Abstracts tagged "Sjögren’s syndrome"

Abstract Number: 1130 • ACR Convergence 2024
Safety of Bispecific T-cell Engager Therapy in Autoimmune Disease
Melanie Hagen¹, Laura Bucci¹, Sebastian Boeltz², Danae-Mona Noethling², Tobias Rothe², Maria Gabriella Raimondo¹, Carlo Tur¹, Andreas Wirsching¹, Jochen Wacker¹, Aline Bozec¹, Georg Schett³ and Ricardo Grieshaber-Bouyer¹, ¹Department of Medicine 3 - Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Uniklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Bayern, Germany, ²Department of Medicine 3 - Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Uniklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ³Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
Background/Purpose: B-cells and plasma cells are key drivers of systemic autoimmune diseases (AID). Recent data demonstrated preliminary safety and efficacy of using the CD3xCD19 bispecific…
Abstract Number: 1420 • ACR Convergence 2024
Alignment Between Rheumatology and Neurology of Nomenclature for Peripheral Nervous System Neuropathies
Ghaith Noaiseh¹, George Sarka², Anahita Deboo³, Arun Varadhachary⁴, Robert Fox⁵, Matthew Baker⁶, Stamatina Danielides⁷, Eduardo de Sousa⁸, Julie Frantsve Hawley⁹, Brent Goodman¹⁰, Katherine Hammitt⁹, Jennifer King¹¹, Steven Mandel¹², Pantelis Pavlakis¹³, Daniel Wallace¹⁴, Robert Hal Scofield¹⁵, Nancy Carteron¹⁶ and Steven Carsons¹⁷, ¹University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, ²UCLA, Laguna Hills, CA, ³Temple University, Philadelphia, ⁴Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, ⁵Rheumatology Clinic, San Diego, CA, ⁶Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA, ⁷Vcu, Glen Allen, VA, ⁸Mercy, Moore, OK, ⁹Sjogren's Foundation, Reston, VA, ¹⁰Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, ¹¹UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ¹²Hofstra, Hempstead, ¹³Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ¹⁴Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Studio City, CA, ¹⁵Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹⁶University of California, Berkeley & San Francisco, Angwin, CA, ¹⁷NYU Long Island School of Medicine, Mineola, NY
Background/Purpose: The Sjögren’s Foundation Clinical Practice Guidelines for Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) diagnosis, management and treatment in Sjögren’s brought to the fore a major issue…
Abstract Number: 1866 • ACR Convergence 2024
Identification of Sjögren’s Disease-Associated CD4+ T Cell Receptor (TCR) Motifs and Repertoire Landscape Through TCR Deep Sequencing
Ananth Aditya Jupudi¹, Michelle L. Joachims², Christina Lawrence², Charmaine Lopez-Davis², Bhuwan Khatri², Astrid Rasmussen², Kiely Grundahl², Robert Hal Scofield², Judith James², Joel Guthridge², Christopher Lessard², Linda F. Thompson² and A. Darise Farris², ¹University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ²Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK
Background/Purpose: Sjögren’s disease (SjD) is a chronic rheumatic autoimmune disorder characterized by focal lymphocytic infiltration of the lacrimal and salivary glands (SG). CD4+ T cells…
Abstract Number: 2298 • ACR Convergence 2024
Fibroblast-driven Ttek Activation May Drive Acinar Cell Dysfunction in Sjögren’s Disease, Prior to Lymphocytic Infiltration
Ting Yang¹, Rick Wilbrink¹, Janneke Terpstra¹, Silvia Liefers², Arjan Vissink¹, Fred Spijkervet¹, Hendrika Bootsma³, Frans Kroese⁴ and Sarah Pringle⁴, ¹UMCG, Groningen, Netherlands, ²University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ³Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ⁴University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Lymphocytic infiltration of the salivary glands (SGs) represents one hallmark of the autoimmune conditions Sjögren’s Disease (SjD). It is becoming apparent however that loss…
Abstract Number: 2537 • ACR Convergence 2024
Sjögren’s Disease and Non-Sjögren’s Sicca Patient Subsets Exhibit Cell Type-specific Transcriptional Dysregulations That May Identify Early Molecular Predictors of Disease Transition
James Li¹, Chuang Li², Bhuwan Khatri², Anna Stolarczyk², Kandice Tessneer², Astrid Rasmussen², Joel Guthridge², Judith James², Robert Hal Scofield², He Li³, A. Darise Farris², Kathy Sivils⁴ and Christopher Lessard², ¹University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ²Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ³Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Therapeutics Discovery, Spring House, PA, ⁴Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, Edmond, OK
Background/Purpose: Sjögren's disease (SjD) is an autoimmune disorder characterized by inflammatory destruction of the exocrine glands. SjD heterogeneity has been described through the presence or…
Abstract Number: 1247 • ACR Convergence 2024
Pre- and Post-Diagnosis Comparison of the Patient Experience of Sjögren’s Syndrome (SS): A Linguistic Analysis of Global Social Media Conversations
Sarah N. Ali¹, Dorothee Oberdhan¹, Michelle M. Richardson¹, Jordan Amorelli², Amanda Martini² and Jennifer Dandy², ¹Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development and Commercialization, Inc., Princeton, NJ, ²Real Chemistry, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Patients with Sjögren’s Syndrome (SS) often undergo a prolonged and complex path to diagnosis and experience symptom, disease and treatment burdens with multiple co-morbid…
Abstract Number: 1421 • ACR Convergence 2024
Differential Impact of B-cell Targeted Monotherapy and Combination Regimen on the Peripheral Blood Transcriptome of Adults with Active Sjögren Disease
Coziana Ciurtin¹, Lucia Martin-Gutierrez¹, John Casement², Kyle Thompson³, Fai Ng⁴, Andre van Maurik⁵ and Elizabeth Jury¹, ¹University College London, London, United Kingdom, ²Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom, ³Newcastle University, Newcastle, England, United Kingdom, ⁴Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom, ⁵Precision Medicine, GlaxoSmithKline, Stevenage, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Sjögren disease (SD) is characterised by B-cell hyperactivity associated with increased levels of B-lymphocyte stimulator (BlyS), but there are no effective biologic treatments for…
Abstract Number: 1889 • ACR Convergence 2024
Prevalence of Physician-Diagnosed versus Clinically Confirmed Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome (SS) Among Adults in the United States
Cynthia J. Willey¹, Sarah N. Ali² and Rieke Alten³, ¹College of Pharmacy, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, ²Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development and Commercialization, Inc., Princeton, NJ, ³Schlosspark Klinik, University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose: Sjögren’s Syndrome (SS) is a systemic autoimmune disorder characterized by inflammation of salivary and lachrymal glands. The clinical spectrum is variable as slow progressive…
Abstract Number: 2299 • ACR Convergence 2024
Clinical and Serological Characteristics of Sjögren’s Disease-related Lymphocytic Interstitial Pneumonia: A Large Multicenter Study
Gaetano La Rocca¹, Francesco Ferro², Marco Sebastiani³, Andreina Manfredi⁴, Caterina Vacchi⁵, Elena Bartoloni Bocci⁶, Martina Nicchi⁷, Fabiola Atzeni⁸, Francesca Cracò⁹, Serena Guiducci¹⁰, Laura Cometi¹¹, Luca Quartuccio¹², Elena Treppo¹², Valeria manfrè¹³, Marta Mosca¹ and Chiara Baldini¹, and Italian Study group on Lung iNvolvement in rheumatic Diseases (ISLaND), ¹University of Pisa, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine - Rheumatology Unit, Pisa, Italy, ²Clinical and Experimental Medicine Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ³Rheumatology Unit, Azienda USL of Piacenza and University of Parma, Parma, Italy, ⁴University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, ⁵University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy, ⁶Rheumatology Unit. Department of Medicine, Perugia, Perugia, Italy, ⁷Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, ⁸University of Messina, Italy, Messina, Italy, ⁹University of Messina, Messina, Italy, ¹⁰University of Florence, Pistoia, Italy, ¹¹University of Florence, Florence, Italy, ¹²Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine (DMED), University of Udine, Udine, Italy, Udine, Italy, ¹³University of Udine, Udine
Background/Purpose: Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) in patients with Primary Sjögren’s Disease (SjD) is very heterogeneous in terms of pathophysiologic mechanisms, clinical course, radiologic and histologic…
Abstract Number: 2629 • ACR Convergence 2024
Deciphering Salivary Gland Inflammation in Sjögren’s Syndrome Reveals Shared and Autoantibody-Specific Immune Cell Heterogeneity
Jun Inamo¹, Masaru Takeshita², Katsuya Suzuki², Kazuyuki Tsunoda², Satoshi Usuda², Junko Kuramoto², Tsutomu Takeuchi³ and Yuko Kaneko⁴, ¹University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, ²Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan, ³Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, JP, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by progressive immune cell-mediated destruction of the exocrine glands. SS patients have distinct clinical phenotypes based…
Abstract Number: 1250 • ACR Convergence 2024
Qualitative Study on Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Patients with Sjögren’s Disease
Suzanne Arends¹, Jiyoon C. Choi², Brandon Becker², Teresa Edwards³, Antoine Sreih⁴, Antonia Christodoulou⁴ and Vibeke Strand⁵, ¹Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ²Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, ³RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, ⁴Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, ⁵Division of Immunology/Rheumatology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Background/Purpose: Sjögren’s disease (SjD) is a chronic, systemic autoimmune disease characterized by lymphocytic infiltration of the endocrine glands. Globally, SjD affects between 0.01% and 0.05%…
Abstract Number: 1422 • ACR Convergence 2024
Evaluation of Salivary Gland Focus Score in Sjogren’s Disease Using Deep Learning: A Step Towards Tissue Biomarker Discovery
Konstantinos Panagiotopoulos¹, Nikos Tsiknakis², Dimitrios Zaridis³, Athanasios Tzioufas⁴, Dimitrios I. Fotiadis⁵ and Andreas Goules⁶, ¹Pathophysiology Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, ²Karolinska Institutet, Department of Oncology-Pathology, Computational BioMedicine Laboratory, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Stockholm, Sweden, ³School of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Biomedical Research Institute National Technical University of Athens and FORTH, Unit of Medical Technology and Intelligent Information Systems, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece, ⁴LAIKO HOSPITAL, Athens, Greece, ⁵Unit of Medical Technology and Intelligent Information Systems, University of Ioannina & FORTH, Ioannina, Greece, ⁶GENERAL HOSPITAL LAIKO ATHENS, Athens, Greece
Background/Purpose: Sjogren's Disease (SjD) is characterized by focal sieladenitis in minor salivary gland biopsies (mSGB), which is evaluated using the Focus Score (FS). FS ≥…
Abstract Number: 1909 • ACR Convergence 2024
Racial Disparities in Ocular Complications of Systemic Rheumatic Diseases: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study
Insa Mannstadt¹, Yiyuan Wu² and Bella Mehta³, ¹Columbia University VP&S, New York, NY, ²Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ³Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: While systemic rheumatic diseases, including Sjogren's syndrome, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and spondyloarthropathies, are known to have severe ophthalmologic manifestations, there…
Abstract Number: 2300 • ACR Convergence 2024
Activation of Tissue-Resident T Cells in Sjögren’s Disease with Human Salivary Organoids
Brandon Law¹, Rahmatullah Rahmati² and Andrew Luster³, ¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Massachusetts Eye & Ear, Boston, MA, ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA
Background/Purpose: Sjögren's disease (SjD) is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by lymphocytic infiltration of exocrine glands, particularly the salivary glands. These focal lymphocytic infiltrates are…
Abstract Number: 2630 • ACR Convergence 2024
Identification of Molecular Biomarkers for Sjögren’s Disease Stratification via a Deep Learning Foundation Model Dedicated to Immune-Mediated and Inflammatory Disease
Aygalic Jara-Mikolajczak¹, Zachary Abessera¹, Martin Rethoret-Pasty¹, Elisa Mazuir¹, Apolline Bruley¹, Wan Fai Ng², Marta Alarcon-Riquelme³, Michele Bombardieri⁴, Simon Bowman⁵, Elena Pontarini⁶, Jacques-Eric Gottenberg⁷, Xavier Mariette⁸, Laurence LAIGLE⁹, Julien Duquesne¹, Philippe Moigeon¹⁰ and Vincent Bouget¹¹, and NECESSITY Consortium, ¹Scienta Lab, Paris, France, ²Department of Rheumatology, Newcastle University, & HRB Clinical Research Facility, University College Cork, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, ³Fundación Progreso y Salud, Andalusian Government, Granada, Spain, ⁴Centre for Experimental Medicine and Rheumatology, The William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ⁶William Harvey Research Institute, London, United Kingdom, ⁷Rheumatology Department, Strasbourg University Hospital,, Strasbourg, France, ⁸Service de Rhumatologie, Hôpital Bicêtre, AP-HP, Le Kremlin Bicetre, France, ⁹Servier Laboratories, France, SURESNES, France, ¹⁰Servier Laboratories, France, Gif sur Yvette, France, ¹¹Scienta Lab, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Background/Purpose: Sjögren’s Disease (SjD) exhibits heterogeneity in clinical manifestations and underlying biology. This heterogeneity complicates drug development, with no targeted therapy approved to date. Identifying…

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