Abstracts tagged "skin"

Abstract Number: 2320 • ACR Convergence 2024
Nailfold Videocapillaroscopy Findings in Patients with Psoriatic Disease: Is There a Distinctive Psoriatic Pattern?
Eduardo Briones-García¹, Tatiana Sofía Rodríguez-Reyna², Eduardo Martin Nares², Guillermo A Guaracha-Basañez³ and Iris Paola García Herrera⁴, ¹Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán. Immunology and Rheumatology Department., Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal, Mexico, ²Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico, ³Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion “Salvador Zubirán”, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico, ⁴Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico
Background/Purpose: The utility of nailfold videocapillaroscopy (NVC) in conditions such as systemic sclerosis and primary Raynaud´s phenomenon is well known. Whether patients with psoriatic disease…
Abstract Number: 0786 • ACR Convergence 2024
First Analyses of Transcriptomic Changes in the Skin of SSc Patients upon CD19-targeting CAR T Cell Therapy
Janina Auth¹, Manoj Kumar Selvaraju², Fabian Müller³, Pooja Gupta², Arif Ekici⁴, Carlo Tur¹, Maria Gabriella Raimondo¹, Jörg Distler⁵, Clara Dees⁶, Sara Chenguiti⁶, Melanie Hagen¹, Andreas Wirsching¹, Jule Taubmann⁷, Soraya Kharboutli⁸, Silvia Spoerl⁸, Michael Aigner⁸, Sascha Kretschmann⁸, Ingrid Vasova⁸, Andreas MAckensen⁹, Georg Schett¹⁰ and Christina Bergmann¹¹, ¹Department of Medicine 3 - Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Uniklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Bayern, Germany, ²CUBiDA Department (Core Unit Bioinformatics and Data Analysis), UKER and FAU, Erlangen, Germany, ³Department of Medicine 5 - Hematology and Oncology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Uniklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁴Core Unit Next Generation Sequencing, Erlangen, Germany, ⁵Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf and Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany, ⁶Department Internal Medicine III, Erlangen, Germany, ⁷Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁸Department of Medicine 5 - Hematology and Oncology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁹Department of Medicine 5 - Hematology and Oncology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Uniklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Bayern, Germany, ¹⁰Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, ¹¹Department Internal Medicine III, Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) Erlangen-Nurnber, Frankfurt, Germany
Background/Purpose: CD19-targeting CAR T cells showed remarkable improvements of modified Rodnan skin score in SSc patients within 6 months after treatment and stable reduction afterwards…
Abstract Number: 1703 • ACR Convergence 2024
Single Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Implicate Vascular Cell Orchestration of Inflammatory Changes After Ultraviolet Light Exposure
Rachael Wasikowski¹, Erin Theisen², Jie An³, Lam C. Tsoi¹, Ksenia Anufrieva⁴, Kevin Wei⁵, Johann Gudjonsson⁶ and Keith Elkon³, ¹Michigan, Dept. of Dermatology, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ⁴BWH, Cambridge, MA, ⁵Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁶University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Background/Purpose: Skin sensitivity to sunlight affects ~70% of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). In addition, ultraviolet radiation (UVR) can stimulate systemic disease flares, but how this…
Abstract Number: 2348 • ACR Convergence 2024
Bimekizumab Efficacy and Safety Through 4 Years in Moderate to Severe Plaque Psoriasis: Long-Term Results from a Phase 3 Study and Open-Label Extension
Diamant Thaçi¹, Luis Puig², Joseph F. Merola³, Denis Jullien⁴, Antonio Costanzo⁵, Maggie Wang⁶, Delphine Deherder⁷, José M. López Pinto⁸ and Mark Lebwohl⁹, ¹Institute and Comprehensive Center for Inflammation Medicine, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, ²Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ³UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ⁴Department of Dermatology, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Hospices Civils de Lyon, University of Lyon, Lyon, France, ⁵Department of Dermatology, Humanitas Clinical and Research Centre, IRCCS, Rozzano, Milan, Italy, ⁶UCB Pharma, Morrisville, NC, ⁷UCB Pharma, Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium, ⁸UCB Pharma, Madrid, Spain, ⁹Department of Dermatology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Clinical improvements through Week 152, with no unexpected safety findings, were previously reported with bimekizumab (BKZ) in the BE SURE phase 3 trial and…
Abstract Number: 1528 • ACR Convergence 2023
Intravenous or Subcutaneous Immunoglobulins as Potential Treatment for Gastrointestinal, Cutaneous and Vascular Involvement in Systemic Sclerosis: Data from an Italian Cohort of 65 Patients
Francesco Bonomi¹, Arianna Damiani¹, Carmela Coccia¹, Juela Levani¹, elisa Fiorentini², silvia peretti¹, Gemma Lepri¹, martina orlandi¹, francesca bartoli¹, marco Matucci Cerinic³, silvia bellando randone¹ and serena guiducci¹, ¹Department of Experimental and Clinical medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Careggi, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, ²Department of Experimental and Clinical medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Careggi, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy, ³Unit of Immunology, Rheumatology, Allergy and Rare diseases, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Milan, Italy
Background/Purpose: Treatment of systemic sclerosis (SSc) is challenging, and in the last 2 decades there has been an increasing interest for immunoglobulin (Igs) treatment as…
Abstract Number: 1586 • ACR Convergence 2023
Keratinocyte VISTA Suppresses Skin IFN-I Production by Regulating DNA Damage Repair and Cytosolic DNA Sensing
Zachary Peters¹, Lindsay Mendyka², Sicong Shan¹, William Rigby³, Christopher Burns⁴, Randolph Noelle⁵ and Sladjana Skopelja-Gardner⁴, ¹Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, ²Dartmouth Hitchcock, Lebanon, NH, ³Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Norwich, VT, ⁴Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, ⁵Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH
Background/Purpose: Persistent production of type I interferons (IFN-Is) is one of the hallmarks of lupus skin disease that is exacerbated by ultraviolet (UV) light. We…
Abstract Number: 1599 • ACR Convergence 2023
Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Reveals Cellular Drivers of UV-mediated Skin Injury in Cutaneous Lupus
Mitra Maz¹, Feiyang Ma², Mehrnaz Gharaee-Kermani², Amanda Victory², Amy Hurst², Johann E. Gudjonsson² and J. Michelle Kahlenberg², ¹University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, ²University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Background/Purpose: Ultraviolet light (UV) is a known trigger of cutaneous lupus erythematosus (CLE) flares in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients, yet cell populations and mechanisms…
Abstract Number: 2364 • ACR Convergence 2023
Circulating CTHRC1 Levels Are Associated with Disease Severity and Predict Survival in Systemic Sclerosis
Monica Yang¹, Seoyeon Lee², Lisa Hazelwood³, Dean Sheppard¹, Francesco Boin⁴ and Paul Wolters¹, ¹University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ³AbbVie, Inc., North Chicago, IL, ⁴Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: Despite recent advances in systemic sclerosis (SSc), there remains a paucity of clinically actionable biomarkers to assess disease severity and predict progression. Collagen triple…
Abstract Number: 0254 • ACR Convergence 2023
Microvascular and Cutaneous Assessment in Adult Patients with Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
Alberto Sulli¹, Francesca Lalli², Elvis Hysa², Andrea Cere¹, Alessandro Pinelli², Silvia Sammorì¹, Emanuele Gotelli¹, Carmen Pizzorni¹, Marco Castori³, Fransiska Malfait⁴, Vanessa Smith⁵ and Maurizio Cutolo⁶, ¹Laboratory of Experimental Rheumatology and Academic Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, IRCCS San Martino Polyclinic Hospital, Genoa, Italy, ²Laboratory of Experimental Rheumatology and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, IRCCS San Martino Polyclinic Hospital, Genova, Italy, ³Division of Medical Genetics, Fondazione IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, ⁴Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium, ⁵Ghent University Hospital, Gent, Belgium, ⁶Laboratory of Experimental Rheumatology, Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, IRCCS San Martino Polyclinic, Genova, Italy
Background/Purpose: Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) is a hereditary connective tissue disease characterized by joint hypermobility, chronic musculoskeletal pain, and systemic manifestations, primarily caused by defects…
Abstract Number: 2366 • ACR Convergence 2023
Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging as a Novel Method to Quantify Longitudinal Skin Changes in Scleroderma
Hung Vo¹, Aarohi Mehendale², Anahita Pilvar³, Eugene Kissin⁴, Marcin Trojanowski⁵, Michael York⁶, Darren Roblyer² and Andreea Bujor⁶, ¹Boston Medical Center, Peabody, MA, ²Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, ³Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, ⁴Boston University, Newton, MA, ⁵Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ⁶Boston University, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune disease characterized by excessive collagen deposition in the skin and internal organs, along with vascular dysfunction. The modified…
Abstract Number: 0325 • ACR Convergence 2023
Understanding the Burden of Cutaneous Lupus: A Subset Analysis from the 2022 World Lupus Federation Global Impact (WLFGI) Patient Survey
Nnenna Ezeh¹, Joy Buie², Mike Donnelly³, Daria McClamb³, Lydia Oberholtzer⁴, Jana Sharp⁴ and Joseph Merola⁵, ¹Department of Dermatology; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Lupus Foundation of America, York, SC, ³Lupus Foundation of America, Washington, DC, ⁴Sharp Insight, LLC, Montgomery County, MD, ⁵Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Newton, MA
Background/Purpose: There is a paucity of data among a global population exploring the burden of CLE on patients, especially as compared to patients with SLE.…
Abstract Number: 2440 • ACR Convergence 2023
Synovial Shaping of Skin-derived Migrating Immune Cells Determines Initiation of Inflammation in Psoriatic Arthritis
Maria Gabriella Raimondo¹, Simon Rauber², Hashem Mohammadian³, Mario Angeli¹, Cong Xu¹, Aleix Rius Rigau⁴, Markus Luber¹, Hannah Labinsky⁵, Alina Ramming¹, Stefano Alivernini⁶, Jörg Distler¹, Ursula Fearon⁷, Douglas Veale⁸, Michael Sticherling⁹, Juan D Canete¹⁰, Georg Schett¹¹ and Andreas Ramming¹, ¹Department of Internal Medicine 3 – Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany; Deutsches Zentrum für Immuntherapie, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ²3 Department of Internal Medicine 3 – Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany. 4 Deutsches Zentrum für Immuntherapie, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany., Erlangen, Germany, ³Department of Internal Medicine 3 – Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany. Deutsches Zentrum für Immuntherapie, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁴Department of Internal Medicine 3, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany; Deutsches Zentrum Immuntherapie (DZI), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁵Medical Department II, Rheumatology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, ⁶Immunology Research Core Facility, Gemelli Science and Technology Park, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy; Division of Rheumatology - Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy, ⁷Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, ⁸St.Vincent's University Hosp, Dublin, Ireland, ⁹Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg & Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Department of Dermatology, Erlangen, Germany, ¹⁰Hospital Clinic an IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain, ¹¹Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
Background/Purpose: Around 30% of the patients with psoriasis (PsO) develop psoriatic arthritis (PsA) overtime, suggesting the existence of a disease mediated skin-joint crosstalk. To date,…
Abstract Number: 0578 • ACR Convergence 2023
Prospective Observational Study of Microvascular C5b-9 Deposition in Non-lesional Skin in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients and Its Correlation with Active Lupus Nephritis
Meghan Anderson¹, Cynthia Magro² and H Michael Belmont³, ¹New York University, New York, NY, ²Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ³NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Tissue damage in LN is mediated by immune complex activation of the classic complement pathway (PMID 23929771). In a study of LN, renal C5b-9…
Abstract Number: 2595 • ACR Convergence 2023
A Randomized Controlled Trial to Compare the Efficacy and Safety of Tacrolimus with Mycophenolate Mofetil in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis – Interstitial Lung Disease ( INSIST TRIAL)
Shefali Khanna Sharma¹, Jithin Mathew¹, Chirag Kopp¹, Varun Dhir², Sahajal Dhooria³, Anindita Sinha¹ and Sanjay Jain¹, ¹Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India, ²PGIMER, CHD, INDIA, Chandigarh, India, ³PGI CHANDIGARH, Chandigarh, India
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis(SSc-ILD) is heterogeneous with limited therapeutic options. Mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) is the most commonly used first line agent for…
Abstract Number: 0655 • ACR Convergence 2023
A Novel Association Between Lipodermatosclerosis and Key Vascular Outcomes in Systemic Sclerosis
Srijana Davuluri¹, Puneet Kapoor², Swarna Nandyala², David Fiorentino³, Julia Simard⁴ and Lorinda Chung⁵, ¹Stanford University- School of Medicine, Sunnyvale, CA, ²Stanford University- School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, ³Department of Dermatology, Stanford University, Redwood City, CA, ⁴Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, ⁵Department of Medicine, Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Woodside, CA
Background/Purpose: Lipodermatosclerosis (LDS) is a progressive manifestation of chronic venous insufficiency characterized by distinctive lower extremity changes, including an "inverted champagne bottle" appearance, skin hyperpigmentation,…

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