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    Heart-lung-muscle anti-SAE syndrome : an atypical severe combination

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    A 78-year-old man with 3 months of progressive dyspnea, dysphony, dysgeusia, and proximal muscle weakness was diagnosed of probably idiopathic inflammatory myopathy with nonspecific interstitial pneumonia. Variable degrees of atrioventricular block and persistently elevated cardiac enzymes indicated a diagnosis of myocarditis, confirmed with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and endomyocardial biopsy. A comprehensive immune work-up revealed anti-small ubiquitin-like modifier-1 activating enzyme (anti-SAE) antibody, a novel myositis-specific antibody, previously described mainly with overt cutaneous dermatomyositis and late skeletal muscle manifestations. Here, heart-lung-muscle involvement combined with anti-SAE antibodies was a severe combination

    Incidence and clinical manifestations of giant cell arteritis in Spain: results of the ARTESER register

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    Objective This study aimed to estimate the incidence of giant cell arteritis (GCA) in Spain and to analyse its clinical manifestations, and distribution by age group, sex, geographical area and season.Methods We included all patients diagnosed with GCA between 1 June 2013 and 29 March 2019 at 26 hospitals of the National Health System. They had to be aged >= 50 years and have at least one positive results in an objective diagnostic test (biopsy or imaging techniques), meet 3/5 of the 1990 American College of Rheumatology classification criteria or have a clinical diagnosis based on the expert opinion of the physician in charge. We calculated incidence rate using Poisson regression and assessed the influence of age, sex, geographical area and season.Results We identified 1675 cases of GCA with a mean age at diagnosis of 76.9 +/- 8.3 years. The annual incidence was estimated at 7.42 (95% CI 6.57 to 8.27) cases of GCA per 100 000 people >= 50 years with a peak for patients aged 80-84 years (23.06 (95% CI 20.89 to 25.4)). The incidence was greater in women (10.06 (95% CI 8.7 to 11.5)) than in men (4.83 (95% CI 3.8 to 5.9)). No significant differences were found between geographical distribution and incidence throughout the year (p=0.125). The phenotypes at diagnosis were cranial in 1091 patients, extracranial in 337 patients and mixed in 170 patients.Conclusions This is the first study to estimate the incidence of GCA in Spain at a national level. We found a predominance among women and during the ninth decade of life with no clear variability according to geographical area or seasons of the year

    Anti-carbamylated proteins antibody repertoire in rheumatoid arthritis: Evidence of a new autoantibody linked to interstitial lung disease

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    Objective: To analyse the association between anti-carbamylated protein antibodies (Anti-CarP) and interstitial lung disease (ILD) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. Methods: Cross-sectional study including RA patients fulfilling the 2010 ACR/EULAR criteria. The main population comprised two groups: (1) RA patients diagnosed with RA-ILD (RA-ILD group); (2) RA patients without ILD (non-ILD RA group). Non-ILD RA patients in whom ILD was suspected underwent a diagnostic work-up and, if ILD was diagnosed, were switched to the RA-ILD group. ILD was diagnosed by high-resolution computed tomography and confirmed by a multidisciplinary committee. An independent replication sample was also obtained. Three Anti-CarP IgG autoantibodies against fetal calf serum (Anti-FCS), fibrinogen (Anti-Fib) and chimeric fibrine/filagrine homocitrullinated peptide (Anti-CFFHP) and one Anti-CarP IgA against FCS (Anti-FCS-IgA) were determined by home-made ELISA. Associations between Anti-CarP and ILD were analysed using multivariable logistic regression adjusted by smoking, sex, age, RA disease duration, rheumatoid factor and anticitrullinated protein antibodies. Results: We enrolled 179 patients: 37 (21%) were finally diagnosed with RA-ILD. Anti-CarP specificities were more frequent in RA-ILD patients (Anti-FCS 70% vs 43%; Anti-Fib 73% vs 51%; Anti-CFFHP 38% vs 19%; Anti-CarP-IgA 51% vs 20%, p<0.05 for all comparisons). Serum titers of Anti-CarP were significantly higher in RA-ILD patients. Anti-CarP specificities showed a robust effect towards increasing the odds of ILD in the multivariate analysis (Anti-FCS (OR: 3.42; 95% CI: 1.13 to 10.40), Anti-Fib (OR: 2.85; 95% CI: 0.83 to 9.70), Anti-CFFHP (OR: 3.11; 95% CI: 1.06 to 9.14) and Anti-FCS-IgA (OR: 4.30; 95% CI: 1.41 to 13.04)). Similar findings were observed in the replication sample. Conclusions: Anti-CarP were strongly associated with ILD. The role of homocitrullination in RA-ILD merits further investigation. © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.Financial support from the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Research, Innovation and Education Department (Grant # 37 933 to RC-M and the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness and the European Regional Development Fund (Grant # RTI2018-094120-B-I00 to IH).Peer reviewe

    Single-cell multi-omics analysis of COVID-19 patients with pre-existing autoimmune diseases shows aberrant immune responses to infection

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    This publication is part of the Human Cell Atlas (https://www.humancellatlas.org/publications/). The authors gratefully acknowledge the Sanger Cellular Genetics Informatics team, particularly A. Predeus and S. Murray for their assistance with aligning the published raw data from uninfected MS patients, as well as S. van Dongen, M. Prete, and Q. Lin for their help with online data hosting. We acknowledge the members of the Vento-Tormo and Ballestar groups for useful discussions. A.B. received additional support from a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. This research was funded/supported by the R+D+i project of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (grant number PID2020-117212RB-I00/ MICIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033), the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (grant 2020-216799) and Wellcome Sanger core funding (WT206194). This publication has been supported by the Unstoppable campaign of the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Foundation. B.G., F.J.C.-N., and N.K.W. were funded by Wellcome (206328/Z/17/Z), the MRC (MR/S036113/1), and the Aging Biology Foundation.In COVID-19, hyperinflammatory and dysregulated immune responses contribute to severity. Patients with pre-existing autoimmune conditions can therefore be at increased risk of severe COVID-19 and/or associated sequelae, yet SARS-CoV-2 infection in this group has been little studied. Here, we performed single-cell analysis of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with three major autoimmune diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, or multiple sclerosis) during SARS-CoV-2 infection. We observed compositional differences between the autoimmune disease groups coupled with altered patterns of gene expression, transcription factor activity, and cell-cell communication that substantially shape the immune response under SARS-CoV-2 infection. While enrichment of HLA-DRlow CD14+ monocytes was observed in all three autoimmune disease groups, type-I interferon signaling as well as inflammatory T cell and monocyte responses varied widely between the three groups of patients. Our results reveal disturbed immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 in patients with pre-existing autoimmunity, highlighting important considerations for disease treatment and follow-up
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