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Abstract Number: 1035 • ACR Convergence 2023
Diagnostic and Educational Utility of an Ultrasound Protocol for Evaluation of Hand Pain in Systemic Sclerosis
Meridith Balbach, Tracy Frech, Nicholson Chadwick, Kevin Byram and Erin Chew, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Background/Purpose: Hand impairment is a prevalent issue among systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients and contributes to disability and diminished quality of life. Managing hand pain can…
Abstract Number: 1044 • ACR Convergence 2023
Prevalence and Distribution of Sonographic Elementary Lesions in PsA – Results of 2 Cohorts
Ari Polachek¹, Victoria Furer², Sydney Thib³, Liran Mendel², Ori Elkayam² and Lihi Eder⁴, ¹Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, ²Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, ³Women’s College Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Women’s College Research Institute, Division of Rheumatology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) can manifest with different musculoskeletal (MSK) features. Ultrasound (US) optimizes the assessment of the different MSK features in PsA. However, there…
Abstract Number: 1047 • ACR Convergence 2023
Infrared Thermography Imaging Discriminates Between Inflamed and Non-inflamed Joints
Maria I. ("Maio") Danila¹, Giovanna Rosas², Fenglong Xie², Jeffrey R Curtis³, Kiara Aaron², Stephanie Ford² and Laura Hughes⁴, ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, ⁴University of Alabama at Birmingham; East Alabama Medical Center, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Infrared thermography (IRT) is an emerging technology that has the potential to rapidly assist in identifying joint inflammation in patients with joint symptoms. However,…
Abstract Number: 1036 • ACR Convergence 2023
The Prevalence of Shoulder and Hip Joints Ultrasound Findings in Polymyalgia Rheumatica: A Multicenter International Study
Alojzija Hocevar¹, PIERLUIGI MACCHIONI², Irene Monjo³, Rositsa Karalilova⁴, Edoardo Conticini⁵, Alessandro Tomelleri⁶, Cristina Ponte⁷, Sara Monti⁸, Giulia Klinowski⁹, Zguro Batalov⁴, Paolo Falsetti¹⁰, Corrado Campochiaro¹¹ and Eugenio De Miguel³, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Universitiy Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ²Azienda USL -IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ³Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain, ⁴Medical University of Plovdiv, University Hospital Kaspela, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, ⁵Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ⁶Unit of Immunology, Rheumatology, Allergy and Rare Diseases, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy, ⁷Department of Rheumatology, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte, Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal; Rheumatology Research Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, ⁸Division of Rheumatology, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy; Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy, ⁹IRCCS-S.Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ¹⁰San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Siena, Italy, ¹¹IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Unit of Immunology, Rheumatology, Allergy and Rare Disease. Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
Background/Purpose: Musculoskeletal ultrasound (US) is a validated method for the objective assessment of the pathological changes occurring in PMR. It assists the diagnosis of the…
Abstract Number: 1053 • ACR Convergence 2023
Outcomes of Immune Check Point Inhibitor Use in US Veterans with Pre-Existing Inflammatory Muscle Disease
Denis Krutko¹, Selene Rubino¹, Brian Sauer², Jorge Rojas Jr³, Gary Kunkel¹, Jessica A Walsh⁴, Shardool Patel⁵, Grant Cannon⁶ and Tawnie Braaten¹, ¹University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ²Salt Lake City VA/University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ³Puget Sound VA and University of Utah, Seattle, WA, ⁴Salt Lake City Veterans Affairs Health and University of Utah Health, Division of Rheumatology, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁵Salt Lake City Veterans Affairs Health and University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁶University of Utah and Salt Lake City VA, Salt Lake City, UT
Background/Purpose: Data on Immune Checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) use in patients with previously diagnosed inflammatory muscle disease (IMD) is limited as these patients were excluded from…
Abstract Number: 1041 • ACR Convergence 2023
Efficacy of Apremilast on Peripheral and Axial Inflammation in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis Based on Whole-Body Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Mikkel Østergaard¹, Mikael Boesen², Walter P. Maksymowych³, Robert Lambert⁴, Guillermo Valenzuela⁵, Michael Bubb⁶, Olga Kubassova⁷, Jyotsna Reddy⁸, Stephen Colgan⁹, Yuri Klyachkin¹⁰, Cynthia Deignan¹¹, Zhenwei Zhou⁸ and Philip J. Mease¹², ¹Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Centre for Head and Orthopaedics, Rigshospitalet; University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, ²Copenhagen University Hospital, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Naerum, Denmark, ³Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ⁴Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ⁵Integral Rheumatology & Immunology Specialists, Plantation, FL, ⁶University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ⁷Image Analysis Group, Philadelphia, PA, ⁸Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, ⁹Amgen, Inc., Halton Hills, ON, Canada, ¹⁰Amgen, Inc., Lexington, KY, ¹¹Amgen, Inc., Agoura Hills, CA, ¹²Swedish Medical Center/Providence St. Joseph Health and University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Apremilast is an oral phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitor with a unique immunomodulatory mechanism of action and is approved for the treatment of psoriatic arthritis (PsA).…
Abstract Number: 1055 • ACR Convergence 2023
Cancer Outcomes in Cancer Patients with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-induced Inflammatory Arthritis Treated with Glucocorticoids: Data from the CanRIO Retrospective Cohort
Vanissa Savarimuthu¹, Alexandra Ladouceur², Oliver Terry¹, Janet Roberts³, Janet Pope⁴, Thomas Appleton⁴, Sabrina Hoa⁵, Aurore Fifi-Mah⁶, Nancy Maltez⁷, Alexandra Saltman⁸, Megan Himmel⁸, Ines Colmegna⁹, Lindsay Cho¹⁰, Emma Schmidt¹⁰, Claudie Berger¹¹, Thomas Barnetche¹², Lourdes Gonzalez Arreola¹³, Carrie Ye¹⁴, Shahin Jamal¹⁵ and Marie Hudson¹⁶, ¹McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²Department of Rheumatology of McGill University and CHU-Bordeaux, Montréal, QC, Canada, ³Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, ⁴University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ⁵University of Montreal, Brossard, QC, Canada, ⁶University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁷The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ⁸University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁹The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada, ¹⁰University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ¹¹RI-MUHC, Montreal, QC, Canada, ¹²Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France, ¹³Arthritis Research Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ¹⁴University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ¹⁵Vancouver Coastal Health, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ¹⁶McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
Background/Purpose: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) have revolutionized the treatment of cancer. A drawback of ICI therapy is their off-target effects known as immune-related adverse events…
Abstract Number: 1059 • ACR Convergence 2023
Identification of Patients with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Associated Inflammatory Arthritis Using Medicare Claims Data
Anne Bass¹, Fenglong Xie², Alexa Meara³, Deanna Jannat-Khah⁴ and Jeffrey Curtis², ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, ⁴Hospital For Special Surgery, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) associated inflammatory arthritis (ICI-IA) has been suggested to occur in approximately 3-6% of ICI-treated patients with cancer1 but most studies…
Abstract Number: 1049 • ACR Convergence 2023
Enhanced Diagnostic Confidence with High Frequency Temporal Artery Ultrasound in Diagnosis of Cranial Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA)
Jem Ninan¹, Suellen Lyne¹, Julian McNeil², Joanna Tieu³, Vidya Limaye⁴, Susanna Proudman⁴, Susan Lester³ and Catherine Hill³, ¹University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, ²Modbury Hospital, Modbury, Australia, ³The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, Australia, ⁴Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia
Background/Purpose: A previous survey of Australian Rheumatologists indicated low confidence (60% of Australian Rheumatologists) in the use of Temporal artery ultrasound provided by their Radiology…
Abstract Number: 1073 • ACR Convergence 2023
Risk of Inflammatory Central Nervous System Diseases Among New Users of Biologic and Targeted Synthetic Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs
Maximilian Casey¹, Sonia Pannu², Saffia Bajwa³, Ali Duarte-Garcia⁴ and Mike Putman⁵, ¹Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ²University School of Milwaukee, River Hills, WI, ³Medical College of Wisconsin, Wauwatosa, WI, ⁴Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Background/Purpose: Inflammatory and demyelinating central nervous system (CNS) adverse events have been observed among new users of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors. No studies to…
Abstract Number: 1052 • ACR Convergence 2023
Unique Cellular and Autoantibody Signatures in Patients with irAEs Revealed by Longitudinal Immune Tracking
Sokratis Apostolidis¹, Kyra Sacksith¹, Bria Fulmer¹, Zoe Quandt², Mark Anderson², Terri Laufer³ and E. John Wherry¹, ¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²University of California San Francisco, San Franscisco, CA, ³University of Pennsylvania, Philadlephia, PA
Background/Purpose: The use of anti-PD-1 (aPD-1) immunotherapy has seen significant success in clinical practice, corresponding with a continued rise in clinical indications for multiple cancer…
Abstract Number: 1074 • ACR Convergence 2023
Baseline Clinical Features, but Not Shared Epitope or HLA B27, Predict Severe Outcomes for Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-induced Inflammatory Arthritis
Laura Cappelli¹, omer Kamal², Michelle Jones³, Clifton Bingham⁴ and Ami Shah⁵, ¹Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, MD, ³Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁵Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Ellicott City, MD
Background/Purpose: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) can cause inflammatory arthritis (IA) of varying severity. Many patients with ICI-IA require immunosuppression beyond corticosteroids, but there is no…
Abstract Number: 1064 • ACR Convergence 2023
Seroconversion Rates in Rituximab-Treated Rheumatic Patients Receiving COVID-19 Vaccination
Ryan Wilson¹, Junaid Awan², Mary Brady², Ciara Hunt², Fahd Adeeb³ and alexander fraser⁴, ¹University of Limerick, Buncrana, Ireland, ²University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, ³RCSI & UCD (Ireland) Malaysia Campus (RUMC), Malaysia, Malaysia, ⁴HSE, Limerick, Ireland
Background/Purpose: COVID-19 has increased the mortality rates among rheumatic patients, mainly those immunocompromised or with underlying comorbidities. During the COVID-19 vaccine development, patients on immunomodulatory…
Abstract Number: 1051 • ACR Convergence 2023
Validation of Handheld Ultrasound Devices for Point of Care Use in Rheumatology: Interim Analysis
sibel aydin¹, seyyid acikgoz², Ummugulsum Oguz³, antonio Vieira⁴, patrick Leclerc⁴, Suharsh Shah⁴, Lihi Eder⁵ and Gurjit S Kaeley⁶, ¹University of Ottawa - Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ²University of Ottawa, Rheumatology, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ³University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ⁴Novartis Pharmaceuticals Canada Inc., Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁵Women’s College Research Institute, Division of Rheumatology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
Background/Purpose: Ultrasonography (US) has experienced a rapid evolution in rheumatology. Despite many advantages being shown repeatedly, several barriers persist and stand in the way of…
Abstract Number: 1056 • ACR Convergence 2023
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Rechallenge in Patients Who Previously Experienced Immune-Related Inflammatory Arthritis: A Multicenter Observational Study
Alexandra Ladouceur¹, Gael Mouterde², Alice TISON³, Samuel Bitoun⁴, Sorilla Mary-Prey⁵, Caroline Dutriaux⁶, Emilie Gerard⁵, Anne Pham-Ledard⁵, Marie Beylot-Barry⁵, Maeva Zysman⁵, Rémi Veillon⁵, Charlotte Domblides⁷, Amaury Daste⁷, Marine Gross-Goupil⁷, Baptiste Sionneau⁷, Félix Lefort⁷, Mathieu Larroquette⁷, Thomas Barnetche⁸, Christophe Richez⁹, Marie-Elise Truchetet⁸, Thierry Schaeverbebke¹⁰ and Marie Kostine⁸, ¹Department of Rheumatology of McGill University and CHU-Bordeaux, Montréal, QC, Canada, ²CHU Lapeyronie, Montpellier, France, ³CHU de la Cavale Blanche, Brest, France, ⁴Université Paris-Saclay, Hôpital Bicêtre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, FHU CARE, Inserm UMR 1184, Paris, France, ⁵Department of Dermatology, Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France, ⁶CHU-Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, ⁷Department of Medical Oncology, Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France, ⁸Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France, ⁹Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, ¹⁰University Hospital of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Background/Purpose: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) improve overall survival in many cancer patients by activating their immune system. However, they can cause off-target immune-related adverse events…

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