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Abstract Number: 1378 • ACR Convergence 2025
Prevalence of Central Nervous System Manifestations in Sjögren’s Disease
Arun Varadhachary¹, Ghaith Noaiseh², Katherine Hammitt³, Julie Frantsve-Hawley³, Paula Barreras Cortes⁴, Shamik Bhattacharyya⁵, E. Sherwood Brown⁶, Drew Carey⁷, Robert Fox⁸, Brent Goodman⁹, Thomas Grader-Beck¹⁰, Janet Lewis¹¹, Stephen Maitz¹², Steven Mandel¹³, Jenifer McCombe¹⁴, Astrid Rasmussen¹⁵, George Sarka¹⁶, Daniel Wallace¹⁷, Frederick Vivino¹⁸, Rochelle Zak¹⁹, Nancy Carteron²⁰, R Hal Scofield¹⁵ and Steven Carsons²¹, ¹Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, ²University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, ³Sjogren's Foundation, Reston, VA, ⁴Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles, CA, ⁵Brigham and Women's Hospital, Malden, MA, ⁶UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ⁷Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁸Rheumatology Clinic, San Diego, CA, ⁹HonorHealth, Scottsdale, AZ, ¹⁰Johns Hopkins, Reisterstown, MD, ¹¹University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, ¹²U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Coatesville, PA, ¹³Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine and Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, NY, ¹⁴University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ¹⁵Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹⁶Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Laguna Hills, CA, ¹⁷Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Studio City, CA, ¹⁸University of Pennsylvania, Bryn Mawr, PA, ¹⁹UCSF Health, San Francisco, CA, ²⁰University of California, Berkeley & San Francisco, Angwin, CA, ²¹NYU Long Island School of Medicine, Mineola, NY
Background/Purpose: Sjögren’s disease is a systemic autoimmune disorder with diverse clinical manifestations affecting multiple organ systems. While dry mouth, dry eyes, fatigue and pain are…
Abstract Number: 1427 • ACR Convergence 2025
Impact of Biologic Therapy on Subclinical Atherosclerosis and Ventricular Function in Psoriatic Arthritis
Rebeca L. Polina-Lugo¹, Oscar Azael Garza-Flores², Fernanda M. Garcia-Garcia³, Esteban C. Garza-Gonzalez⁴, Ricardo I. De la Rosa-Vazquez⁵, Victoria P. Limas-Martínez⁵, Annette Dominguez-Guerra⁵, Jesus Alberto Cardenas-de la Garza⁶, Iris J. Colunga-Pedraza³, Dionicio A. Galarza-Delgado³, Jose R Azpiri-Lopez⁷, Victor M Fraga-Enriquez⁸ and Diego Azamat Salcedo Almanza⁹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, University Hospital "Dr. Jose Eleuterio Gonzalez", Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, ²Rheumatology Service, Hospital Universitario Dr. José Eleuterio González, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Guadalupe, Mexico, ³Rheumatology Service, Hospital Universitario Dr. José Eleuterio González, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico, ⁴Rheumatology Service, Hospital Universitario Dr. José Eleuterio González, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, ⁵Rheumatology Service, Hospital Universitario “Dr. Jose Eleuterio Gonzalez”, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, ⁶Rheumatology Service, University Hospital “Dr. José Eleuterio González”, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, México, Monterrey, Mexico, ⁷Cardiology Service, Hospital Universitario Dr. José Eleuterio González, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico, ⁸Cardiology Service, Hospital Universitario “Dr. Jose Eleuterio Gonzalez”, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, ⁹Radiology Service, Hospital Universitario “Dr. Jose Eleuterio Gonzalez”, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Background/Purpose: Patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) have an increased cardiovascular (CV) risk due to a higher prevalence of comorbidities and chronic systemic inflammation. In those…
Abstract Number: 1424 • ACR Convergence 2025
Mapping Central Nervous System Responses To Painful Stimuli In Patients With Axial Spondyloarthritis
Mohamad Bittar¹, Yvonne Lee², Atul Deodhar³, Jennifer Barton⁴ and Alexander Stevens¹, ¹Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, ²Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ³Division of Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, ⁴VA Portland Health Care System/OHSU, Portland, OR
Background/Purpose: Chronic pain is one of the common causes of disability in axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA). The mechanism behind this pain is not well understood, hindering…
Abstract Number: 1301 • ACR Convergence 2025
Prevalence, Clinical and Genetic Risk Factors, and Time to Cataract Development in Childhood-onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Sirikarn Tangcheewinsirikul¹, Zhaoyu Ding², Nicholas Chan³, Daniela Dominguez³, Andrea Knight⁴, Deborah Levy¹, Lawrence Ng⁵, Earl Silverman¹, Ruud Verstegen¹ and Linda Hiraki¹, ¹The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²SickKids Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, ⁴Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Cataracts are a significant ocular complication in childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (cSLE). This study aimed to assess the prevalence, time to cataract development, and…
Abstract Number: 1313 • ACR Convergence 2025
Retrospective Analysis of Factors Associated With Fracture in 2855 Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis, Stratified by Steroid Use
Jonathan Barnes¹, Hamzah Amin² and marwan Bukhari³, ¹Morecambe Bay NHS Trust, Lancaster, United Kingdom, ²Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, ³University Hospitals of Morecambe bay NHS foundation trust, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Steroids are used in a proportion of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Steroids are known to cause a decrease in bone mineral density (BMD),…
Abstract Number: 1421 • ACR Convergence 2025
Impact of Psoriatic Arthritis Disease Activity and Fatigue on Subjective Cognitive Decline (“Brainfog”)
Lily Mikolajczak¹, Helena Kuhn¹, Leslie Harrold² and George Reed³, ¹Kuchnir Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery, Milford, MA, ²CorEvitas, Northborough, MA, ³University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA
Background/Purpose: Patients with psoriatic arthritis often report having brain fog, describing symptoms such as forgetfulness, difficulty thinking and memory issues. It has been hypothesized that…
Abstract Number: 1376 • ACR Convergence 2025
A Systematic Literature Review on the Economic Burden of Sjögren’s Disease
Nora Sandorfi¹, Lisa Shea², Alexander Keenan², Elizabeth Adamson², Federico Zazzetti³, Soumya Chakravarty⁴, Donna Gotshall⁵, Jyotika Gandhi⁶, Sandip Ranjan⁶ and Esen Akpek⁷, ¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Philadelphia, ²Johnson & Johnson, Horsham, PA, USA, Horsham, PA, ³Johnson & Johnson, Horsham, PA, USA, Ambler, PA, ⁴Johnson & Johnson, Horsham, PA, USA; Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Villanova, PA, ⁵Sjögren’s Disease Patient, Hickory, NC, USA, Hickory, NC, ⁶Putnam Associates, Gurugram, India, Gurugram, India, ⁷Johns Hopkins Jerome L. Greene Sjögren's Syndrome Center, Baltimore, MD USA, Baltimore, MD
Background/Purpose: Sjögren’s disease (SjD) is a chronic systemic autoantibody driven disorder characterized by glandular dysfunction that typically presents with oral and ocular dryness, fatigue, and…
Abstract Number: 1419 • ACR Convergence 2025
Effectivenss of an educational program on non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis
Hideto Kameda¹, Toshihide Shuto², Akimichi Morita³, Yasuharu Nakashima⁴, Kiyoshi Matsui⁵, Masaaki Mori⁶ and Masahiro Yamamura⁷, ¹Department of Internal Medicine, Toho University, Tokyo, Japan, ²Chiyoda Hospital, Hyuga, Japan, ³Department of Geriatric and Environmental Dermatology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan, ⁴Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, ⁵Amagasaki Chuo Hospital, Amagasaki, Japan, ⁶Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, ⁷Okayama Saiseikai General Hospital, Okayama, Japan
Background/Purpose: Non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (nr-axSpA) is a relatively new disease concept. We developed an educational program to promote early and appropriate referral to specialists based…
Abstract Number: 1439 • ACR Convergence 2025
Bimekizumab in Psoriatic Arthritis. A real-world prospective study. Comparison of its efficacy in bDMARD-naive and IL-17A-experienced patients
Vassiliki Poulia¹, Eleni Sampatakaki², Dimitrios Katsifis-Nezis³, Maria Pappa³, Evangelia Mole⁴, Sousana Gazi⁴, Elpida Skouvaklidou⁵, Nikolaos Kougkas⁵, Maria Polyzou⁶, Loukia Koutsogeorgopoulou⁶, Ioannis Xynogalas⁷, Anastasios Karamanakos⁷, Konstantinos D Vassilakis¹, Evangelos Papadimitriou⁸, Charalampos Papagoras⁸, Gerasimos Evangelatos⁹, Nafsika Gerolymatou¹⁰, Paraskevi V Voulgari¹⁰ and George E Fragoulis¹, ¹First Department of Propedeutic and Internal Medicine, Joint Academic Rheumatology program, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Attiki, Greece, ²Joint Academic Rheumatology Program, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, ⁴th Department of Internal Medicine, Athens, Greece, Athens, Attiki, Greece, ³Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Unit, ⁴th Department of Internal Medicine, Joint Academic Rheumatology Program, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Attiki, Greece, ⁴Rheumatology department, KAT General Hospital of Attica, Athens, Attiki, Greece, ⁵⁴th Department of Internal Medicine, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, ⁶Department of Pathophysiology, Joint Academic Rheumatology program, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Attiki, Greece, ⁷Department of Rheumatology, Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens, Attiki, Greece, ⁸First Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Evros, Greece, ⁹Third Department of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, Athens, Attiki, Greece, ¹⁰Department of Rheumatology, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
Background/Purpose: Bimekizumab, a dual IL-17 A and F blocker, has recently been added in the therapeutic rheumatologist’s armamentarium of PsA, but real-world evidence is lacking.…
Abstract Number: 1256 • ACR Convergence 2025
Quantitative Analysis of a Pilot Study: Integrating Behavioral Health Services for Patients with Rheumatic Diseases
Shannon Teaw¹, Jessica Link-Malcolm², Michelle Ghebranious Farag³, Dorothy Patterson², Jenny Foster⁴, Sofia Bereket², Urooj Wahid², Puneet Bajaj², Elizabeth Solow², Jennifer Barton⁵ and Una Makris⁶, ¹UT Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX, ²UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ³McGovern Medical School at UT Houston, Houston, TX, ⁴UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, ⁵VA Portland Health Care System/OHSU, Portland, OR, ⁶UT Southwestern Medical Center and Dallas VA, Dallas, TX
Background/Purpose: Patients with rheumatic diseases (RD) often experience chronic pain, along with comorbid depression and anxiety, which can be addressed using behavioral health (BH) interventions…
Abstract Number: 1430 • ACR Convergence 2025
Redefining BASDAI cut-offs: implications for patients’ eligibility for initiating biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic treatment in axial spondyloarthritis
Stylianos Georgiadis¹, Lykke Ørnbjerg¹, Brigitte Michelsen², Tore K. Kvien², Mehrdad Shoae Kazemi¹, Bente Glintborg¹, Anne Gitte Loft³, Rita Fonseca⁴, Helena Santos⁵, Andreas Reich⁶, Anne C. Regierer⁶, Jarno Rutanen⁷, Laura Kuusalo⁸, Gary Macfarlane⁹, Gareth T. Jones⁹, Adrian Ciurea¹⁰, Michael J. Nissen¹¹, Bjorn Gudbjornsson¹², Olafur Palsson¹³, Ziga Rotar¹⁴, Katja Perdan Pirkmajer¹⁵, Daniela Di Giuseppe¹⁶, Merete Hetland¹⁷ and Mikkel Ostergaard¹⁸, ¹Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Denmark, ²Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ³Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, ⁴Unidade Local de Saúde de Entre Douro e Vouga, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, ⁵Instituto Português de Reumatologia, Lisbon, Portugal, ⁶German Rheumatology Research Center, Berlin, Germany, ⁷Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland, ⁸Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland, ⁹University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, ¹⁰University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ¹¹Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland, ¹²Landspitali University Hospital; Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, ¹³University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, ¹⁴University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ziri, Slovenia, ¹⁵University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ¹⁶Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medicine Solna, Clinical Epidemiology Division, Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden, ¹⁷Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research (COPECARE) and DANBIO, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup; Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, ¹⁸Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Center for Rheumatology, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Denmark
Background/Purpose: In patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), high disease activity is a key indication for biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (bDMARD) initiation. The Axial Spondyloarthritis Disease…
Abstract Number: 1386 • ACR Convergence 2025
Characterization and Progression of Localized Amyloidosis in Sjogren’s Syndrome: Evidence Long-Term (1995-2025) Follow-Up of a Cohort compared to Literature Review.
Hoang Nguyen¹, Philip Moresco², Antoine Chiu², Asha Patnaik³ and Peter Gorevic⁴, ¹Stony Brook University-Renaissance School of Medicine- Department of Rheumatology, Jamaica, NY, ²Stony Brook University -Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, ³Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook, NY, ⁴Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Background/Purpose: -Sjogren’s syndrome (SS) is a chronic autoimmune disorder, defined by keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS), specific serologies, and a significant risk of extra-exocrine disease manifestations and…
Abstract Number: 1411 • ACR Convergence 2025
Defining Minimal Disease Activity (MDA) in Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) with the inclusion of Psoriatic Arthritis Impact of Disease (PsAID) scores rather than Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ)
Conor Coyle¹, Sarah Yazji², Sruthi Murthy³, Philip Helliwell⁴, Andra Balanescu⁵, Juan Cañete⁶, Emmanuelle Dernis⁷, Uta Kiltz⁸, Ying Ying Leung⁹, Ana-Maria Orbai¹⁰, PENELOPE PALOMINOS¹¹, Josef Smolen¹², Maarten de Wit¹³, Laure Gossec¹⁴ and Laura Coates¹⁵, ¹Oxford University Hospitals, Reading, United Kingdom, ²South Texas Health System GME Consortium, Texas A&M College of Medicine, Texas, USA, College Station, TX, ³Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK, Oxford, United Kingdom, ⁴Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, Leeds, United Kingdom, ⁵UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY CAROL DAVILA, Bucharest, Romania, ⁶Rheumatology Department, Hospital Clínic and IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, Spain, ⁷Rheumatology Department, Le Mans Central Hospital, Le Mans, France, LE MANS, France, ⁸Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet Herne, Ruhr-University Bochum, Herne, Germany, ⁹Rheumatology Department, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, ¹⁰Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ¹¹Hospital Lifeplus Litoral Norte, Xangri-lá, Brazil, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, ¹²Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine ³, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Vienna, Austria, ¹³Patient Research Partner, Stichting Tools, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ¹⁴Sorbonne Universite and Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, Paris, France, ¹⁵Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Treat to target management is recommended in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) to improve disease control and patient quality of life. Minimal disease activity (MDA) criteria…
Abstract Number: 1412 • ACR Convergence 2025
Classification of sacroiliits using an artificial intelligence model
Esther Fernández Guill¹, Yazmina Bautista Mártir², Eduardo Fernández Jover³ and Irene Cases Susarte⁴, ¹Sociedad Española de Reumatologia, Murcia, Spain, ²Sociedad Española de Medicina de Familia, Murcia, Spain, ³Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Alicante, Spain, ⁴Sociedad Española de Radiologia, Murcia, Spain
Background/Purpose: Axial Spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is a chronic inflammatory disease that mainly involvessacroiliac joints and spine. It is caused by ankylosing spondylitis and other rheumatic diseases…
Abstract Number: 1006 • ACR Convergence 2025
AI-Guided Generation and Preclinical Evaluation of an OX40L-IL31 Bispecific Antibody
Yun Zhang, Hao Ran, Tianhong Li, Liguo Dong, Chenpeng Su, Chuan Chen, Lisha Dong, Dandan Liu, Yi Pan, Xiaoou Xu, Xiaoqian Chen, Liang Tian, Jian Peng and Zhenping Zhu, Helixon Therapeutics, New York
Background/Purpose: The itch-scratch cycle in atopic dermatitis (AD) is closely linked to skin inflammation exacerbation, which not only accelerates disease progression but also significantly impacts…

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