Abstracts tagged "Imaging"

Abstract Number: 1968 • ACR Convergence 2025
Relationship between ultrasonographic and elastographic findings of the median nerve and disease activity and hand function in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Gulperi ISAZADE KASIMZADE¹, Ismihan Sunar², Sebnem ATAMAN³ and Aysun GENC¹, ¹Ankara University School of Medicine, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Ankara, Turkey, ²Ankara University School of Medicine, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Rheumatology, Ankara, Turkey, ³Ankara University School of Medicine, Rheumatology, Turkey, Ankara, Turkey
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune joint disease with systemic involvement which can affect the nerves through either compressive pathology due to intra-articular synovitis…
Abstract Number: 1945 • ACR Convergence 2025
Significance of Finger Joint Tenderness With or Without Swelling in Relation to MRI, Ultrasound, and X-Ray Findings in Psoriatic Arthritis_Final results
Victoria Furer¹, iris Eshed², Moshe Iluz¹, Ori Elkayam³ and Ari Polachek⁴, ¹Tel-Aviv Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel, ²Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer affiliated with School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, ³Tel Aviv medical center, Tel Aviv, Israel, ⁴Rheumatology Institute of Beilinson Hospital, Petah Tikva, Israel
Background/Purpose: Musculoskeletal involvement in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) affects both articular and extra-articular structures, presenting as inflammatory and structural lesions. The relationship between tender and/or swollen…
Abstract Number: 1620 • ACR Convergence 2025
Correlation Between Histopathological Findings and PET-CT Results in Patients With Inflammatory Aortitis
Guillem Verdaguer Faja¹, rafeal Benito-Melero², Ignasi Espadaler Fabregó¹, Laura López Vilaró¹, Mónica Velasco Nuño¹, Antonio José Barros Membrilla¹, Susana Fernández Sánchez³, Jaime-Félix Dilmé Muñóz¹, Ivan Castellvi⁴, Berta Magallares⁵, Hye Sang Park¹, Asier García-Alija⁶, Albert Casals Urquiza³, Ana Laiz³, Cesar Diaz-Torne¹, Jose Luis Tandaipan⁷, Luis Sainz Comas¹, Helena Codes Mendez³, Júlia Bernardez Moreno⁸, Carla Marco-Pascual¹, Concepción Pitarch³, Andrea Garcia³, Núria Fernández³, Lorena Úbeda³ and Hector Corominas⁸, ¹Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain, ²MD, barcelona, Spain, ³Sant Pau Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴Hospital Universitari de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Sant Just Desvern, Spain, ⁵Hospital de Sant Pau, Bareclona, ⁶Sant Pau Hospital, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, ⁷Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Terrassa, Spain, ⁸Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
Background/Purpose: Inflammatory aortitis is an uncommon condition that can be associated with rheumatologic, neoplastic, or infectious diseases. GCA and isolated aortitis are the most common…
Abstract Number: 1172 • ACR Convergence 2025
A Phase II, Single-Site, Open-Label Study of Zanubrutinib in Patients with IgG4-Related Disease
Matthew Charles Baker¹, Audra Horomanski², Robert Fairchild³, Yuhan Liu³, Mariani Diaz Deluna³, Tobias Lanz⁴, Saurabh Gawde³, Mehdi Khalighi³, Benjamin Franc³, Mrudula Penta³, Nancy Pham³ and Kip Guja³, ¹Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA, ²Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ³Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ⁴Stanford University, Stanford
Background/Purpose: IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a chronic, systemic, immune-mediated disease that is commonly treated with B cell depletion. However, due to potential risks associated with…
Abstract Number: 0539 • ACR Convergence 2025
Which instrument measuring structural damage progression in axial SpA is most sensitive to change? Analyses from the SPondyloArthritis Caught Early cohort
Liese de Bruin¹, Floris A. van Gaalen¹, Manouk de Hooge², Miranda van Lunteren¹, Mary Lucy Marques³, Monique Reijnierse⁴, Roberta Ramonda⁵, Inger Jorid Berg⁶, Sofia Exarchou⁷, Robert Landewé⁸, Désirée Van Der Heijde¹ and Sofia Ramiro⁹, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Department of Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium, ³Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands; and Coimbra Local Health Unit, Coimbra, Portugal, ⁴Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁵Rheumatology Unit-DIMED-University of Padova ITALY, Padova, Padua, Italy, ⁶⁶Center for treatment of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases (REMEDY), Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Nepal, ⁷Lund University, Åkarp, Skane Lan, Sweden, ⁸Department of Rheumatology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Zuyderland Medical Center, Heerlen, Netherlands, ⁹Leiden University Medical Center, Bunde, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: The assessment of structural damage progression is an important part of outcome assessment in axial SpA (axSpA). In order to test whether interventions can…
Abstract Number: 2470 • ACR Convergence 2025
Impaired Myocardial Flow Reserve on 82-Rubidium Positron Emission Tomography in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis
Attila Feher¹, Morgan Emokpae², Bindu Koyi², Ibolya Csecs², Baran Gunes³, Albert Sinusas² and Monique Hinchcliff⁴, ¹Yale University School of Medicine - New Haven, CT, New Haven, CT, ²Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, ³Yale University School of Medicine, Pompton Plains, NJ, ⁴Yale School of Medicine, Westport, CT
Background/Purpose: Cardiovascular death ranks as the second leading cause of mortality related to systemic sclerosis (SSc), with coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMVD) likely contributing to this…
Abstract Number: 1967 • ACR Convergence 2025
Developing an Algorithm to Quantify Dermatomyositis-Associated Calcinosis Using Infrared Imaging
Saahil Sachdeva¹, Briana Cervantes², Lisa Rider³ and Adam Schiffenbauer⁴, ¹NIEHS/NIBIB/NIH, Danville, CA, ²Department of Emergency Medicine, Norfolk, VA, ³National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences/National Institutes of Health, Environmental Autoimmunity Group, Bethesda, MD, ⁴National Institute of Health/National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Dermatomyositis (DM) is a rare autoimmune disease characterized by chronic muscle and skin inflammation. One potential complication of DM is calcinosis, the heterotopic calcification…
Abstract Number: 1941 • ACR Convergence 2025
How Calculating Consensus Change Scores Can Go Wrong: Lessons from Multi-reader Imaging Assessments in Axial Spondyloarthritis
Ana Bento da Silva¹, Sofia Ramiro², Floris A. van Gaalen¹, Robert Landewé³, Miranda van Lunteren¹, Liese de Bruin¹, Gizem Ayan⁴, Xenofon Baraliakos⁵, Monique Reijnierse⁶, Jürgen Braun⁷, Désirée Van Der Heijde¹ and Manouk de Hooge⁸, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Leiden University Medical Center, Bunde, Netherlands, ³Department of Rheumatology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Zuyderland Medical Center, Heerlen, Netherlands, ⁴Ankara Research and Training Hospital, Ankara, Turkey, ⁵Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet Herne, Ruhr-University Bochum, Herne, Germany, ⁶Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁷Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany; and Rheumatologische Versorgungszentrum (RVZ) Steglitz, Berlin, Germany, ⁸Department of Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
Background/Purpose: In research, imaging findings are often assessed by multiple readers and individual readers’ scores are combined into aggregate scores to determine the presence of…
Abstract Number: 1579 • ACR Convergence 2025
Exploring the Pulmonary Vascular Changes on Computed Tomography in predicting progression and mortality of Systemic Sclerosis-associated Interstitial Lung Disease
Maria Iacovantuono¹, Nicholas landini², lisa Jungblut³, Florian Käs⁴, Rucsandra Dobrota⁵, Sinziana Muraru⁶, Carina Mihai⁷, Muriel Elhai⁸, Mike Becker⁹, Maria Sole Chimenti¹⁰, Thomas Frauenfelder³, Anna-Maria Hoffmann-Vold¹¹, Oliver Distler¹² and Cosimo Bruni¹³, ¹Rheumatology, Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Systems Medicine, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy. Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Spinete, Italy, ²Department of Radiological Sciences, Oncology and Pathology, "Sapienza" University, Policlinico Umberto I, Rome, Italy. Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Rueil Malmaison, France, ³Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, University Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, zurich, Switzerland, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Zurich, Switzerland, ⁵Center of Experimental Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, the LOOP Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ⁶University of Zurich, University Hospital Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, ⁷University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ⁸Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, University Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Schlieren, Switzerland, ⁹Dept. of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, ¹⁰Rheumatology, Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Systems Medicine, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy, Roma, Italy, ¹¹Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ¹²Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland, Zurich, Switzerland, ¹³Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is the main cause of mortality in systemic sclerosis (SSc). Among radiomics features, the automated quantification of pulmonary vascular volume…
Abstract Number: 1136 • ACR Convergence 2025
The Impact of Iron Overload and HFE Genetic Mutations on Joint Disease in Haemochromatosis: Data from the Haemochromatosis Arthropathy Inception Cohorts
Bayram Farisogullari¹, Pedro Machado², Stephanie Finzel³, Graeme Carroll⁴, Geraldine mcCarthy⁵, John Stack⁶, Simone Parisi⁷, Graca Porto⁸, richette pascal⁹, Gyorgy Nagy¹⁰, Marton Weidl¹⁰, Ann Rosenthal¹¹, Pascal Guggenbuhl¹², Katarzyna Banaszkiewicz¹³, Barbara Butzeck¹⁴, Howard Don¹⁵, Svenja Engelhardt¹⁶, Jeremy Shearman¹⁷, David Mitchell¹⁸, Jane Barker¹⁹, Valerie Brueton¹⁹, Philip Coathup¹⁹, Jacquie Dowsett¹⁹, Marie Duncan¹⁹, Tracey Dunleavy¹⁹, Ian Fish¹⁹, Allin Hoggarth¹⁹, Mark McKinnon¹⁹, James Minter¹⁹, Tim Osborne¹⁹, Marguerite Smith¹⁹, Christine Wright¹⁹ and Patrick Kiely²⁰, ¹University College London, London, ²Department of Rheumatology, University College London, and Department of Rheumatology, Northwick Park Hospital, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, Centre for Rheumatology & Department of Neuromuscular Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ³Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, ⁴Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, ⁵Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ⁶Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, ⁷Ospedaliera Universitaria Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Turin, Italy, ⁸Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Santo António, Unidade Local de Saúde de Santo António, Porto, Portugal, ⁹Rheumatology Department, Lariboisiere Hospital, Paris, Ile-de-France, France, ¹⁰Buda Hospital of the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God, Budapest, Hungary, ¹¹Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, ¹²Rennes University Hospital, Rennes, France, ¹³University Clinical Center in Gdańsk, Smoluchowskiego ¹⁷ Street, ⁸⁰-⁹⁵² Gdańsk, Poland., Gdańsk, Poland, ¹⁴European Federation of Associations of Patients with Haemochromatosis,, Croissy-sur-Seine, France, ¹⁵Haemochromatosis International, Barnstaple, United Kingdom, ¹⁶University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, ¹⁷South Warwickshire University Foundation Trust and Warwick Medical School,, Warwick, United Kingdom, ¹⁸Clongriffin Medical Centre, Dublin, Ireland, ¹⁹c/o St George's University Hospitals NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom, ²⁰St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: A EULAR task force developed classification criteria (CC) for Haemochromatosis Arthropathy (HA) using a cohort of people with the C282Y homozygous mutation and arthropathy…
Abstract Number: 0507 • ACR Convergence 2025
Diagnostic performance of the lacrimal and salivary gland ultrasound in patients with primary Sjogren’s disease of recent onset versus sicca controls.
Rosa Elena Cervantes¹, Carina Soto-Fajardo², Fabian Carranza³, Gabriela Hernandez-Molina⁴, Narlly Ruíz Quintero⁵, Daniela Rojas Abarca⁶, Ana Mora⁷, Ada Rocío Morales Meza⁶, Carlos Montiel Castañeda⁸, Angela Maldonado Luna⁹, Fabiola Sánchez Zamudio⁶ and Carlos Pineda², ¹National Institute of Rehabilitation "Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra"", Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico, ²National Rehabilitation Institute " Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra ", Mexico City, Mexico, ³National Rehabilitation Institute " Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra ", Ciudad de México, Mexico, ⁴Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion, Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico, ⁵Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion, México, city, Distrito Federal, Mexico, ⁶National Institute of Rehabilitation "Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra", Mexico, City, Distrito Federal, Mexico, ⁷National Rehabilitation Institute " Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra ", Mexico, Mexico, ⁸National Institute of Rehabilitation "Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra", México, city, Distrito Federal, Mexico, ⁹Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion, Mexico, City, Estado de México, Mexico
Background/Purpose: Sjögren's disease (SjD) is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease primarily affecting the exocrine glands. There is an increasing use of salivary gland ultrasound in…
Abstract Number: 2431 • ACR Convergence 2025
Bone marrow- activity on 18F-FDG PET/CT as a Predictor of Hematologic Manifestations in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Sungwon Ko¹, Young-Eun Kim¹, Soyoon Yoon², Soo Min Ahn¹, Ji Seon Oh¹, Yong-Gil Kim¹, Chang-Keun Lee³, Bin Yoo¹, Dong Yun Lee⁴ and Seokchan Hong¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ²Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ³Department of Rheumatology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ⁴Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Background/Purpose: Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) is a noninvasive imaging modality widely used to assess inflammatory activity in various autoimmune and hematologic…
Abstract Number: 1966 • ACR Convergence 2025
Assessing the Impact of Cutaneous Melanin on Microvascular Oxygenation Measurement in Systemic Sclerosis Using Multispectral Imaging
Rosie Barnes¹, Joanne Manning², Graham Dinsdale³, Ariane Herrick⁴, Mark Dickinson⁵ and Andrea Murray⁶, ¹University of Manchester, Manchester, England, United Kingdom, ²Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, Salford, United Kingdom, ³Northern Care Alliance, Salford, United Kingdom, ⁴The University of Manchester, UK, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, ⁵The University of Manchester, Manchester, ⁶University of Manchester, Salford, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Microvascular abnormalities, leading to hypoxia, drive the SSc disease process. Accurate measurement of skin oxygenation, both baseline and during ‘stress’/reperfusion (which can be mimicked…
Abstract Number: 1939 • ACR Convergence 2025
Salivary Gland Ultrasounds Can Be Read by General Radiologists: A Review Of 4 Years of Reports from an Urban Academic Radiology Department
Ali Dhanaliwala and Dana DiRenzo, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: Salivary gland ultrasound (SGUS) has the potential to inform diagnosis and progression of Sjogren’s disease, a systemic autoimmune disease which results in progressive inflammation…
Abstract Number: 1580 • ACR Convergence 2025
Lung vasculature quantification on computed tomography predicts new onset of interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis
Maria Iacovantuono¹, Nicholas landini², lisa Jungblut³, Gesa Sauer⁴, Rucsandra Dobrota⁵, Sinziana Muraru⁶, Muriel Elhai⁷, Carina Mihai⁸, Mike Becker⁹, Maria Sole Chimenti¹⁰, Thomas Frauenfelder³, Anna-Maria Hoffmann-Vold¹¹, Oliver Distler¹² and Cosimo Bruni¹³, ¹Rheumatology, Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Systems Medicine, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy. Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Spinete, Italy, ²Department of Radiological Sciences, Oncology and Pathology, "Sapienza" University, Policlinico Umberto I, Rome, Italy. Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Rueil Malmaison, France, ³Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, University Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, zurich, Switzerland, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, zurich, Switzerland, ⁵Center of Experimental Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, the LOOP Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ⁶University of Zurich, University Hospital Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, ⁷University Hospital zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, ⁸University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ⁹Dept. of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, ¹⁰Rheumatology, Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Systems Medicine, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy, Roma, Italy, ¹¹Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ¹²Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland, Zurich, Switzerland, ¹³Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is highly prevalent in systemic sclerosis (SSc) and a leading cause of mortality. Recent studies have identified clinical risk factors…

All abstracts accepted to ACR Convergence are under media embargo once the ACR has notified presenters of their abstract’s acceptance. They may be presented at other meetings or published as manuscripts after this time but should not be discussed in non-scholarly venues or outlets. The following embargo policies are strictly enforced by the ACR.

Accepted abstracts are made available to the public online in advance of the meeting and are published in a special online supplement of our scientific journal, Arthritis & Rheumatology. Information contained in those abstracts may not be released until the abstracts appear online. In an exception to the media embargo, academic institutions, private organizations, and companies with products whose value may be influenced by information contained in an abstract may issue a press release to coincide with the availability of an ACR abstract on the ACR website. However, the ACR continues to require that information that goes beyond that contained in the abstract (e.g., discussion of the abstract done as part of editorial news coverage) is under media embargo until 10:00 AM CT on October 25. Journalists with access to embargoed information cannot release articles or editorial news coverage before this time. Editorial news coverage is considered original articles/videos developed by employed journalists to report facts, commentary, and subject matter expert quotes in a narrative form using a variety of sources (e.g., research, announcements, press releases, events, etc.).

Violation of this policy may result in the abstract being withdrawn from the meeting and other measures deemed appropriate. Authors are responsible for notifying colleagues, institutions, communications firms, and all other stakeholders related to the development or promotion of the abstract about this policy. If you have questions about the ACR abstract embargo policy, please contact ACR abstracts staff at [email protected].