Abstracts tagged "skin"

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: 0815 • ACR Convergence 2024
Interferon-stimulated Gene Expression in Non-lesional Skin Is Similarly Elevated in Incomplete SLE and SLE
Svenja Henning¹, Lam Tsoi², Benjamin Klein², Celine Berthier², Joseph Kirma², Rachael Wasikowski³, Gilles Diercks⁴, Barbara Horvath¹, Hendrika Bootsma⁵, Johann Gudjonsson², Johanna Westra⁴, Karina de Leeuw⁶ and J. Michelle Kahlenberg², ¹University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ²University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Michigan, Dept. of Dermatology, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁴University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ⁵Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ⁶University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Patients with features of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) who do not fulfill classification criteria are referred to as incomplete SLE (ILE). These patients are…
Abstract Number: 1706 • ACR Convergence 2024
Multi-omic Study in Patients with SITRAME Syndrome
Yixiang Yves-Jean Zhu¹, Angèle Soria², Thomas Moreau³, Guilaine Boursier⁴, Vincent Bondet⁵, Françoise Donnadieu⁶, Clara Cretet⁷, Aness Haddouche⁷, Carine Schmidt³, Diego Bletry³, Emmanuelle Amsler², Annick Barbaud², Farah Rahal⁵, Yannick Chantran⁸, Margaux Cescato³, François Maillet⁹, Anne-Sophie Korganow¹⁰, Benjamin Chaigne¹¹, Yannick Dieudonné¹⁰, Guillaume Lefevre¹², Makoto Miyara⁷, Vivien Beziat¹³, Caroline Deswarte¹³, Michael White⁶, Sophie Georgin-lavialle¹, Darragh duffy⁵ and Mathieu Paul Rodero³, ¹Sorbonne Université, Department of internal medicine, Tenon Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Paris, France, ²Sorbonne Université, Department of dermatology and allergology, Tenon hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Paris, France, ³Université Paris CIté, Laboratoire de Chimie et de Biochimie Pharmacologiques et Toxicologiques, Faculté des Saint-Pères, Paris, France, ⁴University of Montpellier, Montpellier, ⁵Translational Immunology Unit, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris-Cité, Paris, France, Paris, France, ⁶Pasteur Institut, Laboratoire d'épidémiologie et analyse des maladies infectieuses, Paris, France, ⁷Sobonne University, Centre d'Immunologie et des Maladies Infectieuses, Paris, France, ⁸Departmen of Biological Immunology, Saint-Antoine Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Paris, France, ⁹AP HP, Paris, France, ¹⁰University of Strasbourg, Department of Clinical Immunology and Internal Medicine, Nouvel Hôpital Civil, Strasbourg, France, ¹¹Service de Médecine Interne, Centre de Référence Maladies Systémiques Autoimmunes et Autoinflammatoires Rares d'Ile de France de l’Est et de l’Ouest, Hôpital Cochin, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Paris, Ile-de-France, France, ¹²CHU Lille, Institut d’Immunologie, Lille, France., Lille, France, ¹³IMAGINE Institut, Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: The SITRAME syndrome (Systemic Inflammatory Trunk Recurrent Acute Macular Eruption) is a newly described inflammatory entity affecting adult patients with no family history (Soria…
Abstract Number: 2446 • ACR Convergence 2024
Nailfold Videocapillaroscopy Findings in Patients with Limited Cutaneous versus Diffuse Cutaneous Systemic Sclerosis: The First Detailed Retrospective Study
Ana Margarida Correia¹, Rosanna Campitiello², Emanuele Gotelli³, Carmen Pizzorni⁴, Alberto Sulli⁵, vanessa smith⁶ and Maurizio Cutolo³, ¹Hospital de Braga, Unidade Local de Saúde de Braga, Braga, Portugal, ²Laboratory of Experimental Rheumatology and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy, Genova, Liguria, Italy, ³Laboratory of Experimental Rheumatology and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy, Genova, Italy, ⁴Laboratory of Experimental Rheumatology and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy, Genoa, Italy, ⁵Laboratory of Experimental Rheumatology and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy., Genova, Italy, ⁶Ghent University Hospital, Gent, Belgium
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a connective tissue disease characterized by microvascular damage, immune system activation and fibrosis. Clinical phenotypes are defined according to skin…
Abstract Number: 0874 • ACR Convergence 2024
Defining a Protective Role for Mucosal-associated Invariant T (MAIT) Cells in Spontaneous Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus
Grace Crossland¹, Lindsay Mendyka², Michael Constantinides³ and Sladjana Skopelja-Gardner¹, ¹Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, Lebanon, NH, ²Dartmouth Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Lyme, NH, ³Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, CA
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a leading cause of death in young females, and 70-85% of patients experience skin disease (cutaneous LE, CLE). The…
Abstract Number: 1767 • ACR Convergence 2024
Endothelial Cell-Driven JAG/NOTCH Signaling in Localized Scleroderma Patients
Theresa Hutchins¹, Anwesha Sanyal¹, Deren Esencan¹ and Kathryn Torok², ¹University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Division of Rheumatology, Scleroderma Center, Department of Pediatrics, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: Localized scleroderma is a rare autoimmune disease primarily affecting the skin and underlying tissue. While its exact pathogenesis remains unclear, studies suggest links to…
Abstract Number: 2447 • ACR Convergence 2024
Features of Anti-Fibrillarin Positive Systemic Sclerosis Patients and Ethnic Differences: A European Multicenter Cohort
Roberto D'Alessandro¹, Stefano Rodolfi², Alix Calot¹, Louis Bébéar³, Corrado Campochiaro⁴, Veronica Codullo⁵, Francesco Del Galdo⁶, Ivan Castellvi Barranco⁷, Elisabetta Zanatta⁸, Silvia Bellando Randone⁹, Goncalo Boleto¹⁰, Loic Raffray¹¹, Emmanuel Chatelus¹², Patrice Cacoub¹³, Alexandre Le Joncour¹³, Paolo Airò¹⁴, cristiana sieiro santos¹⁵, Alain Lescoat¹⁶, Jérôme Avouac¹⁷, Christopher Denton¹⁸ and Yannick Allanore¹⁹, ¹Rheumatology Department, Cochin Hospital, Université Paris Cité, APHP, Paris, France, Paris, France, ²Division of Medicine, Centre for Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases, University College London, London, UK, London, United Kingdom, ³Department of Rheumatology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux Groupe Hospitalier Pellegrin, Bordeaux, France., Bordeaux, France, ⁴IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital. Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Milan, Italy, ⁵Division of Rheumatology - Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy, Pavia, Lombardia, Italy, ⁶University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ⁷Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain, ⁸Unit of Rheumatology, Padova University, Padova, Italy, ⁹Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine University of Florence Division of Rheumatology Scleroderma Unit, Careggi Hospital Florence, Italy, Florence, Toscana, Italy, ¹⁰Rheumatology Department, Unidade Local de Saúde Santa Maria, Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal., Lisbon, Portugal, ¹¹CHU La Réunion - Competence center for autoimmune diseases, Internal Medicine, Saint-Denis, Reunion, ¹²Rheumatology department strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, ¹³Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology France, Centre national de référence maladies Autoimmunes Systémiques rares, Centre national de référence maladies Autoinflammatoires et Amylose, and Inflammation-Immunopathology-Biotherapy Department (DMU i3), Sorbonne Université, AP-HP, Hôpital Pitié Salpetrière, 75013 Paris, France, Paris, France, ¹⁴Scleroderma Unit, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Unit, ERN ReCONNET, ASST Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy, Brescia, Italy, ¹⁵Rheumatology Department, Complejo Asistencial Universitario de León, León, Spain, Leon, Spain, ¹⁶Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Rennes University Hospital, Rennes, France, rennes, France, ¹⁷Rheumatology A Department, Hôpital Cochin, AP-HP Centre - Université Paris Cité, Paris, France, ¹⁸University College London, Northwood, United Kingdom, ¹⁹Rheumatology department, Université Paris Cité, Cochin Hospital of Paris; France, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: Anti-fibrillarin (AFA) auto-antibodies are rarely found in Systemic Sclerosis (SSc). Beyond the ethnic association with a higher prevalence in patients of Black ethnicity, the…
Abstract Number: 0882 • ACR Convergence 2024
Brepocitinib, a Selective TYK2/JAK1 Inhibitor Under Evaluation for the Treatment of Dermatomyositis, Reduces Inflammatory Cytokine Signaling and Interferon-induced Apoptosis in Primary Human Epidermal Keratinocytes
Jiří Vencovský¹, Alexandra Goriounova², Lisa McConnachie² and Brendan Johnson², ¹Institute of Rheumatology and Department of Rheumatology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ²Priovant Therapeutics, Durham, NC
Background/Purpose: Dermatomyositis (DM) is characterized by inflammatory and degenerative changes of skin and muscle and upregulation of Type I IFN-regulated gene and protein levels in…
Abstract Number: 1814 • ACR Convergence 2024
Understanding Monocyte Derived Macrophages in the Skin of SSc Patients Through Single Cell Analysis of Blister Fluid Immune Cell Populations
Sandra Lopez Garces¹, Tamara Searle², Siyu Zhang¹, Henry Lopez³, Isra Elhussin⁴, Clayton Yates⁴, David Abraham⁵, Christopher Denton⁶, Bahja Ahmed Abdi¹ and Richard Stratton⁷, ¹University College London, London, United Kingdom, ²Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, ³Riptide Bioscience Inc, Bethesda, MD, ⁴Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁵UCL, London, United Kingdom, ⁶University College London, Northwood, United Kingdom, ⁷UCL, London, England, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Cells of the monocyte-macrophages (Mφ) are key players in the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis (SSc), contributing to inflammation and fibrosis. To advance beyond the…
Abstract Number: 2473 • ACR Convergence 2024
Criterion Validity of Modified Rodnan Skin Score: Does It Capture Skin Thickness or Hardening? Results of a Large Skin Histology Study
Shervin Assassi¹, Ruhani Desai², Jeffrey Browning³, Samuel Theodore¹, Meng Zhang¹, Brian Skaug¹, Jerry Alonso¹, Zsuzsanna McMahan¹, Maureen Mayes¹ and Minghua Wu¹, ¹UTHealth Houston Division of Rheumatology, Houston, TX, ²UTHealth Houston Division of Rheumatology, DeLand, FL, ³Boston University, Cambridge, MA
Background/Purpose: Modified Rodnan Skin Score is a widely used outcome measure for skin involvement in systemic sclerosis (SSc). Its criterion validity (comparison to the gold…
Abstract Number: 0929 • ACR Convergence 2024
UVB-Induced Keratinocyte-Derived Extracellular Vesicles: Cytokeratin 10 as a Marker of Epidermal Origin
Ahmed Eldaboush¹, Cristina Ricco¹, Luca Musante¹, Rohan Dhiman², Avital Baniel³, Daniella Faden¹, Caroline Stone¹, Ming-Lin Liu¹ and Victoria Werth⁴, ¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²University of Pennsylvania, Newport Coast, CA, ³Perelman School of Medicine, UPENN, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴University of Pennsylvania, Wynnewood, PA
Background/Purpose: Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are small lipid-bilayer particles released from cells that mediate various functions through their cargo, which includes proteins and nucleic acids. EVs…
Abstract Number: 1821 • ACR Convergence 2024
Single-Cell RNA SequencingBioinformatic Pipeline Optimized for Non-Coding GenesIdentified LINC01503 and MIR193-BHG as Potential Pathogenic Effectors in Systemic Sclerosis Fibroblasts
Sophie Wagner¹, Elena Pachera², Gino Andrea Bonazza³, Celina Geiss⁴, Astrid Hofman⁴, Laura Much⁴, Lumeng Li⁴, Pietro Bearzi³, Anna-Maria Hoffmann-Vold⁵ and Oliver Distler⁶, ¹University of Zurich, Schlieren, Switzerland, ²University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ³Center of Experimental Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Schlieren, Switzerland, ⁴Center of Experimental Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ⁵Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ⁶Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Zurich, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA) are a class of transcripts that regulate gene expression. Currently, only few lncRNAs have been linked to SSc pathogenesis. As…
Abstract Number: 2481 • ACR Convergence 2024
General, Nervous System, Eye, and Skin Involvement in the Phase 3 Trial of Avacopan for the Treatment of ANCA-Associated Vasculitis
Rula A. Hajj-Ali¹, Duvuru Geetha², Raashid Luqmani³, Christian Pagnoux⁴, Darcy Trimpe⁵, David Jayne⁶ and Peter Merkel⁷, and ADVOCATE Study Group, ¹Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ³University of Oxford, Abingdon, United Kingdom, ⁴Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, ⁶University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ⁷University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: The most common types of ANCA-associated vasculitis, granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) and microscopic polyangiitis (MPA), can affect a range of organs, including the kidneys,…
Abstract Number: 0930 • ACR Convergence 2024
The Common Form of the Inflammatory Skin Disease Hidradenitis Suppurativa Is Associated with Low Nicastrin Expression in Dermal Fibroblasts
Kaitlin Williams, Beita Badiei, Hana Minsky and Luis Garza, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Background/Purpose: Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory skin condition characterized by painful nodules and abscesses in intertriginous areas. Despite its increasing prevalence, the etiology…

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