Abstracts tagged "Imaging"

Abstract Number: 1894 • ACR Convergence 2023
3-Dimensional Regional Variation in Inter-rater Reliability of Bone Marrow Lesion Scoring in the Knee
Stephanie Wichuk¹, Walter P. Maksymowych¹, Joel Paschke², Abhilash Hareendranathan³ and Jacob Jaremko¹, ¹University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ²CARE Arthritis, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ³Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Background/Purpose: Bone marrow lesions (BML) are an important scoring feature on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of knee osteoarthritis (OA), and their presence in certain anatomical…
Abstract Number: 2424 • ACR Convergence 2023
Exploring the Limit of Image Resolution for Human Expert Classification of Vascular Ultrasound Images in Giant Cell Arteritis and Healthy Subjects: The GCA-US-AI Project
Valentin Sebastian Schäfer¹, Stavros Chrysidis², Christian Dejaco³, Sara Monti⁴, Matthew Koster⁵, Pantelis Karakostas¹, Wolfgang Schmidt⁶, Eugenio De Miguel⁷, Christina Duftner⁸, Alojzija Hocevar⁹, Annamaria Iagnocco¹⁰, Marcin Milchert¹¹, Chetan Mukhtyar¹², Cristina Ponte¹³, Lene Terslev¹⁴, Tanaz Kermani¹⁵, Uffe Møller Døhn¹⁶, Berit Dalsgaard Nielsen¹⁷, Aaron Juche¹⁸, Luca Seitz¹⁹, Minna Kohler²⁰, Kresten Keller²¹, Rositsa Karalilova²², Thomas Daikeler²³, Sarah Mackie²⁴, Karina Torralba²⁵, Kornelis van der Geest²⁶, Dennis Boumans²⁷, Philipp Bosch²⁸, Alessandro Tomelleri²⁹, Markus Aschwanden³⁰, Peter Brossart¹, Charlotte Behning³¹ and Claus Juergen Bauer¹, ¹Clinic of Internal Medicine III, Department of Oncology, Hematology, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, ²Department of Rheumatology, Southwest Jutland Hospital Esbjerg, Esbjerg, Denmark, ³Department of Rheumatology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria; Department of Rheumatology, Hospital of Bruneck (ASAA-SABES), Teaching Hospital of the Paracelsius Medical University, Brunico, Italy, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy; Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy, ⁵Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁶Rheumatology, Immanuel Krankenhaus Berlin, Medical Centre for Rheumatology Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany, ⁷Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain, ⁸Department of Internal Medicine, Clinical Division of Internal Medicine II, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, ⁹Department of Rheumatology, Universitiy Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ¹⁰University of Turin, Roma, Italy, ¹¹Department of Internal Medicine, Rheumatology, Diabetology, Geriatrics and Clinical Immunology, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland, ¹²Vasculitis service, Rheumatology department, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, United Kingdom, ¹³Department 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, ¹⁴Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Denmark, ¹⁵Rheumatology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ¹⁶Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research (COPECARE), Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, ¹⁷Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark; Department of Medicine, The Regional Hospital in Horsens, Horsens, Denmark, ¹⁸Department of Rheumatology, Immanuel Hospital, Berlin, Germany, ¹⁹Rheumatology and Immunology, Inselspital University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland, ²⁰Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²¹Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital; Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, ²²Clinic of Rheumatology, Medical University Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, ²³Clinic for Rheumatology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, ²⁴Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK; Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom, ²⁵Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA, ²⁶Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ²⁷Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Hospital Group Twente, Almelo, Netherlands, ²⁸Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria, ²⁹Unit of Immunology, Rheumatology, Allergy and Rare Diseases, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy, ³⁰Department of Angiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, ³¹Institute of Medical Biometry, Informatics and Epidemiology, University Hospital of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Background/Purpose: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common form of vasculitis in adults, necessitating prompt diagnosis to prevent severe complications. However, access to expert…
Abstract Number: 0923 • ACR Convergence 2023
Identification of Lupus Nephritis Kidney Immune Populations via Hi-Resolution 20-Plex Immunohistochemistry Single-Cell Spatial Analyses
Caleb Marlin¹, Alessandra Ida Celia², Richard Furie³, Judith James¹, Andrea Fava⁴, Joel Guthridge¹, Avi Rosenberg⁵, Tayte Stephens¹, Christian Wright¹, Jeff Hodgin⁶, Peter Izmirly⁷, H Michael Belmont⁸, Jennifer Anolik⁹, Michelle Petri¹⁰, Jill Buyon¹¹, Diane L. Kamen¹², Chaim Putterman¹³, Accelerating Medicines Partnership in RA/SLE The¹, Chen-Yu Lee⁴ and Xiaoping Yang⁴, ¹Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²John Hopkins University of Medicine, Rome, Italy, ³Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, ⁴Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁵Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁶University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁷New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁸NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁹University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, ¹⁰Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Timonium, MD, ¹¹NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, ¹²Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ¹³Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Background/Purpose: Immunohistochemistry is the gold standard for antibody staining in microscopy. However, a lack of multiplexing limits its utility in the use of discovery. Here…
Abstract Number: 1195 • ACR Convergence 2023
Relationship of Depth-Specific Subchondral Bone Mineral Density to MRI Cartilage Worsening: The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study
Jean Liew¹, JD Johnston², Gabriela Rabasa¹, Beth Lewis³, John Lynch⁴, James Torner⁵ and Tuhina Neogi⁶, ¹Boston University, Boston, MA, ²University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, ³University of Alabama at Birimingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁵University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁶Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: While OA has been considered a disease of cartilage, early subchondral bone changes may precede cartilage abnormalities. Although higher systemic BMD has a known…
Abstract Number: 1690 • ACR Convergence 2023
Apremilast Reduces Inflammation as Measured by MRI of the Hand in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis: Primary Results from the Phase 4 MOSAIC Study
Mikkel Østergaard¹, Walter P. Maksymowych², Mikael Boesen³, Robert Lambert⁴, Guillermo Valenzuela⁵, Michael Bubb⁶, Olga Kubassova⁷, Jyotsna Reddy⁸, Stephen Colgan⁹, Yuri Klyachkin¹⁰, Cynthia Deignan¹¹, Lihua Tang⁸, Maria Paris⁸ 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, ²University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ³Copenhagen University Hospital, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Naerum, Denmark, 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: PsA is characterized by inflammatory arthritis, enthesitis, dactylitis, and spondylitis. Apremilast (APR) is an oral immunomodulating phosphodiesterase-4 inhibitor approved for the treatment of PsA.…
Abstract Number: 1926 • ACR Convergence 2023
Use of 18F-FDG PET in Assessing Response to Treatment in Adults with Pulmonary Sarcoidosis: A Systematic Literature Review
Koushan Kouranloo¹, Mathangi Krishnakumar² and Mrinalini Dey³, ¹Rheumatology & Internal Medicine Trainee- Surrey, UK. Education fellow University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, ²Wrexham Maelor Hospital, Wrexham, United Kingdom, ³Queen Elizabeth Hospital, London, United Kingdom; University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Sarcoidosis is a chronic, multisystem, granulomatous disease commonly affecting the lungs. Immunosuppressants, particularly corticosteroids, are the mainstay of treatment. Symptoms, severity and response to…
Abstract Number: 2436 • ACR Convergence 2023
Characterizing Spatial Organization of Immune Infiltrates in Rheumatoid Arthritis Synovia Using Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis
Roopa Madhu¹, Kartik Bhamidipati¹, Anna Helena Jonsson¹, Fan Zhang², Lucy MacDonald³, Youngmi Kim⁴, Yi Cui⁴, STARS BWH¹, Accelerating Medicines Partnership Program RA SLE Network⁵, Mariola Kurowska-Stolarska³, Stefano Alvernini⁶, Ellen Gravallese⁷, Michael Brenner⁷, Soumya Raychaudhuri¹, Kevin Wei⁷ and ilya Korsunsky¹, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, ³Research into Inflammatory Arthritis Centre Versus Arthritis (RACE), University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, ⁴Nanostring, Seattle, WA, ⁵Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy, ⁷Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease characterized by immune infiltration of the synovial tissue lining joints. RA is clinically heterogenous, with patients having…
Abstract Number: 0939 • ACR Convergence 2023
HRCT-derived Delta Radiomic Features Classify Response to Anti-Fibrotic Treatment in Experimental and Human Fibrosing Interstitial Lung Disease
David Lauer¹, Luca Romano Kolly¹, Hubert Gabrys², Matthias Brunner¹, Malgorzata Anna Maciukiewicz¹, Thomas Frauenfelder³, Stephanie Tanadini-Lang², Anne-Christine Uldry⁴, Manfred Heller⁴, Kerstin Klein⁵, Oliver Distler⁶, Janine Gote-Schniering¹ and Britta Maurer⁷, ¹University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland, ²University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ³Dept of Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ⁴University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, ⁵Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland, ⁶Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ⁷University Hospital Bern, University Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: Quantification of response to anti-fibrotic drugs in patients with fibrosing interstitial lung disease (ILD) relies on repeated pulmonary function tests (PFT) and visual evaluation…
Abstract Number: 1286 • ACR Convergence 2023
Impact of Body Mass Index (BMI) on Upper versus Lower Extremity Joints Assessed Using Clinical and Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Measures in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
Nicolette Morris¹, Elena Saab², Lucia Chen¹, Jenny Brook¹, Gurjit S Kaeley³, David Elashoff¹ and Veena Ranganath¹, ¹David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ²Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ³University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
Background/Purpose: Tender and swollen joints counts may be differentially affected in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with obesity. A prior study demonstrated an association between increased…
Abstract Number: 1716 • ACR Convergence 2023
High-Throughput Semi-Automated Micro-CT Analysis Identifies the Cuboid Bone as a Sex-Dependent Biomarker of Inflammatory-Erosive Arthritis in TNF-Tg Mice
H. Mark Kenney¹, Kiana Chen², Lindsay Schnur³, Jeffrey Fox³, Ronald Wood³, Lianping Xing⁴, Christopher T Ritchlin⁵, Homaira Rahimi⁶, Edward Schwarz⁶ and Hani Awad³, ¹University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Henrietta, NY, ²University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, ³University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, ⁴University of Rochester Medical Center, Webster, NY, ⁵University of Rochester Medical School, Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology Division, Canandaigua, NY, ⁶University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Background/Purpose: Development of reliable disease activity biomarkers is critical for diagnostics, prognostics, and novel drug development. In the case of preclinical models of inflammatory-erosive arthritis,…
Abstract Number: 1959 • ACR Convergence 2023
Quantitative Scoring of High Resolution Chest Computed Tomography (HRCT) Images in Myositis and Antisynthetase Syndrome Related Interstitial Lung Disease in Comparison to Scleroderma Related Interstitial Lung Disease
Sangmee Bae¹, Fereidoun Abtin², Grace Kim³, Siamak Moghadam-Kia⁴, Chester V. Oddis⁵, Lila Pourzand², Didem Saygin⁵, Daniel Sullivan⁶, Koichi Yamaguchi⁷, Donald Tashkin³, Christina Charles-Schoeman⁸, Jonathan Goldin³ and Rohit Aggarwal⁵, ¹UCLA Rheumatology, Los Angeles, CA, ²UCLA Radiological Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, ³University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁵University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁶UCLA Pulmonology, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁷University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Rheumatology, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁸UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, CA
Background/Purpose: High resolution computed tomography (HRCT) of the chest has become an important modality in the evaluation of interstitial lung disease (ILD). A quantitative CT…
Abstract Number: 2525 • ACR Convergence 2023
Comparing Patellar Tendon Characteristics Between Adults with and Without Knee Pain
Samantha Price¹, Karin Silbernagel², David Felson³, Joshua Stefanik⁴ and Patrick Corrigan¹, ¹Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, ²University of Delaware, Avondale, PA, ³Boston University, Boston, MA, ⁴Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Knee pain is one of the most common types of joint pain leading to disability, limited physical activity, and reduced quality of life. While…
Abstract Number: 029 • 2023 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Children with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Scleroderma Spectrum Disorders: A Single Center Experience
Meredith Rae, Tam Doan and Eyal Muscal, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Background/Purpose: Cardiac disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in children with SLE and SSc. Various studies have demonstrated an association between duration…
Abstract Number: 0479 • ACR Convergence 2022
A Prospective Study Evaluating the Utility of Ultrasound in Monitoring Newly-Diagnosed GCA
Colm Kirby¹, Rachael Flood¹, Ronan Mullan¹, Grainne Murphy² and David Kane¹, ¹Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ²Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland
Background/Purpose: In recent years, Temporal Artery US (TAUS) has become a reliable alternative to biopsy for diagnosing GCA. However, normalisation of pathologic findings have been…
Abstract Number: 1244 • ACR Convergence 2022
Incidence of Radiographic Spinal Damage in Psoriatic Arthritis Patients Compared to Spondyloarthritis Patients: Which Patients Are More Affected?
Manouk de Hooge¹, Alla Alexeevna Ishchenko², Ann-Sophie Kathleen De Craemer³, Serge Steinfeld⁴, Adrien NZEUSSEU TOUKAP⁵, Filip Van den bosch⁶, Dirk Elewaut⁷, Rik Lories⁸ and Kurt de Vlam⁹, ¹Ghent University Hospital, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, ²University Hospitals Leuven, Sint-Stevens-Woluwe, Belgium, ³Ghent University Hospital, Gent, Belgium, ⁴Clinique Saint-Jean, Brussels, Belgium, ⁵Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium, ⁶Department of Internal Medicine and Paediatrics, Ghent University and VIB Centre for Inflammation Research, Ghent, Belgium, ⁷Department of Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium, VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research, Ghent University, Heusden, Belgium, ⁸KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ⁹University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Background/Purpose: There is an ongoing debate on axial involvement in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients. This study reports the baseline radiographic spinal damage in PsA and…

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