Abstracts tagged "Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)"

Abstract Number: 1509 • ACR Convergence 2020
Leukocyte Telomere Length and Childhood Onset of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in the Black Women’s Experiences Living with Lupus (BeWELL) Study
John Bridges¹, Kara Chung², Connor Martz², Emily Smitherman¹, Cristina Drenkard³, S. Sam Lim⁴ and David Chae², ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Auburn University, Auburn, AL, ³Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, ⁴Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Background/Purpose: Childhood-onset SLE is generally more aggressive than adult-onset SLE. Leukocyte telomere length (LTL) has been posited to reflect immune system aging. Short LTL in…
Abstract Number: 1666 • ACR Convergence 2020
Elucidating Research Priorities in Childhood-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Qualitative Study
Laura Cannon¹, Anne Skelley-Caliendo², Aimee Hersh³ and Andrea Knight⁴, ¹Duke University, Durham, NC, ²Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ³University of Utah and Primary Children's Hospital, Salt Lake City, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: An estimated 15 to 20% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have childhood-onset SLE (cSLE). Given the early onset of cSLE, patients often…
Abstract Number: 1766 • ACR Convergence 2020
Trends of Pregnancy Outcomes in a Large Electronic Health Record Cohort of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients
April Barnado¹, Alex Camai¹ and Lee Wheless¹, ¹Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Background/Purpose: Studying pregnancy in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is difficult given its relative rarity. Electronic health record (EHR) contain longitudinal data to serve as a…
Abstract Number: 1797 • ACR Convergence 2020
A Multianalyte Assay Panel (MAP) with Algorithm Containing Cell-Bound Complement Activation Products (CB-CAPs) Is Superior to Anti-dsDNA and Low Serum Complement Levels in Predicting Transition of Probable Lupus to ACR Classified Lupus Within 2 Years
Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman¹, Roberta Vezza Alexander², Cristina Arriens³, Sonali Narain⁴, Elena Massarotti⁵, Daniel J Wallace⁶, Amit Saxena⁷, Christopher Collins⁸, Chaim Putterman⁹, Kenneth Kalunian¹⁰, Armida Sace², Rowena LaFon², JoAnne Ligayon², John Conklin¹¹ and Arthur Weinstein¹², ¹Division of Rheumatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²Exagen Inc, Vista, CA, ³Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁴Northwell Health, Great Neck, NY, ⁵Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁶Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Beverly Hills, CA, ⁷NYU School of Medicine, New York, ⁸MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, ⁹Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ¹⁰University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ¹¹Exagen Inc., Vista, CA, ¹²Loma Linda University and Exagen, Inc, Claremont, CA
Background/Purpose: We reported previously (Ramsey-Goldman et al., Arthritis Rheumatol 2020) that score > 0.8 of a multianalyte assay panel (MAP) with algorithm predicts fulfillment of…
Abstract Number: 1815 • ACR Convergence 2020
Dynamic Changes in Microbiota Representation of a Gut Pathobiont and Clinical Disease Activity in Patients with Lupus Nephritis
Doua Azzouz¹, Ze Chen², Zhi Li³, Peter Izmirly⁴, Jing Deng¹, David Fenyo³, Jill Buyon¹, Alexander Alekseyenko⁵ and Gregg Silverman⁶, ¹Department of Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ²Department of Microbiology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ³Institute for Systems Genetics, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁴Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁵Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ⁶Laboratory of B cell immunobiology, Department of Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: From a cross-sectional cohort, we have recently identified a candidate human gut pathobiont, Ruminococcus gnavus (RG) of the Lachnospiraceae family and Blautia genus that…
Abstract Number: 1831 • ACR Convergence 2020
Biomarkers Linked to Anti-IFN-I and Ustekinumab Suggest Distinct Mechanism of Action in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Thomas Dörner¹, George Tsokos², Kenneth Kalunian³, Ronald van Vollenhoven⁴, Ashley Orillion⁵, Matteo Cesaroni⁵, Jacqueline Benson⁶, Marc Chevrier⁷, Shawn Rose⁸, Stanley Marciniak⁵, Zhenling Yao⁵, Bhaskar Srivastava⁵, Jessica Schreiter⁵, Frédéric Baribaud⁵, Tatiana Ort⁵, Jarrat Jordan⁵ and Loqmane Seridi⁵, ¹DRFZ and Charité University Hospitals, Berlin, Germany, ²Division of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, Amsterdam Rheumatology and Immunology Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁵Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Spring House, PA, ⁶Janssen Research & Development, LLC, South San Francisco, CA, ⁷Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Collegeville, PA, ⁸Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Princeton Junction, NJ
Background/Purpose: Clinical and biological heterogeneity pose a significant hurdle in SLE, making biomarkers that define patient subsets crucial for developing tailored therapies. Interventional SLE trials…
Abstract Number: 1955 • ACR Convergence 2020
High-throughput Identification of Functional Regulatory SNPs Associated with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Qiang Wang¹, Marta Martínez², Matthew Weirauch³ and Peter Nigrovic⁴, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, ³Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center/Univ of Cincinnati, 535 Terrace Ave, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation and Immunity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Division of Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, Boston
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a disease involves the complex interplay of many genes, reflected in more than one hundred loci linked with disease…
Abstract Number: 0251 • ACR Convergence 2020
Dynamics of Anti-Nuclear Antibodies in a Longitudinal Study of a Large Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Cohort
May Choi¹, Marvin Fritzler², Karen Costenbader³, Murray Urowitz⁴, John Hanly⁵, Caroline Gordon⁶, Yvan St. Pierre⁷, Sang-Cheol Bae⁸, Juanita Romero-Díaz⁹, F Jorge Sanchez-Guerrero¹⁰, Sasha Bernatsky¹¹, Daniel Wallace¹², David Isenberg¹³, Anisur Rahman¹⁴, Joan Merrill¹⁵, Paul Fortin¹⁶, Dafna Gladman¹⁷, Ian Bruce¹⁸, Michelle Petri¹⁹, Ellen M Ginzler²⁰, Mary Anne Dooley²¹, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman²², Susan Manzi²³, Andreas Jönsen²⁴, Graciela Alarcón²⁵, Ronald F Van Vollenhoven²⁶, Cynthia Aranow²⁷, Meggan Mackay²⁸, Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza²⁹, S. Sam Lim³⁰, Murat Inanc³¹, Kenneth Kalunian³², Søren Jacobsen³³, Christine Peschken³⁴, Diane Kamen³⁵, Anca Askanase³⁶ and Ann Clarke³⁷, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital | Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ²Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁴University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, ⁶University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, ⁷McGill University, Montreal, Canada, ⁸Department of Rheumatology, Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ⁹Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico, ¹⁰University Health Network/Sinai Health system, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹¹The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, ON, Canada, ¹²Cedars-Sinai Medical Center/UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ¹³Centre for Rheumatology, University College London and Department of Rheumatology, University College Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ¹⁴University College London, London, United Kingdom, ¹⁵Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, ¹⁶CHU de Quebec - Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada, ¹⁷Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁸Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis, The University of Manchester and NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, ¹⁹Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, ²⁰SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, ²¹University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, ²²Division of Rheumatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²³Lupus Center of Excellence, Autoimmunity Institute, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, ²⁴Lund University, Lund, Sweden, ²⁵Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham; Department of Medicine, School of Medicine; Universidad Peruana Cayetano, Heredia, Alabama, ²⁶Department of Rheumatology, Amsterdam Rheumatology and Immunology Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²⁷Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, ²⁸Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, ²⁹Hospital Universitario Cruces, Barakaldo, Spain, ³⁰Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ³¹Department of Rheumatology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, ³²University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ³³University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, ³⁴Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ³⁵Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ³⁶Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, ³⁷University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Background/Purpose: ANA testing as an approach to diagnosing and classifying SLE, now embedded in the EULAR/ACR Criteria, is more important than ever. Cross-sectional studies indicate…
Abstract Number: 0268 • ACR Convergence 2020
Impact of Flares on Healthcare Resource Usage and PROs in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients
Zahi Touma¹, Benjamin Hoskin², Christian Atkinson², David Bell³, James Pike², Jennifer Lofland⁴, Pamela Berry⁵, Chetan Karyekar⁵ and Karen Costenbader⁶, ¹University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²ADELPHI REAL WORLD, Bollington, United Kingdom, ³ADELPHI REAL WORLD, Bollington, Macclesfield, United Kingdom, ⁴Janssen Global Market Access, horsham, PA, ⁵Janssen Global Services, LLC, Horsham, PA, ⁶Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: The effect of flares on healthcare resource usage and patient-reported outcome scores in SLE patients is not well quantified.To understand how flares impact healthcare…
Abstract Number: 0285 • ACR Convergence 2020
CXCL13 Neutralization Reduces Neuropsychiatric Manifestations in MRL/lpr Mice
Michelle Huang¹, Ariel Stock¹ and Chaim Putterman¹, ¹Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Background/Purpose: Targeted treatments for neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus (NPSLE) remain challenging to develop due to the unclear pathogenesis of the disease. Our laboratory has previously…
Abstract Number: 0302 • ACR Convergence 2020
Longitudinal Study of Acute SLE Flare Reveals Dynamic Changes in Multiple Immune Cell Subsets
Kieran Manion¹, Dennisse Bonilla², Dafna Gladman¹, Murray Urowitz³, Zahi Touma⁴ and Joan Wither², ¹Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²University of Toronto Lupus Clinic, Centre for Prognosis Studies in Rheumatic Diseases, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: In SLE, periods of relative quiescence are punctuated by flares in disease activity that can lead to extensive tissue damage and morbidity. Existing studies…
Abstract Number: 0498 • ACR Convergence 2020
Exploring the Role of Lipocalin-2 in Neuropsychiatric SLE Pathogenesis
Chaim Putterman¹, Elise Mike¹ and Sayra Garcia¹, ¹Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Background/Purpose: While the etiology of neuropsychiatric lupus (NPSLE) is not fully understood, blood brain barrier (BBB) disruption and localized neuroinflammation are potential mechanisms that contribute…
Abstract Number: 0618 • ACR Convergence 2020
The Effect of Travel Burden on Depression and Anxiety in African American Women Living with Systemic Lupus
Trevor Faith¹, Ashley White¹, Aissatou Ba¹, Viswanathan Ramakrishnan², Hetlena Johnson³, Jillian Rose⁴, Clara Dismuke-Greer⁵, Jim Oates⁶, Leonard Egede⁷ and Edith Williams¹, ¹Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ²medical university of south carolina, south carolina, ³LupusCSC, Columbia, SC, ⁴Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, ⁵Palo Alto VA, Palo Alto, CA, ⁶Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, Charleston, SC, ⁷Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Background/Purpose: The United States has a deficit of rheumatology specialists. This leads to an increased burden accessing care for patients with autoimmune and connective tissue…
Abstract Number: 0852 • ACR Convergence 2020
How Much Prednisone Is Enough for Remission Induction in Lupus Nephritis? A Propensity Score Matched Analysis
Konstantinos Tselios¹, Dafna Gladman², Haifa Al-Sheikh³, Jiandong Su⁴ and Murray Urowitz¹, ¹University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia, ⁴University of Toronto Lupus Clinic, Centre for Prognosis Studies in Rheumatic Diseases, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: The existing guidelines for remission induction in lupus nephritis (LN) from both the ACR and the EULAR recommend initial prednisone doses of 0.5-1mg/kg/day. However,…
Abstract Number: 0870 • ACR Convergence 2020
Hydroxychloroquine Is Associated with Lower Platelet Activity and Improved Vascular Health in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Michael Golpanian¹, Elliot Luttrell-Williams², MacIntosh Cornwell², Khrystyna Myndzar², Hanane El Bannoudi², Ashira Blazer², Stuart Katz², Nathaniel Smilowitz², Kelly Ruggles², Robert Clancy³, Jill Buyon⁴ and Jeffrey Berger², ¹New York University, New York, NY, ²New York University School of Medicine, New York, ³NYU School of Medicine, New York, ⁴Department of Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are at increased risk of premature atherosclerosis and thrombosis. Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is widely used in the treatment of…

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