EULAR 2024: Do Not Miss – Vasculitis and other connective tissue diseases

Gozde Kubra Yardimci

Gozde completed her rheumatology fellowship at Hacettepe University Medical Faculty in Ankara,
and has started her VCRC-Vasculitis Foundation Fellowship. She is currently working as a clinical fellow at the Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto. Her major interests are vasculitis, Pregnancy & Rheumatic diseases. Gozde is a member of the Newsletter Sub-Committee.

Oral 0123 | Thursday 13.06.2024 10:30 AM – 12:00
Clinical Abstract Sessions: Vasculitis across different vessel sizes
Author: Vieira, M (France)
Title: Infliximab versus Cyclophosphamide for severe Behçet’s syndrome

The first randomized multicenter controlled trial shows induction therapy with infliximab has better complete remission rate and safer profile as compared to cyclophosphamide.
Poster 0207 | Thursday 13.06.2024 14:45 – 15:45
Clinical Poster Tours: Clinical aspects of small vessel vasculitis – Part 1
Author: Okazaki, A (Japan)
Title: Identification of four novel clinical subtypes in patients with microscopic polyangiitis using cluster analysis: multicenter REVEAL cohort study

This study attempts to identify unique subgroups with different MPA outcomes and reveals four new clinical phenotypes.
Poster 0077 | Thursday 13.06.2024 09:30 – 10:30
Clinical Poster Tours: Novelties in Takayasu arteritis and Giant Cell arteritis
Author: López-Gutiérrez, F (Spain)
Title: Effectiveness of janus kinase inhibitors in relapsing giant cell arteritis in real-world clinical practice and review of the literature

This retrospective observational study evaluates the effectiveness of janus kinase inhibitors in relapsing giant cell arteritis.
Poster 0210 | Thursday 13.06.2024 14:45 – 15:45
Clinical Poster Tours: Clinical aspects of small vessel vasculitis – Part 1
Author: Klapa, S (Germany)
Title: Increased risk for cardiac and vascular morbidity in ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV): large-scale propensity-matched global retrospective cohort study

Major adverse cardiovascular events and death increased in patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis (higher in MPA compared to GPA) according to a large global electronic health record database study. The AAbs profile is decisive in all patients with AD-ILD and may be linked to both expected and atypical disease characteristics.
Oral 0188 | Thursday 13.06.2024 10:30 AM – 12:00
Clinical Abstract Sessions: Vasculitis across different vessel sizes
Author: Hellmich, B (Germany)
Title: Effect of Benralizumab versus Mepolizumab on Reduction in Oral Glucocorticoid Use in Patients with Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis

In the Phase 3, randomised, double blind 52-week, non-inferiority head-to-head MANDARA study, treatment with either benralizumab or mepolizumab was associated with the ability to reduce oral glucocorticoids use.

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