Abstracts tagged "rheumatoid arthritis"

Abstract Number: 0059 • ACR Convergence 2024
Fragment Crystallizable (Fc)-Free Certolizumab Pegol Is Not Bound by Rheumatoid Factors, While Fc Containing Biological DMARDsAre, Driving ImmuneComplex Formation and Cellular Clearance
Susanna R. Bidgood¹, Sophie Hopkin¹, Kathryn R. Malpas¹, David M. Kallenberg¹, Jacqueline O’Neill¹, Geofrey Odede¹, Bernard Lauwerys², Baran Ufuktepe³ and David Humphreys¹, ¹UCB Biopharma UK, Slough, United Kingdom, ²UCB Pharma, Brussels, Belgium, ³UCB Pharma, Istanbul, Turkey
Background/Purpose: RFs are polyclonal autoantibodies which bind the Fc domain of IgGs. Patients with RA and high RF levels have poorer prognosis, more severe progressive…
Abstract Number: 0144 • ACR Convergence 2024
More Than a Monolith: Disaggregating Rheumatoid Arthritis Prevalence Among Asian American Subgroups
John Chen¹, Tanya Selvam¹, Jeanne Darbinian², Christopher Macko¹, Nirmala Ramalingam², Joan Lo² and Lucy Liu², ¹Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center, Oakland, CA, ²Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a disabling, autoimmune condition affecting up to as many as 17.6 million individuals worldwide. Epidemiologic evidence in the United States…
Abstract Number: 0227 • ACR Convergence 2024
Active Hand Inflammation: Differing Clinical and Ultrasound Patterns in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Psoriatic Arthritis. A Cross-Sectional and Multicenter Study
Julio Ramírez¹, Vicenç Torrente-Segarra², Andrea Cuervo³, Mireia Moreno⁴, Ana Belén Azuaga¹, Lourdes Mateo⁵, Beatriz Frade-Sosa⁶, Andrea Zacarias¹, Noemí Busquets Pérez⁷, Susana Holgado⁸, Paula Estrada-Alarcón⁹, Delia Reina¹⁰, Juan José De Agustín¹¹, Carme Moragues¹², María Bonet¹³, Sandra Farietta¹, Patricia Corzo¹, Andrés Ponce¹⁴, Virginia Ruiz Esquide¹, Lucia Alascio¹ and Juan Cañete¹⁵, and ECOCAT group, ¹Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ²Hospital Comarcal Alt Penedès-Garraf, Vilafranca, Spain, ³Hospital General Granollers, Granollers, Spain, ⁴Hospital Parc Taulí, Sabadell, Spain, ⁵Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, ⁶Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain, ⁷HOSP. GENERAL DE GRANOLLERS, GRANOLLERS, Spain, ⁸Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, ⁹Hospital de San Juan Despí Moisès Broggi, Barcelona, Spain, ¹⁰Hospital Moises Broggi, Barcelona, Spain, ¹¹Image and Technics Unit, Department of Rheumatology. Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain, ¹²Hospital Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain, ¹³Hospital Alt Penedés i Garraf, Barcelona, Spain, ¹⁴Rheumatology Department, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ¹⁵Hospital Clinic an IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain
Background/Purpose: The ultrasound (US) finding of proliferative synovitis (PS) in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), is associated with ACPA, erosions and changes in therapy [1]. However, no…
Abstract Number: 0369 • ACR Convergence 2024
Can Treatment Expectations or Treatment Itself in Patients with Arthralgia Suspicious for Progression to Rheumatoid Arthritis Improve Illness Perceptions?
Simonetta van Griethuysen¹, Quirine Dumoulin² and Annette van der Helm-van Mil³, ¹Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, ³LUMC, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Negative Illness perceptions (IPs) are associated with poorer disease outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Unfortunately, IPs are generally fixed in established RA. We hypothesized…
Abstract Number: 0463 • ACR Convergence 2024
Evaluation of Inflammatory Indices as Predictive Biomarkers of Carotid Plaque in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Jose Antonio Davila Jimenez¹, Dionicio Galarza-Delgado², Iris Jazmín Colunga Pedraza³, jose Ramon Azpiri-Lopez⁴, Rosa Icela Arvizu-Rivera³, Jesus Cardenas-de la Garza⁵, Aleydis Gonzalez Melendez³, Andrea Guajardo Aldaco³, Maria F. Elizondo-Benitez⁶, Rebeca L. Polina-Lugo³ and Diego Salcedo-Almanza⁷, ¹Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, ²UANL Hospital Universitario, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, ³Division of Rheumatology, University Hospital "Dr. Jose Eleuterio Gonzalez", Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico, ⁴Division of Cardiology, University Hospital "Dr. Jose Eleuterio Gonzalez", Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico, ⁵Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, University Hospital "Dr. Jose Eleuterio Gonzalez", Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, ⁷Division of Radiology, University Hospital "Dr. Jose Eleuterio Gonzalez", Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
Background/Purpose: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have an increased cardiovascular (CV) risk compared to the general population. All stages of the atherogenic process appear to…
Abstract Number: 0479 • ACR Convergence 2024
Constructing and Using a Novel Nucleotide Transformer for Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Shant Ayanian, Collin Osborne, Marc Blasi, Daniel Darveaux, Eric Klee and Elena Myasoedova, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose: Applying the methods of artificial intelligence (AI) to genomic data for clinical outcome prediction in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an area of growing research.…
Abstract Number: 0497 • ACR Convergence 2024
Relationship Between the Complement System and Subclinical Carotid Atherosclerosis in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Adrián Quevedo-Rodríguez¹, Marta Hernández-Díaz², Dara Rodríguez-González2², Fuensanta Gomez-Bernal³, Juan Carlos Quevedo-Abeledo⁴, Agustín F González-Rivero², Elena González López⁵, gonzalo Ocejo-Viñals⁵, Miguel Angel Gonzalez-Gay⁶ and ivan Ferraz-Amaro⁷, ¹Hospital de Gran Canaria Doctor Negrin, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, ²Hospital Universitario de Canarias, SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Spain, ³Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canarias, Spain, ⁴Hospital Universitario de Gran Canaria Dr Negrín, Las Palmas de GC, Canarias, Spain, ⁵Department of Immunology, Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital (HUMV), Santander, Spain, ⁶University of Cantabria, Fundación Jimenez Díaz, Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ⁷Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canarias, Spain
Background/Purpose: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have an increased risk of cardiovascular (CV) events and CV mortality. Carotid subclinical atherosclerosis is independently associated with incident…
Abstract Number: 0513 • ACR Convergence 2024
Effects of Cumulative Rituximab Exposure in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Results from Cohort at a Tertiary Academic Health Care Setting
Ioasaf Karafotias¹, Maryam Adas¹, Katie Bechman¹, Nicholas Williamson¹, Mark Hughes¹, Daksh Mehta², Ritika Roy¹, Sam Norton³ and James Galloway⁴, ¹King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ²King's College Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ³King's College London, London, England, United Kingdom, ⁴Centre for Rheumatic Diseases, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Rituximab targets CD20-positive B cells and is used to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA). B cell depletion may result in hypogammaglobulinemia. Hypogammaglobulinemia is a risk…
Abstract Number: 0531 • ACR Convergence 2024
Costs and Clinical Outcomes of the Rheumatoid Arthritis Medication Tapering Cohort
Sama Hajizadeh¹, Tyson Barrett², Yue Yin³ and Dr Tarun Sharma⁴, ¹Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, ²Enterprise Data and Analytics, Highmark Health, Pittsburgh, ³Allegheny-Singer Research Institute, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, ⁴West Penn Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: Existing American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) guidelines regarding medication tapering in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)…
Abstract Number: 0802 • ACR Convergence 2024
Disease Activity Is Strongly Associated with RA-related Lung Disease and Interstitial Lung Disease in Early RA: Results from a Multicenter, Prospective Cohort Study
Gregory McDermott¹, Ritu Gill², Suzanne Byrne³, Staci Gagne³, Xiaosong Wang⁴, Misti Paudel⁵, Emily Kowalski³, Grace Qian⁴, Katarina Bade³, Kevin Mueller³, Alene Saavedra³, Kathleen Vanni³, Caleb Bolden⁶, Tina Mahajan⁷, Erica Mulcaire-Jones⁸, Neda Kortam⁸, Pierre-Antoine Juge⁹, Tracy J Doyle¹⁰, Zachary Wallace¹¹, Marcy Bolster⁶, Kevin Deane¹², Dinesh Khanna⁸, Bryant England⁷ and Jeffrey Sparks¹³, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Brookline, MA, ²Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁵Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity, Boston, MA, ⁶Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁷University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁸University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁹Departement of Rheumatology, AP-HP, Bichat Hospital, Boston, MA, ¹⁰Brigham and Women's Hospital, West Roxbury, MA, ¹¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Newton, MA, ¹²University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, ¹³Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: RA is associated with several forms of lung disease including interstitial lung disease (ILD), bronchiectasis, and emphysema. Risk factors for the development and progression…
Abstract Number: 0896 • ACR Convergence 2024
Identification of Immune Pathways Regulated by a Non-Coding Variant at DNASE1L3/PXK/PDHB
Michelle Morency¹, Taehyeung Kim¹ and Peter Nigrovic², ¹Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Boston Children's Hospital, Brookline, MA
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a prevalent autoimmune disease in which aberrant immune attacks on joints and other tissues leads to permanent and disabling injury.…
Abstract Number: 0947 • ACR Convergence 2024
REX-7117 Is a Highly Potent and Selective Oral STAT3 Inhibitor That Demonstrated Potential Efficacy and Safety Differentiation versus JAK/TYK2 Targeting in Preclinical Models of Inflammatory Arthritis
Alexandra Gardino¹, Neil Bifulco¹, Jeremy Hunt², Rishi Vaswani¹, Donglim Park², Patrick Metz², Ksenya Cohen-Katsenelson², Jeong-Ho Kim², Xia Tian², Aryan Alavi², Ajay Nirula², Daniel Treiber², Brian Hodous¹, Seong Kim³ and Paul Smith², ¹Recludix Pharma, Cambridge, MA, ²Recludix Pharma, San Diego, CA, ³Department of Microbiology and Immunology, LSU Health Shreveport, Shreveport, LA
Background/Purpose: Inhibition of JAK family signaling has translated into clinically meaningful efficacy in rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and other inflammatory diseases. However, small molecule JAK/TYK2…
Abstract Number: 1015 • ACR Convergence 2024
Performance of a Molecular Signal Response Classifier Predicting Inadequate Response to Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors in Hispanic Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Viet Bui¹, Miguel Rodriguez² and Sarah Ormseth³, ¹Harbor UCLA Medical Center and The Lundquist Institute, Torrance, CA, ²Texas Arthritis Center, El Paso, TX, ³The Lundquist Institute, Torrance, CA
Background/Purpose: Tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) are generally the first class of biologic disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) prescribed for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with…
Abstract Number: 1075 • ACR Convergence 2024
Optimizing Herpes Zoster Vaccination in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Ages 18-49 Years: A Quality Improvement Approach
Akhil Sood¹, Pegah Jahangiri¹, Christy Bill² and Janice Lin¹, ¹Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ²Stanford Health Care, Palo Alto, CA
Background/Purpose: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis are at increased risk for Herpes Zoster (HZ) infection, which is associated with increased hospitalizations and healthcare resource utilization. Despite…
Abstract Number: 1329 • ACR Convergence 2024
Investigating Predictors of Transfusion in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoarthritis Patients Undergoing Knee Arthroplasty
Stephen Batter¹, Huong Do¹, Dongmei Sun², Ahmed Deeb¹, Trang Bui¹, Jason Blevins¹, Mark Figgie¹, Gwo-Chin Lee¹, J. Alex B. Gibbons³, Bella Mehta⁴, Susan Goodman⁵ and Linda A Russell¹, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²Hospital for Special Surgery, Birmingham, AL, ³Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY, ⁴Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ⁵Hospital for Special Surgery, New York 10025, NY
Background/Purpose: Use of ambulatory surgery in arthroplasty is increasing, but the need for transfusion mandates hospital admission. Despite the significant drop in transfusion rate linked…

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