Abstracts tagged "Vasculitis"

Abstract Number: 0459 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Use of Intravenous Methylprednisolone in Patients with Giant Cell Arteritis: A Population-Based Study
Hampus Henningson¹, Björn Hammar², Carl Turesson³ and Aladdin Mohammad¹, ¹Rheumatology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, ²Ophthalmology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, ³Rheumatology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common vasculitis in the age-group 50 years and older. Cranial involvement is common and can lead to…
Abstract Number: 0483 • ACR Convergence 2022
Giant Cell Arteritis: Physical Examination of the Superficial Temporal Arteries Can Predict Temporal Artery Biopsy Result
Giuseppe Germanò¹, Pierluigi macchioni², Giulia Klinowski¹, Alberto Cavazza³, Luigi Boiardi³ and Carlo Salvarani⁴, ¹Arcispedale IRCCS Santa Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, ²Arcispedale IRCCS Santa Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ³Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ⁴Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Background/Purpose: The detection of temporal arterial abnormalities (TA) is one of the ACR 1990 criteria to define the diagnosis of cranial Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA).…
Abstract Number: 0979 • ACR Convergence 2022
Belimumab Effects on Skin in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Pooled Post Hoc Analysis of Five Phase 3, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trials
Susan Manzi¹, Jorge Sanchez-Guerrero², Naoto Yokogawa³, Joerg Wenzel⁴, Josephine C. Ocran-Appiah⁵, Munther Khamashta⁶, Julia H N Harris⁷, Bernie Rubin⁸, Norma Lynn Fox⁹, Roger A Levy¹⁰ and Victoria Werth¹¹, ¹Allegheny Health Network, Lupus Center of Excellence, Wexford, PA, ²University of Toronto, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine Mount Sinai Hospital/University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, Department of Rheumatic Diseases, Tokyo, Japan, ⁴University Hospital of Bonn, Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Bonn, Germany, ⁵GlaxoSmithKline, Clinical Science Immunology, Rockville, MD, ⁶GlaxoSmithKline, Medical Affairs, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, ⁷GlaxoSmithKline, Immunology Biostatistics, Brentford, United Kingdom, ⁸GlaxoSmithKline, US Medical Affairs and Immuno-inflammation, Durham, NC, ⁹GlaxoSmithKline, Clinical Development *At time of study, Collegeville, PA, ¹⁰GlaxoSmithKline, Global Medical Affairs, Collegeville, PA, ¹¹Philadelphia VAMC, Philadelphia, PA, USA and Department of Dermatology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Background/Purpose: Mucocutaneous manifestations affect >80% of patients (pts) with SLE and can contribute to their poor quality of life through unwanted attention, self-consciousness, emotional symptoms,…
Abstract Number: 1549 • ACR Convergence 2022
Toward Safer Glucocorticoid Therapy
Xingyu Pan¹, Qiongqiong Hou¹, Jiahui Xu¹, Yake Ma¹, Jiawen Li¹, Min Li¹, Jing Su¹, Xuerou Shi¹, William Bracken² and David Katz², ¹WuXi AppTec, Nantong, China, ²Sparrow Pharmaceuticals, Portland, OR
Background/Purpose: SPI-62 is a potent 11b-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (HSD-1) inhibitor entering Phase 2 development as adjunctive therapy to prednisolone in polymyalgia rheumatica, as well…
Abstract Number: 1573 • ACR Convergence 2022
Von – Willebrand Factor, a Possible Marker for Disease Activity in Vasculitis
Jomana mazareeb¹, shiri keret¹, Abid Awisat¹, Itzhak Rosner², Michel Rozenbaum³, Lisa Kaly¹, Gleb Slobodin¹ and Doron Rimar¹, ¹Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel, ²Bnai Zion Medical Center/Technion, Haifa, Israel, ³Bnei Zion Medical Center, Hertzeliya, Israel
Background/Purpose: Vasculitis is an inflammation of blood vessels. While in many cases markers of inflammation as c- reactive protein (CRP) or erythrocytes sedimentation rate (ESR)…
Abstract Number: 2229 • ACR Convergence 2022
Ultrasound Localization Microscopy as a New Tool for Takayasu’s Arteritis Activity Assessment, a Deep Insight Within Carotid Wall Inflammation
Guillaume Goudot¹, Anatole Jimenez², Nassim Mohamedi³, jonas Sitruk³, Lina Khider¹, Hélène Mortelette³, Clément Papadacci², Fabien Hyafil⁴, Mickaël Tanter², Emmanuel Messas¹, Mathieu Pernot² and Tristan Mirault¹, ¹Vascular medicine department, Georges Pompidou European hospital, APHP, Université Paris Cité, INSERM U970 PARCC, Paris, Ile-de-France, France, ²Physics for Medicine Paris, INSERM U1273, ESPCI Paris, CNRS FRE 2031, PSL Research University, Paris, France, ³Vascular medicine department, Georges Pompidou European hospital, APHP, Université Paris Cité, Paris, Ile-de-France, France, ⁴Nuclear medicine department, Georges Pompidou European hospital, APHP, Universite Paris Cite, INSERM U970 PARCC, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Background/Purpose: Use of sulphur hexafluoride microbubbles (MB) with ultrasound allow to assess arterial wall vascularization through signal enhancement. The use of ultrafast imaging with MB…
Abstract Number: 0460 • ACR Convergence 2022
Baseline Glucocorticoid Toxicity in the Treatment of Giant Cell Arteritis: A Post Hoc Analysis of the GiACTA Trial
Naomi Patel¹, Xiaoqing Fu², yuqing zhang³ and John Stone⁴, ¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Sale Creek, TN, ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Quincy, MA, ⁴Massachusetts General Hospital Rheumatology Unit, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) requires treatment with high-dose, long-term glucocorticoids (GCs). The development of future GC toxicities may be predicted by baseline toxicities. Thus,…
Abstract Number: 0485 • ACR Convergence 2022
Assessing the Effectiveness of Tocilizumab in Newly Diagnosed Giant Cell Arteritis versus Refractory/recurrent Giant Cell Arteritis in Clinical Practice
Julio Sánchez-Martín¹, Javier Loricera², Clara Moriano³, Santos Castañeda⁴, F. Javier Narváez⁵, Vicente Aldasoro⁶, Olga Maiz⁷, Rafael Melero⁸, Juan Ignacio Villa Blanco⁹, Paloma Vela-Casasempere¹⁰, Susana Romero Yuste¹¹, José Luis Callejas¹², Eugenio De Miguel¹³, Eva Galíndez-Agirregoikoa¹⁴, Francisca Sivera¹⁵, Jesus Fernandez¹⁶, Carles Galisteo¹⁷, Ivan Ferraz Amaro¹⁸, Lara Sánchez-Bilbao¹, Monica Calderon-Goercke¹⁹, Miguel Ángel González-Gay²⁰ and Ricardo Blanco², ¹Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ²Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ³Complejo Asistencial Universitario de León, León, Spain, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, IIS-Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ⁵Rheumatology Department, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain, ⁶Hospital Universitario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, ⁷Hospital Universitario de Donostia, San Sebastián, Spain, ⁸Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Vigo, Vigo, Spain, ⁹Sierrallana Hospital, Torrelavega, Spain, ¹⁰Hospital General Universitario Alicante, Alicante, Spain, ¹¹Complexo Hospitalario Universitario, Pontevedra, Spain, ¹²Hospital San Cecilio, Granada, Spain, ¹³Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁴Basurto University Hospital, Bilbao, Spain, ¹⁵Hospital Universitario de Elda, San Vicente del Raspeig, Spain, ¹⁶Hospital de La Coruña, La Coruña, Spain, ¹⁷Hospital Parc Tauli,, Sabadel, Spain, ¹⁸Division of Rheumatology. Hospital Universitario de Canarias. Spain., Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, ¹⁹Hospital de Sierrallana, Torrelavega, Spain, ²⁰Department of Medicine and Psychiatry, Universidad de Cantabria; Rheumatology Division, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla; Research group on genetic epidemiology and atherosclerosis in systemic diseases and in metabolic diseases of the musculoskeletal system, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain. Cardiovascular Pathophysiology and Genomics Research Unit, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Background/Purpose: Tocilizumab (TCZ) is the only biologic drug approved in giant cell arteritis (GCA), based in two clinical trials (CT) (1,2). CT included selected patients…
Abstract Number: 1072 • ACR Convergence 2022
Efficacy and Safety Assessment of a Rituximab Biosimilar in Patients with Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (GPA)
Adil Vural¹, Komal Mushtaq¹, Chao Zhang¹, Mahmoud Alwakeel¹, Vickie Sayles¹, Kristine Duly², Carol Langford¹ and Rula Hajj-Ali³, ¹Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ²Cleveland Clinic, Fairview Park, OH, ³Cleveland Clinic, Hunting Valley, OH
Background/Purpose: A biosimilar is a medication that is highly similar to a biologic agent that is already approved by a regulatory organization. Considering the share…
Abstract Number: 1550 • ACR Convergence 2022
Involvement of Iliofemoral Arteries in PET/CT Are Associated with Atherosclerotic Risk Factors in Takayasu’s Arteritis
SEMA KAYMAZ-TAHRA¹, Salih Ozguven², Nuh Filizoglu², Ali Ugur Unal³, Fatma Alibaz-Oner⁴, Tunc Ones², Tanju Yusuf Erdil² and Haner Direskeneli⁵, ¹Sancaktepe Prof Dr Ilhan Varank Training and Research Hospital, Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Marmara University School of Medicine, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ³Marmara University School of Medicine, Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁴Marmara University, Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁵Marmara University, Rheumatology, Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Background/Purpose: Iliofemoral artery disease, which is commonly observed in severe atherosclerosis, may also be present in Takayasu's arteritis (TAK). In this study we aimed to…
Abstract Number: 1574 • ACR Convergence 2022
Vasculitides as Medication-Associated Adverse Events Based on a National Database Reporting System
Alicia Rodriguez-Pla, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ
Background/Purpose: Vasculitides have been reported as adverse events (AEs) related to a wide variety of medications. We aimed to analyze the vasculitides reported to a…
Abstract Number: 2230 • ACR Convergence 2022
Ultra-Rare Genetic Variation in Relapsing Polychondritis: A Whole-Exome Sequencing Study
Yiming Luo¹, Marcela Ferrada¹, Keith Sikora², Daniel Kastner³, Zuoming Deng⁴, Mengqi Zhang⁵, Hugh Alessi¹, Virginia Kraus⁶, Andrew Allen⁶ and Peter Grayson⁷, ¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ²National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD, ³National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD, ⁴National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ⁵University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁶Duke University, Durham, NC, ⁷National Institutes of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a rare rheumatic disease of unknown etiology characterized by inflammations of cartilaginous structures and other tissues, particularly the ears, nose,…
Abstract Number: 0462 • ACR Convergence 2022
Increasing Incidence of Large Artery Manifestations in Patients with Giant Cell Arteritis, a Population-based Cohort over 70 Years
Mohanad Elfishawi¹, Mahmut Kaymakci², Sara Achenbach³, Cynthia Crowson⁴, Tanaz Kermani⁵, Cornelia Weyand⁴, Matthew J. Koster¹ and Kenneth J. Warrington¹, ¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, ³Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, Rochester, MN, ⁴Mayo Clinic, Eyota, MN, ⁵University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: Screening for large artery manifestations has been adopted by clinicians managing patients with Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA). The contemporary effect of the increased use…
Abstract Number: 0487 • ACR Convergence 2022
A Systematic Literature Review to Generate Descriptors for the Development of New Response Criteria in Giant Cell Arteritis
Catalina Sanchez Alvarez¹, Milena Bond², Medha Soowamber³, Dario Camellino⁴, Zahi Touma⁵, Sofia Ramiro⁶, Melanie Anderson⁷, Carol Langford⁸ and Christian Dejaco⁹, ¹University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²Hospital of Brunico (SABES-ASDAA), Brunico, Italy, ³Mount Sinai Hospital, Woodbridge, ON, Canada, ⁴Azienda Sanitaria Locale 3 Genoa, Genoa, Italy, ⁵Schroeder Arthritis Institute, Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁷University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁸Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ⁹Azienda Sanitaria Alto Adige, Brunico, Italy
Background/Purpose: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common form of large vessel vasculitis. While remission and relapse are common primary endpoints in clinical trials,…
Abstract Number: 1075 • ACR Convergence 2022
Efficacy of Mepolizumab in Patients with Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis and a Vasculitic Phenotype
Benjamin Terrier¹, David Jayne², Bernhard Hellmich³, Jane Bentley⁴, Jonathan Steinfeld⁵, Steven Yancey⁶, Namhee Kwon⁷, Praveen Akuthota⁸, Paneez Khoury⁹, Lee Baylis¹⁰ and Michael Wechsler¹¹, ¹National Referral Center for Rare Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France, ²University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ³Klinik für Innere Medizin, Rheumatologie & Immunologie, Medius Kliniken, Universität Tübingen, Plochingen, Germany, ⁴Clinical Statistics, GlaxoSmithKline, Brentford, United Kingdom, ⁵Clinical Sciences, Respiratory, GSK (affiliation at time of research), Philadelphia, PA, ⁶Respiratory Therapeutic Area, GSK (affiliation at the time of research), Research Triangle Park, NC, ⁷Clinical Sciences, Respiratory, GSK, Brentford, United Kingdom, ⁸Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA, ⁹Human Eosinophil Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ¹⁰Global Medical Affairs, GlaxoSmithKline, Durham, NC, ¹¹Department of Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO
Background/Purpose: Patients with eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) can have vasculitic or eosinophilic phenotypes. The MIRRA study demonstrated that patients with EGPA spent more time…

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