Abstracts tagged "Systemic sclerosis"

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…
Abstract Number: 0519 • ACR Convergence 2022
Myeloablation Followed by Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Leads to Long-term Normalization of Systemic Sclerosis Molecular Signatures
Nancy Wareing¹, Xuan Wang², Lynette Keyes-Elstein³, Ellen Goldmuntz⁴, Marka Lyons⁵, Peter McSweeney⁶, Daniel Furst⁷, Richard Nash⁶, Leslie Crofford⁸, Beverly Welch⁹, Ashley Pinckney¹⁰, Maureen Mayes¹¹, Keith Sullivan¹² and Shervin Assassi¹³, ¹UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, ²Baylor Institute for Immunology Research, Dallas, TX, ³Rho, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁴NIAID/ NIH, Washington, DC, ⁵University of Texas McGovern Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX, ⁶Colorado Blood Cancer Institute, Denver, CO, ⁷University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ⁸Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ⁹NIAID/NIH, Bethesda, MD, ¹⁰Rho, St. Louis Park, MN, ¹¹Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunogenetics, University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, ¹²Duke University, Durham, NC, ¹³McGovern Medical School, University of Texas, Houston, TX
Background/Purpose: In the randomized Scleroderma: Cyclophosphamide Or Transplantation (SCOT trial), normalization of systemic sclerosis (SSc) peripheral blood gene expression signatures at the 26-month visit was…
Abstract Number: 1070 • ACR Convergence 2022
Discordance of Patient, Physician and Nurse Practitioner Assessment of Disease Burden in Systemic Sclerosis
Maylen Nordgård Carstens¹, Håvard Fretheim¹, Imon Barua¹, Henriette Didriksen², Torhild Garen¹, Øyvind Midtvedt¹, Øyvind Molberg³ and Anna-Maria Hoffmann-Vold¹, ¹Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ²Oslo University Hospital, Moss, Norway, ³Department of Rheumatology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Oslo, Norway
Background/Purpose: Assessment of disease burden is crucial in the management of systemic sclerosis (SSc). The patient global assessment (PatGA) is a patient self-reported measure widely…
Abstract Number: 1231 • ACR Convergence 2022
[68Ga]- CPCR4 Trifluoroacetate PET/CT Imaging of Chemokine Receptor CXCR4- Expression in Systemic Sclerosis Related Interstitial Lung Disease
Chirag Rajkumar Kopp¹, Shefali Sharma², Venkata Subramanian Krishnaraju³, Chandra Bhushan Prasad³, Jagdeep Singh³, Shashi Anand³, Ranjana Minz³, Ashwani Sood³, Anindita Sinha³, Rajender Kumar Basher³, Sahajal Dhooria³, Varun Dhir⁴ and sanjay jain³, ¹Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India, ²PGIMER< Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India, ³Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India, ⁴PGIMER, CHD, INDIA, Chandigarh, India
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) in Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a major contributor of morbidity and mortality. CXCR4/CXCL12 axis has been implicated in the pathogenesis…
Abstract Number: 1542 • ACR Convergence 2022
Exploratory Clinical Subgroup Clustering in Systemic Sclerosis – Results from the Indian Progressive Systemic Sclerosis Registry
Shery Susan Philip¹, Ramya Janardana¹, Revanesh S Mirji¹, Chengappa Kavadichanda², Devender Bairwa³, Geetabali Sircar⁴, Parasar Ghosh⁵, Anupam Wakhlu⁶, Padmanabha Shenoy⁷, Sumithra Selvam⁸ and Vineeta Shobha¹, ¹St. John’s Medical College Hospital, Bangalore, India, ²JIPMER, Pondicherry, Puducherry, India, ³Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, Puducherry, India, ⁴Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, ⁵Govt of West Bengal, Kolkata, India, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, ⁶Apollo Medics Super Speciality Hospitals, Lucknow, India, ⁷Centre for Arthritis and Rheumatism Excellence (CARE), Cochi, India, ⁸Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, St. John’s Research Institute, St. John's Medical College Hospital, Bangalore, India
Background/Purpose: Classification of systemic sclerosis (SSc) into subsets has been a challenge due to it's heterogeneity. This study attempts to identify SSc subsets based on…
Abstract Number: 2169 • ACR Convergence 2022
Cardiac Rhythm and Conduction Abnormalities in Systemic Sclerosis-meta-analysis
Drashti Antala¹, Angkawipa Trongtorsak¹, Qingqing Meng¹, Akshaya Ramachandran¹, Aanshi Patel², Pabitra Adhikari¹, Prasun Pudasainee¹ and Krutarth Pandya³, ¹Ascension Saint Francis hospital, Evanston, IL, ²B.J. Medical College, Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad, India, ³Trumbull Regional Medical Centre, Warren, OH
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis( SSc) can primarily cause repeated focal ischaemic insults in the myocardium and result in irreversible myocardial fibrosis. Myocardial involvement, when becomes clinically…
Abstract Number: 0393 • ACR Convergence 2021
Severity and Impact of Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Patients with SSc-ILD Treated with Nintedanib: Data from SENSCIS-ON
Dinesh Khanna¹, Elizabeth Volkmann², Kristin B Highland³, Yannick Allanore⁴, Stéphane Jouneau⁵, James R Seibold⁶, Alexandra James⁷, Margarida Alves⁸ and Oliver Distler⁹, ¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of California, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ³Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ⁴Department of Rheumatology A, Descartes University, APHP, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France, ⁵Department of Respiratory Medicine, Competences Centre for Rare Pulmonary Diseases, Univ Rennes, CHU Rennes, Inserm, EHESP, Irset (Institut de recherche en santé, environnement et travail) - UMR_S 1085, F-35000 Rennes, France, Rennes, France, ⁶Scleroderma Research Consultants LLC, Aiken, SC, ⁷Elderbrook solutions GmbH, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany, ⁸Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH, Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany, Ingelheim, Germany, ⁹Center of Experimental Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich/University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: Gastrointestinal (GI) involvement is a common manifestation of systemic sclerosis (SSc) and a frequent side-effect of drugs used to treat SSc. In the SENSCIS…
Abstract Number: 0498 • ACR Convergence 2021
Background Mycophenolate (MMF) Treatment Is Associated with Improved Outcomes in a Phase 3 Trial of Lenabasum in Diffuse Cutaneous Systemic Sclerosis (dcSSc)
Robert Spiera¹, Dan Furst², Tracy Frech³, Masataka Kuwana⁴, Laura Hummers⁵, Wendy Stevens⁶, Suzanne Kafaja⁷, Eun bong Lee⁸, Scott Constantine⁹, Nancy Dgetluck⁹, Barbara White¹⁰ and Christopher Denton¹¹, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ³University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁴Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, Nippon Medical School Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ⁵Johns Hopkins Univerisity, Baltimore, MD, ⁶St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, ⁷University of California Los Angeles Division of Rheumatology, Los Angeles, CA, ⁸Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ⁹Corbus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Norwood, MA, ¹⁰Corbus Pharmaceuticals, Norwood, MA, ¹¹University College London Division of Medicine, Centre for Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Treatment of dcSSc is evolving, with limited information on relative efficacies of different immunosuppressive therapies (IST). Our hypothesis was that patients on MMF have…
Abstract Number: 0764 • ACR Convergence 2021
Patients with Juvenile Systemic Sclerosis Have a Distinct Pattern of Organ Involvement: Results from the Juvenile Systemic Sclerosis Inception Cohort
Ivan Foeldvari¹, Jens Klotsche², Ozgur Kasapcopur³, Amra Adrovic⁴, Kathryn Torok⁵, Maria Terreri⁶, Ana Paula Sakamoto⁷, Flavio Sztajnbok⁸, Brian Feldman⁹, Valda Stanevicha¹⁰, Jordi Anton¹¹, Raju Khubchandani¹², Ekaterina Alexeeva¹³, Sindhu Johnson¹⁴, Maria Martha Katsicas¹⁵, Sujata Sawhney¹⁶, Vanessa Smith¹⁷, Simone Appenzeller¹⁸, Tadej Avcin¹⁹, Mikhail Kostik²⁰, Thomas Lehman²¹, Edoardo Marrani²², Dieneke Schonenberg-Meinema²³, Walter Alberto Sifuentes-Giraldo²⁴, Natalia Vasquez-Canizares²⁵, Mahesh Janarthanan²⁶, Hana Malcova²⁷, Monika Moll²⁸, Dana Nemcova²⁹, Anjali Patwardhan³⁰, Maria José Santos³¹, cristina battagliotti³², Lillemor Berntson³³, Blanca Elena Rios Gomes Bica³⁴, Jürgen Brunner³⁵, Rolando Cimaz³⁶, Patricia Costa Reis³⁷, Despina Eleftheriou³⁸, Liora Harel³⁹, Gerd Horneff⁴⁰, Daniela Kaiser⁴¹, Tilmann Kallinich⁴², Dragana Lazarevic⁴³, Kirsten Minden², Susan Nielsen⁴⁴, Farzana Nuruzzaman⁴⁵, Siri Opsahl Hetlevik⁴⁶, Yosef Uziel⁴⁷ and Nicola Helmus⁴⁸, ¹Hamburger Zentrum fuer Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie, Hamburg, Germany, ²German Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin, Germany, ³Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Cerrahpasa Medical School, İstanbul, Turkey, ⁴Cerrahpasa Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁵University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁶UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil, ⁷Federal University of So Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil, ⁸UFRJ/UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ⁹The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁰Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO), Riga, Latvia, ¹¹Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ¹²Jaslok Hospital and Research Center, Mumbai, India, ¹³Scientific Center of Children Health of RAMS, Moscow, Russia, ¹⁴University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁵Hospital de Pediatria J.P Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¹⁶Pediatric Rheumatology Department, Institute of Child Health, Sir Gangarm Hospital, New Delhi, India, ¹⁷Department of Rheumatology and Internal Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium, ¹⁸Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, ¹⁹University Medical Center Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ²⁰Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, ²¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²²University of Florence, Florence, Italy, ²³Emma Children’s Hospital, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²⁴Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain, ²⁵Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, NY, ²⁶Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, India, ²⁷Motol University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic, ²⁸University Tuebingen, Tübingen, Germany, ²⁹Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ³⁰University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, ³¹Rheumatology Department, Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal, ³²Hospital de Niños Dr Orlando Alassia, Santa Fe, Argentina, ³³Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, ³⁴Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ³⁵Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, ³⁶ASST Gaetano Pini-CTO, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, ³⁷Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal, ³⁸Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, ³⁹Scheiders Children Medical Center of Israel, Petah-Tiqva, Israel, ⁴⁰Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO), Sankt Augustin, Germany, ⁴¹Luzerner Kantonsspital, Kinderspital, Luzern, Switzerland, ⁴²Charité University Medicine, Nuremberg, Germany, ⁴³Dept of Pediatric Rheumatology and Immunology Clinical Center Nis, Nis, Serbia, ⁴⁴Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁴⁵Stony Brook Children's Hospital, Stony Brook, NY, ⁴⁶Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ⁴⁷Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel, ⁴⁸Hamburg Centre for Pediatric and Adolescence Rheumatology, Hamburg, Germany
Background/Purpose: Juvenile systemic sclerosis (jSSc) is a rare disease with a prevalence of around 3 in 1,000,000 children. To better capture the clinical manifestations of…
Abstract Number: 1367 • ACR Convergence 2021
Associations of Esophageal Dysmotility Patterns with Extra-intestinal Features in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis
Ana Tucker¹, Jamie Perin², Elizabeth Volkmann³, Ami Shah⁴, John Pandolfino⁵ and Zsuzsanna McMahan⁴, ¹Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ³Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of California, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Johns Hopkins Rheumatology, Baltimore, MD, ⁵Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: The gastrointestinal (GI) tract is the most commonly affected internal organ in systemic sclerosis (SSc). SSc GI disease is heterogeneous, with some patients experiencing…
Abstract Number: 1436 • ACR Convergence 2021
Expanded PD-1hi CXCR5- HLA-DR+ T Cells Is Associated with Interstitial Lung Disease in Systemic Sclerosis
Mehreen Elahee¹, Alisa Mueller², Runci Wang³, Ye Cao², Andrea Fava⁴, Paul Dellaripa², Francesco Boin⁵ and Deepak Rao², ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Natick, MA, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁵Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, West Hollywood, CA
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is the major cause of morbidity and mortality in systemic sclerosis (SSc), yet there are few biomarkers to identify pathologic…

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