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Abstract Number: 0196 • ACR Convergence 2025
Increasing Timely Rheumatology Evaluation for High Risk Lupus Patients
Steven Taylor¹ and Elena Weinstein², ¹University of Colorado, Denver, CO, ²University of Colorado, Englewood, CO
Background/Purpose: The rheumatology workforce shortage presents many challenges to the delivery of rheumatology care. Improving timely access to rheumatology for patients with life or organ…
Abstract Number: 0019 • ACR Convergence 2025
Single cell characterization of the circulating immune system in Sjögren’s Syndrome
Alejandro Gómez Gómez¹, Héctor Corominas², Rosario Garcia Vicuña³, Mercedes Freire González⁴, Sheila Melchor-Díaz⁵, Paloma Vela Casasempere⁶, Paula Estrada-Alarcón⁷, Jose Luis Tandaipan⁸, Monica Fernandez Castro⁹, Sara Maria Rojas Herrera¹⁰, Marina Rodríguez López¹¹, Beatriz Paredes-Romero¹², Santiago Muñoz¹³, Marta López¹⁴, Ignacio Braña¹⁵, Gema Bonilla¹⁶, Raúl Menor Almagro¹⁷, Sara Manrique-Arija¹⁸, Mª Angeles Blazquez Cañamero¹⁹, Lilian López-Núñez²⁰, Carles Galisteo Veiga²¹, Juan José Alegre-Sancho²², Jose Rosas Gómez de Salazar²³, Jose Javier Pérez Venegas²⁴, Judit Font-Urgelles²⁵, José Andrés Román Ivorra²⁶, José Miguel Sequí-Sabater²⁷, Rafaela Ortega-Castro²⁸, Clara Moriano²⁹, Guadalupe Manzano-Canabal³⁰, Cilia Peralta-Ginés³¹, Javier Narváez³², Rafael Cáliz-Cáliz³³, Javier Martínez-Ferrin³⁴, Lara Sánchez Bilbao³⁵, Belén Serrano-Benavente³⁶, Natalia Boix- Martí³⁷, Ares Selles-Rius³⁸, Maribel Pérez³⁹, Juan Cañete⁴⁰, Núria Palau Balaña³⁸, Damiana Alvarez Errico³⁹, Yolanda Guillén⁴¹, Juan Ángel Patiño Galindo⁴¹, Antonio Julià¹, Sara Marsal Barril⁴² and Jose Luis Andreu⁴³, ¹Vall d'Hebron Hospital Research Institute, Rheumatology Research Group, Barcelona, Spain, ²Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Rheumatology, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ³Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ⁴⁴ Hospital Universitario A Coruña, Rheumatology, A Coruña, La coruna, Spain, ⁵Hospital Universitario ¹² de Octubre, Rheumatology, Madrid, Madrid, ⁶Hospital General Universitario Alicante, Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain, ⁷Hospital de San Juan Despí Moisès Broggi, Barcelona, Spain, ⁸Rheumatology. Hospital Universitario de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain, ⁹PUERTA DE HIERRO HOSPITAL, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁰Hospital de Mérida, Rheumatology, Badajoz, Badajoz, Spain, ¹¹Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago, Rheumatology, Santiago de Compostela., Santiago de Compostela, Spain, ¹²Hospital Universitario Infanta Sofía;Universidad Europea de Madrid. Faculty of Medicine, Health and Sports. Department of Medicine; FIIB HUIS-HUHEN, San Sebastian de los Reyes, Spain, ¹³Hospital Universitario Infanta Sofía;Universidad Europea de Madrid. Faculty of Medicine, Health and Sports. Department of Medicine; FIIB HUIS-HUHEN, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁴Complex Hospitalari Universitari Moisés Broggi, Barcelona, Spain, ¹⁵Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain, ¹⁶Hospital Universitario La Paz, Rheumatology, Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁷Department of Rheumatology, Hospital de Jerez, Spain, Puerto De Santa María, Spain, ¹⁸Hospital Regional Universitario Málaga, Malaga, Spain, ¹⁹Hospital Ramon y Cajal, Madrid, Spain, ²⁰Hospital Son Llatzer, Rheumatology, Palma de Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, ²¹Hospital Parc Taulí, Rheumatology, Sabadell, Sabadell, Spain, ²²Hospital Universitario Doctor Peset, Valencia, Spain, ²³Hospital Marina Baixa, PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain, ²⁴Virgen Macarena University Hospital, Sevilla, Spain, Sevilla, Spain, ²⁵Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, ²⁶Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, Valencia, Spain, ²⁷Hospital Universitario La Fe (Valencia), Valencia, Spain, ²⁸Rheumatology service/Maimonides Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Cordoba (IMIBIC)/ Reina Sofia University Hospital/ University of Cordoba, Spain, Cordoba, Andalucia, Spain, ²⁹Hospital León, LEON, Castilla y Leon, Spain, ³⁰Hospital Virgen de la Concha (Zamora), Zamora, Spain, ³¹Hospital Clínico Universitario Lozano Blesa, Zaragoza, Spain, ³²Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain, ³³Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Rheumatology, Granada, Granada, Spain, ³⁴Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, Rheumatology, Murcia, Murcia, Spain, ³⁵Rheumatology Division, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Immunopathology Group, Santander, Spain, Santander, Cantabria, Spain, ³⁶Hospital Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain, ³⁷Hospital Univetsitari Vall d'Hebron, Rheumatology Department, Barcelona, Spain, ³⁸Rheumatology Research Group, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, ³⁹IMIDomics, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴⁰Rheumatology Department, Hospital Clínic and IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴¹IMIDomics, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴²Vall Hebron Hospital Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴³Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Majadahonda, Spain
Background/Purpose: Sjögren’s syndrome (SS) is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by the infiltration of circulating immune cells into the salivary and lacrimal glands. The properties…
Abstract Number: 0170 • ACR Convergence 2025
Rheumatoid arthritis, serologic status and risk of heart failure: A national cohort study
Seonyoung Kang¹, Kyungdo Han², Yeonghee Eun³, Jinhyung Jung⁴, Seulkee Lee¹, Hoon-Suk Cha¹, Jaejoon Lee⁵, Seonghye Kim¹, Se Yun Kim⁶, Dong Wook Shin¹ and Hyungjin Kim⁷, ¹Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ²Soongsil University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ³Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, seoul, Republic of Korea, ⁴Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon, Republic of Korea, ⁵Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ⁶Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ⁷Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
Background/Purpose: Although rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a known risk factor for heart failure (HF), a limited number of studies has explored the association based on…
Abstract Number: 0169 • ACR Convergence 2025
The High Disease Burden of Connective Tissue Disorder-Interstitial Lung Disease in the USA Demonstrates an Unmet Need for Earlier Diagnosis and Treatment
Sally Wetten¹, George Mu², Keele E. Wurst³, Roger A. Levy⁴, Ben Newth⁵, Svetlana I. Nihtyanova⁶ and Elaine Irving⁷, ¹GSK, Epidemiology, Stevenage, United Kingdom, ²GSK, Statistics, Collegeville, PA, ³GSK, Immunology and Emerging Epidemiology, Durham, NC, ⁴GSK, Specialty Care, Global Medical Affairs, Collegeville, PA, ⁵GSK, Specialty Care, Global Medical Affairs, London, United Kingdom, ⁶GSK, Clinical Sciences, Research & Development, London, United Kingdom, ⁷GSK, Clinical, Stevenage, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a serious pulmonary manifestation that can occur across all connective tissue disorders (CTD). Aberrant immune-mediated inflammation and fibrosis leads…
Abstract Number: 0142 • ACR Convergence 2025
Risk Factors for Antiphospholipid Syndrome-associated Nephropathy: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis
Xiaohan Wei¹, Zhixia Yang², Haoyu Pan², Yuying Fan², Jinyi Qian², Shuyi Yu² and Hui Shi³, ¹Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China (People's Republic), ²Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Ruijin Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, Shanghai, Shanghai, China (People's Republic), ³Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai, China (People's Republic)
Background/Purpose: To identify independent clinical and laboratory risk factors associated with antiphospholipid syndrome-associated nephropathy (APSN) and highlight the clinical importance of early screening in high-risk…
Abstract Number: 0141 • ACR Convergence 2025
Cytokine profiles in antiphospholipid syndrome
Xiangjun Liu¹, Yuzhou Gan², Chun Li³, Jianping Guo⁴, lei zhu⁵ and yuan jia³, ¹Peking University, Beijing, Beijing, China, ²University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China (People's Republic), ⁴Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, Beijing, China, ⁵Affiliated Nantong Rehabilitation Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China (People's Republic)
Background/Purpose: Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is an autoimmune disease with unknown etiology. Inflammatory-mediated tissue damage plays an important role in APS. This study aimed to investigate…
Abstract Number: 0173 • ACR Convergence 2025
Association Between the Ratio of Non-High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol to High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and All-Cause Mortality Risk in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Survival Analysis Based on NHANES Data
Tingting Wang¹, Siying Xiong¹, Yuanli Wei¹, Dongmei Wang¹, Weihua Zhang¹, Caizhen Liu², Fanxin zeng³ and Jianhong Wu¹, ¹Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Dazhou Central Hospital, Dazhou, China (People's Republic), ²Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Dazhou Central Hospital, Dazhou, ³Departmant of Clinical Research Center, Sichuan Clinical Research Center for Medical Imaging, Dazhou Central Hospital; Medical School, Sichuan University of Arts and Sciences; School of Basic Medical Science, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Dazhou, China (People's Republic)
Background/Purpose: The Non-High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol to High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Ratio (NHHR) has emerged as a promising marker for atherosclerosis, yet its relationship with all-cause mortality…
Abstract Number: 0222 • ACR Convergence 2025
Evaluating the Barriers and Facilitators for Collecting and Documenting Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Measures Using a Rheumatology Provider Survey
Isaac Smith¹, Linda Tovar², Michael Battistone², Andrea Barker³, Bryant England⁴, Ankoor Shah⁵, Joshua Baker⁶, Katherine Wysham⁷, Beth Wallace⁸, Ted Mikuls⁴, Deanna Lazaro⁹, Pascale Schwab¹⁰, Paul Monach¹¹, Gail Kerr¹², Andreas Reimold¹³, Gary Kunkel², Liron Caplan¹⁴, John Richards¹⁵, Aleksander Lenert¹⁶, Andrew Jones¹⁷, Maria I. ("Maio") Danila¹⁸, Brian Sauer¹⁹, Jorge Rojas²⁰ and Grant Cannon²¹, ¹Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, ²Salt Lake City VA, Salt Lake City, UT, ³Salt Lake City VA, Cottonwood Heights, UT, ⁴University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁵Duke University, Durham, NC, ⁶University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁷VA PUGET SOUND/UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, WA, ⁸Michigan Medicine, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁹VA New York Harbor Healthcare System, Brooklyn, NY, ¹⁰Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, ¹¹VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, ¹²Washington DC VAMC/Georgetown and Howard Universities, Washington, DC, ¹³Dallas VA Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ¹⁴University of Colorado, Denver, CO, ¹⁵Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA, ¹⁶Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, ¹⁷VA Saint Louis and Washington University, Saint Louis, ¹⁸University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, ¹⁹Salt Lake City VA/University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ²⁰VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, ²¹University of Utah and Salt Lake City VA, Salt Lake City, UT
Background/Purpose: Collection of disease activity measures (DAMs) is a key component of high-quality care for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. This study surveyed rheumatology providers at…
Abstract Number: 0159 • ACR Convergence 2025
Prenatal and Early-Life Environmental Exposures in Juvenile-Onset Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases
Takuma Ohnishi¹, Megan Zhao¹, Min Shi², Adam Schiffenbauer³, Sharon Jackson³, Anna Jansen¹, Nastaran Bayat⁴, Payam Farhadi¹, Christine Parks², Clarice Weinberg², Frederick Miller⁵ and Lisa Rider⁶, ¹National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, ²National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC, ³National Institute of Health/National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, Bethesda, MD, ⁴National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Gaithersburg, MD, ⁵National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁶National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences/National Institutes of Health, Environmental Autoimmunity Group, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases (SARDs), including juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM), and systemic sclerosis (SSc), are characterized…
Abstract Number: 0179 • ACR Convergence 2025
Digital Divide in Rheumatology: Patterns of Technology and AI Adoption Across Generations of Specialists
CARLA F DIONELLO¹, ANA F PADUA², Claudia Marques³, BRUNA L PORTO⁴, LEONARDO R CAMPOS⁵, RODRIGO OLIVEIRA⁶, GUSTAVO GM BALBI⁷, RODRIGO LUPPINO-ASSAD⁶, YURE G AZEVEDO⁸, LUIZ F DIPE⁹, BRUNO BORDALLO⁵, Cleandro Pires¹⁰, Licia Maria Henrique da Mota¹⁰ and PAULA MONTINA¹⁰, ¹FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO - UFRJ, RIO DE JANEIRO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ²SANTA CASA MG, BELO HORIZONTE, Minas Gerais, Brazil, ³Hospital das Clinicas - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, ⁴UNIVATES, SÃO LEOPOLDO, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, ⁵UFF, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ⁶FMRP-USP, Ribeirão Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ⁷UFJF, JUIZ DE FORA, Minas Gerais, Brazil, ⁸SCR, SOBRAL, Ceara, Brazil, ⁹GRUPO AMIL, SÃO PAULO, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ¹⁰UNB, Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil
Background/Purpose: The integration of digital tools and artificial intelligence (AI) in rheumatology practice has advanced rapidly. However, disparities in adoption across generations of specialists remain…
Abstract Number: 0186 • ACR Convergence 2025
Validation of Asynchronous Telehealth Visit for Adults and Children with Inflammatory Arthritis and Feasibility of Applying Thermal Imaging during Visits
Jenna Thomason¹, Rajdeep Pooni², Erin Sullivan³, Adriel Liau³, Sadie Van den Bogaerde¹, Iris Hamilton³, Sriya Paluvayi³, Megan Tran⁴, Janeth Robles-Navarro⁴, Ian Muse⁵, Audrey Luey⁴, Ava Klein³, Debosmita Biswas⁴, Savannah Partridge⁴, Tzielan Lee⁶, Alison Bays¹, Grant Hughes⁷, Elizabeth Ferucci⁸ and Yongdong (Dan) Zhao⁹, ¹University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²Stanford University, Berkeley, CA, ³Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, ⁴University of Washington, Seattle, ⁵University of Washington, Department of Pediatrics, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, ⁶Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, ⁷University of Washington, Lynnwood, WA, ⁸Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, AK, ⁹Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Redmond, WA
Background/Purpose: Use of telemedicine has increased substantially. Our overall goal was to assess the utility of a standardized video joint exam and infrared thermal imaging…
Abstract Number: 0187 • ACR Convergence 2025
Message Testing in Online Recruitment Advertisements for a National Rheumatoid and Psoriatic Arthritis Study
Matthew Kearney¹, Sarah Hopkins Gillespie¹, Stephanie Chen¹, Tyler Cavin², Christine Lindsay³, Christopher Ritchlin⁴, Jennifer Seifert⁵, Susan Goodman⁶, Jessica Fishman¹ and Alexis Ogdie⁷, ¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, ³Self, prosper, TX, ⁴University of Rochester Medical Center, Canandaigua, NY, ⁵University of Colorado and Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Aurora, CO, ⁶Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ⁷Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Wilmington, DE
Background/Purpose: Study recruitment procedures have increasingly included paid advertisements using social media. However, it is unclear which types of message framing will be the most…
Abstract Number: 0185 • ACR Convergence 2025
Promoting Health Services Research Rigor and Reproducibility using CodeMapper: A novel tool for harmonization, collaboration, and precision
Emily Holladay¹, Nick McCormick², Robert Matthews³, Shanette Daigle⁴, Fenglong Xie⁵, Tapan Mehta¹ and Jeffrey Curtis⁶, ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Auburn University, Auburn, AL, ³Foundation for Advancing Science Technology Education and Research, Hoover, ⁴Foundation for Advancing Science, Technology, Education and Research (FASTER), Hoover, AL, ⁵The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁶Foundation for Advancing Science, Technology, Education and Research, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Medication, procedure, and diagnosis coding using structured data is fundamental to using real-world data to support clinical research, impacting cohort selection, patient recruitment, and…
Abstract Number: 0182 • ACR Convergence 2025
A Joint Effort: Implementing Depression Screening in a Safety-Net Rheumatology Clinic
Clare Grossman¹, Jay Chhabra¹, Ximena Gonzalez Sanchez¹, Karina Brito¹, Jacqueline Friskey¹, Brent Abel² and Mary Margaretten², ¹University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Comorbid depression is common in patients with autoimmune diseases and is associated with increased healthcare utilization and death. Despite American College of Rheumatology recommendations…
Abstract Number: 0026 • ACR Convergence 2025
Spatial Proteomic-based Phenotyping of Muscle Stem Cells and their Niches in Myositis
Bilgesu Safak Tümerdem¹, Yi-Nan Li², Tim Filla³, Rolf Schröder⁴, Anna Brunn⁵, Alexandru Micu⁶, Ayla Nadja Stuetz¹, Laura-Marie Lahu⁶, Aleix Rius Rigau⁷, Christina Bergmann⁸, Alexandru-Emil Matei⁹, Jörg Distler¹⁰ and Andrea-Hermina Györfi¹¹, ¹Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University. Hiller Research Center, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, ²University Hospital of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, ³Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University. Hiller Research Center, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University., Düsseldorf, Germany, ⁴Institute of Neuropathology, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁵Institute of Neuropathology, Heinrich-Heine University, University Hospital of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, ⁶Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University. Hiller Research Center, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany, ⁷Department of Internal Medicine ³, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen. Deutsches Zentrum Immuntherapie (DZI), Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁸Department of Medicine ³ - Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Uniklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁹Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University. Hiller Research Center, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University. Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP, and Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence for Immune Mediated Diseases CIMD, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Düsseldorf, Germany, ¹⁰University Hospital Duesseldorf and HHU, Duesseldorf, Germany, ¹¹Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University., Düsseldorf, Germany
Background/Purpose: Immune-mediated inflammatory myopathies (IIMs) are a heterogeneous group of diseases characterized by chronic inflammation, damage and impaired regeneration of the skeletal muscle leading to…

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