Abstracts tagged "rheumatoid arthritis"

Abstract Number: 1331 • ACR Convergence 2025
Anti-beta-2-glycoprotein-1 IgA antibodies facilitate macrophage cholesterol loading and influence coronary atherosclerosis progression in a dose-dependent manner in rheumatoid arthritis
George Karpouzas¹, Bianca Papotti², Sarah Ormseth³, Marcella Palumbo², Matthew Budoff¹ and Nicoletta Ronda², ¹Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, ²University of Parma, Parma, Italy, ³The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation, Torrance, CA
Background/Purpose: Changes in serum cholesterol loading capacity (CLC) on macrophages were linked to coronary plaque progression in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Inflammation, LDL oxidation and autoantibodies…
Abstract Number: 1315 • ACR Convergence 2025
High-resolution thermography and Artificial Intelligence to evaluate and classify Rheumatoid Arthritis
Kale Mayor¹, Joey Mercier¹, Yuxi Long², David Robinson¹, Pingzhao Hu², Hani El-Gabalawy¹ and Liam O'Neil¹, ¹University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ²Western University, London, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune polyarthritis that typically affects the small joints of the hands and feet. While imaging modalities such as ultrasound…
Abstract Number: 1228 • ACR Convergence 2025
Transcending barriers to pain care in rural America: a pragmatic comparative effectiveness trial of evidence-based, on-demand, digital behavioral treatments for chronic pain
Brennan Spiegel¹, Jeffrey Curtis², Yashar Eshraghi³, Maged Guirguis³, Beth Darnall⁴, Christine Rini⁵, Emily Holladay⁶, Mehra Muskaan¹, So Yung Choi¹ and Samuel Eberlein¹, ¹Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles, CA, ²Foundation for Advancing Science, Technology, Education and Research, Birmingham, AL, ³University of Queensland Ochsner Medical School, New Orleans, LA, ⁴Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, ⁵Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁶University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Evidence-based behavioral treatments for chronic pain are largely inaccessible, particularly to rural patients. This decentralized randomized controlled trial compared the effectiveness of two digital,…
Abstract Number: 1065 • ACR Convergence 2025
Age of Disease Onset and Risk of Serious Infection with anti-TNF Use in Older Adults with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Jiha Lee¹, Sofia Pedro² and Kaleb Michaud³, ¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Forward, The National Databank for Rheumatic Diseases, Wichita, KS, ³University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Background/Purpose: Older age is a recognized risk factor for serious infection (SI) associated with anti-TNF therapy in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Among older adults with RA,…
Abstract Number: 1005 • ACR Convergence 2025
CD49a Contributes to Binding and Survival of Synovial Resident Memory T cells
Yusuke Miyashita¹, Yang Yang², Madison Mangin³, Maryrose Hahn² and Margaret Chang², ¹Boston Children's Hospital, Brookline, MA, ²Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Boston Children's Hospital, St Simons Island, GA
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disease featured with recurrent inflammation in the same joints, a characteristic termed joint-specific memory. We previously demonstrated…
Abstract Number: 0905 • ACR Convergence 2025
Development and Characterization of IAR130, a 2+1 Format, CD19 and BCMA Dual Targeting T Cell Engager for Autoimmune Diseases
Jinyang Li, Xiu Han, Yi Wang, Yiyi Li, Zhaoru Ma, Yang Li, Zhimin Zhang, Liu Li, Meng Ni, Jiangkun Bi, Xing Yang, Yao Xiong, Shuaixiang Zhou and Huizhong Xiong, Innovent Biologics (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., Suzhou, Jiangsu, China (People's Republic)
Background/Purpose: Immune reset, achieved through profound and sustained depletion of B cells and/or plasma cells, has demonstrated significant clinical efficacy in patients with severe and…
Abstract Number: 0816 • ACR Convergence 2025
Persistent Pain Despite Inflammatory Control in RA: A Pooled Analysis of 7 RCTs
Andreas Kerschbaumer¹, Marlene Steiner², William H. Robinson³, Josef Smolen⁴ and Daniel Aletaha⁵, ¹Stanford University / Medical University of Vienna, Stanford, CA, ²Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Wien, Austria, ³Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine ³, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Vienna, Austria, ⁵Medical University Vienna, Wien, Austria
Background/Purpose: Joint swelling and tenderness are clinical hallmarks of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and central to disease assessment. Regardless of treatment type, stringent remission based on…
Abstract Number: 0502 • ACR Convergence 2025
Real-World Comparative Safety of Tocilizumab and Sarilumab in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Multi-Center Observational Study
Satani Sharkas¹, Saeed Abughazaleh² and Dariush Jahandideh³, ¹Boston Medical Center - Brighton, Brighton, MA, ²Boston Medical Center - Brighton, Brighton, ³Boston Medical Center - Brighton, Boston
Background/Purpose: Interleukin-6 (IL-6) inhibitors, including tocilizumab and sarilumab, are approved treatments for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, comparative safety data on cardiovascular outcomes and all-cause mortality…
Abstract Number: 0484 • ACR Convergence 2025
Comparable Efficacy of FK-Tocilizumab and Reference Tocilizumab in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients With and Without Prior Biologic Exposure
Ernest Choy¹, Marco Gattorno², Kamila Klama³, Andras Illes⁴, Peter Baker⁵, Maria Romanova Michailidi⁶ and Anna Zubrzycka-Sienkiewicz⁷, ¹Division of Infection and Immunity, CREATE Centre, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, ²IRCCS G. Gaslini, Genova, Genoa, Italy, ³Solumed Clinical Research Center, Poznan, Poland, ⁴Fresenius Kabi SwissBioSim, Eysin, Switzerland, ⁵Fresenius Kabi Biopharma, Eysins, Switzerland, ⁶University of Geneva, Eysins, Switzerland, ⁷Reumatika - Centrum Reumatologii, Warszawa, Poland
Background/Purpose: Biosimilars offer comparable efficacy and safety to their originators, thereby improving patient access to affordable treatments. FK-Tocilizumab (FK-toci) is the first tocilizumab biosimilar approved…
Abstract Number: 0468 • ACR Convergence 2025
Performance of the expanded cardiovascular risk prediction score for rheumatoid arthritis (ERS-RA) in a nationwide multicenter Chinese cohort
Xingbei Dong¹, Nan Jiang², Hong Li³, Misti Paudel⁴, Jiangmei Liu⁵, Xinwang Duan⁶, Dongmei Wu⁷, Hongbin Li⁸, Fen Li⁹, Yongfu Wang¹⁰, Ju Liu¹¹, Shengqian Xu¹², Hui Luo¹³, huanzi dai¹⁴, Shuhong Chi¹⁵, Jian Xu¹⁶, Lijun Wu¹⁷, zhaohui zheng¹⁸, Jing Xue¹⁹, Xiaofu Yu²⁰, QIn Huang²¹, Xiaofei Shi²², Xiaomin Zhang²³, Yuehong Huo²⁴, Qian Wang², Xiaofeng Zeng²⁵, Daniel Solomon²⁶, Mengtao Li² and Xinping Tian², ¹Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China (People's Republic), ²Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, Beijing, China (People's Republic), ³Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China (People's Republic), ⁴Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity, Boston, MA, ⁵Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China (People's Republic), ⁶The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China (People's Republic), ⁷The People's Hospital of Yuxi City, Yuxi, China (People's Republic), ⁸The Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China (People's Republic), ⁹The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China (People's Republic), ¹⁰The First Affiliated Hospital of Baotou Medical College, Baotou, China (People's Republic), ¹¹Affiliated Jiujiang Hospital of Nanchang University, Jiujiang, China (People's Republic), ¹²The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China (People's Republic), ¹³Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China (People's Republic), ¹⁴Daping Hospital & Research Institute of Surgery, Army Medical University, Chongqing, PR China., Chongqing, China (People's Republic), ¹⁵General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China (People's Republic), ¹⁶The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China (People's Republic), ¹⁷People's Hospital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Urumqi, China (People's Republic), ¹⁸Department of Clinical Immunology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China (People's Republic), ¹⁹The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China (People's Republic), ²⁰Guyuan People’s Hospital, Guyuan, China (People's Republic), ²¹Nanfang Hospital, Guangzhou, China (People's Republic), ²²The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of science and Technology, Luoyang, China (People's Republic), ²³Red Flag Hospital Affiliated to Mudanjiang Medical College, Mudanjiang, China (People's Republic), ²⁴The Fifth People's Hospital of Datong, Datong, China (People's Republic), ²⁵Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases (NCRC-DID), Beijing, China (People's Republic), ²⁶Brigham and Women's Hospital, Newton, MA
Background/Purpose: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at increased risk of developing cardiovascular (CV) events compared to the general population. However, this risk is often…
Abstract Number: 0451 • ACR Convergence 2025
Menopause Status and Disease Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Katherine Bracamontes¹, David Kellner², Lucia Chen³, David Elashoff⁴, Jenny Brook⁵ and Veena Ranganath², ¹Division of Internal Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ²UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ³UCLA, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴UCLA, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Los Angeles, ⁵UCLA, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: In women, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) commonly presents around menopause, a timing thought to be influenced by the decline of estrogen and progesterone. However, the…
Abstract Number: 0434 • ACR Convergence 2025
The advantage of a “tight control” and “treat-to-target” strategy in new-onset rheumatoid arthritis patients in daily rheumatology practice
Katarina Friberger Pajalic¹, Jon Einarsson¹, Caroline Bengtsson², Elisabeth Mogard³, Ellen Landgren⁴, Carmen Roseman³, Elisabet Lindqvist³, Johan Karlsson Wallman⁵, Tor Olofsson⁶ and Meliha Kapetanovic³, ¹Lunds University, Department of clinical sciences, section of Rheumatology Malmö and Skåne University Hospital Malmö, Sweden, Lund, Sweden, ²Skåne University Hospital Lund, Sweden, Lund, Sweden, ³Lund University, Skane University Hospital, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Rheumatology, Lund, Sweden, ⁴Lunds University, Department of clinical sciences, section of Rheumatology, Lund, Skane Lan, Sweden, ⁵Lund University, Skane University Hospital, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Rheumatology, Lund, Skane Lan, Sweden, ⁶Lunds University, Department of clinical sciences, section of Rheumatology, Lund, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Since 2021, patients with new-onset rheumatoid arthritis (RA) at the Department of Rheumatology, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, are invited to participate in a…
Abstract Number: 0274 • ACR Convergence 2025
Transplant-free survival in patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases and progressive pulmonary fibrosis in the ILD-PRO Registry
Sonali Bracken¹, Aparna Swaminathan², Jeremy M Weber³, Megan L Neely⁴, Scott Palmer⁴, Erin Wilfong⁵, Ann Chauffe⁶ and Elizabeth Volkmann⁷, ¹Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA, Apex, NC, ²Duke University Medical Center and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA, Durham, NC, ³Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA, Durham, ⁴Duke University Medical Center and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA, Durham, ⁵Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA, Nashville, TN, ⁶Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Ridgefield, CT, USA, Newberry, FL, ⁷Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of California, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: Progressive pulmonary fibrosis (PPF) is known to be associated with high mortality, but there are few data on the course of PPF in patients…
Abstract Number: 0170 • ACR Convergence 2025
Rheumatoid arthritis, serologic status and risk of heart failure: A national cohort study
Seonyoung Kang¹, Kyungdo Han², Yeonghee Eun³, Jinhyung Jung⁴, Seulkee Lee¹, Hoon-Suk Cha¹, Jaejoon Lee⁵, Seonghye Kim¹, Se Yun Kim⁶, Dong Wook Shin¹ and Hyungjin Kim⁷, ¹Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ²Soongsil University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ³Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, seoul, Republic of Korea, ⁴Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon, Republic of Korea, ⁵Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ⁶Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ⁷Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
Background/Purpose: Although rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a known risk factor for heart failure (HF), a limited number of studies has explored the association based on…
Abstract Number: 0089 • ACR Convergence 2025
Expansion of PD-1hi Tfh and Tph cells in the peripheral blood of seropositive clinically suspect arthralgia patients: association with progression to rheumatoid arthritis
Maria-Eugenia Miranda-Carus¹, Mariana Gutierrez-Riart², Beatriz Nieto-Carvalhal³, Laura Nuño², Alejandro Villalba¹, Diana Peiteado¹, Irene Monjo Henry¹, Marta Novella-Navarro¹ and Eugenio de Miguel¹, ¹Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain, ²Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, ³Hospital Universitario La Paz, Mdrid
Background/Purpose: Subjects with clinically suspect arthralgia (CSA) are at risk for developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and therapeutic interventions may prevent or delay progression. Still, a…

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