Abstracts tagged "Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)"

Abstract Number: L13 • ACR Convergence 2021
Efficacy and Safety of Subcutaneous Belimumab (BEL) and Rituximab (RTX) Sequential Therapy in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: The Phase 3, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled BLISS-BELIEVE Study
Cynthia Aranow¹, Cornelia Allaart², Zahir Amoura³, Ian N Bruce⁴, Patricia Cagnoli⁵, Richard Furie¹, Paul Peter Tak⁶, Murray Urowitz⁷, Ronald van Vollenhoven⁸, Kenneth L Clark⁶, Mark Daniels⁹, Norma Lynn Fox¹⁰, Yun Irene Gregan¹⁰, James Groark¹¹, Robert B Henderson⁹, Mary Oldham⁹, Don Shanahan⁹, Andre van Maurik⁹, David A Roth¹⁰ and YK Onno Teng², ¹Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Great Neck, NY, ²Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ³Centre National de reference pour le Lupus, Service de Medecine Interne 2, Institut E3M, Hopital Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France, ⁴NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust and Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁵University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁶GlaxoSmithKline (At the time of the author's contribution to this study), Stevenage, United Kingdom, ⁷Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Lupus Clinic, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁸Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam Rheumatology Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁹GlaxoSmithKline, Stevenage, United Kingdom, ¹⁰GlaxoSmithKline, Collegeville, PA, ¹¹GlaxoSmithKline (At the time of the author's contribution to this study), Collegeville, PA
Background/Purpose: Disease control remains an unmet need in SLE. The rationale for sequential BEL and RTX therapy in SLE was previously published.1 This study evaluated…
Abstract Number: L08 • ACR Convergence 2021
Association of Limited Health Literacy with Clinical and Patient-Reported Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: An Analysis from the Peer Approaches to Lupus Self-Management (PALS) Program
Mithu Maheswaranathan¹, Andrea Boan², Viswanathan Ramakrishnan², Hetlena Johnson³, Jillian Rose-Smith⁴, Clara Dismuke-Greer⁵, Leonard Egede⁶, Jim Oates² and Edith Williams², ¹Duke University, Durham, NC, ²Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ³LupusCSC, Columbia, SC, ⁴Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁵VA Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA, ⁶Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Background/Purpose: Health literacy (HL) is an important social determinant of health defined as the ability to understand and use health information. Limited HL is associated…
Abstract Number: L03 • ACR Convergence 2021
COVID-19 Vaccine Antibody Responses in Patients Treated with B-Cell Agents Depend on B-Cell Counts at Time of Vaccine
Kyriakos Kirou and Jeffrey Zhang-Sun, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Optimal COVID-19 vaccine responses are necessary to protect against severe infection. Patients with systemic rheumatic diseases (SRD) are at risk for not mounting adequate…
Abstract Number: L02 • ACR Convergence 2021
COVID-19 Vaccine in Immunosuppressed Adults with Autoimmune Diseases
Ines Colmegna¹, Mariana Useche¹, Emmanouil Rampakakis², Nathalie Amiable³, Emmanuelle Rollet-Labelle³, Louis Bessette⁴, Jo-Anne Costa⁴, Marc Dionne⁴, Mary-Ann Fitzcharles², Elizabeth Hazel², Deirdre McCormack², Laetitia Michou⁴, Pantelis Panopalis², Marc-Andre Langlois⁵, Sasha Bernatsky⁶ and Paul R. Fortin⁷, ¹The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Centre de Recherche du CHU de Quebec, Quebec, Canada, ⁴Universite Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada, ⁵University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ⁶McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁷CHU de Quebec - Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada
Background/Purpose: Immunocompromised conditions and/or a history of autoimmune disease were exclusion criteria of the initial SARS-CoV-2 vaccines clinical trials. We assessed the safety and immunogenicity…
Abstract Number: 0083 • ACR Convergence 2021
Cardiac Valve Surgery Outcomes in the Antiphospholipid Syndrome
Tali Eviatar¹, Stanley Niznik², Nancy Agmon-Levin² and Daphna Paran³, ¹Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Givataim, Israel, ²Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel, ³Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center-Ichilov Hospital, Even Yehuda, Israel
Background/Purpose: Cardiac valve involvement in the APS is prevalent, necessitating valve surgery in about 5% of the patients. Data regarding valve surgery outcomes in APS…
Abstract Number: 0325 • ACR Convergence 2021
A Multianalyte Assay Panel with Cell-bound Complement Activation Products Demonstrates Clinical Utility for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Roberta Alexander¹, Scott Rey¹, John Conklin¹, Vinicius Domingues², Mansoor Ahmed³, Jazibeh Qureshi⁴ and Arthur Weinstein⁵, ¹Exagen Inc., Vista, CA, ²Florida State university, Daytona beach, FL, ³Arthritis Osteo Ctr of KY, Richmond, KY, ⁴Rheumatology Express, Catonsville, MD, ⁵Loma Linda University (Voluntary Position), Claremont, CA
Background/Purpose: The multianalyte assay panel (MAP) consists of cell-bound complement activation products (CB-CAPs) with lupus and non-lupus autoantibodies combined in an algorithm (Dervieux et al.,…
Abstract Number: 0341 • ACR Convergence 2021
Addition of Narrative Text Abstraction to ICD-Based Abstraction Significantly Improves Identification of Lupus Nephritis in Real-World Data
Meghan Tierney and Chris Rowe, PicnicHealth, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Lupus nephritis (LN) is often underrecognized and difficult to identify retrospectively, presenting challenges for clinicians and researchers hoping to explore this condition using real-world…
Abstract Number: 0472 • ACR Convergence 2021
An Atlas of Human and Mouse Intrarenal Immune Cells in Lupus Nephritis Reveals Homologous Immune Populations Across Common Mouse Strains and Species
Paul Hoover¹, Michael Peters², David Lieb², Runci Wang³, Garett Dunlap⁴, Deepak Rao¹, Nir Hacohen² and Anne Davidson⁵, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, ³Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Harvard University, Somerville, MA, ⁵Institute of Molecular Medicine, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY
Background/Purpose: We discovered 21 immune cell-types in lupus nephritis kidney biopsies as part of the Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP) consortium. These immune cells are the…
Abstract Number: 0598 • ACR Convergence 2021
Differences in Discoid Lupus Erythematosus Skin Lesion Distribution and Characteristics in Black and Non-Black Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Adrienne Joseph, Brandon Windsor, Linda Hynan and Benjamin Chong, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Background/Purpose: Epidemiological studies have shown that discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) has a higher incidence and prevalence in minorities, particularly Black individuals. Racial differences in clinical…
Abstract Number: 0770 • ACR Convergence 2021
Evaluation of the Lupus Low Disease Activity State (LLDAS) vs. the Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index (SLEDAI)-2K Score in a Pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Cohort
Bridget Wilson, Tingting Qiu, Angela Merritt, Bin Huang and Hermine Brunner, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Background/Purpose: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease which can affect any organ system, and ongoing disease activity leads to organ damage. The…
Abstract Number: 0866 • ACR Convergence 2021
Characteristics Associated with Poor COVID-19 Outcomes in People with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE): Data from the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance (GRA)
Manuel Ugarte-Gil¹, Graciela Alarcn², Andrea Seet³, Zara Izadi³, Ali Duarte-Garcia⁴, Cristina Reategui-Sokolova⁵, Ann Clarke⁶, Leanna Wise⁷, Guillermo Pons-Estel⁸, Maria José Santos⁹, Sasha Bernatsky¹⁰, Sandra Lúcia Ribeiro¹¹, Samar Al Emadi¹², Jeffrey Sparks¹³, Tiffany Hsu¹⁴, Kristin D'Silva¹⁵, Naomi Patel¹⁵, Emily Gilbert¹⁶, Maria Valenzuela-Almada¹⁷, Andreas Jnsen¹⁸, Gianpiero Landolfi¹⁹, Micaela Fredi²⁰, Tiphaine Goulenok²¹, Mathilde Devaux²², Xavier Mariette²³, Viviane Queyrel²⁴, Vasco C Romão²⁵, Graça Sequeira²⁶, Rebecca Hasseli²⁷, Bimba Franziska Hoyer²⁸, Reinhard Voll²⁹, Christof Specker³⁰, Roberto Baez³¹, Vanessa Castro Coello³², Edgard Neto³³, Gilda Ferreira³⁴, Odirlei Andre Monticielo³⁵, Emily Sirotich³⁶, Jean Liew³⁷, Jonathan Hausmann³⁸, Paul Sufka³⁹, Rebecca Grainger⁴⁰, Suleman Bhana⁴¹, Wendy Costello⁴², Zachary Wallace⁴³, Lindsay Jacobsohn⁴⁴, Anja Strangfeld⁴⁵, Elsa Frazão Mateus⁴⁶, Kimme Hyrich⁴⁷, Laure Gossec⁴⁸, Loreto Carmona¹, Saskia Lawson-Tovey⁴⁷, Lianne Kearsley-Fleet⁴⁹, Martin Schaefer⁵⁰, Pedro Machado⁵¹, Philip Robinson⁵², Milena Gianfrancesco³ and Jinoos Yazdany³, ¹Hospital Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, Essalud/Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁴Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁵Hospital Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, Lima, Peru, ⁶University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁷LAC+USC/Keck Medicine of USC, Pasadena, CA, ⁸Centro Regional de Enfermedades Autoinmunes y Reumaticas (CREAR), Rosario, Argentina, ⁹Rheumatology Department, Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal, ¹⁰McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada, ¹¹Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Amazonas, Brazil, ¹²Hamad medical corporation, Doha, Qatar, ¹³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ¹⁴Brigham and Women's Hospital, Jamaica Plain, MA, ¹⁵Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ¹⁶Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ¹⁷Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ¹⁸Lund University, Lund, Sweden, ¹⁹Epidemiology Research Unit, Italian Society for Rheumatology, Milan, Italy, ²⁰Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Unit, ASST Spedali Civili and University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy, ²¹Internal Medicine Department, Bichat Claude Bernard Hospital, Paris, France, ²²Service de Médecine Interne, CHI Poissy Saint Germain, Poissy, France, ²³Université Paris- Saclay, Rheumatology, Paris, France, ²⁴University Hospital of Nice, Nice, France, ²⁵Rheumatology Department, Hospital de Santa Maria, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte, Lisbon Academic Medical Centre and European Reference Network on Rare Connective Tissue and Musculoskeletal Diseases Network (ERN-ReCONNET); Rheumatology Research Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, ²⁶Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Algarve, Unidade de Faro, Faro, Portugal, ²⁷Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Campus Kerckhoff, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Bad Nauheim, Germany., Bad Nauheim, Germany, ²⁸Universittsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany, ²⁹Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, ³⁰Evangelisches Krankenhaus, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Essen, Germany, ³¹Hospital Francisco Lopez Lima, General Roca, Rio Negro, Argentina, ³²Sanatorio Güemes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ³³UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil, ³⁴Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, ³⁵Serviço de Reumatologia do Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, ³⁶McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ³⁷Boston University, Boston, MA, ³⁸Boston Children's Hospital / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Cambridge, MA, ³⁹HealthPartners, Eagan, MN, ⁴⁰University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand, ⁴¹Crystal Run Health, Montvale, NJ, ⁴²Irish Children's Arthritis Network, Bansha, Ireland, ⁴³Massachusetts General Hospital, Newton, MA, ⁴⁴University of California San Francisco, Antioch, CA, ⁴⁵Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁴⁶Liga Portuguesa Contra as Doenças Reumáticas (LPCDR), Lisbon, Portugal, ⁴⁷University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁴⁸Sorbonne Université; APHP, Rheumatology Department, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France, ⁴⁹Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁵⁰German Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin, Germany, ⁵¹Centre for Rheumatology & Department of Neuromuscular Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁵²Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Herston, Australia
Background/Purpose: Preliminary data in people with SLE suggested that disease activity as well as SLE treatment at time of COVID-19 acquisition impact COVID-19 outcomes over…
Abstract Number: 0882 • ACR Convergence 2021
COVID-19 Impact Among Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Jose Rubio¹, Suzanne krishfield¹ and Vasileios Kyttaris², ¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²BIDMC, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Initial studies of SLE patients with COVID-19 revealed an increased risk for severe disease in people with distinct demographic features such as advanced age…
Abstract Number: 0970 • ACR Convergence 2021
Hippo Signaling Is a Novel Regulator of Apoptosis and Photosensitivity in Lupus Keratinocytes
Grace Hile¹, Patrick Coit², Bin Xu¹, Shannon Estadt¹, Jacob Martens³, Rachael Wasikowski¹, Lam Tsoi¹, Ramiro Iglesias-Bartolome⁴, Celine Berthier¹, Allison Billi⁵, Johann Gudjonsson⁵, Amr Sawalha² and J. Michelle Kahlenberg¹, ¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ³Graduate Program in Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁴NIH, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, ⁵Department of Dermatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Background/Purpose: Skin inflammation and photosensitivity are common manifestations of cutaneous (CLE) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), yet the mechanisms underlying heightened cell death and epidermal…
Abstract Number: 1056 • ACR Convergence 2021
Characterization of the Patterns of Care, Access and Direct Costs of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Brazil: Findings from the Macunaíma Study
Mirhelen Mendes de Abreu¹, Vander Fernandes², Odirlei Andre Monticielo³, Alexandre Cristovão Maiorano¹, Fernando dos Santos Beserra¹, Flavia Rachel Moreira Lamarão⁴, Nathalie David⁴, Bruna de Veras⁴, Magda Araujo⁴, Blanca Elena Rios Gomes Bica⁵, Dalianna Luise Andrade Souto Rodrigues², Guilherme Andrade Bulbol⁶, Natalia Jardim Martins da Silva⁷, Domingos Sávio Nunes de Lima⁶ and Marta Maria das Chagas Medeiros⁷, ¹Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; MAPEAR Laboratory, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, ²Universidade de Cuiabá, Cuiabá, Brazil, ³Serviço de Reumatologia do Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, ⁴GlaxoSmithKline, Medical Department, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ⁵Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ⁶Hospital Universitário Getúlio Vargas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, ⁷Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
Background/Purpose: This study evaluated the patterns of care, access and direct costs related to the management and treatment of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)…
Abstract Number: 1263 • ACR Convergence 2021
Treatment of Pediatric Lupus Is Associated with Significant Re-Organization of B Cell Chromatin
Joyce Hui-Yuen¹, Kaiyu Jiang², Susan Malkiel³, Betty Diamond³ and James Jarvis⁴, ¹North Shore LIJ Health System, Great Neck, NY, ²University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, ³Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, ⁴University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine, Buffalo, NY
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) may be triggered by gene-environment interactions. Data remain scarce on how epigenetic variance contributes to disease risk in pediatric SLE…

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