Abstracts tagged "Scleroderma"

Abstract Number: 739 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Does Digital Thermal Monitoring Correlate to Specific Nailfold Videocapillaroscopy Abnormalities?
Mislav Radic¹, Rebecca Overbury ² and Tracy Frech ³, ¹University Hospital Split, Split, Croatia, ²University of Utah, Departments of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Salt Lake City, UT, ³Division of Rheumatology, University of Utah and Salt Lake VAMC, Salt Lake City, UT
Background/Purpose: The fingers have specialized structural and functional features for thermoregulation, and are the most common areas of Raynaud’s phenomenon (RP) in systemic sclerosis (SSc).…
Abstract Number: 1643 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Efficacy and Safety of Nintedanib in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease: Subgroup Analysis of the SENSCIS Trial by Corticosteroid Use
Madelon Vonk¹, Oliver Distler ², Daniel Furst ³, Eric Hachulla ⁴, Sindhu Johnson ⁵, Shervin Assassi ⁶, Leslie Meng ⁷, Manuel Quaresma ⁸, Margarida Alves ⁸, Emmanuelle Clerisme-Beaty ⁸ and Wim Wuyts ⁹, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands, ²Dept. of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, Zürich, Switzerland, ³University of California, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Dept. of Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Hôpital Claude Huriez, University of Lille, Lille, France, Lille, France, ⁵Toronto Scleroderma Program, Department of Medicine, Toronto Western and Mount Sinai Hospitals, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Toronto, Canada, ⁶Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunogenetics, University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA, Houston, TX, ⁷Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Ridgefield, CT, USA, Ridgefield, ⁸Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH, Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany, Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany, ⁹Unit for Interstitial Lung Diseases, Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Leuven, Belgium
Background/Purpose: In the SENSCIS trial in patients with systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD), nintedanib reduced the rate of decline in forced vital capacity (FVC)…
Abstract Number: 2611 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Scleroderma: A Systematic Review
Rossana Mejia-Romero ¹, Natalia Aguilera², Juan Pablo Alzate-Granados ³, C Escobar -Soto ⁴, Claudia Mendoza-Pinto ⁵, Mario García-Carrasco ⁵ and Adriana Rojas-Villarraga ⁶, ¹Center for Arthritis and Rehabilitation (CAYRE IPS) ,University of Barcolena, Bogotá, Distrito Capital de Bogota, Colombia, ²Fundacion Universitaria de Ciencias de La Salud-FUCS, Bogotá, Distrito Capital de Bogota, Colombia, ³Fundacion Universitaria de Ciencias de La Salud-FUCS, Bogota, Distrito Capital de Bogota, Colombia, ⁴TRUSTEM, Bogotá, Distrito Capital de Bogota, Colombia, ⁵Systemic Autoimmune Diseases Research Unit, Hospital de Especialidades, UMAE CMNMAC - CIBIOR, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Medicine School, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Puebla, Mexico, ⁶Fundacion Universitaria de Ciencias de La Salud-FUCS. Hospital Infantil Universitario San José., Bogotá, Distrito Capital de Bogota, Colombia
Background/Purpose: Scleroderma (systemic scleroderma or systemic sclerosis, SSc), is a highly heterogeneous autoimmune disease of unknown etiology, with a high rate of therapeutic failure and…
Abstract Number: 866 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Evaluation of the Highly Selective Endothelin a Receptor Antagonist Zibotentan in Systemic Sclerosis Associated Chronic Kidney Disease
Edward Stern ¹, Lauren Host ¹, K. Jane Escott ², Peter Gilmour ², Ivy Wanjiku ³, Rachel Ochiel ³, Aine Burns ¹, Robert Unwin ¹, Voon Ong ⁴ and Christopher Denton⁵, ¹University College London, London, United Kingdom, ²AstraZeneca, London, United Kingdom, ³Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ⁴UCL Medical School, Royal Free Campus, London, ⁵University College London Division of Medicine, Centre for Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases, London, UK, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) causes scleroderma renal crisis (SRC) and chronic kidney disease (CKD). A previous open label trial of bosentan suggested possible benefit for…
Abstract Number: 1644 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Effects of Nintedanib in Patients with Diffuse and Limited Cutaneous Systemic Sclerosis and Interstitial Lung Disease: Subgroup Analysis of the SENSCIS Trial
Masataka Kuwana¹, Kristin Highland ², Martina Gahlemann ³, Christopher Denton ⁴, Aryeh Fischer ⁵, Maureen Mayes ⁶, Virginia Steen ⁷, Dinesh Khanna ⁸, Yannick Allanore ⁹, Mannaig Girard ¹⁰, Margarida Alves ¹¹, Susanne Stowasser ¹¹ and Oliver Distler ¹², ¹Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, Nippon Medical School Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, ²Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, Cleveland, OH, ³Boehringer Ingelheim (Schweiz) GmbH, Basel, Switzerland, Basel, Switzerland, ⁴University College London Division of Medicine, Centre for Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases, London, UK, London, United Kingdom, ⁵University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado, USA, Denver, CO, ⁶Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunogenetics, University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA, Houston, TX, ⁷Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., USA, Georgetown, ⁸Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, Ann Arbor, ⁹Dept. of Rheumatology A, Descartes University, APHP, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France, Paris, France, ¹⁰Boehringer Ingelheim France S.A.S., Reims, France, Reims, France, ¹¹Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH, Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany, Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany, ¹²Dept. of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, Zürich, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: Patients with diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis (dcSSc) are at greater risk of developing interstitial lung disease (ILD) than patients with limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis…
Abstract Number: 2615 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Cumulative Incidence, Survival and Predictors of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Disease Subsets of Systemic Sclerosis: PAH Is Not Increased in Limited vs Diffuse Patients by Adjusted Competing Risk Analysis
Tatiana Nevskaya ¹, Yuxuan Jiang ¹, Mianbo Wang ² and Janet Pope³, ¹University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ²Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Western University, London, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a life-threatening complication of systemic sclerosis (SSc), thought to be more commonly found among the limited cutaneous (lcSSc) compared…
Abstract Number: 868 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
The Effect of Atorvastatin on Microvascular Endothelial Function and Raynaud Phenomenon in Early Diffuse Scleroderma: Results of the “Tamer”‘ Study
Robyn Domsic¹, Maureen Laffoon ¹, Balasubramani Goundappa ², Thomas Medsger ¹, Robert Lafyatis ¹ and Steven Wisniewski ¹, ¹University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²University of Pittsburgh Epidemiology Data Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: Statins have pleiotropic effects felt to influence in their beneficial cardiovascular effects. These include increased nitric oxide production and improved endothelial function, modulation of…
Abstract Number: 1645 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Comparison of Automated Capture and Analysis System of Sublingual Microvessels and Nailfold Videocapillarscopy for Microvascular Assessment in Systemic Sclerosis
Mislav Radic¹, Julie Thomas ² and Tracy Frech ³, ¹University Hospital Split, Split, Croatia, ²University of Utah, Division of Rheumatology, Salt Lake City, UT, ³Division of Rheumatology, University of Utah and Salt Lake VAMC, Salt Lake City, UT
Background/Purpose: Similar to nailfold videocapillaroscopy (NVC), automated capture and analysis of sublingual microvessel segments (intravital microscopy) can define vasculopathy, and distinguish systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients…
Abstract Number: 2616 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Forced Vital Capacity Trajectories for Systemic Sclerosis-associated Interstitial Lung Disease—Analysis from the University of Michigan Scleroderma Cohort
Mirette Habib¹, Sara Jaafar ¹, Annie Park ¹, Suiyuan Huang ¹, Wen Ye ¹, Vivek Nagaraja ¹, Eric White ¹, Kevin Flaherty ² and Dinesh Khanna ³, ¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, Ann Arbor
Background/Purpose: Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients. Forced Vital Capacity (FVC, recorded as %…
Abstract Number: 1042 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Thy-1 (CD90) as a Novel Marker for Tracking in Vivo Skin Fibrosis
Benjamin Korman¹, Ananta Paine ², Stacey Duemmel ³, Marc Nuzzo ³ and Christopher Ritchlin ², ¹University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, ²Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Center for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA, Rochester, NY, ³University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Background/Purpose: Thy-1 (CD90) is a cell surface marker which is found primarily on fibroblasts and whose expression has previously been shown to correlate with pathologic…
Abstract Number: 1646 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Incidence Rate and Prevalence of Valvular Heart Disease in Systemic Sclerosis: A Retrospective Cohort Study from a Single Institution
Mamoun Elnagar¹, Yasser Radwan ¹, Mohamed Elwazir ², Reto Kurmann ², Rekha Mankad ¹, Thomas Osborn ¹, Ashima Makol ¹, Leroy Griffing ³, Cynthia Crowson ² and Alicia Hinze ¹, ¹Mayo Clinic Minnesota, Rochester, MN, ²Mayo Clinic Minnesota, Rochester, ³Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) associated heart involvement remains ill-defined, with non-ischemic systolic heart failure, conduction defects, and arrhythmias often included in the definition in clinical…
Abstract Number: 2750 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Development and Preliminary Validation of a Novel Lung Ultrasound Interpretation Criteria for the Detection of Interstitial Lung Disease in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis
Robert Fairchild¹, Diana Yang ², Melody Chung ¹, Laurel Sharpless ¹, Shufeng Li ³ and Lorinda Chung ¹, ¹Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ²Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA, ³Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Stanford, Palo Alto, CA
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a frequent complication of systemic sclerosis (SSc), and screening, characterization, and monitoring of disease activity are important for therapeutic…
Abstract Number: 1049 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Induction of a Profibrotic Phenotype in Normal Dermal Fibroblasts by Expression of PIM1 Kinase and Demonstration of Antifibrotic Effects of Inhibition of PIM Kinases in Systemic Sclerosis Dermal Fibroblasts
Danielle Pomante ¹, Sergio Jimenez ² and Sonsoles Piera-Velazquez¹, ¹Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, ²Jefferson Institute of Molecular Medicine and Division of Connective Tissue Diseases, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: There is an urgent unmet need for effective therapeutic approaches for Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by progressive fibrosis of skin…
Abstract Number: 1647 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
The Collaborative National Quality and Efficacy Registry for Scleroderma: Data Completion Outcomes from a Multicenter United States Cohort Using Guideline-Based Registry Practices
Victoria Shanmugam¹, Tracy Frech ², Virginia Steen ³, Laura Hummers ⁴, Ami Shah ⁵, Elana Bernstein ⁶, Dinesh Khanna ⁷, Jessica Gordon ⁸, Flavia Castelino ⁹, Lorinda Chung ¹⁰, Faye Hant ¹¹, Emily Startup ¹², John VanBuren ¹², Luke Evnin ¹³ and Shervin Assassi ¹⁴, ¹George Washington University, Georgetown, DC, ²Division of Rheumatology, University of Utah and Salt Lake VAMC, Salt Lake City, UT, ³Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., USA, Georgetown, ⁴Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Baltimore, MD, USA, Baltimore, MD, ⁵Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Columbia University, New York, NY, ⁷Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, Ann Arbor, ⁸Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁹Harvard University, Boston, MA, ¹⁰Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ¹¹Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ¹²University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ¹³Scleroderma Research Foundation, San Francisco, CA, ¹⁴Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunogenetics, University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA, Houston, TX
Background/Purpose: The Collaborative National Quality and Efficacy Registry (CONQUER) for Scleroderma is a multicenter US-based longitudinal study of patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) within 5…
Abstract Number: 2916 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Ancestry-Specific Classical HLA Alleles Define Phenotypic Subsets in the African American Scleroderma Population
Pravitt Gourh ¹, Sarah Safran², Steven Boyden ³, Ami Shah ⁴, Maureen Mayes ⁵, Ayo Doumatey ⁶, Amy Bentley ⁶, Daniel Shriner ⁶, Robyn Domsic ⁷, Thomas Medsger Jr ⁸, Paula Ramos ⁹, Richard Silver ¹⁰, Virginia Steen ¹¹, John Varga ¹², Vivien Hsu ¹³, Lesley Saketkoo ¹⁴, Elena Schiopu ¹⁵, Dinesh Khanna ¹⁶, Jessica Gordon ¹⁷, Brynn Kron ¹⁸, Lindsey Criswell ¹⁹, Heather Gladue ²⁰, Chris Derk ²¹, Elana Bernstein ²², S Louis Bridges ²³, Victoria Shanmugam ²⁴, Kathleen Kolstad ²⁵, Lorinda Chung ²⁶, Suzanne Kafaja ²⁷, Reem Jan ²⁸, Marcin Trojanowski ²⁹, Avram Goldberg ³⁰, Benjamin Korman ³¹, Peter Steinbach ³², Settara Chandrasekharappa ⁶, James Mullikin ⁶, Adebowale Adeyemo ⁶, Charles Rotimi ⁶, Frederick Wigley ³³, Daniel Kastner ³⁴, Francesco Boin ³⁵, Elaine Remmers ⁶ and Theresa Alexander ³⁶, ¹National Institutes of Rheumatology, Bethesda, ²National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), Bethesda, MD, ³University of Utah, SALT LAKE CITY, UT, ⁴Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, ⁵Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunogenetics, University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA, Houston, TX, ⁶National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), Bethesda, MD, ⁷University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁸University of Pittsburg School of Medicine, Pittsburg, PA, ⁹Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, ¹⁰Division of Rheumatology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ¹¹Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., USA, Georgetown, ¹²Northwestern University, Chicago,, IL, ¹³Rutgers- RWJ Medical School, SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ, ¹⁴New Orleans Scleroderma and Sarcoidosis Patient Care and Research Center, New Orleans; Tulane University School of Medicine, University Medical Center – Comprehensive Pulmonary Hypertension Center, USA, New Orleans, ¹⁵Department of Rheumatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, ¹⁶Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, Ann Arbor, ¹⁷Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ¹⁸University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ¹⁹University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, ²⁰Arthritis & Osteoporosis Consultants Of The Carolinas, Charlotte, NC, ²¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²²Division of Rheumatology, Columbia University, New York, NY, ²³University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, ²⁴George Washington University, Georgetown, DC, ²⁵Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ²⁶Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ²⁷Department of Medicine. Rheumatology Division. UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ²⁸University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²⁹Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA, ³⁰New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, ³¹University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, ³²Center for Molecular Modeling, Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ³³Johns Hopkins University, Division of Rheumatology, Baltimore, ³⁴National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ³⁵UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ³⁶University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc), or scleroderma, is a heterogeneous disease that is divided into limited cutaneous (lcSSc) and diffuse cutaneous (dcSSc) forms based on the…

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