Abstracts tagged "Sjögren’s syndrome"

Abstract Number: 2181 • ACR Convergence 2023
Secretagogue Effect of PDE4 Inhibitor Apremilast on Human Salivary Gland Organoids Obtained from Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome Patients
Valeria Manfrè¹, Salvatore Parisi², Isabella Caligiuri², Ombretta Repetto³, Alen Zabotti¹, Enrico Pegolo⁴, Cinzia Fabro¹, Salvatore De Vita¹, Vincenzo Canzonieri², Carla Di Loreto⁴, Flavio Rizzolio² and Luca Quartuccio¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Udine, Udine, Italy, ²Pathology Unit, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO) IRCCS, Aviano, Italy, ³Facility of Bio-Proteomics, Immunopathology and Cancer Biomarkers, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO) IRCCS, Aviano, Italy, ⁴Institute of Pathology, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Friuli Centrale c/o Università degli studi di Udine, Udine, Italy
Background/Purpose: In primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS), salivary epithelial cells show an active role in the initiation and reiteration of the immunomediated damage. Epithelial saliva production…
Abstract Number: PP12 • ACR Convergence 2023
Sjögren’s-Fatigue: Non-Therapeutic Lifestyle Adjustments to Help Manage My Most Problematic Symptom
Susan Barajas, Sjögren's Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: I was diagnosed with Sjögren's disease in 2015. I sought help from a rheumatologist after experiencing hand pain. I also had dry eyes and…
Abstract Number: 0052 • ACR Convergence 2023
Possible Involvement of TLR4 in the Pathogenesis of Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome Through Induction of the Expression of BAFF Receptor, BR3 in Peripheral Monocytes
Keiko Yoshimoto¹, Yumi Ikeda¹, Katsuya Suzuki², Hiroyuki Fukui¹, Kotaro Matsumoto¹, Masaru Takeshita¹, Tsutomu Takeuchi³ and Yuko Kaneko⁴, ¹Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ²Keio University, Shinjuku, Japan, ³Keio University School of Medicine and Saitama Medical University, Tokyo, Japan, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play a pivotal role in innate immune system and chronic inﬂammation in autoimmune diseases. It has been reported that signaling pathways…
Abstract Number: 1365 • ACR Convergence 2023
Extraglandular Involvement and Autoantibody Status as Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease in Primary Sjogren’s Syndrome (pSS): A 20 Year-follow up Study
Cristiana Sieiro Santos¹, Rúben Rego Salgueiro², Clara Moriano Morales³, Carolina Álvarez Castro³ and Elvira Díez Álvarez³, ¹Complejo Asistencial Universitario de León, León, Spain, ²ULS Guarda, Guarda, Portugal, ³CAULE, León, Spain
Background/Purpose: Primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) is an autoimmune disorder characterized by chronic multisystem inflammation with shared pathophysiology with SLE and RA. Cardiovascular events have emerged…
Abstract Number: 1381 • ACR Convergence 2023
Fatigue and Associated Factors in Patients with Primary Sjogren’s Syndrome Compared to Secondary Sjogren’s Syndrome
Hyeji Jeon, Hyun-Sook Kim and Kyung-Ann Lee, Soonchunhyang University Seoul Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
Background/Purpose: Fatigue is one of the dominant symptoms of patients with Primary Sjogren's syndrome (pSS). However, whether fatigue is specific to pSS compared to secondary…
Abstract Number: 2182 • ACR Convergence 2023
Mitochondrial Alterations in Primary Sjögren´s Syndrome
Pavlina Javorova¹, Johannes Fessler¹, Melanie Zeiler¹, Angelika Lackner¹, Josef Hermann², Sabine Zenz³, Jens Thiel⁴ and Martin Stradner¹, ¹Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria, ²Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria, ³Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria, ⁴University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Background/Purpose: Primary Sjögren's Syndrome (pSS) is a systemic autoimmune disorder characterized by lymphocytic infiltrations in exocrine glands. T-cells are considered major players in the pathogenesis…
Abstract Number: 0066 • ACR Convergence 2023
Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Fatigue in Sjögren’s Disease
Biji T Kurien¹, Rebecca Wood², Gavin Pharaoh³, Joshua Cavett¹, Valerie Lewis¹, Bhaskaran Shylesh¹, Lida radfar¹, Astrid Rasmussen¹, Christopher Lessard¹, A. Darise Farris¹, Kathy Sivils⁴, Kristi Koelsch¹, Holly Van Remmen¹ and R Hal Scofield⁵, ¹Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Edmond, OK, ³University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ⁴Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Edmond, OK, ⁵Oklahoma City Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Background/Purpose: Sjögren's disease (SjD) is a chronic, autoimmune condition with diminished lacrimal and salivary gland secretion leading to keratoconjunctivitis sicca and xerostomia, respectively. In addition,…
Abstract Number: 1366 • ACR Convergence 2023
A Unique Cluster of Inflammatory Monocytes and Functionally Intact Regulatory T Cells in Rare Childhood Sjögren’s Disease
Myung-Chul Kim¹, Umasankar De², Nicholas Borcherding³, Joon Paek⁴, Nicole Winn⁵, Indraneel Bhattacharyya⁶, Qing Yu⁷, Ryan Kolb⁸, Theodore Drashansky⁹, Akaluck Thatayatikom¹⁰, Weizhou Zhang⁸ and Seunghee Cha¹¹, ¹Jeju National University, Jeju-si, South Korea, ²University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ³Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Washington, DC, ⁴Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Diagnostic Sciences, Gainesville, FL, ⁵Division of Oral Medicine, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Diagnostic Sciences, University of Florida College of Dentistry, Gainesville, FL, ⁶Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Diagnostic Sciences, University of Florida College of Dentistry, Gainesville, FL, ⁷The Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, MA, ⁸Department of Pathology & Immunology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ⁹Cellularity, Inc, Florham Park, NJ, ¹⁰AdventHealth for Children, Orlando, FL, Orlando, FL, ¹¹Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Diagnostic Sciences, University of Florida College of Dentistry and Center for Orphaned Autoimmune Disorders (COAD), Gainesville, FL
Background/Purpose: This study was performed to characterize key immune cell subsets and their interactions in patients with childhood Sjögren's disease (cSjD) for the first time…
Abstract Number: 1382 • ACR Convergence 2023
Efficacy of Tofacitinib Immunotherapy Suppresses Tfh and Tph Cells in Patients with Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome
Qinghong Liu¹ and Jing He², ¹Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China, ²Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, China
Background/Purpose: Primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by systemic involvement and lacks effective treatment options. The Janus kinase (JAK) pathway plays a…
Abstract Number: 2183 • ACR Convergence 2023
Evolution of Lymphoma Predictors in Primary Sjogren’s Syndrome by Data Driven Analysis in Harmonized Patients
Andreas Goules¹, Loukas Chatzis², Vasileios pezoulas³, Francesco Ferro⁴, Valeria Manfrè⁵, Dimitrios Fotiadis³, Luca Quartuccio Quartuccio⁶, Chiara Baldini⁷, Salvatore De Vita⁵ and Athanasios Tzioufas¹, ¹Dept. of Pathophysiology, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece, ²Dept. of Pathophysiology, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Cholargos Athens, Greece, ³Unit of Medical Technology and Intelligent Information Systems, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece, ⁴Clinical and Experimental Medicine Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy, ⁵Clinic of Rheumatology, Dept. of Medical and Biological Sciences, Udine University, Udine, Italy, ⁶Rheumatology Division, Department of Medicine, University of Udine, Udine, Italy, ⁷University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Background/Purpose: Lymphoma is the most serious complication of primary Sjogren'ssyndrome (pSS), occurring as a late sequel during disease course. So far, lymphomapredictors have been identified…
Abstract Number: 0072 • ACR Convergence 2023
Circulating T-cell Immunosenescence Is High in Patients with Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases (IMIDs) and Is Associated with Interferons
Marie Naingeon¹, Samuel Bitoun², Matthieu roulleaux Dugage¹, Caroline de Oliveira¹, Caroline Berthot¹, Xavier Mariette³, Nathalie Chaput¹ and Gaetane Nocturne⁴, ¹LIO, Department of Medicine, Gustave Roussy Université Paris Saclay, Villejuif, France, ²CHU Bicêtre APHP, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France, ³Université Paris-Saclay, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France, ⁴APHP, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
Background/Purpose: Immunosenescence is a global remodeling of immune functions that has been first described with aging. It can also occur in pathologies associated with chronic…
Abstract Number: 1367 • ACR Convergence 2023
Novel Autoantibodies Might Circumvent the Need for Labial Biopsy in a Subset of Seronegative Sjögren’s Disease Patients
Maxwell Parker¹, Zihao Zheng², Michael Lasarev³, Roxana Alexandridis³, Michael Newton³, Miriam Shelef³ and Sara McCoy⁴, ¹University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, ²Google, Sunnyvale, CA, ³University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ⁴University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Middleton, WI
Background/Purpose: Sjögren's disease (SjD) is typically diagnosed by the presence of an anti-SSA antibody or focal lymphocytic sialadenitis in salivary gland tissue. Among SjD patients…
Abstract Number: 1522 • ACR Convergence 2023
Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Patients with Connective Tissue Diseases: A Meta-analysis
Mustafa Erdogan¹, Sinem Nihal Esatoglu², Burcak Kilickiran Avci³ and Gulen Hatemi², ¹Marmara University - Pendik Training and Research Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Cerrahpasa Medical School, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ³Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Cerrahpasa Medical School, Department of Cardiology, Istanbul, Turkey
Background/Purpose: Treatment options for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) have expanded in the last two decades. However, evidence for the treatment of connective tissue disease-associated PAH…
Abstract Number: 2184 • ACR Convergence 2023
Development of Salivary Gland Organoids to Study Sjögren Syndrome
Loïc Meudec¹, Negaar Goudarzi², Juliette Pascaud³, Fanny Jaulin², Xavier Mariette⁴ and Gaetane Nocturne⁵, ¹CHU Kremlin-Bicêtre, Rheumatology, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France, ²INSERM UMR 981, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France, Villejuif, France, ³Center for Immunology of Viral Infections and Autoimmune Diseases, INSERM UMR 1184, FHU CARE, Université Paris-Saclay, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France, ⁴Université Paris-Saclay, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France, ⁵APHP, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
Background/Purpose: Sjögren disease (Sjo) is an autoimmune disease characterized by the infiltration of exocrine glands by immune cells, especially salivary glands (SG). SG epithelial cells…
Abstract Number: 0138 • ACR Convergence 2023
Prevalence and Incidence of Sjögren’s Syndrome: A Systematic Literature Review
Jiyoon Choi¹, Kimberly Hofer², Nishu Gaind², Mir Sohail Fazeli², Robert Carroll³, Antoine G Sreih³ and Antonia Christodoulou³, ¹Bristol Myers Squibb, Lawrenceville, NJ, ²Evidinno Outcomes Research Inc., Vancouver, BC, Canada, ³Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton Pike, NJ
Background/Purpose: Sjögren's syndrome (SjS) is a chronic autoimmune disease that has been historically categorized into primary (manifesting alone; pSjS) or secondary (appearing alongside another underlying…

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