Abstracts tagged "autoimmune diseases"

Abstract Number: 0412 • ACR Convergence 2025
The Association of Obesity with Juvenile Spondyloarthritis
Katelyn Baggett¹, Timothy Brandon² and Pamela Weiss³, ¹Johns Hopkins University, Newtown Square, PA, ²Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ³Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: Childhood obesity is a global public health concern that impacts the health and wellbeing of all children and particularly negatively affects children living with…
Abstract Number: 0273 • ACR Convergence 2025
Effector CD8+ T cells and PD-1hi CXCL13hi CD4+ T cells contribute to recurrent immune checkpoint inhibitor mediated inflammatory arthritis
Synat Keam¹, Yuanteng Li², Yanshuo Chu¹, Jean Tayar³, Huifang Lu⁴, Michael Wu⁵, Sandeep Agarwal⁶, Nitin Jain⁷, Pavlos Msaouel¹, Adi Diab², Cara Haymaker¹, Linghua Wang¹, Roza Nurieva⁸ and Sang Kim⁹, ¹The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, houston, ²MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, ³The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, ⁴UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, ⁵Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, ⁶Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ⁷The Universty of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, ⁸University of Texas MD Anderson, Houston, TX, ⁹Yale University, Branford, CT
Background/Purpose: Immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy is associated with life- and/or organ-threatening immune-related adverse events, including inflammatory arthritis (ICI-IA). However, the mechanisms behind ICI-IA, especially…
Abstract Number: 0223 • ACR Convergence 2025
Timely Dermatologic Diagnosis and Management Changes in Systemic Collagen Vascular Diseases: Experiences from the Rheumatology-Dermatology Combined Clinic
Gopisree Peringeth¹, Benedict Wu¹, Shudan Wang², Beth McLellan³, Clement Tagoe⁴ and Jeanie Lee¹, ¹Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, ²Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, ³Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, ⁴Albert Einstein College of Medicine, FRESH MEADOWS, NY
Background/Purpose: Collagen vascular diseases (CVD) often present with skin manifestations, but it is not always clear whether these changes are directly related to the underlying…
Abstract Number: 0110 • ACR Convergence 2025
SKG Mice Develop CD4⁺ T Cell–Driven Psoriasis and Enable Study of Endogenous Antigen-Specific Responses
Yuka Nakao¹, Astha Patel¹, Bahram Razani², Steven yu¹, Steven Lazarevsky², Marlys Fassett² and Judith Ashouri¹, ¹University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²UCSF Department of Dermatology, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Psoriasis (Pso) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) are chronic immune-mediated diseases affecting millions, yet early immunologic triggers remain poorly defined. Therapies targeting TNFα, IL-17, and…
Abstract Number: 0014 • ACR Convergence 2025
NKX019, an allogeneic off-the-shelf CD19 targeting CAR-NK cell therapy, induces deep CD19+ B cell depletion in hematological malignancy and models of autoimmune disease
Mira Tohmé, Meriam Vejiga, Wendy Yu, Emily Kang, Katharine Yu, Jessica Sood, Ivan Chan, Kyle Hansen, David Shook and Phung Gip, Nkarta, South San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Autologous CAR T-cell therapies have remarkable clinical activity in autoimmune disease (AD) via B-cell targeting, with many patients achieving durable, drug-free remission. However, safety…
Abstract Number: PP05 • ACR Convergence 2025
Mastering a Rare, Autoimmune Disease: My Journey Regaining Agency Through Education, Collaboration, and Community
Mustafa Shameem

Background/Purpose: After a complex diagnostic journey, my PCP working on a rheumatological theory ordered a myositis-specific autoantibody (MSA) panel. It revealed the presence of an…
Abstract Number: 2600 • ACR Convergence 2025
Deconstructing Lupus Nephritis Kidney Tissue at Single-Cell Resolution
Nicholas Sugiarto¹, Michelle Curtis², Siddarth Gurajala², Thomas Eisenhaure³, Qian Xiao⁴, Joseph Mears⁵, Arnon Arazi⁶, Paul Hoover⁷, Celine Berthier⁸, Saori Sakaue⁹, Andrea Fava¹⁰, David Hildeman¹¹, E. Steve Woodle¹², Brad Rovin¹³, Jennifer Barnas¹⁴, Maria Dall'Era¹⁵, Chaim Putterman¹⁶, Diane Kamen¹⁷, Maureen McMahon¹⁸, Jennifer Grossman¹⁹, Kenneth Kalunian²⁰, Jeffrey Hodgin²¹, Fernanda Payan Schober²², Mariko Ishimori²³, Michael Weisman²³, William Apruzzese²⁴, Joel Guthridge²⁵, Michael Brenner²⁶, Jennifer Anolik²⁷, David Wofsy²⁸, Judith James²⁵, Deepak Rao⁷, Anne Davidson²⁹, Michelle Petri³⁰, Jill Buyon³¹, Nir Hacohen³², Betty Diamond³³ and Soumya Raychaudhuri⁷, ¹Harvard Medical School, Brookline, MA, ²Harvard Medical School, Boston, ³Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, ⁴Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁵Michigan University, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁶Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Acton, MA, ⁷Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁸University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁹University of Washington, Yokohama, Japan, ¹⁰Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ¹¹Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, ¹²UC Health, Cincinnati, ¹³The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ¹⁴University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, ¹⁵Division of Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, ¹⁶Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Safed, Israel, ¹⁷Medical University of South Carolina, Johns Island, SC, ¹⁸UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ¹⁹UCLA, Sherman Oaks, CA, ²⁰UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ²¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, ²²TTUHSC, El Paso, TX, ²³Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ²⁴Pfizer, Boston, ²⁵Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²⁶Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Newton, MA, ²⁷University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, ²⁸University of California San Francisco, SF, CA, ²⁹Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, ³⁰Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Timonium, MD, ³¹NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, ³²Broad Institute of MIT Harvard, Cambridge, MA, ³³The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY
Background/Purpose: Lupus nephritis (LN) is a heterogeneous disease driven by diverse immune and tissue cell types. We defined the cell states in the tissue and…
Abstract Number: 2491 • ACR Convergence 2025
High Prevalence of Autoimmunity and Cancer in Anti-NOR90-positive Patients: A Multicenter Observational Study
Marina Dueñas-Ochoa¹, Cristina Valero², Francisco Morandeira³, Juan Carlos Sáez¹, Maryia Nikitsina⁴, Montserrat Roig Kim⁵, Laia De Daniel Bisbe⁵, Esther Vicente-Rabaneda⁶, Arantza Alfranca¹, Miguel A. González-Gay⁷, Martí Aguilar Coll⁸, Rosario Garcia Vicuña⁶, Javier Narváez⁹ and Santos Castañeda¹⁰, ¹Hospital La Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ²Hospital de la Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ³Department of Immunology. Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴University Hospital La Princesa, Madrid, Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ⁵Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain, ⁶Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ⁷Department of Rheumatology and Joint and Bone Research Unit, Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz, and Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain, and Medicine and Psychiatry Department, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain, ⁸Hospital Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain, ⁹Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain, ¹⁰Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, IIS-Princesa, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: Anti-Nucleolar Organizer Region 90 (anti-NOR90) antibodies target nucleolar proteins involved in ribosomal RNA transcription and processing, key steps in protein synthesis. These antibodies have…
Abstract Number: 2396 • ACR Convergence 2025
A Machine Learning Algorithm Based on a 15-Autoantibody Profile by a Novel Fully Automated Multiplexed Microarray Immunoassay for the Diagnosis of Autoimmune Connective Tissue Diseases
Gerber Gomez¹, Yipeng Cheng², Kristiana Nita², Michael Hausmann³, Christian Fischer¹ and Yasemin Ataman-Önal³, ¹Scientific & Medical Affairs, AliveDx Suisse SA, Eysins, Switzerland, ²AliveDx, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, ³AliveDx Suisse SA, Eysins, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: Detection of relevant autoantibodies is key in the identification of autoimmune connective tissue diseases (CTD). The evaluation of multiple autoantibodies for extended serological profiling…
Abstract Number: 2025 • ACR Convergence 2025
Spectrum of Autoantibodies in CNS Demyelinating Diseases: Clinical, Laboratory and Imaging Associations
Anna Rapti¹, Dimitris Karathanasis², Sylvia Raftopoulou¹, Charalampos Skarlis¹, Clio Mavragani¹ and Maria Eleftheria Evangelopoulos², ¹Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, Athens, Greece, ²First Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Eginition Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, Athens, Greece
Background/Purpose: Systemic autoimmune diseases (SADs) may present with CNS demyelination, mimicking multiple sclerosis (MS), though driven by distinct immunopathogenic mechanisms. While ANA and aPL are…
Abstract Number: 1850 • ACR Convergence 2025
First American SLE patients demonstrate enhanced lipid metabolism and B cell activation by high-content proteomic analyses
Rufei Lu¹, Tayte Stephens², Carla Guthridge¹, Miles Smith¹, Joseph Kheir¹, Cristina Arriens¹, Joan Merrill³, Marci Beel⁴, Susan Macwana¹, Wade DeJager⁵, Nicholas Domingez¹, Teresa Aberle¹, Joel Guthridge¹ and Judith James¹, ¹Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ³Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City ⁷³¹⁰⁴, OK, ⁴Oklahoma Medical Research Foun, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁵Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are autoimmune diseases with overlapping yet distinct immunopathologies. Proteomic profiling of soluble plasma factors can reveal…
Abstract Number: 1693 • ACR Convergence 2025
Characterizing ANCA-specific B Cells in ANCA-associated Vasculitis
Laura van Dam¹, Mengrui Zhang¹, Shima Parsafar², Audra Horomanski³, Sajede Rasouli², Orr Sharpe², Jolijn van Leeuwen⁴, Tobias Lanz², Cees van Kooten⁴, Onno Teng⁵ and William H. Robinson³, ¹Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ²Stanford University, Stanford, ³Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ⁴Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁵Leiden University Medical Center, Leiderdorp, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) is a severe autoimmune disease, characterized by ANCAs targeting myeloperoxidase (MPO) or proteinase-3 (PR3). ANCA-specific B cells have…
Abstract Number: 1537 • ACR Convergence 2025
Local Immune effector Cell-Associated Toxicity Syndrome (LICATS) in CAR T-cell treated patients with Autoimmune Disease
Melanie Hagen¹, Fabian Müller², Andreas Wirsching¹, Soraya Kharboutli³, Silvia Spoerl³, Christina Duesing⁴, Tobias Krickau⁵, Markus Metzler⁵, Simon Völkl³, Michael Aigner³, Sascha Kretschmann³, Ingrid Vasova³, Marc Saake⁵, Stefan Schliep⁵, Torsten Kubacki⁶, Nicolas Hunzelmann⁶, Laura Bucci¹, Jule Taubmann⁷, Christina Bergmann¹, Andrea-Hermina Györfi⁸, Sascha Dietrich⁹, Jörg Distler¹⁰, Ricardo Grieshaber-Bouyer¹¹, Andreas Mackensen¹² and Georg Schett¹³, ¹Department of Medicine ³ - Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Uniklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ²University Hospital of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ³Department of Medicine ⁵ - Hematology and Oncology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁴Klinik für Rheumatologie, Düsseldorf, Germany, ⁵Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁶University and University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Cologne, Germany, ⁷Department of Medicine ³ - Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁸Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University., Düsseldorf, Germany, ⁹Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, University Hospital Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany, ¹⁰University Hospital Duesseldorf and HHU, Duesseldorf, Germany, ¹¹University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ¹²Department of Medicine ⁵ - Hematology and Oncology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Uniklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ¹³Uniklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, Erlangen, Germany
Background/Purpose: CD19-targeting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has revolutionized treatment strategies for severe B-cell driven autoimmune diseases (AID) like Systemic Lupus erythematosus (SLE), Systemic…
Abstract Number: 1387 • ACR Convergence 2025
Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Patients Diagnosed With Sjögren’s Disease Using Electronic Health Records and Linked Claims Data From the US Excellence Network in RheumatoloGY (ENRGY) Practice-Based Research Network
Jeffrey Curtis¹, Emily Holladay², Antton Egana³, Anjana Lalla³, Yujie Su⁴, Fenglong Xie⁵, Amy Mudano⁴, Shanette Daigle⁴ and Sara McCoy⁶, ¹Foundation for Advancing Science, Technology, Education and Research, Birmingham, AL, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Edmond, OK, ³Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, NJ, ⁴Foundation for Advancing Science, Technology, Education and Research (FASTER), Hoover, AL, ⁵The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁶University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI
Background/Purpose: Sjögren’s disease (SjD) is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by systemic symptoms such as dryness, fatigue, musculoskeletal pain, and extraglandular manifestations. SjD may overlap…
Abstract Number: 1190 • ACR Convergence 2025
IgG4-related disease with comorbid autoimmune diseases: a retrospective study from a large cohort
Xinli Yang¹, Wen Zhang², Jiaxin zhou³ and Yuxue Nie⁴, ¹Peking Union Medical College, Dong Cheng Qu, China (People's Republic), ²Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Dong Cheng Qu, China (People's Republic), ³Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China (People's Republic), ⁴Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, Dong Cheng Qu, China (People's Republic)
Background/Purpose: This study aimed to explore the clinical characteristics, treatment, and prognosis of IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) patients with comorbid autoimmune diseases (AIDs).Methods: A total of…

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