Abstracts tagged "rheumatoid arthritis"

Abstract Number: 2353 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Attitudes and Beliefs Regarding Methotrexate in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Results from Australian Rheumatology Association Database
Nieves Leonardo^1,2, Susan Lester^3,4, Michelle Graham⁵, Samuel Whittle^1,6, Debra Rowett^7,8, Rachelle Buchbinder^9,10 and Catherine Hill^6,11,12, ¹Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, ²Rheumatology, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, Australia, ³Rheumatology Unit, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, Australia, ⁴Discipline of Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, ⁵Arthritis Queensland, Queensland, Australia, ⁶The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, Australia, ⁷School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, ⁸Drug and Therapeutics Information Service, Southern Adelaide Local Health Network, Adelaide, Australia, ⁹Cabrini Institute, Victoria, Australia, ¹⁰Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, ¹¹Rheumatology Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia, ¹²Medicine, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Background/Purpose: To determine beliefs about methotrexate (MTX) in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) in relation to views obtained from a range of information sources.Methods: RA…
Abstract Number: 593 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Predictors of Persistence of Biologic Drug Step-Down Strategies in Inflammatory Arthritis: An Observational Study in Clinical Practice up to Seven Years of Follow-up
Sebastian C Rodriguez-Garcia¹, Raul Castellanos-Moreira Sr.¹, José Inciarte-Mundo², M. Victoria Hernández³, Virginia Ruiz-Esquide², Andrea Cuervo¹, Julio Ramírez², Juan Cañete¹, Jose Gomez Puerta¹ and Raimon Sanmartí¹, ¹Rheumatology Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ²Rheumatology, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ³Rheumatology, Hospital Clinic. Barcelona. Spain, Barcelona, Spain
Background/Purpose: Recommendations and guidelines for the management of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and spondyloarthritis (SpA) with bDMARD include dose-tapering as an adequate option for patients on…
Abstract Number: 2461 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Analysis of Severe Adverse Drug Reactions to Disease Modifying Drugs in an Inception Rheumatoid Arthritis Cohort
Zulema Rosales Rosado^1,2, Judit Font Urgelles¹, Pia Mercedes Lois¹, Cristina Vadillo Font¹, Dalifer Freites Núñez², Isabel Hernández-Rodríguez¹, Juan A Jover Jover¹ and Lydia A Alcazar², ¹Rheumatology, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain, ²Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: There is a well-known risk of developing adverse drug reactions (ADR) in rheumatic patients due, mainly, to the Disease Modifying Drugs (DMARD) widely used.…
Abstract Number: 603 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Rheumatologists Beliefs in the Effectiveness of Other Methotrexate-Based Treatment Approaches May Explain the Low Use of Triple Therapy: A Bayesian Belief Elicitation
Gyanendra Pokharel¹, Rob Deardon¹, Sindhu Johnson², George A. Tomlinson³ and Glen Hazlewood⁴, ¹Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ²Rheumatology, Mount Sinai Hospital and University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Background/Purpose: Triple therapy (MTX, sulphasalazine (SSZ), hydroxychloroquine (HCQ)) has evidence to support its use from randomized trials (RCTs) but is not commonly used. The objective…
Abstract Number: 2522 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Biosimilar BI 695501 and Adalimumab Reference Product (RP) Have Similar Efficacy and Safety in Patients (pts) with Moderately-to-Severely Active Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA): Long-Term Results from a Phase IIIb Extension Study (VOLTAIRE®-RAext)
Stanley Cohen¹, Niklas Czeloth², Eric Lee³, Piotr A. Klimiuk⁴, Nuala Peter⁵ and Girish Jayadeva², ¹Metroplex Clinical Research Center, Dallas, TX, ²Boehringer Ingelheim, Ingelheim a.R., Germany, Ingelheim, Germany, ³Inland Rheumatology, Upland, CA, ⁴Medical University of Bialystok and Gabinet Internistyczno-Reumatologiczny, Bialystok, Poland, ⁵Boehringer Ingelheim, Biberach a.d.R., Germany, Ingelheim a.R., Germany
Background/Purpose: Clinical equivalence of BI 695501 to the adalimumab RP has been shown in pts with moderately-to-severely active RA in the Phase III VOLTAIRE®-RA study…
Abstract Number: 628 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Longitudinal Changes in Relative Market Share Proportions of Biologic and Targeted Synthetic Disease-Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs for Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis: Descriptive Data from the Ontario Best-Practice Research Initiative Database
Elliot Hepworth¹, Mohammad Movahedi², Emmanouil Rampakakis³, Reza Mirza¹, Arthur Lau⁴, Angela Cesta⁵, Janet E. Pope⁶ and Claire Bombardier⁷, ¹Department of Internal Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ²JSS Medical Research, St-Laurent, QC, Canada, ³JSS Medical Research, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁴50 Charlton Avenue East, St Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ⁵Ontario Best Practices Research Initiative, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶Department of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ⁷Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: For patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) who do not achieve adequate clinical response with combined conventional synthetic disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (csDMARDs), the next…
Abstract Number: 2898 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Increased Frequency of Circulating CD4+CXCR5-PD1hi Peripheral Helper T (cTph) Cells in Patients with Seropositive Early Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)
Paula Fortea-Gordo¹, Laura Nuño², Alejandro Villalba², Diana Peiteado³, Irene Monjo⁴, Paloma Sanchez-Mateos⁵, Amaya Puig-Kröger⁶, Alejandro Balsa¹ and Maria Eugenia Miranda-Carus¹, ¹Rheumatology, Hospital La Paz - IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain, ²Rheumatology, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain, ³Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain, ⁴Rheumatology, Rheumatology, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain, ⁵Immunology, Hospital Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain, ⁶Immuno-oncology, Hospital Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: A novel population of CD4+ T cells with B cell helping capacity has been described in the synovial tissues and peripheral blood of seropositive…
Abstract Number: 629 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Real-World Use of Tofacitinib Compared with Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors in a Cohort of 211 Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Data from a Drug-Based Registry Study in Taiwan
Song-Chou Hsieh¹, Yi-Hsing Chen², Wei-Sheng Chen³, Wen-Chan Tsai⁴, Jui-Chieh Hu⁵, Hsiang-Cheng Chen⁶, Jack Mardekian⁷ and Chacun Lai⁸, ¹National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ²Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung City, Taiwan, ³Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ⁴Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ⁵Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ⁶National Defense Medical Center & Tri-Services General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ⁷Pfizer Global Biometrics & Data Management, NY, NY, ⁸Pfizer PFE Limited, New Taipei, Taiwan
Background/Purpose: Tofacitinib is an oral Janus kinase inhibitor for the treatment of RA. Tofacitinib was approved in December 2014 for RA under Taiwan’s National Health…
Abstract Number: 2900 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Impaired TCR Signaling Paves the Way for Cytokine Hyper-Responsiveness in Arthritogenic T Cells
Judith Ashouri¹, Lih-Yun Hsu¹, Dmitry Rychkov², Marina Sirota², Lisa Lattanza³, Eric Hansen³, Julie Zikherman¹ and Arthur Weiss¹, ¹Rosalind Russell and Ephraim P. Engleman Rheumatology Research Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Pediatrics, Institute for Computational Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ³Orthopedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: The inability to identify relevant arthritogenic CD4 T cells in patients and in murine disease models has limited our understanding of disease initiating events…
Abstract Number: 827 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Rituximab Therapy for Systemic Rheumatoid Vasculitis: Indications, Outcomes and Adverse Events
Caitrin Coffey¹, Michael Richter¹, Cynthia S. Crowson², Matthew J. Koster³, Kenneth J. Warrington⁴ and Ashima Makol³, ¹Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, MN, ³Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁴Rheumatology, Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid vasculitis (RV) is a rare systemic inflammatory process affecting small to medium sized blood vessels in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). RV confers…
Abstract Number: 963 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Long-Term Safety of Tofacitinib up to 9.5 Years: A Comprehensive Integrated Analysis of the RA Clinical Development Program
Stanley Cohen¹, Yoshiya Tanaka², Xavier Mariette³, Jeffrey R. Curtis⁴, Eun Bong Lee⁵, Peter Nash⁶, Kevin Winthrop⁷, Christina Charles-Schoeman⁸, Lisy Wang⁹, Connie Chen¹⁰, Kenneth Kwok¹⁰, Pinaki Biswas¹⁰, Andrea Shapiro¹¹, Ann Madsen¹⁰ and Jürgen Wollenhaupt¹², ¹Metroplex Clinical Research Center and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ²University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan, ³Paris-Sud University, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France, ⁴University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁵Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), ⁶University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, ⁷Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, ⁸University of California, Los Angeles, CA, ⁹Pfizer Inc, Groton, CT, ¹⁰Pfizer Inc, New York, NY, ¹¹Pfizer Inc, Peapack, NJ, ¹²Schön-Klinik Hamburg-Eilbek Teaching Hospital of the University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Background/Purpose: Tofacitinib is an oral Janus kinase inhibitor for the treatment of RA. Here, we report the largest integrated safety analysis of tofacitinib to date…
Abstract Number: 43 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Novel Anti-Malarial Drug Derivative Inhibited Anti-Citrullinated Protein/Peptide Antibodies and Rheumatoid Factors Production in Dnaseii/Ifnr Double Knock out Mice
Jie An¹, Bhanupriya Madarampalli², Xizhang Sun², Lena Tanaka³, Erika H. Noss², Joshua Woodward⁴, Tomikazu Sasaki⁵ and Keith B. Elkon⁶, ¹Division of Rheumatology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²Rheumatology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ³Medicine/Rheumatology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ⁴Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ⁵Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ⁶University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a highly prevalent autoimmune disease affecting ~1% of the world population and can lead to permanent joint damage and severe…
Abstract Number: 987 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
CCL11 Is Involved in Cell Migration in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Kuninobu Wakabayashi, Takeo Isozaki, Shinichiro Nishimi and Tsuyoshi Kasama, Div of Rheumatology, Showa University School of Med, Shinagawa-ku Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: Chemokine C-C motif ligand 11 (CCL11) also known as eotaxin-1 is produced by a variety of cell types. By interacting with C-C chemokine receptor…
Abstract Number: 47 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Analysis of the Role of RORγt+Foxp3+ T Regulatory 17 (Tr17) Cells in Murine Autoimmune Arthritis Model
Kotona Furuyama¹, Yuya Kondo¹, Masaru Shimizu², Iizuka Akira¹, Masahiro Yokosawa¹, Seiji Segawa¹, Hiroto Tsuboi¹, Isao Matsumoto¹ and Takayuki Sumida¹, ¹Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, ²Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Background/Purpose: RORγt+Foxp3+ regulatory T (Treg) cells, designated as Tr17 is one of the new subset of Treg cells, having the potential to regulate the development…
Abstract Number: 1073 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Connective Tissue Growth Factor Associates with Angiogenesis through Notch-1 Activation in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Kazuhisa Nozawa¹, Takuya Hirai², Hiroshi Tsushima², Ken Yamaji³, Naoto Tamura³ and Iwao Sekigawa⁴, ¹2-1-1 Hongo Bunkyo-ku, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan, ²Rheumatology, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ³Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ⁴Institute for Environment and Gender Specific Medicine, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan
Background/Purpose: Aberrant angiogenesis has been considered as one of important factors for pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Several angiogenetic mediators are reported to be massively…

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