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Abstract Number: 1631 • ACR Convergence 2025
New Arterial Damage in Takayasu’s Arteritis
Tanaz Kermani¹, Sema Kaymaz-Tahra², Aysegul Avcu³, Fatma Alibaz-Oner⁴, Haner Direskeneli³ and Peter Merkel⁵, ¹University of California Los Angeles, Santa Monica, CA, ²Bahcesehir University Faculty of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ³Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁴MARMARA UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE, DIVISION OF RHEUMATOLOGY, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁵University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: Damage is one of the consequences of disease and is often considered irreversible. This study aimed to evaluate new arterial damage in Takayasu’s arteritis…
Abstract Number: 1583 • ACR Convergence 2025
Epidemiology, Outcome and Expenditures of Hospitalized Patients with Systemic Sclerosis: National Inpatient Sample 2021
Patompong Ungprasert¹ and Paul Kroner², ¹Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Heights, OH, ²Riverside Health System, Newport News, VA
Background/Purpose: The inpatient epidemiology, morbidity, mortality, and healthcare expenditures of patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) are not well-characterized. This study aims to utilize a nationwide…
Abstract Number: 1670 • ACR Convergence 2025
Large Retrospective Cohort Study Of Chronic Recurrent Multifocal Osteomyelitis: Disease Presentation, Clinical, And Laboratory Features
Shima Yasin¹, Shima Yasin² and Polly Ferguson³, ¹King Abdullah Specialized Children’s Hospital,Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, ²Univeristy of Iowa, Iowa City, ³University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA
Background/Purpose: Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO) is an autoinflammatory bone disease that affects children and adolescents. The disease typically presents with bone pain with or…
Abstract Number: 1595 • ACR Convergence 2025
Subcordal Stenosis is a Glucocorticoid-Responsive Manifestation of Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis
Brendan Denvir¹, Brendan Antiochos², Philip Seo³ and Alexander Hillel³, ¹Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, ²Johns Hopkins, CLARKSVILLE, MD, ³Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Background/Purpose: Subglottic stenosis (SGS) is a recognized manifestation of granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), occurring in 8–23% of patients. A distinct variant, identified in this study,…
Abstract Number: 1675 • ACR Convergence 2025
Neuroimmune modulation in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis with an inadequate response to TNF inhibitors (TNFi)
Guillermo Valenzuela¹, Jane Box², Angela Crowley³, Joshua June⁴, Pendleton Wickersham⁵, Jeff Peterson⁶, Michael Thakor⁷, Susan Kim⁸, Tina Shah⁹, David Chernoff¹⁰ and John Tesser¹¹, ¹Integral Rheumatology & Immunology Specialists, Plantation, FL, ²DJL Clinical Research, PLLC, Charlotte, NC, ³Illinois Bone and Joint Institute - Hinsdale Orthopaedics, Hinsdale, IL, ⁴Great Lakes Center of Rheumatology, Lansing, MI, ⁵Arthritis Associates PA, San Antonio, TX, ⁶Western Washington Arthritis Clinic, Seattle, WA, ⁷arthritis and rheumatology, Fort Collins, CO, ⁸Lehigh Valley Hospital Network, Allentown, PA, ⁹Kansas City Physician Partners, Kansas City, MO, ¹⁰SetPoint Medical, Sausalito, CA, ¹¹Arizona Arthritis & Rheumatology Associates, Phoenix, AZ
Background/Purpose: A substantial number of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) experience treatment failure, incomplete response, or intolerance to TNFis (TNFi-IR). Neuroimmune modulation using an implantable…
Abstract Number: 1690 • ACR Convergence 2025
Environmental Heat Exposure and Risk of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Jennifer Woo¹, Kaitlyn Lawrence² and Dale Sandler¹, ¹National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Durham, NC, ²DLH, Corp., Durham, NC
Background/Purpose: Environmental heat exposures have been linked to increased morbidity and mortality. Individuals with systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) often have heat- and photo- sensitivity, which…
Abstract Number: 1645 • ACR Convergence 2025
A sex-modified association between Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) blood concentration and prevalent arthritis among young and middle-aged US adults
Queeneth Edwards¹, Samuel Mbadu¹, Jhy-Charm Soo² and Jian Zhang², ¹Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, ²Georgia Southern University, statesboro
Background/Purpose: Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) (PFAS), including Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), are persistent environmental contaminants that may influence inflammatory joint diseases…
Abstract Number: 1591 • ACR Convergence 2025
Novel autoantibodies in patients with systemic sclerosis and gastrointestinal dysfunction provide insight into disease pathogenesis
Zsuzsanna McMahan¹, Claudia Pedroza², Katie Lee³, Bingrui Chen³, Ami Shah⁴, Jody Hooper⁵, Srinivas Puttapaka⁶, Livia Casciola-Rosen⁷ and Subhash Kulkarni⁸, ¹UT Health Houston, Houston, TX, ²UTHealth Houston Institute for Clinical Research & Learning Health Care, Texas, TX, ³UTHealth Houston, Houston, TX, ⁴Johns Hopkins Rheumatology, Baltimore, MD, ⁵Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ⁶BIDMC/Harvard, Boston, MA, ⁷Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁸BIDMC, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Gastrointestinal (GI) dysfunction is common and often debilitating in systemic sclerosis (SSc). Though it affects most patients, mechanisms are poorly understood and biomarkers for…
Abstract Number: 1679 • ACR Convergence 2025
Does First-Line b- or tsDMARDs Choice Influence Progression to Difficult-to-Treat Rhumatoid arthritis? Insights from our longitudinal RA UCLouvain Brussels cohort
Cécile VAN MULLEM¹, Francesco NATALUCCI¹, Stéphanie DIERCKX¹, Aleksandra AVRAMOVSKA¹, Tatiana SOKOLOVA² and Patrick Durez¹, ¹Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc – Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) – Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique (IREC), Rheumatology, Brussels, Belgium, ²Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc – Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) – Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique (IREC), Rheumatology, Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
Background/Purpose: The management of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) has markedly advanced, enabling the achievement of disease control and remission. Nevertheless, a proportion of patients remains refractory…
Abstract Number: 1692 • ACR Convergence 2025
Rheumatoid factor is associated with increased gut permeability and migration of B cells to the joint via CXCR3 in rheumatoid arthritis
Ken Yasaka¹, Nida Pellett², Daria Krenitsky¹ and Jennifer Anolik², ¹University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, ²University of Rochester Medical center, Rochester, NY
Background/Purpose: It has been proposed that the mucosal environment is associated with the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In addition to gut dysbiosis, intestinal barrier…
Abstract Number: 1699 • ACR Convergence 2025
Protein-coding Somatic Genetic Variation in Lymphocytes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Siva Kasinathan¹, Minh Pham² and Ansuman Satpathy², ¹Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, ²Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
Background/Purpose: The genetic and environmental factors underlying pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are incompletely resolved. While inherited genetic variation has been extensively queried in…
Abstract Number: 1696 • ACR Convergence 2025
A multi-omics resource of B cell activation reveals genetic mechanisms for autoimmune diseases
Vitor Aguiar¹, Marcella Franco¹, Nada Abdel Aziz¹, Daniela Fernandez-Salinas², Marcos Chinas¹, Mariasilvia Colantuoni², Qian Xiao¹, Nicolaj Hackert¹, Yifei Liao³, Rodrigo Cervantes-Diaz¹, Marc Todd¹, Brian Wauford¹, Alex Wactor¹, Vaishali Prahalad¹, Raquel Laza-Briviesca¹, Roxane Darbousset¹, Qiang Wang¹, Scott Jenks⁴, Kevin Cashman⁴, Esther Zumaquero⁴, Zhu Zhu¹, Junning Case³, Paloma Cejas⁵, Miguel Munoz-Gomez⁵, Hannah Ainsworth⁶, Miranda Marion⁷, Mehdi Benamar¹, Pui Lee⁸, Lauren Henderson⁹, Margaret Chang², Kevin Wei¹⁰, Henry Long⁵, Carl Langefeld¹¹, Benjamin Gewurz³, Ignacio Sanz⁴, Jeffrey Sparks¹², Esra Meidan¹³, Peter Nigrovic² and Maria Gutierrez-Arcelus², ¹Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, ²Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, ⁴Emory University, Atlanta, ⁵Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, ⁶Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, ⁷Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, ⁸Boston Children's Hospital, Newton, MA, ⁹Boston Children's Hospital, Watertown, MA, ¹⁰Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ¹¹Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, ¹²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ¹³Boston Children's Hospital, Somerville, MA
Background/Purpose: Most genetic variants that confer risk of complex autoimmune diseases affect gene regulation in specific cell types. Their target genes and focus cell types…
Abstract Number: 1598 • ACR Convergence 2025
Use of JAK Inhibitors in Medium- and Small-Sized Vasculitides: a Retrospective Multicenter Study
caterina ricordi¹, elena treppo², Pavel Novikov³, Paul Russo⁴, Luca moroni⁵, Angelo Fassio⁶, Paolo Delvino⁷, hervé lobbes⁸, Chiara Marvisi¹, Francesco Muratore¹, Xavier Puéchal⁹, Carlo Salvarani¹ and Benjamin Terrier¹⁰, ¹Unit of Rheumatology, Azienda USL - IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, and University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ²Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Udine, Udine, Italy, ³Sechenov University, Moscow, Russia, ⁴Royal Adelaide Hospital, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Adelaide, Australia, ⁵IRCCS San Raffaele, Unit of Immunology, Rheumatology, Allergy and Rare Diseases (UnIRAR), Milan, Italy, ⁶University of Verona, Department of Medicine, Unit of Rheumatology, Verona, Italy, ⁷University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Monza and Brianza, Italy, ⁸Department of Internal Medicine, Hôpital Estaing, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France, ⁹Department of Internal Medicine, National Referral Center for Rare Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Hospital Cochin, and Université Paris Cité, Paris ( ⁷⁵⁰¹⁴ ), Ile-de-France, France, ¹⁰Cochin Hospital, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: Medium- and small-vessel vasculitides (MVV and SVV) are a heterogeneous group of inflammatory diseases affecting the vascular wall. Current treatment strategies are based on…
Abstract Number: 1706 • ACR Convergence 2025
Overcoming Barriers to ANA Testing in Pediatric Populations in Africa
Ekemini Ogbu¹, Angela Migowa², Rashmi Sahay¹, Dhriti Sharma¹, Patricia Vega-Fernandez¹, Michael Henrickson¹, Evans Omalla³, Ayodele Faleye⁴, Wafa Hamdi⁵ and Hermine Brunner¹, ¹Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ²Aga Khan University Medical College East Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, ³Pediatric Society of the African League Against Rheumatism, Nairobi, Kenya, ⁴Lagos state university teaching hospital Ikeja, Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria, ⁵Kassab Institute, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis UR¹⁷SP⁰⁴, Tunis El Manar Univeristy, MANOUBA, Tunisia
Background/Purpose: Timely diagnosis of children, adolescents and young adults with rheumatologic disorders remains a global challenge especially in lower resource countries and areas (LRCs). There…
Abstract Number: 1540 • ACR Convergence 2025
Association of Hypoalbuminemia with Serious Infections in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients Receiving Dialysis
Ping Hsuan Kuo¹, Pu Jun Fang², Chien-Chih Lai³ and Yi-Syuan Sun⁴, ¹Taipei Veteran General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan (Republic of China), ²Tri-Service General Hospital, Hukou Township, Taiwan (Republic of China), ³Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan (Republic of China), ⁴taipei VGHTPE, ???, Taiwan (Republic of China)
Background/Purpose: Lupus nephritis, a key manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), can progress to end-stage kidney disease and increase patient burden. While patients with SLE…

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