Successful 2021 EULAR Congress

The European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) annual congress is the largest European congress on rheumatic diseases with >15,000 attendees. The scientific programme covers a wide range of topics on clinical innovations in rheumatology from basic, translational, and clinical sciences. This year, our group was well represented with 8 accepted abstracts. This included the following presentations:

Dr. Theresa Burkard

• The association between bariatric surgery and carpal tunnel syndrome: a cohort study from Swedish nationwide healthcare registries - Oral Guided Poster Tour (link: external page https://ard.bmj.com/content/80/Suppl_1/207.2)
• The associations between bariatric surgery and hip or knee arthroplasty, and hip or knee osteoarthritis: a cohort study from Swedish nationwide healthcare registries – Oral Podium Presentations (link: external page https://ard.bmj.com/content/80/Suppl_1/59.2)
• The associations between disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs and incident, and progression of, radiographic hand osteoarthritis in rheumatoid arthritis patients – Oral Guided Poster Tour (link: external page https://ard.bmj.com/content/80/Suppl_1/272.2)
• The association between bariatric surgery and Dupuytren disease: a cohort study from Swedish nationwide healthcare registries – Poster (link: external page https://ard.bmj.com/content/80/Suppl_1/974.3)
• Description and follow-up of rheumatoid arthritis patients who stopped b/tsDMARD therapy, stratified by cessation reason – Conference Publication (link: external page https://ard.bmj.com/content/80/Suppl_1/1128.1)

Enriqueta Vallejo Yagüe

• Comparison of patient characteristics and treatment patterns across body mass index categories in patients with psoriatic arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis - Oral Guided Poster Tour (link: external page https://ard.bmj.com/content/80/Suppl_1/323.2)
• Response to Biologic Therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Rethinking Our Classification – Poster (link: external page https://ard.bmj.com/content/80/Suppl_1/462.1)

Maria Luisa Faquetti

• Off-target profiling of Janus Kinase (JAK) inhibitors in rheumatoid arthritis: a computer-based approach for drug safety studies and repurposing - Oral Guided Poster Tour (link: external page https://ard.bmj.com/content/80/Suppl_1/255.2)

All of the abstracts from the conference are published in the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases, which is available online with open access here (link: external page https://ard.bmj.com/content/80/Suppl_1)

Next up for our group are presentations at the International Conference for Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety (ICPE) – stay tuned for further updates.