberdeen Allen, Colgate Palmolive, Parlin, NJ
Background/Purpose: Patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases have concerns about getting the COVID-19 vaccine. As vaccines began to receive emergency use authorization, individuals with conditions like…
Abstract Number: 0014 • ACR Convergence 2021
Low Baseline Expression of Pyruvate Kinase and Succinate Dehydrogenase Genes in the Peripheral Blood of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Treated with Tofacitinib Is Associated with Clinical Remission at the End of Follow-up
Elena Tchetina¹, Azamat Satybaldyev², Galina Markova¹ and Alexander Lila², ¹Nasonova Research Institute of Rheumatology, Moscow, Russia, ²V.A. Nasonova Reseach Institute of Rheumatology, Moscow, Russia
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease of unknown etiology, which is characterized by erosive arthritis and systemic inflammation. Tofacitinib (TFCN) is a Janus…
Abstract Number: 0032 • ACR Convergence 2021
IL-40: A New B-cell Associated Cytokine Up-regulated in Rheumatoid Arthritis Decreases Following the Rituximab Therapy and Correlates with Disease Activity, Autoantibodies and NETosis
Adela Navratilova¹, Lucie Andrés Cerezo¹, Hana Hulejová², Viktor Bečvář², Michal Tomcik³, Dana Tegzova², Martina Olejárová¹, David Veigl⁴, Karel Pavelka³, Jiri Vencovsky² and Ladislav Senolt³, ¹Institute of Rheumatology and Department of Rheumatology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ²Institute of Rheumatology, Prague, Czech Republic, ³Institute of Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ⁴First Orthopaedic Clinic, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
Background/Purpose: Interleukin 40 (IL-40) is recently identified B cell - associated cytokine implicated in humoral immune responses and in B cell development and homeostasis. As…
Abstract Number: 0096 • ACR Convergence 2021
The True Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in an Italian Cohort of Patients with Inflammatory Arthritis: A Seroepidemiological Study
Gabriella Maioli¹, Ennio Giulio Favalli², Elisa Pesce³, Martina Biggioggero², Mauro Bombaci³, Elena Agape², Martina Martinovic³, Tanya Fabbris³, Elena Zagato³, Andrea Favalli³, Andrea Gobbini³, Sergio Abrignani³, Renata Grifantini³ and Roberto Caporali⁴, ¹Università degli Studi di Milano, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Research Center for Adult and Pediatric Rheumatic Diseases, Milan, Italy, Milan, Italy, ²ASST Gaetano Pini-CTO Institute, Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Milan, Italy, Milan, Italy, ³Istituto Nazionale Genetica Molecolare, Padiglione Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi, Milan, Italy, ⁴Policlinico S. Matteo University, Pavia, Italy
Background/Purpose: Observational data have shown that rheumatic patients seem not to be more susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection neither to worse outcomes. However, the true prevalence…
Abstract Number: 0170 • ACR Convergence 2021
Direct and Conditional Effects of Epicardial Adipose Tissue Volume on Coronary Plaque Progression in Rheumatoid Arthritis
George Karpouzas¹, sarah ormseth², Elizabeth Hernandez² and Matthew Budoff³, ¹Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, ²The Lundquist Institute, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, ³Division of Cardiology, and the Lundquist Institute ay Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA
Background/Purpose: Epicardial adipose tissue volume (EATv) predicts coronary atherosclerosis presence, progression and cardiovascular events in general patients. We recently reported that EATv associated with greater…

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