Abstracts tagged "Imaging"

Abstract Number: 1014 • ACR Convergence 2022
Is Radiographic Axial Involvement Associated with Syndesmophyte Development After 2 Years in PsA Patients?
Manouk de Hooge¹, Alla Alexeevna Ishchenko², Serge Steinfeld³, Adrien NZEUSSEU TOUKAP⁴, Dirk Elewaut⁵, Rik Lories⁶, Filip Van den bosch⁷ and Kurt de Vlam⁸, ¹Ghent University Hospital, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, ²University Hospitals Leuven, Sint-Stevens-Woluwe, Belgium, ³Clinique Saint-Jean, Brussels, Belgium, ⁴Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium, VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research, Ghent University, Heusden, Belgium, ⁶KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ⁷Department of Internal Medicine and Paediatrics, Ghent University and VIB Centre for Inflammation Research, Ghent, Belgium, ⁸University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Background/Purpose: There is an ongoing debate on axial involvement in psoriatic arthritis (PsA). This study, using clinical and radiographical definitions of axial involvement, investigated the…
Abstract Number: 1256 • ACR Convergence 2022
A Machine Learning Pipeline for Prediction of Bone Marrow Oedema Along the Sacroiliac Joints on Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Joris Roels¹, Ann-Sophie Kathleen De Craemer², Thomas Renson³, Manouk de Hooge⁴, Arne Gevaert¹, Lennart Jans³, Nele Herregods³, Thomas Van Den Berghe³, Philippe Carron³, Filip Van den bosch⁵, Yvan Saeys¹ and Dirk Elewaut⁶, ¹Center for Inflammation Research, UGent-VIB, Ghent, Belgium, ²Ghent University Hospital, Gent, Belgium, ³Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium, ⁴Ghent University Hospital, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, ⁵Department of Internal Medicine and Paediatrics, Ghent University and VIB Centre for Inflammation Research, Ghent, Belgium, ⁶Department of Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium, VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research, Ghent University, Heusden, Belgium
Background/Purpose: Detection and semi-quantitative assessment of bone marrow oedema (BMO) on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the sacroiliac (SI) joints is essential for the diagnosis…
Abstract Number: 1550 • ACR Convergence 2022
Involvement of Iliofemoral Arteries in PET/CT Are Associated with Atherosclerotic Risk Factors in Takayasu’s Arteritis
SEMA KAYMAZ-TAHRA¹, Salih Ozguven², Nuh Filizoglu², Ali Ugur Unal³, Fatma Alibaz-Oner⁴, Tunc Ones², Tanju Yusuf Erdil² and Haner Direskeneli⁵, ¹Sancaktepe Prof Dr Ilhan Varank Training and Research Hospital, Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Marmara University School of Medicine, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ³Marmara University School of Medicine, Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁴Marmara University, Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁵Marmara University, Rheumatology, Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Background/Purpose: Iliofemoral artery disease, which is commonly observed in severe atherosclerosis, may also be present in Takayasu's arteritis (TAK). In this study we aimed to…
Abstract Number: 1979 • ACR Convergence 2022
Tc99m Tilmanocept Imaging Can Differentiate the Fibroid Pathotype of Rheumatoid Arthritis from Non-Fibroid Pathotypes in Patients
Costantino Pitzalis¹, rebecca hands², Swamy Venuturupalli³, Ami Ben-artzi⁴, Eric Ruderman⁵, Harris Perlman⁶, Arthur Mandelin⁵, Mara Leach⁷, Addison Hasselbach⁷, Bonnie Abbruzzese⁷, Rachael Hershey⁷, Beth Potter⁷, Jessica Fitzpatrick⁷, Aaron Thornton⁷, Michael Blue⁷, Jonathan Graf⁸, David Ralph⁷ and Michael Rosol⁷, ¹Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, ²William Harvey Research Institute, London, United Kingdom, ³Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Ami Ben-Artzi, MD Inc., Beverly Hills, CA, ⁵Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ⁶Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁷Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, Dublin, OH, ⁸Ucsf, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: The primary objective of this study is to assess the relationship between joint-specific Tc99m tilmanocept (TIL) uptake values and the pathobiology of RA-involved joint…
Abstract Number: 1231 • ACR Convergence 2022
[68Ga]- CPCR4 Trifluoroacetate PET/CT Imaging of Chemokine Receptor CXCR4- Expression in Systemic Sclerosis Related Interstitial Lung Disease
Chirag Rajkumar Kopp¹, Shefali Sharma², Venkata Subramanian Krishnaraju³, Chandra Bhushan Prasad³, Jagdeep Singh³, Shashi Anand³, Ranjana Minz³, Ashwani Sood³, Anindita Sinha³, Rajender Kumar Basher³, Sahajal Dhooria³, Varun Dhir⁴ and sanjay jain³, ¹Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India, ²PGIMER< Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India, ³Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India, ⁴PGIMER, CHD, INDIA, Chandigarh, India
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) in Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a major contributor of morbidity and mortality. CXCR4/CXCL12 axis has been implicated in the pathogenesis…
Abstract Number: 1257 • ACR Convergence 2022
Assessing the Effectiveness of Tocilizumab in Giant Cell Arteritis by PET: Multicenter Study of 101 Patients of Clinical Practice
Julio Sánchez-Martín¹, Javier Loricera¹, Santos Castañeda², Clara Moriano³, F. Javier Narváez⁴, Vicente Aldasoro⁵, Olga Maiz⁶, Rafael Melero⁷, Juan Ignacio Villa Blanco⁸, Paloma Vela-Casampere⁹, Susana Romero Yuste¹⁰, José Luis Callejas¹¹, Eugenio De Miguel¹², Eva Galíndez-Agirregoikoa¹³, Francisca Sivera¹⁴, Jesus Fernandez¹⁵, Carles Galisteo¹⁶, Ivan Ferraz Amaro¹⁷, Lara Sánchez-Bilbao¹, Monica Calderon-Goercke¹⁸, Miguel Ángel González-Gay¹⁹ and Ricardo Blanco²⁰, ¹Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ²Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, IIS-Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ³Complejo Asistencial Universitario de León, León, Spain, ⁴Rheumatology Department, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain, ⁵Hospital Universitario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, ⁶Hospital Universitario de Donostia, San Sebastián, Spain, ⁷Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Vigo, Vigo, Spain, ⁸Sierrallana Hospital, Torrelavega, Spain, ⁹Hospital General Universitario Alicante, Alicante, Spain, ¹⁰Complexo Hospitalario Universitario, Pontevedra, Spain, ¹¹Hospital San Cecilio, Granada, Spain, ¹²Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain, ¹³Basurto University Hospital, Bilbao, Spain, ¹⁴Hospital Universitario de Elda, San Vicente del Raspeig, Spain, ¹⁵Hospital de La Coruña, La Coruña, Spain, ¹⁶Hospital Parc Tauli,, Sabadel, Spain, ¹⁷Division of Rheumatology. Hospital Universitario de Canarias. Spain., Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, ¹⁸Hospital de Sierrallana, Torrelavega, Spain, ¹⁹Department of Medicine and Psychiatry, Universidad de Cantabria; Rheumatology Division, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla; Research group on genetic epidemiology and atherosclerosis in systemic diseases and in metabolic diseases of the musculoskeletal system, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain. Cardiovascular Pathophysiology and Genomics Research Unit, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, ²⁰Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain
Background/Purpose: Positron emission tomography (PET) is one of the tools available for the diagnosis of extracranial large-vessel vasculitis (1-5). Tocilizumab (TCZ) has shown efficacy in…
Abstract Number: 1551 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Utility of Imaging Studies (MRA and CTA) in Long-Term Monitoring for Patients with Takayasu Arteritis
Saja Almaaitah¹, Chao Zhang² and alexandra villa forte¹, ¹Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, ²Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Background/Purpose: Takayasu Arteritis (TA) is a complex large vessel vasculitis that leads to arterial stenosis, occlusion and aneurysmal formation. Assessment of disease activity is a…
Abstract Number: 2028 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Value of FDG-PET/CT in the Detection of Lymphomas Associated with Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome
Martha S. van Ginkel¹, Andor WJM Glaudemans¹, Bert van der Vegt¹, Arjan Vissink¹, Frans Kroese² and Hendrika Bootsma², ¹University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ²University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) patients have an increased risk of developing a lymphoma. PSS-associated lymphomas are mostly of the mucosa associated lymphoid tissue (MALT)…
Abstract Number: 1233 • ACR Convergence 2022
Ultrasound Is Reliable in the Assessment of Muscle Echogenicity in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases: Results of a Multicenter International Web-based Study
Andrea Di Matteo¹, Erica Moscioni², Maria Giovanna Lommano¹, Edoardo Cipolletta¹, Gianluca Smerilli¹, Sonia Farah¹, Carla Airoldi³, Sibel Aydin⁴, Becciolini Andrea⁵, Karina Bonfiglioli⁶, Marina Carotti⁷, Greta Carrara⁸, Tomas Cazenave⁹, Davide Corradini¹⁰, Micaela Ana Cosatti¹¹, Juan Josè de Agustin¹², Giulia Maria Destro Castaniti¹³, Marco Di Carlo¹, Eleonora Di Donato⁵, Luca Di geso¹⁴, Ashley Elliott¹⁵, Daniela Fodor¹⁶, Francesca Francioso¹, Alessandra Gabba¹⁷, Cristina Hernández-Díaz¹⁸, Rudolf Horvath¹⁹, Jana Hurnakova¹⁹, Diogo Jesus²⁰, Josefina Marin²¹, Maria Victoria Martire²², Riccardo Mashadi-Mirza²³, Marco Massarotti²⁴, Alice Andreea Musca²⁵, Jagdish Nair²⁶, Tadashi Okano²⁷, Ioannis Papalopoulos²⁸, Javier Eduardo Rosa²¹, Marcos Rosemffet²⁹, João Rovisco³⁰, Davide Rozza⁸, Fausto Salaffi¹, Crescenzio Scioscia³¹, Carlo Alberto Scirè⁸, Maria-Magdalena Tamas³², Shun Tanimura³³, Lucio Ventura-Rios¹⁸, Catalina Villota-Eraso³⁴, Orlando Villota³⁵, Paraksevi V Voulgari³⁶, Florentin Ananu Vreju³⁷, Gentiana Vukatana³⁷, Johana Zacariaz Hereter²¹, Anna Zanetti⁸, Walter Grassi¹ and Emilio Filippucci¹, ¹Polytechnic University of Marche, Rheumatology Unit, Department of Clinical and Molecular Sciences, "Carlo Urbani" Hospital, Jesi, Italy, ²Polytechnic University of Marche, Jesi, Italy, ³Hospital Provincial, Rosario, Argentina, ⁴University of Ottawa, Rheumatology, Ottawa, Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ⁵Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine and Rheumatology Unit, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria di Parma, Parma, Italy, ⁶Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ⁷Department of Radiology, Ospedali Riuniti, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy, ⁸Epidemiology Unit, Italian Society of Rheumatology, Milano, Italy, ⁹Rheumatology Unit, Instituto de Rehabilitación Psicofísica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¹⁰Rheumatology Unit, University Clinic AOU Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy, ¹¹CEMIC, Centro de educación médica e investigaciones médicas "Norberto Quirno", Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¹²Vall D'hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, ¹³Department of Health Promotion, Mother and Child Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, Rheumatology section, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy, ¹⁴Ospedale Madonna del Soccorso, Department of Internal Medicine, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy, ¹⁵Centre for Experimental Medicine, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, ¹⁶2nd Internal Medicine Department, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, ¹⁷Local Health Unit (ASL), Oristano, Italy, ¹⁸Division de Reumatologia. Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitacion "Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra", Ciudad de México, Mexico, ¹⁹Department of Paediatric and Adult Rheumatology, University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic, ²⁰Rheumatology Department, Centro Hospitalar de Leiria, Leira, Portugal, ²¹Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ²²San Roque Hospital, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ²³Radiology Department, A.O. Ospedali Riuniti Marche Nord, Pesaro, Italy, ²⁴Department of Rheumatology, University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust, Christchurch Hospital, Christchurch, United Kingdom, ²⁵Department of Rheumatology - Colentina Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania, ²⁶Rheumatology, Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom, ²⁷Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, ²⁸Department of Rheumatology, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Greece, ²⁹Rheumatology Unit, Instituto de Rehabilitación Psicofísica, Capital Federal, Argentina, ³⁰Rheumatology Department, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, ³¹Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantations-Rheumatology Unit, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy, ³²Department of Rheumatology, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, ³³Rheumatology Department, Hokkaido Medical Center for Rheumatic Diseases, Sapporo, Japan, ³⁴IPS Servicio integral de reumatología e inmunología Dr Orlando Villota, Pasto, Colombia, ³⁵Division of Rheumatology, Fundación Hospital San Pedro, Pasto, Colombia, ³⁶Department of Rheumatology, School of Health Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece, ³⁷Rheumatology Department, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Craiova, Romania, ³⁷Rheumatology Unit; IRCCS Policlinico S. Orsola Malpighi, Bologna, Italy
Background/Purpose: Studies have showed that an increased ultrasound (US) muscle echogenicity indicating fatty replacement/fibrosis of muscle tissue may represent an early indicator of muscle involvement associated…
Abstract Number: 1259 • ACR Convergence 2022
Characteristics of Sacroiliac Joint in Patient with Skin Psoriasis, Without Rheumatological Manifestations: A Controlled Study Using CT Scan
Thomas Leriche¹, Olivier Fakih², Clément Prati¹, Daniel Wendling³ and Frank Verhoeven⁴, ¹CHU de Besançon, Besançon, France, ²Service de rhumatologie, CHU de Besançon, Besançon, France, ³CHU, University Teaching Hospital, Besançon, France, ⁴Besançon University Hospital, Rheumatology Department, Besançon, France
Background/Purpose: Plaque Psoriasis (PsO) is an inflammatory disorder that could be associated with rheumatological manifestations defining Psoriatic arthritis. Moreover, recent studies showed that the presence…
Abstract Number: 1554 • ACR Convergence 2022
Serum Biomarkers in Association with Clinical and Vascular Disease Activity in Takayasu’s Arteritis
Cameron Rankin¹, Peter Grayson², Bates Gribbons³, Kaitlin Quinn⁴, Christopher Redmond⁵ and Wanxia Tsai¹, ¹NIAMS/NIH, Bethesda, MD, ²National Institutes of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, ³McGovern Medical School, Colleyville, TX, ⁴National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Washington, DC, ⁵National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD
Background/Purpose: 18FDG-PET imaging can be used to directly assess vascular inflammation; however, limited access to this technology has restricted widespread adoption of this modality in…
Abstract Number: 2032 • ACR Convergence 2022
Major Salivary Gland Ultrasound and Elastography for Assessment of Disease Activity in Patients of Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome
Kunal Chandwar¹, Juhi Dixit¹, Kriti Kishor¹, DOGGA PRASANNA KUMAR², DIGVIJAY EKBOTE³, PUNEET KUMAR¹ and Urmila Dhakad¹, ¹King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India, ²KGMU, LUCKNOW, Uttar Pradesh, India, ³KING GEORGE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, LUCKNOW, Uttar Pradesh, India
Background/Purpose: To assess major salivary gland involvement by ultrasonography and elastography in patients with Sjögren's syndrome , compare it with controls and correlate the severity…
Abstract Number: 1234 • ACR Convergence 2022
Characterizing Imaging Phenotypes in PsA: The Effect of Age and Sex
Lihi Eder¹ and Kangping Cui², ¹Women’s College Research Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSK-US) provides valuable information on disease phenotype in psoriatic arthritis (PsA). While age and sex are important determinants of health, limited information…
Abstract Number: 1260 • ACR Convergence 2022
Tenderness and Radiographic Progression in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Psoriatic Arthritis
Irina Gessl¹, Mihaela Popescu², Gabriela supp³, Thomas Deimel¹, Paul Studenic¹, Martina Durechova³, michael zauner³, Josef Smolen¹ and Peter Mandl¹, ¹Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ²Department of Rheumatology, Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Montréal, QC, Canada, ³Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Background/Purpose: In inflammatory arthritis swelling is regarded as a sign of synovitis and is associated with radiographic progression. However, the association of tenderness with radiographic…
Abstract Number: 1563 • ACR Convergence 2022
Common Femoral Vein Wall Thickness Measurement as a Diagnostic Test in Incomplete Behçet’s Disease
Fatma Alibaz-Oner¹, seda kutluğ ağaçkıran², Rabia Ergelen³, Fatma Temiz³, efe Soydemir³, Tulin Ergun⁴ and Haner Direskeneli⁵, ¹Marmara University, Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Marmara University School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ³Marmara University, School of Medicine, Departmant of Internal Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁴Marmara University, School of Medicine, Department of Dermatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁵Marmara University, Rheumatology, Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Background/Purpose: Diagnosing Behçet's Disease (BD) can be a clinical challenge in patients presenting with limited organ manifestations, especially with single major organ involvement. We reported…

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