Abstracts tagged "Systemic sclerosis"

Abstract Number: 0515 • ACR Convergence 2022
Juvenile Systemic Sclerosis Treatment Practices in an International Cohort and Comparison to Recent SHARE Consensus Guidelines
Ivan Foeldvari¹, Jens Klotsche², Ozgur Kasapcopur³, Amra Adrovic⁴, Kathryn Torok⁵, Maria Teresa Terreri⁶, Ana Paula Sakamoto⁷, Brian Feldman⁸, Jordi Anton⁹, FLAVIO SZTAJNBOK¹⁰, Valda Stanevica¹¹, Simone Appenzeller¹², Tadey Avcin¹³, Sindu Johnson¹⁴, Raju Khubchandani¹⁵, Mikhail Kostik¹⁶, Edoardo Marrani¹⁷, Walter Alberto Sifuentes-Giraldo¹⁸, Dana Nemcova¹⁹, Maria José Santos²⁰, Dieneke Schonenberg-Meinema²¹, Cristina Battagliotti²², Lillemor Berntson²³, Blanca Bica²⁴, Jürgen Brunner²⁴, Rolando Cimaz²⁵, Despina Eleftheriou²⁶, Liora Harel²⁷, Gerd Horneff²⁸, Mahesh Janarthanan²⁹, Tilmann Kallinich³⁰, Thomas Lehman³¹, Farzana Nuruzzaman³², Anjali Patwardhan³³, Vanessa Smith³⁴ and Nicola Helmus³⁵, ¹Hamburger Zentrum für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie, Hamburg, Germany, ²German Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin, Germany, ³Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Cerrahpaşa Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁴Cerrahpaşa Medical School, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁵Pediatric Rheumatology, Children's Hospital of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁶Universidad Federal São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ⁷Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil, ⁸Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children; Child Health Evaluative Services, SickKids Research Institute; Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁹Pediatric Rheumatology, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ¹⁰UFRJ/UERJ, São Paulo, Brazil, ¹¹Children's Clinical University Hospital, Zemgales priekšpilseta, Riga, Latvia, ¹²Unicamp, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, ¹³University Children's Hospital University Medical Center Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ¹⁴University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁵SRCC Children's Hospital, Mumbai, India, ¹⁶Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, ¹⁷University of Florence, Firenze, Italy, ¹⁸Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁹Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ²⁰Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Charneca da Caparica, Portugal, ²¹Emma Children’s Hospital, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²²Hospital de Niños Dr Orlando Alassia, Santa Fe, Argentina, ²³Dept. of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, ²⁴UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ²⁵University of Milano, Milano, Italy, ²⁶Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, ²⁷Schneider Children's Medical center, Tel Aviv University, Nettnja, Israel, ²⁸Pediatrics, Asklepios Klinik Sankt Augustin GmbH, Sankt Augustin, Germany, ²⁹SRI RAMACHANDRA INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH, Chennai, India, ³⁰Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Nuremberg, Germany, ³¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ³²Stony Brook Children's Hospital, East Setauket, NY, ³³University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, ³⁴Department of Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital – Department of Internal Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium – Unit for Molecular Immunology and Inflammation, VIB Inflammation Research Center (IRC), Gent, Belgium, ³⁵Hamburg Centre for Pediatric and Adolescence Rheumatology, Hamburg, Germany
Background/Purpose: Juvenile systemic scleroderma (jSSc) is an orphan disease with a prevalence of 3 in 1,000,000 children. Currently no medications are licensed for the treatment…
Abstract Number: 1062 • ACR Convergence 2022
Lung Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Systemic Sclerosis Associated Interstitial Lung Disease: Potentiality and Comparison with Other Imaging Techniques
Marco Di Battista¹, Chiara Romei², Simone Barsotti¹, Mattia Da Rio³, Giammarco De Mattia³, Alessio Milazzo², Annalisa De Liperi², Alessandra Della Rossa³ and Marta Mosca¹, ¹Rheumatology Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ²Radiology Unit, University of Pisa, Pisa, Toscana, Italy, ³Rheumatology Unit, University of Pisa, PISA, Toscana, Italy
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is one of the most severe complications in systemic sclerosis (SSc). The diagnosis and monitoring of ILD is based on…
Abstract Number: 1184 • ACR Convergence 2022
Intracellular Calcium Signals Regulate the Pro-fibrotic Phenotype of Scleroderma Fibroblasts via Calcium/calmodulin-dependent Kinase II
Sirapa Vichaikul¹, William Brodie², Megan Mattichak², Qi Wu², Dinesh Khanna² and Eliza Pei-Suen Tsou², ¹Michigan Medicine, Howell, MI, ²University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Background/Purpose: We performed an in-depth analysis of the involvement of histone reader bromodomain extra-terminal proteins (BETs) in scleroderma (SSc) fibrosis and showed that JQ1, a…
Abstract Number: 1536 • ACR Convergence 2022
Progressive Interstitial Lung Disease Is Frequent Also in Late Disease Stages in Systemic Sclerosis Patients from EUSTAR
Anna-Maria Hoffmann-Vold¹, Cathrine Brunborg¹, Paolo Airò², Lidia P. Ananyeva³, László Czirják⁴, Serena Guiducci⁵, Eric Hachulla⁶, MENGTAO LI⁷, Carina Mihai⁸, Gabriela Riemekasten⁹, Petros P. Sfikakis¹⁰, Gabriele Valentini¹¹, Otylia Kowal-Bielecka¹², Yannick Allanore¹³ and Oliver Distler⁸, ¹Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ²Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Unit, ASST Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy, ³V.A. Nasonova Research Institute of Rheumatology, Moscow, Russia, ⁴Medical school of Pécs, Pecs, Hungary, ⁵University of Firenze, Firenze, Italy, ⁶University of Lille, Lille, France, ⁷Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases, Ministry of Science & Technology, Key Laboratory of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Ministry of Science & Technology, Beijing, China, ⁸Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, ⁹University Clinic Schleswit-Holstein (UKSH), Luebeck, Germany, ¹⁰Joint Academic Rheumatology Program, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece, ¹¹Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Napoli, Italy, ¹²Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland, ¹³Department of Rheumatology A, Descartes University, APHP, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: Short disease duration is a well known predictor for progressive systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD), but studies assessing ILD progression in later disease…
Abstract Number: 2159 • ACR Convergence 2022
Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease in an Australian Scleroderma Cohort – Associations and Effect of Treatment
Alannah Quinlivan¹, Dennis Neuen², Dylan Hansen³, Wendy Stevens³, Laura Ross⁴, Nava Ferdowsi³, Susanna Proudman⁵, Jenny Walker⁶, Jo Sahhar⁷, Gene-Siew Ngian⁸, Diane Apostolopoulos⁹, Lauren Host¹⁰, Gabor Major¹¹, Kathleen Morrisroe³ and Mandana Nikpour¹², ¹St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne and the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, ²Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, Australia, ³St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, ⁴The University of Melbourne at St. Vincent's Hospital, Brunswick, Australia, ⁵University of Adelaide, Medindie, Australia, ⁶Flinders Medical Centre, Flinders University, Daw Park, Australia, ⁷Monash Health, Melbourne, Australia, ⁸Melbourne Health, Northcote, Australia, ⁹Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, ¹⁰Fiona Stanley Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ¹¹Hunter New England Health Service, Rankin Park - Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, ¹²The University of Melbourne at St. Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Background/Purpose: To investigate the association between gastroesophageal reflux disease (GORD) and interstitial lung disease (ILD) and determine the effect of GORD treatment on survival in…
Abstract Number: 0516 • ACR Convergence 2022
Identifying Current Assessment and Treatment Strategies in Juvenile Systemic Sclerosis: An International Effort to Improve Patient Outcomes
Natalia Vasquez Canizares¹, Clare Pain², Marinka Twilt³, Amra Adrovic Yildiz⁴, Simone Appenzeller⁵, Edoardo Marrani⁶, Emanuela Del Giudice⁷, Antonella Petaccia⁸, Francesca Tirelli⁹, Gabriele Simonini¹⁰, Marco Cattalini¹¹, Ozgur Kasapcopur¹², Raju Khubchandani¹³, Kathryn Torok¹⁴, Betul Sozeri¹⁵, Biagio Castaldi¹⁶, Katherine Clarke¹⁷, Phuoc Duong¹⁷, Aybuke Gunalp¹⁸, meiping lu¹⁹, Hanna Lythgoe², Amanda Robinson¹⁴, Lauren Robinson²⁰, Paulo Rogerio Julio²¹, Susan Shenoi²², Emily Willis²³, Mustafa Çakan¹⁵, Valentina Leone²⁴, Rongjun Zheng¹⁹, Phillip Lawrence¹⁷, Franziska Rosser²⁵, Sarah Mayell², Lusine Ambartsumyan²⁶, Aurelia Minuti²⁷, Francesco Zulian²⁸ and Suzanne Li²⁹, ¹Children's Hospital at Montefiore/ Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, ²Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom, ³Alberta Children's Hospital, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁴School of Medicine, KOC University, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁵Unicamp, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, ⁶AOU Meyer, Florence, Italy, ⁷Sapienza University of Rome, Pediatric and Neonatology Unit, Maternal and Child Department, Rome, Italy, ⁸Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy, ⁹Women's and Child's Health, University Hospital of Padova, Padova, Italy, ¹⁰Meyer Children's Hospital, Florence, Italy, ¹¹Pediatric Clinic, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy, ¹²Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Cerrahpaşa Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey, ¹³SRCC Children's Hospital, Mumbai, India, ¹⁴Pediatric Rheumatology, Children's Hospital of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, ¹⁵University of Health Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey, ¹⁶Women's and Child's Health, University Hospital of Padova, Padua, Italy, ¹⁷Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom, ¹⁸Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey, ¹⁹Children’s Hospital of Zhejiang University Medical School, Zhejiang, China, ²⁰Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²¹University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, ²²Seattle Children's Hospital and Research Center / University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²³Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom, ²⁴Ismett, UPMC, Palermo, Italy, ²⁵University of Pittsburgh, Children’s Hospital of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, ²⁶Seattle Children's Hospital, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²⁷D. Samuel Gottesman Library Research and Education, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ²⁸University of Padua, Padua, Italy, ²⁹Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital, West Orange, NJ
Background/Purpose: Juvenile Systemic Sclerosis (jSSc) is an autoimmune and fibrosing disease associated with significant morbidity and mortality risk. Data on treatment is limited and based…
Abstract Number: 1063 • ACR Convergence 2022
Assessment of Calcinosis in Portuguese Patients with Systemic Sclerosis – a Multicenter Study
Beatriz Samões¹, Diogo Fonseca¹, Tiago Beirão¹, Flavio Costa¹, Romana Vieira¹, Georgina Terroso², Raquel Ferreira², Rafaela teixeira³, André Saraiva⁴, Maria João Henriques⁵, Ana Catarina Duarte⁶, Ana Cristina Cordeiro⁶, Paulo Vilas-Boas⁷, Inês Genrinho³, Ana Bento da Silva⁸, Laura Gago⁸, Catarina Resende⁹, Patricia Martins⁹, Nathalie Madeira¹⁰, Sara Paiva Dinis¹⁰, Maura Couto³, Inês Santos³, Filipe Araújo¹¹, Ana Filipa Mourão¹¹, Miguel Guerra¹², Margarida Oliveira¹², Alexandra Daniel¹³, Marília Rodrigues¹³, Catarina Soares¹⁴, Hugo Parente¹⁵, Carolina Furtado¹⁶, Tomás Fontes¹⁶ and Joana Abelha-Aleixo¹, ¹Rheumatology Department, Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia / Espinho, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, ²Rheumatology department, Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João, Porto, Portugal, ³Rheumatology department, Centro Hospitalar Tondela-Viseu, Viseu, Portugal, ⁴Rheumatology department, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, ⁵Rheumatology department, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Lisboa, Portugal, ⁶Rheumatology department, Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal, ⁷Rheumatology Department, Centro Hospitalar Baixo Vouga, Aveiro, Portugal, ⁸Rheumatology department, Hospital de Egas Moniz, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental, Lisboa, Portugal, ⁹Rheumatology department, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Lisboa Norte, Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, ¹⁰Rheumatology department, Unidade Local de Saúde da Guarda - Hospital Sousa Martins, Guarda, Portugal, ¹¹Rheumatology and Osteoporosis Unit, Hospital de Sant´Ana, SCML, Lisboa, Portugal, ¹²Rheumatology Department, Centro Hospitalar Universitário da Cova da Beira, Covilhã, Portugal, ¹³Rheumatology department, Hospital Distrital de Leiria, Leiria, Portugal, ¹⁴Rheumatology department, Unidade Local de Saúde do Alto Minho, Ponte de Lima, Viana do Castelo, Portugal, ¹⁵Rheumatology department, Unidade Local de Saúde do Alto Minho, Ponte de Lima, Portugal, ¹⁶Rheumatology department, Hospital do Divino Espírito Santo, Ponta Delgada, Portugal
Background/Purpose: Calcinosis is a challenging problem among Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) patients with a reported prevalence of 18-49%. We aim to define the prevalence of clinical…
Abstract Number: 1185 • ACR Convergence 2022
Interleukin-11 Promotes Fibrosis Through Classic and Trans-signaling Pathway in Systemic Sclerosis
Wenjing Ye¹, Qian Wang¹, Li Zhao², Changcheng Wang³, Dandan Zhang⁴, Mengyu Zhou⁴, Fangfang Chen², Zaihua Zhu², Weiguo Wang², Wenyu Guo⁵, Yun Liu⁴, Hejian Zou² and Yu Xue², ¹epartment of Rheumatology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, ²Department of Rheumatology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, ³Department of General Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, ⁴MOE Key Laboratory of Metabolism and Molecular Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, ⁵Clinical Development, I-Mab Biopharma (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd, Shanghai, China
Background/Purpose: Interleukin-11 (IL-11) was found significantly upregulated in Systemic sclerosis (SSc), the aim of this study is to explore the pathological role of IL-11 and…
Abstract Number: 1540 • ACR Convergence 2022
Correlations of Soluble Interleukin-2 Receptor Serum Levels with Markers of Inflammation and Pathological High-sensitivity Troponin T and Its Possible Role as a Predictor of Early Clinical Progress in Systemic Sclerosis
Luise Schumacher¹, Sebastian Klapa², Antje Mueller³ and Gabriela Riemekasten⁴, ¹University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany, ²Universityhospital Schleswig-Holstein; University of Lübeck; Clinic of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Luebeck, Germany, ³University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Lübeck, ⁴University Clinic Schleswit-Holstein (UKSH), Luebeck, Germany
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is characterized by chronic inflammation leading to damage of the vascular endothelium and excessive collagen deposition in several target organs. The…
Abstract Number: 2167 • ACR Convergence 2022
Autoantibodies in Patients with Early Systemic Sclerosis in the Collaborative National Quality and Efficacy Registry
Alyssa Bosso¹, Shervin Assassi², Tracy Frech³, Jessica Gordon⁴, Elana Bernstein⁵, Carrie Richardson⁶, Nora Sandorfi⁷, Laura Hummers⁸, Ami Shah⁹, Dinesh Khanna¹⁰, Lorinda Chung¹¹, Flavia Castelino¹², Faye Hant¹³, Victoria Shanmugam¹⁴, John VanBuren¹⁵, Angela Larkin¹⁶, Luke Evnin¹⁷ and Virginia Steen¹⁸, ¹Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, ²McGovern Medical School, University of Texas, Houston, TX, ³Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ⁴Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁵Columbia University, New York, NY, ⁶Northwestern University, Riverside, IL, ⁷University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁸Johns Hopkins Univerisity, Baltimore, MD, ⁹Johns Hopkins Rheumatology, Baltimore, MD, ¹⁰Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Scleroderma Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ¹¹Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ¹²Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ¹³Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ¹⁴George Washington University, Great Falls, VA, ¹⁵University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ¹⁶University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT, ¹⁷Scleroderma Research Foundation, Brisbane, CA, ¹⁸Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
Background/Purpose: We sought to describe the autoantibody profile of SSc patients with early disease and examine the clinical, laboratory and prognostic features associated with these…
Abstract Number: 0518 • ACR Convergence 2022
Changes in Skin Fibroblast Polarization Gene Expression Herald Clinical Improvement in Early, Diffuse Cutaneous Systemic Sclerosis
Kimberly Showalter Lakin¹, Deanna Jannat-Khah, DrPH, MSPH¹, Yajas Shah², Olivier Elemento², Aliza Bloostein¹, Jessica Gordon¹, Michael Whitfield³, Barbara White⁴, Dana Orange⁵ and Robert Spiera¹, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ³Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Data Science, Lebanon, NH, ⁴Corbus Pharmaceuticals, Pleasanton, CA, ⁵The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: We previously identified a group of genes associated with high alpha-smooth muscle actin (aSMA) and low CD34 fibroblast staining in lesional systemic sclerosis (SSc)…
Abstract Number: 1066 • ACR Convergence 2022
Capillaroscopic Findings in Autoimmune Connective Tissue Diseases: Results from 20 Years of Experience in a Training Referral Center
Elvis Hysa, Carmen Pizzorni, Silvia Sammori, Emanuele Gotelli, Andrea Pogna, andrea cere, Carlotta Schenone, Veronica Gerli, sabrina Paolino, Alberto Sulli and Maurizio Cutolo, Laboratory of Experimental Rheumatology and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, IRCCS San Martino Polyclinic Hospital, Genova, Italy
Background/Purpose: Nailfold videocapillaroscopy (NVC) allows the safe and fast detection of different microvascular patterns in patients affected by autoimmune connective tissue diseases (CTDs). The prevalence of…
Abstract Number: 1191 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Risk of Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis: A Population-Based, Matched Cohort Study
HSIN-HUA CHEN¹ and Tsai-Hung Yen², ¹Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, ²Division of General Medicine, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
Background/Purpose: The pathologic hallmarks of systemic sclerosis (SSc) included a non-inflammatory obliterative vasculopathy affecting small arteries and arterioles in multiple vascular beds. Whether macrovascular involvement…
Abstract Number: 1541 • ACR Convergence 2022
MRI Digital Artery Volume Index (DAVIX) Predicts Future Digital Ulcers and Disease Progression in Systemic Sclerosis
Michael Hughes¹, Stefano Di Donato², Klodian Gjeloshi³, Giuseppina Abignano⁴, Fiammetta Danzo³, Giovanni Lettieri G⁴, Enrico De Lorenzis², Dominic Bertham⁵, Philip O’Connor², Olga Kubassova⁶ and Francesco Del Galdo², ¹Department of Rheumatology, Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust & The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ²Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ³University of Campania ‘‘Luigi Vanvitelli’’, Napoli, Italy, ⁴Istituto Reumatologico Lucano (IReL), Azienda Ospedaliera Regionale San Carlo, Potenza, Italy, ⁵NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom, ⁶Image Analysis Group, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Fibroproliferative vasculopathy in systemic sclerosis (SSc) is caused by neointima proliferation is a key pathologic feature of SSc which results in arterial vessel narrowing…
Abstract Number: 2168 • ACR Convergence 2022
A Novel Pharmaco-Interventional Approach for the Treatment of Refractory Digital Ischemia in Systemic Sclerosis – Percutaneous Revascularization Combined with Intravenous Vasodilatory Therapy
Lily Romero Karam¹, Kevin Honan¹, Salman Arain¹ and Maureen Mayes², ¹University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, ²Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunogenetics, University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX
Background/Purpose: The combination of Raynaud´s Phenomenon (RP) and vasculopathy, characterized by intimal proliferation and fibrosis, endothelial dysfunction, and smooth-muscle activation, can lead to severe digital…

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