Abstracts tagged "Imaging"

Abstract Number: 1816 • ACR Convergence 2022
Assessing Urate Deposition and Inflammation in the Vasculature of Gout Patients Using Dual Energy Computed Tomography and Positron Emission Tomography Pre and Post Pegloticase- a Pilot Study
Ira Khanna, Venkatesh Mani, Renata Pyzik, Audrey Kaufman, Wei Wei Chi, Emilia Bagiella, Philip Robson and Yousaf Ali, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Gout is the most common inflammatory arthritis, caused by hyperuricemia and subsequent deposition of aggregated monosodium urate (MSU) crystals in both articular and extra-articular…
Abstract Number: 0493 • ACR Convergence 2022
MRI Is Superior to Ultrasound of Supraaortic Arteries in Detecting Giant Cell Arteritis – Experience of a Single Center
Matthias Froehlich¹, Thorsten A. Bley², Marc Schmalzing³, Michael Gernert¹, Rudolf A. Werner⁴, Jost Hillenkamp⁵, Karl Georg Haeusler⁶ and Konstanze V. Guggenberger², ¹University Hospital Wuerzburg, Dpt. of Internal Medicine II, Wuerzburg, Germany, ²University Hospital Wuerzburg, Dpt. of Radiology, Wuerzburg, Germany, ³University Hospital Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany, ⁴University Hospital Wuerzburg, Dpt. of Nuclear medicine, Wuerzburg, Germany, ⁵University Hospital Wuerzburg, Dpt. of Ophtalmology, Wuerzburg, Germany, ⁶University Hospital Wuerzburg, Dpt. of Neurology, Wuerzburg, Germany
Background/Purpose: Imaging techniques for the detection of mural inflammation are cornerstones in the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis (GCA). Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound…
Abstract Number: 1246 • ACR Convergence 2022
Improving Radiologic Interpretation of Diffuse Lung Disease in Pediatric Rheumatologic (PR) Patients Using Trained Scoring with Semi-quantitative Chest Computed Tomography (CT) Analysis
Michal Cidon¹, Beverley Newman², Terry Robinson³, Paul Iskander⁴, Paul Thacker⁵, Evan Zucker², Tzielan Lee⁶ and Rex Moats³, ¹Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ²Stanford Children's Health, Stanford, CA, ³Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ⁵Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁶Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
Background/Purpose: We presented preliminary data in 2021 to support the feasibility of using a semi-quantitative chest CT scoring system (Pediatric Rheumatologic Diffuse Lung Disease Score…
Abstract Number: 1412 • ACR Convergence 2022
Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Diabetes Mellitus: A Cross-sectional Study with 13NH3 Myocardial PET/CT
Bas Dijkshoorn¹, Remco Knol², Friso Van Der Zant², Michael Nurmohamed³ and Suat Simsek², ¹Reade Rheumatology Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²Noord-west Ziekenhuis groep, Alkmaar, Netherlands, ³Amsterdam University Medical Center, Kortenhoef, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease. This risk is similar to that of diabetes mellitus (DM). There have…
Abstract Number: 1846 • ACR Convergence 2022
Cardiac Sarcoidosis: An Underdiagnosed, Life-threatening yet Treatable Disease
Patrick Webster¹, Yogita Rochlani² and Konstantinos Loupasakis³, ¹Rheumatology Fellow at Montefiore, New York, NY, ²Montefiore Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ³Montefiore Medical Center/ Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Background/Purpose: Cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) is potentially life-threatening and it typically causes heart failure, ventricular arrhythmia, AV block or sudden death. CS has been reported to…
Abstract Number: 0504 • ACR Convergence 2022
Three-dimensional Ground Reaction Force Symmetry Metrics Largely Fail to Explain Cartilage Worsening in the Contralateral Knee in Persons with Unilateral Knee Osteoarthritis: The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study
Patrick Corrigan¹, Cara Lewis², Kerry Costello², Ali Guermazi², Frank Roemer³, Deepak Kumar², David Felson², Kathryn Bacon², Tuhina Neogi⁴, Michael LaValley⁵, Michael Nevitt⁶, Cora E. Lewis⁷, James Torner⁸ and Joshua Stefanik⁹, ¹Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, ²Boston University, Boston, MA, ³Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, ⁴Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ⁵Boston University School of Public Health, Arlington, MA, ⁶University of California San Francisco, Orinda, CA, ⁷University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁸University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁹Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) often starts as a unilateral disease and commonly progresses to bilateral KOA. There is a need to identify mechanisms that explain…
Abstract Number: 1251 • ACR Convergence 2022
Venous Halo Sign Detected with Superb Microvascular Imaging in Behçet Syndrome
Yasemin Kayadibi¹, Yesim Ozguler², Melike Melikoglu³, Sinem Nihal Esatoglu³, Ahmet Ustundag¹, Ugur Kimyon⁴, Ayse Kalyoncu Ucar¹, Ibrahim Adaletli¹ and gulen Hatemi³, ¹Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Cerrahpaşa Medical School, Department of Radiology, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, New York, NY, ³Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁴Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Cerrahpaşa Medical School, Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
Background/Purpose: Superb microvascular imaging (SMI) is a novel technique that provides a more sensitive assessment of small vessels compared to color Doppler US (CDUS), by…
Abstract Number: 1503 • ACR Convergence 2022
Is Inflammation-driven Bone Loss Associated with Two-year Bone Formation at the Same Vertebra in Axial Spondyloarthritis? – a Multilevel MRI and Low Dose CT Analysis from the Sensitive Imaging of Axial Spondyloarthritis (SIAS) Cohort
Mary Lucy Marques¹, Nuno Pereira da Silva², Désirée van der Heijde³, Rosalinde Stal⁴, Xenofon Baraliakos⁵, Juergen Braun⁶, Monique Reijnierse⁴, Caroline Bastiaenen⁷, Sofia Ramiro⁴ and floris van Gaalen⁴, ¹Leiden University Medical Center, Coimbra, Portugal, ²Radiology Department, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, ³Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁴Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁵Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet Herne, Herne, Germany, ⁶Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne, Germany, ⁷Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: In radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (r-axSpA), inflammation-driven trabecular bone loss is hypothesised to trigger bone repair at an anatomically distinct site of the same vertebra…
Abstract Number: 1913 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Association of Radiographic Chondrocalcinosis with Localized Structural Outcomes in Knee OA: The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study
Jean Liew¹, Ali Guermazi², Mohamed Jarraya³, Na Wang¹, David Felson², Cora E. Lewis⁴, Michael Nevitt⁵, James Torner⁶, John A. Lynch⁷ and Tuhina Neogi¹, ¹Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ²Boston University, Boston, MA, ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁵University of California at San Francisco, Orinda, CA, ⁶University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁷UCSF, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Intra-articular (IA) mineralization due to calcium crystal deposition may contribute to OA pathology through inflammation, release of pro-catabolic factors, or altered cartilage biomechanical properties.…
Abstract Number: 0580 • ACR Convergence 2022
18F-FDG PET-MR Characterization of Aortitis in the IL1rn-/- Mouse Model of Giant-Cell Arteritis
Samuel Deshayes¹, Caroline Baugé², Pierre-Antoine Dupont², Christophe Simard², Hubert De Boysson¹, Alain Manrique² and Achille Aouba¹, ¹Department of Internal Medicine, UR4650 PSIR, Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, CHU de Caen Normandie, Caen, France, ²UR4650 PSIR, Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, Caen, France
Background/Purpose: Metabolic imaging is routinely used to demonstrate aortitis in patients with giant-cell arteritis. We aimed to investigate aortitis in BALB/c IL1rn-/- mice, a preclinical…
Abstract Number: 1253 • ACR Convergence 2022
Gray Intensity Ratio Indices as a Method of Discrimination Between Changes Induced by Sport and by Spondyloarthritis in Load-bearing Entheses
Marina Tortosa Cabanas, CARLOS ANTONIO GUILLEN ASTETE and Africa Andreu Suarez, Ramon y Cajal University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: Computer analysis of radiological images has been recently introduced in the study of patients with musculoskeletal pathologies. Our research group has shown that this…
Abstract Number: 1508 • ACR Convergence 2022
Enthesitis a Dominant Pathology in Psoriatic Arthritis: Identification and Quantification of Enthesitis Burden by 18F-FDG Total-Body PET/CT Imaging
Siba Raychaudhuri¹, Yasser Abdelhafez², Dario Mazza³, Smriti Raychaudhuri⁴ and Abhijit Chaudhari³, ¹UC Davis, School of Medicine/ VA Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, ²University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, ³UC Davis, School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, ⁴VA Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
Background/Purpose: The enthesitis can be the earliest/primary inflammatory event in psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Clinically most of the entheses are not accessible and can't be assessed;…
Abstract Number: 1915 • ACR Convergence 2022
Development of an MRI-based Definition of Knee Osteoarthritis: Data from the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study
Jean Liew¹, Gabriela Rabasa², Michael LaValley³, Jamie collins⁴, Joshua Stefanik⁵, Ali Guermazi², Cora E. Lewis⁶, Michael Nevitt⁷, James Torner⁸ and David Felson², ¹Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ²Boston University, Boston, MA, ³Boston University School of Public Health, Arlington, MA, ⁴Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁵Northeastern University, Boston, MA, ⁶University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁷University of California at San Francisco, Orinda, CA, ⁸University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Background/Purpose: MRI is becoming the OA imaging modality of choice. It allows quantification of cartilage damage, the signature pathologic feature of disease. Proposed MRI-based definitions…
Abstract Number: 0885 • ACR Convergence 2022
Association Between Changes in Inflammatory Pathways Associated with a Reduction in CV Risk: Results from the LiiRA Study
brittany weber¹, Dana Weisenfeld¹, Thany Seyok¹, Elena Massarotti¹, Selena Huang¹, Derrick Todd¹, Jonathan Coblyn¹, michael weinblatt¹, Tianrun Cai¹, Kumar Dahal¹, leanne BArrett¹, Daniel Solomon¹, Jorge Plutzky¹, Marcy Bolster², marcelo Dicarli¹ and Katherine Liao¹, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at increased cardiovascular (CV) risk. Coronary flow reserve (CFR) is a quantitative imaging biomarker of CV risk that…
Abstract Number: 1254 • ACR Convergence 2022
Ultra High‐Frequency Ultrasound of Labial Salivary Glands in Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome: A Promising Tool to Identify Lymphoproliferative Lesions in Unusual Sites
Giovanni Fulvio¹, Rossana Izzetti², Francesco Ferro³, Gianmaria Governato⁴, Gaetano La Rocca⁵, Silvia Fonzetti⁶, Inmaculada Concepción Navarro García⁷, Marta Mosca⁸, Valentina Donati⁹ and Chiara Baldini¹, ¹University of Pisa, Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ²Unit of Dentistry and Oral Surgery, Pisa, Toscana, Italy, ³Clinical and Experimental Medicine Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ⁴Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ⁵University of Pisa, Rheumatology Unit, Palermo, Palermo, Italy, ⁶Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy, ⁷Clinical and Experimental Medicine Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy, ⁸Rheumatology Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ⁹Pathology Unit, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Background/Purpose: Major salivary gland (MSG) ultrasound (US) is a useful tool in Sjögren's syndrome (SS) diagnostic work-up. Interestingly, in a recent case series, specific US…

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