Abstracts tagged "scleroderma and systemic sclerosis"

Abstract Number: 814 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
NON Diffuse SSc, Peripheral Neuropathy, Concomitant Sjogren Syndrome and ANTI-RNA Polymerase III Represent Risk Factors for the Higher Frequency of Cancer in a Large Single Cohort of Patients with Systemic Sclerosis
Ana Paula Luppino-Assad¹, Adriana Bortoluzzo², Henrique Carriço da Silva³, Danieli Andrade⁴ and Percival Sampaio-Barros⁴, ¹Rheumatology, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, BR., sao paulo, Brazil, ²c Instituto Insper de Educação e Pesquisa, São Paulo, SP, Brasil, sao paulo, Brazil, ³Rheumatology, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, BR., SAO PAULO, Brazil, ⁴Rheumatology, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, BR., São Paulo, Brazil
Background/Purpose: A higher prevalence of cancer has been described in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc), but the magnitude of this risk and the type of…
Abstract Number: 903 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Riociguat in Patients with Early Diffuse Cutaneous Systemic Sclerosis: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase IIb Study (RISE-SSc)
Oliver Distler¹, Yannick Allanore², Christopher P. Denton³, Masataka Kuwana⁴, Marco Matucci-Cerinic⁵, Janet E. Pope⁶, Janethe Pena⁷, Kaisa Laapas⁸, Zhen Yao⁹ and Dinesh Khanna¹⁰, ¹Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ²Rheumatology A Department, Cochin Hospital, Paris Descartes University, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France, ³UCL Division of Medicine, Royal Free Campus, London, United Kingdom, ⁴Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, Nippon Medical School Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ⁵Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, ⁶Department of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ⁷Clinical Development, Bayer US LLC, Whippany, NJ, ⁸StatFinn Oy, Espoo, Finland, ⁹Bayer Healthcare Co. Ltd.,, Beijing, China, ¹⁰Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Scleroderma Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Background/Purpose: There are few disease-modifying therapies for the treatment of systemic sclerosis (SSc), particularly the more severe diffuse cutaneous form (dcSSc). The soluble guanylate cyclase…
Abstract Number: 1108 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Antibody Repertoire Dynamics in Systemic Sclerosis after Myeloablative Autologous Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation or Cyclophosphamide Treatment
Julia Z. Adamska^1,2, Leslie Crofford³, Daniel E. Furst^4,5, Ellen Goldmuntz⁶, Lynette Keyes-Elstein⁷, Maureen D. Mayes⁸, Peter McSweeney⁹, Richard Nash⁹, Ashley Pinckney¹⁰, Beverly Welch¹¹, Keith Sullivan¹² and William H. Robinson^1,2, ¹Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ²VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, ³Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ⁴University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ⁵University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ⁶NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁷Clinical Statistics, Rho Federal Systems, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC, ⁸Rheumatology, University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, ⁹Colorado Blood Cancer Institute, Denver, CO, ¹⁰Rho Federal Systems, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC, ¹¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ¹²Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Background/Purpose: Myeloablative autologous hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT) was recently demonstrated to provide benefit over monthly cyclophosphamide (CYC) in the treatment of diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis…
Abstract Number: 1725 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis- a Pilot Study
Håvard Fretheim¹, Oyvind Midtvedt¹, Anders Heiervang Tennøe¹, Henriette Didriksen¹, Torhild Garen¹, Espen Bækkevold¹, Johannes R. Hov¹, Knut EA Lundin², Marius Trøseid¹, Øyvind Molberg¹ and Anna-Maria Hoffmann-Vold¹, ¹Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ²Dept of gastroenterology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Background/Purpose: Up to 90% of patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) have symptoms from the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Earlier studies have shown a distinct alteration of…
Abstract Number: 1742 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Disease-Specific Autoantibodies Associate with Remarkably Different Risk of Development of Significant Lung Fibrosis in Systemic Sclerosis
Svetlana I. Nihtyanova¹, Alper Sari², Anna Leslie³, Voon H. Ong⁴ and Christopher P. Denton⁵, ¹Division of Medicine, Centre for Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ²Rheumatology, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey, ³Division of Medicine, Centre for Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Disease, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁴Division of Medicine, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁵University College London, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is a leading cause of disease-related death in SSc patients. Some studies suggest that the timing of PF development differs between…
Abstract Number: 1878 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Immunosuppression in Diffuse Systemic Sclerosis Improves Outcomes Using a Novel Composite Response Index
Boyang Zheng¹, Mianbo Wang² and Murray Baron³, ¹Rheumatology, McGill University Health Center (MUHC), Montreal, QC, Canada, ²Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Rheumatology, McGill University, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
Background/Purpose: Diffuse systemic sclerosis (dcSSc) is a devastating multi-organ disease where the mainstay of treatment is immunosuppression. Data on these therapies are mostly based on…
Abstract Number: 1879 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Effects of Riociguat on Raynaud’s Phenomenon and Digital Ulcers in Patients with Diffuse Systemic Sclerosis: Results from the Phase IIb RISE-SSc Study
Dinesh Khanna¹, Yannick Allanore², Christopher P. Denton³, Masataka Kuwana⁴, Marco Matucci-Cerinic⁵, Janet E. Pope⁶, Janethe Pena⁷, Kaisa Laapas⁸, Zhen Yao⁹ and Oliver Distler¹⁰, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Scleroderma Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Rheumatology A Department, Cochin Hospital, Paris Descartes University, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France, ³UCL Division of Medicine, Royal Free Campus, London, United Kingdom, ⁴Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, Nippon Medical School Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ⁵Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, ⁶Department of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ⁷Clinical Development, Bayer US LLC, Whippany, NJ, ⁸StatFinn Oy, Espoo, Finland, ⁹Bayer AG, Berlin, Germany, ¹⁰Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: The soluble guanylate cyclase stimulator riociguat is approved for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with connective tissue disease. It was anticipated that…
Abstract Number: 728 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Symptoms of Autonomic Dysfunction in Systemic Sclerosis Assessed By the Compass-31 Questionnaire
Brittany Adler¹, James Russell², Laura K. Hummers³ and Zsuzsanna McMahan⁴, ¹Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²Neurology, Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ³Medical and Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Department of Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Background/Purpose: Autonomic dysfunction is a known complication of systemic sclerosis (SSc) and can affect vascular tone, gastrointestinal (GI) motility, and heart rate and blood pressure…
Abstract Number: 2695 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Latent Profile Analysis-Derived Typologies of Systemic Sclerosis Patients Using Body Image Indicators: A Scleroderma Patient-Centered Intervention Network (SPIN) Cohort Study
Shadi Gholizadeh¹, Linda Kwakkenbos², Marie-Eve Carrier³, Sarah D. Mills¹, Rina S. Fox⁴, Lisa Jewett², Karen Gottesman⁵, Scott Roesch¹, Brett D. Thombs² and Vanessa L. Malcarne¹, ¹SDSU/UC San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, San Diego, CA, ²McGill University; Lady David Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁴Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ⁵Scleroderma Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: A common and distressing manifestation of systemic sclerosis (SSc, or scleroderma) is disfigurement in socially relevant areas of the body, including the face and…
Abstract Number: 733 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Ethnic Variation in Systemic Sclerosis Morbidity and Mortality
Sindhu Johnson¹, Zareen Ahmad² and Haifa Al Sheikh³, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Toronto Western Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Toronto Scleroderma Program, Division of Rheumatology, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Division of Rheumatology, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an uncommon connective tissue disease characterized by pathological skin thickening and can involve multiple internal organs. Ethnic variations in SSc…
Abstract Number: 2696 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Things Left Unsaid: Important Topics That Are Not Discussed between Patients with Systemic Sclerosis, Their Carers and Their Healthcare Professionals
Christopher Denton¹, Bee Laird², Lizette Moros³ and José Luis Luna Flores⁴, ¹Department of Rheumatology, University College London, Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ²Reframe Research, East Sussex, United Kingdom, ³Boehringer-Ingelheim, Ingelheim, Germany, ⁴Boehringer Ingelheim, Ingelheim, Germany
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a serious rare condition that can be complicated by internal organ damage including interstitial lung fibrosis (SSc-ILD), which is a…
Abstract Number: 737 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Dynamic Prediction of Pulmonary Hypertension Development in Systemic Sclerosis Patients Using Landmark Analysis – Comparison of Two Models
Svetlana I. Nihtyanova¹, Voon H. Ong², Emma C. Derrett-Smith³, Benjamin Schreiber⁴, J. Gerry Coghlan⁴, Bianca DeStavola⁵ and Christopher Denton⁶, ¹Division of Medicine, Centre for Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ²Rheumatology, UCL Division of Medicine, London, United Kingdom, ³Centre for Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases, UCL Division of Medicine, London, United Kingdom, ⁴National Pulmonary Hypertension Service, Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ⁵Faculty of Population Health Sciences, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom, ⁶Department of Rheumatology, University College London, Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) contributes substantially to systemic sclerosis (SSc)-related morbidity and mortality. It tends to develop later in the disease, creating an opportunity for…
Abstract Number: 2982 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Morbidity and Mortality of Scleroderma in African Americans
Duncan F. Moore¹, Elisabeth Kramer¹, Rami Eltaraboulsi² and Virginia D. Steen¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, ²MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC
Background/Purpose: Retrospective cohorts have demonstrated that African Americans (AAs) with scleroderma are more likely to have severe disease and higher mortality than non-AAs. A prior…
Abstract Number: 761 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Increased Expression of the TNF Superfamily Member LIGHT/TNFSF14 and Its Receptor (TNFRSF14) in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis
Otylia Kowal-Bielecka¹, Ewa Gindzienska-Sieskiewicz¹, Oliver Distler², Joanna Reszec³, Suzana Jordan², Pawel Bielecki⁴, Andzrzej Sieskiewicz⁴, Agnieszka Sulik¹ and Krzysztof Kowal^5,6, ¹Department of Rheumatology and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland, ²Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ³Department of Medical Pathomorphology, Department of Medical Pathomorphology, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland, ⁴Department of Otolaryngology, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland, ⁵Department of Allergology and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland, ⁶Department of Experimental Allergology and Immunology, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
Background/Purpose: The TNF Superfamily member LIGHT (TNFSF14) regulates immune response and angiogenesis. Moreover, recent studies indicate that interactions of LIGHT with its receptor, TNFRSF14, might…
Abstract Number: 775 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Transcriptome Sequencing Reveals Genetic Polymorphisms Associated with Ssc Gene Expression Subtypes
Guoshuai Cai¹, Bhaven K. Mehta², Mengqi Huang², Jennifer Franks¹, Tammara A. Wood¹, Kathleen D. Kolstad³, Marianna Stark⁴, Antonia Valenzuela⁵, David Fiorentino⁶, Robert W. Simms⁷, Nicole Orzechowski⁸, Lorinda Chung⁹ and Michael L. Whitfield², ¹Department of Molecular and Systems Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, ²Molecular and Systems Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, ³Rheumatology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, ⁴Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ⁵Immunology and Rheumatology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ⁶Department of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, ⁷Rheumatology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ⁸Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, ⁹Rheumatology, Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a complex disease characterized by substantial genotypic and phenotypic heterogeneity. Four molecular gene expression subsets have been identified from SSc…

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