Abstracts tagged "Scleroderma, Systemic"

Abstract Number: 2037 • ACR Convergence 2020
Geographic Distribution and Environmental Triggers of Systemic Sclerosis in Massachusetts
Anastasiya Muntyanu¹, Bina Kassamali², Ruth Ann Vleugels³ and Avery LaChance³, ¹McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a chronic autoimmune sclerosing disease with a 10-year survival rate of less than 65%. This rate has remained unchanged for…
Abstract Number: 1171 • ACR Convergence 2020
Under Detection of Interstitial Lung Disease in Juvenile Systemic Sclerosis (jSSc) Utilizing Pulmonary Function Tests. Results from the Juvenile Scleroderma Inception Cohort
Ivan Foeldvari¹, Bernd Hinrichs², Kathryn Torok³, Maria Jose Santos⁴, Ozgur Kasapcopur⁵, Amra Adrovic⁶, Valda Stanevicha⁷, Flavio Sztajnbok⁸, Maria Teresa Terreri⁹, Ana Paula Sakamoto¹⁰, Ekaterina Alexeeva¹¹, Jordi Anton¹², Maria Katsicas¹³, Vanessa Smith¹⁴, Tadej Avcin¹⁵, Edoardo Marrani¹⁶, Mikhail Kostik¹⁷, Thomas Lehman¹⁸, Walter Alberto Sifuentes-Giraldo¹⁹, Simone Appenzeller²⁰, Mahesh Janarthanan²¹, Monika Moll²², Dana Nemcova²³, Dieneke Schonenberg-Meinema²⁴, Cristina Battagliotti²⁵, Lillemor Berntson²⁶, Blanca Bica²⁷, Jürgen Brunner²⁸, Patricia Costa Reis²⁹, Despina Eleftheriou³⁰, Liora Harel³¹, Gerd Horneff³², Tilmann Kallinich³³, Dragana Lazarevic³⁴, Kirsten Minden³⁵, Susan Nielsen³⁶, Farzana Nuruzzaman³⁷, Anjali Patwardhan³⁸, Yosef Uziel³⁹ and Nicola Helmus⁴⁰, ¹Head of the Hamburg Centre for Pediatric and Adolescence Rheumatology, Budapest, Hungary, ²Kinderklinik Heidberg Pulmologie, Hamburg, Germany, ³University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁴Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal, ⁵PRINTO, Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genova, Italy, ⁶Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁷Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia, ⁸Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ⁹Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ¹⁰UNIFESP, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ¹¹Scientific Center of Children’s Health of RAMS, Moscow, Russia, ¹²Sant Joan de Déu Hospital, Madrid, Spain, ¹³Hospital de Pediatria, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¹⁴Department of Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, VIB Inflammation Research Centre Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, ¹⁵Ljubljana University Medical Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ¹⁶University of Florence, Firenze, Italy, ¹⁷Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, ¹⁸Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, ¹⁹Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal, Madrid, Spain, ²⁰Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil, ²¹Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, India, ²²University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, ²³General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic, ²⁴Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²⁵Children's Hospital Dr. Orlando Alassia, Santa Fee, Argentina, ²⁶Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden, ²⁷Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho (HUCFF/UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ²⁸Tirol Kliniken, Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, ²⁹Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal, ³⁰Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ³¹Clalit Health Services, Nettnja, Israel, ³²Asklepios Clinic Sankt Augustin, Sankt Augustin, Germany, ³³Charite, Berlin, Germany, ³⁴KC Niš, Nis, Serbia, ³⁵Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ³⁶Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, ³⁷Stony Brook Children's Hospital, Stony Brook, NY, ³⁸University of Missouri, Columbia, ³⁹Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel, ⁴⁰Hamburg Centre for Pediatric and Adolescence Rheumatology, Hamburg, Germany
Background/Purpose: Juvenile systemic sclerosis (jSSc) has a prevalence in around 3 in a million children. Pulmonary involvement occurs in approximately 40 % in the international…
Abstract Number: 2042 • ACR Convergence 2020
A Low FODMAP Diet Is Not Associated with Decreased GI Symptoms or Changes in GI Microbial Composition in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis
Natalie Howlett¹, Sungeun Lee¹, Venu Lagishetty¹, Zsuzsanna McMahan², Meifang Wu¹, Jonathan Jacobs¹ and Elizabeth Volkmann³, ¹University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, ³University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: Dietary restriction of short-chain fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols (low FODMAP) has been found to reduce GI symptoms in patients with IBS and…
Abstract Number: 0383 • ACR Convergence 2020
Sex Differences in Severity and Progression of Interstitial Lung Disease in Systemic Sclerosis: What We Have Learned from Clinical Trials
Elizabeth Volkmann¹, Ning Li², Michael Roth², Carol Feghali-Bostwick³, Richard Silver⁴, DeAnna Baker Frost⁵, Shervin Assassi⁶, Grace Kim², Jonathan Goldin² and Donald Tashkin², ¹University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ²University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, ³The Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ⁴Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, ⁵The Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, ⁶University of Texas Houston McGovern Medical School, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunogenetics, Houston, TX
Background/Purpose: Although systemic sclerosis (SSc) disproportionately affects females compared with males [1], observational studies have demonstrated higher mortality rates in males with SSc [2]. This…
Abstract Number: 1172 • ACR Convergence 2020
Cardiovascular involvement as a clue for diagnosis of Juvenile Systemic Sclerosis sine scleroderma
Gloria Lanzoni¹, Giorgia Martini¹, Alessandra Meneghel¹, Fabio Vittadello², Biagio Castaldi¹, Elisabetta Zanatta³ and Francesco Zulian¹, ¹Department of Woman's and Child's Health, University of Padova, Padua, Italy, ²Centro Studi Statistici Explora, Padua, Italy, ³Department of Medicine-DIMED, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
Background/Purpose: Juvenile Systemic Sclerosis (JSSc) is a rare condition in childhood and its variety with no skin involvement, systemic sclerosis sine scleroderma (JSSSS) is anecdotal…
Abstract Number: 0384 • ACR Convergence 2020
Serum Neutrophil Count Predicts Progression of Interstitial Lung Disease and Mortality in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis Related Interstitial Lung Disease
Nancy Wareing¹, Ning Li², Elizabeth Volkmann³, Marka Lyons⁴, Michael Roth², Donald Tashkin² and Shervin Assassi¹, ¹University of Texas Houston McGovern Medical School, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunogenetics, Houston, TX, ²University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, ³University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴University of Texas Houston, McGovern Medical School, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunogenetics, Houston, TX
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients have a prominent neutrophil gene expression signature. However, investigations into the pathophysiologic role of neutrophils in SSc are lacking. This…
Abstract Number: 1173 • ACR Convergence 2020
No Disease Progression After 36 Months Follow up in the Juvenile Systemic Scleroderma Inception Cohort
Ivan Foeldvari¹, Jens Klotsche², Ozgur Kasapcopur³, Amra Adrovic⁴, Maria Teresa Terreri⁵, Edoardo Marrani⁶, Tadej Avcin⁷, Maria Katsicas⁸, Dana Nemcova⁹, Maria Jose Santos¹⁰, Jürgen Brunner¹¹, Tilmann Kallinich¹², Mikhail Kostik¹³, Kirsten Minden¹⁴, Anjali Patwardhan¹⁵, Kathryn Torok¹⁶ and Nicola Helmus¹⁷, ¹Head of the Hamburg Centre for Pediatric and Adolescence Rheumatology, Budapest, Hungary, ²German Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin, Germany, ³PRINTO, Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genova, Italy, ⁴Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁵Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ⁶University of Florence, Firenze, Italy, ⁷Ljubljana University Medical Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ⁸Hospital de Pediatria, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁹General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic, ¹⁰Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal, ¹¹Tirol Kliniken, Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, ¹²Charite, Berlin, Germany, ¹³Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, ¹⁴Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ¹⁵University of Missouri, Columbia, ¹⁶University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ¹⁷Hamburg Centre for Pediatric and Adolescence Rheumatology, Hamburg, Germany
Background/Purpose: Juvenile systemic scleroderma (jSSc) is an orphan disease with a prevalence of 3 in 1 000 000 children. Longitudinal prospective follow up data of…
Abstract Number: 0392 • ACR Convergence 2020
Prevalence and Survival of Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) and Associated Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) in Ontario, Canada over 10 Years
Janet Pope¹, Kobina Quansah², Martin Kolb³, Jason Flavin⁴, Hassan Shazia⁵ and Soo Jin Seung⁵, ¹Department of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, St. Joseph's Health Centre, London, ON, Canada, ²Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Limited, Burlington, ON, Canada, ³McMaster University and Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamliton, ON, Canada, ⁴Boehringer Ingelheim, Corporate Headquarters, Burlington, ON, Canada, ⁵HOPE Research Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune disease characterized by skin thickening, vascular lesions and fibrotic changes in various organs, mainly the lungs, heart, intestinal…
Abstract Number: 1384 • ACR Convergence 2020
Usage, Needs and Preferences Regarding Physical Therapy in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis
Sophie Liem¹, Nina van Leeuwen², Thea Vliet Vlieland³, Lian de Pundert⁴, Rita Schriemer⁵, Julia Spierings⁶, Madelon Vonk⁷ and Jeska de Vries-Bouwstra¹, ¹Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²LUMC, Leiden, Netherlands, ³Leiden University Medical Center, 2300 RC Leiden, Netherlands, ⁴HAGA Hospital, The Hague, Netherlands, ⁵NVLE, Utrecht, ⁶University Medical Center Utrecht, Maastricht, Netherlands, ⁷Department of Rheumatology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: The importance of non-pharmacologic interventions in systemic sclerosis (SSc) is increasingly recognized. Physical therapy is among the most frequently used interventions, but knowledge on…
Abstract Number: 0394 • ACR Convergence 2020
Prevalence of a Diagnosis of Osteopenia/Osteoporosis Amongst Patients with Systemic Sclerosis and Identification of Associated Clinical Factors
Guanying Wang¹, Diane Mar², Joy Wu³, Julia Simard⁴, Rita Popat¹ and Lorinda Chung⁵, ¹Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, ²Stanford Department of Immunology/Rheumatology, Palo Alto, CA, ³Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, ⁴Stanford Medicine, Stanford, CA, ⁵Stanford University School of Medicine and Palo Alto VA Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA
Background/Purpose: This study aims to determine the prevalence of a diagnosis of osteopenia/osteoporosis (OP) in systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients and to identify the clinical and…
Abstract Number: 1385 • ACR Convergence 2020
Physical Therapy in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis: The Perspective of Physical Therapists on Current Delivery and Educational Needs
Sophie Liem¹, Nina van Leeuwen², Thea Vliet Vlieland³, Lian de Pundert⁴, Rita Schriemer⁵, Julia Spierings⁶, Madelon Vonk⁷ and Jeska de Vries-Bouwstra¹, ¹Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²LUMC, Leiden, Netherlands, ³Leiden University Medical Center, 2300 RC Leiden, Netherlands, ⁴HAGA Hospital, The Hague, Netherlands, ⁵NVLE, Utrecht, ⁶University Medical Center Utrecht, Maastricht, Netherlands, ⁷Department of Rheumatology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: As there is currently no cure available for systemic sclerosis (SSc), nonpharmacologic care is an essential element in the management of the disease. Physical…
Abstract Number: 0402 • ACR Convergence 2020
Optical Coherence Tomography of the Skin Detects Scleroderma Changes in Clinically Unaffected Skin: An Opportunity for Early Detection of Systemic Sclerosis
Giuseppina Abignano¹, Duygu Temiz Karadag², Ozcan Gundogdu³, Giovanni Lettieri⁴, Maria Carmela Padula⁵, Angela A Padula⁵, Paul Emery⁶, Salvatore D'Angelo⁵ and Francesco Del Galdo⁶, ¹Rheumatology Institute of Lucania (IReL), Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital, Potenza, Italy; Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds and NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK, Potenza, Italy, ²Rheumatology Institute of Lucania (IReL), Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital, Potenza, Italy and Department of Rheumatology, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey, Kocaeli, Turkey, ³Department of Biomedical Engineering, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli,Turkey, Kocaeli, Turkey, ⁴Radiology Department, San Carlo Hospital, Potenza, Italy, Potenza, Italy, ⁵Rheumatology Institute of Lucania (IReL), Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital, Potenza, Italy, Potenza, Italy, ⁶Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds and NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK, Leeds, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: The Very Early Diagnosis Of Systemic Sclerosis (VEDOSS) study has shown that more than 80% of patients with Raynaud’s Phenomenon, specific ANA positivity and…
Abstract Number: 1389 • ACR Convergence 2020
Clinical Characteristics and Treatment Outcome of a Cohort of Patients with Joint and Fascial Involvement in the Context of Chronic Graft versus Host Disease
Cristina Hidalgo Calleja¹, Concepción Román Curto², Luis Gómez-Lechón³, Maria Elisa Acosta², Olga Compán⁴, Sonia Pastor², Carlos Montilla Morales², Lucía Pantoja Zarza⁵, María Dolores Sánchez González⁶ and Lucía López Corral², ¹Hospital Universitario Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, ²Hospital Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, ³Hospital Francesc de Borga de Gandía, Valencia, Spain, ⁴Hospital Universitario de Salamanca, ´Salamanca, Spain, ⁵Complejo Asistencial Hospital General de Segovia, Segovia, Spain, ⁶Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
Background/Purpose: Chronic graft-vs-host disease (cGVHD) is a major late complication of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloHSCT), typically occurring within three years post-transplant and affecting…
Abstract Number: 0916 • ACR Convergence 2020
Validating Autoantibody Associations and Clinical Impact of Severe Gastrointestinal Involvement in Systemic Sclerosis
Fiza Ahmed¹, Svetlana Nihtyanova¹, Stamatia Chatzinikolaou², Voon Ong¹, Charles Murray² and Christopher Denton³, ¹Centre for Rheumatology, Royal Free Campus, UCL Division of Medicine, UK, London, United Kingdom, ²Department of Gastroenterology, Royal Free London Foundation Trust, UK, London, United Kingdom, ³University College London, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) frequently experience gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms, ranging from mild to debilitating in severity. Better prediction of those most at risk…
Abstract Number: 1390 • ACR Convergence 2020
Outcomes of Systemic Sclerosis Patients Who Were Primarily Admitted for Acute Myocardial Infarction from 2016 to 2017: Insights from the National Inpatient Sample
Atefeh Vafa¹, Omid Behnamfar² and Yih Chang Lin³, ¹University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ²University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ³University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL
Background/Purpose: Several systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases have been shown to increase coronary artery disease (CAD) risk, notable rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus. However, data…

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