Abstracts tagged "Imaging"

Abstract Number: 1328 • ACR Convergence 2022
CT Evaluation of Bone Fragility 2 Years After Bariatric Surgery in Patients with Obesity: An Observational Study
Marine FAUNY¹, Marion Halin², Edem Allado², Didier Quilliot², Laurent Brunaud², Eliane Albuisson², Isabelle Chary-Valckenaere² and Damien Loeuille², ¹Nancy University Hospital, Toul, France, ²Nancy University Hospital, Vandoeuvre, France
Background/Purpose: The objectives were to evaluate bone fragility on computed tomography (CT) in patients with obesity before and 2 years after bariatric surgery and to…
Abstract Number: 1802 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Utility of Dual-energy Computed Tomography in Gout Patients During Urate Lowering Therapy
Min Jung Kim¹, Mi Hyeon Kim², SE RIM CHOI², Youjin Jung², Ji In Jung², Ju Yeon Kim², Jee Won Chai³ and Kichul Shin⁴, ¹Seoul Metropolitan Government Boramae Medical center, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ²Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ³Seoul Metropolitan Government–Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ⁴Seoul Metropolitan Government- Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Background/Purpose: To investigate whether monosodium urate (MSU) deposition measured by dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) could help predict acute flares after discontinuing colchicine prophylaxis in patients…
Abstract Number: 0480 • ACR Convergence 2022
Treatment of Giant Cell Arteritis Patients with Ultra-short Glucocorticoids and Tocilizumab: Role of Imaging in a Prospective Study
Francesco Muratore¹, Giulia Cassone², Chiara Marvisi³, ELENA GALLI¹, Luigi Boiardi¹, GIULIA BESUTTI¹, Lucia Spaggiari¹, MASSIMILIANO CASALI¹, Pamela Mancuso¹, Annibale Versari¹, Paolo Giorgi Rossi¹ and Carlo Salvarani⁴, ¹Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ²Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy, ³Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia and National Institute of Arthritis & Musculoskeletal & Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ⁴Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Background/Purpose: To evaluate the clinical and functional/morphological imaging response in a series of active large vessel (LV)-GCA patients treated with tocilizumab (TCZ) monotherapy after ultra-short-term…
Abstract Number: 1245 • ACR Convergence 2022
Imaging Use and Medication Management in Giant Cell Arteritis
Aradhna Agarwal¹, Reid Weisberg¹, Jiby Mathew², Andreas Reimold³ and Kyawt Shwin¹, ¹UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX, ²VA North Texas Health Care System/Dallas VA Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ³University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Background/Purpose: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) affects medium and large arteries. Although temporal artery biopsy (TAB) remains the gold standard for patients with cranial GCA, patients…
Abstract Number: 1329 • ACR Convergence 2022
Prevalence of Bone Fragility on DXA and CT in Patients with Obesity
Marion Halin¹, Edem Allado¹, Didier Quilliot¹, Eliane Albuisson¹, Isabelle Chary-Valckenaere¹, Damien Loeuille¹, Laurent Brunaud¹ and Marine FAUNY², ¹Nancy University Hospital, Vandoeuvre, France, ²Nancy University Hospital, Toul, France
Background/Purpose: Primary objective was to evaluate bone fragility prevalence on dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and on computed tomography (CT), in patients with severe obesity. Secondary…
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: 0166 • ACR Convergence 2021
Digital Extensor Paratenonitis Is Frequent in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis
Mihaela Maruseac¹, Adrien NZEUSSEU TOUKAP² and Maria S. Stoenoiu³, ¹Rheumatology department, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussel, Belgium, ²Rheumatology department, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique (IREC), Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, ³Rheumatology department, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique (IREC), Brussels, Belgium
Background/Purpose: Finger extensor tendon involvement (FEP) or paratenonitis has previously been described by ultrasound (US) in patients suffering from early psoriatic arthritis. Contradictory results were…
Abstract Number: 0503 • ACR Convergence 2021
18F-fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography as a Predictor of Angiographic Progression of Disease in Large-vessel Vasculitis
Kaitlin Quinn¹, Mark A. Ahlman², Hugh Alessi³, Ashkan Malayeri², Jamie Marko², Elaine Novakovich² and Peter Grayson⁴, ¹National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Washington, DC, ²National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ³National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, ⁴National Institutes of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: There is limited prospective data characterizing arterial lesions over time in giant cell arteritis (GCA) and Takayasu’s arteritis (TAK), the two main forms of…
Abstract Number: 1414 • ACR Convergence 2021
The Current State of Expedited Referral Systems Incorporating Vasculitis Ultrasound for the Diagnosis of Giant Cell Arteritis in Rheumatology Practices in the United States
Mark Matza¹, Karina Torralba² and Minna Kohler³, ¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Loma Linda University Healthcare, Loma Linda, CA, ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Expedited referral systems or “fast-track” clinics incorporating vasculitis ultrasound (VUS) into the evaluation of patients with suspected giant cell arteritis (GCA) have shown reduced…
Abstract Number: 0167 • ACR Convergence 2021
Reliability of a Novel Pediatric Joint-Specific Scoring System for the Elbow, Wrist and Finger Joints
Patricia Vega-Fernandez¹, Ysabella Esteban², Edward Oberle³, Jean-Philippe Proulx-Gauthier⁴, Matthew Clark⁵, Hulya Bukulmez⁶, Susan Shenoi⁷, Akaluck Thatayatikom⁸, Heather Benham⁹, Emily Brunner¹⁰, Leandra Woolnough⁸, Michael Henrickson¹, Laura Ballenger³, Deidre DeRanieri¹¹, Sarah Hoffmann¹², Ginger Janow¹³, Mekibib Altaye¹⁴, Amy Cassedy², Johannes Roth¹⁵ and Tracy Ting¹, ¹Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ²Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ³Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, ⁴CHU de Quebec - Universite Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada, ⁵Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ⁶MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve, Pepper Pike, OH, ⁷Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, ⁸University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ⁹Scottish RIte Hospital, North Richland Hills, TX, ¹⁰Geisinger, Bloomsburg, PA, ¹¹Lurie Children's Hospital, Chicago, IL, ¹²Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU, Richmond, VA, ¹³Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital at Hackensack Meridian Health, Glen Rock, NJ, ¹⁴Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, ¹⁵University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: The clinical decision-making process in pediatric arthritis lacks an objective, reliable bedside imaging tool. Musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) is increasingly being utilized in children. In…
Abstract Number: 0703 • ACR Convergence 2021
CD8 Positron Emission Tomography (PET/CT) Imaging with 89Zr-Df-IAB22M2C in Patients with Inclusion Body Myositis
Colin Quinn¹, Kelsey Moulton¹, Ron Korn², William Le³, Niti Goel⁴, Michael Farwell⁵ and Steven Greenberg⁶, ¹Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²ImaginAb, Inglewood, CA, ³ImaginAb, Inc, Inglewood, CA, ⁴Abcuro, Inc., Newton,, MA, ⁵Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁶Brigham and Women's Hospital Department of Neurology, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Inclusion body myositis (IBM) is a slowly progressive autoimmune skeletal muscle disease for which no effective pharmacological therapy is available. A prominent feature of…
Abstract Number: 1474 • ACR Convergence 2021
Automatic Detection of Bone Marrow Lesions from Knee MRI Data from the OAI Study
Shen Liu¹, Xiaoxiao Sun¹, Frank Roemer², Erin Ashbeck³, Edward Bedrick¹, Zong-Ming Li¹, Ali Guermazi⁴ and Kent Kwoh¹, ¹University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, ²Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg, Erlangen, Germany, ³University of Arizona Arthritis Center, Tucson, AZ, ⁴Boston University, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Subchondral bone marrow lesions (BMLs) are associated with symptoms and structural progression of knee OA. BMLs are characterized by diffuse hyperintensity on fat suppressed…
Abstract Number: 0168 • ACR Convergence 2021
A Crowdsourcing Approach to Develop Machine Learning Models to Quantify Radiographic Joint Damage in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Dongmei Sun¹, Robert Allaway², Jelai Wang¹, Verena Chung², Thomas Yu², Isaac Dimitrovsky³, Lars Ericson⁴, Yuanfang Guan⁵, Ariel Israel⁶, Hongyang Li⁵, Michael Mason⁷, Alex Olar⁸, Balint Pataki⁸, Stephanie Ledbetter¹, RA2 DREAM Challenge Community⁹, Gustavo Stolovitzky¹⁰, Justin Guinney², Percio Gulko¹¹, Mason Frazier¹, James Costello¹², Jake Chen¹ and S. Louis Bridges, Jr.¹³, ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, WA, ³Self-employed, New York, NY, ⁴Catskills Research, Charlotte, NC, ⁵University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁶Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, ⁷BMS, Seattle, WA, ⁸Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, ⁹RA2 DREAM Challenge Community, New York, NY, ¹⁰IBM, New York, NY, ¹¹Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, ¹²University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, CO, ¹³Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a common chronic autoimmune disease characterized by inflammation of the synovium, leading to joint space narrowing and osseous erosions. The…
Abstract Number: 0772 • ACR Convergence 2021
Pediatric Craniofacial Scleroderma: Assessing Handheld 3D Stereophotogrammetric Imaging Feasibility and Reliability
Daniel Glaser¹, Kaila Schollaert-Fitch², Christopher Liu¹, Jesse Goldstein¹ and Kathryn Torok², ¹UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: Craniofacial scleroderma (Cf-LS), also known as Parry-Romberg Syndrome or scleroderma en coup de sabre, is a subtype of localized scleroderma (morphea). Diagnosis and monitoring…
Abstract Number: 1503 • ACR Convergence 2021
Putting the Pieces on the Board: Mapping SLE Nephritis Biopsies from the Accelerating Medicines Project Using High-Density Immunofluorescence Imaging
Craig Smuda¹, Anna Eichinger², Robert Clancy², Jill Buyon³ and Boris Reizis⁴, ¹NYU Grossman School of Medic ine, New York, NY, ²NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, ³NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁴New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: The Accelerating Medicines Project (AMP) has enabled significant increases in understanding of SLE nephritis pathology, providing a profile of dozens of leukocyte subsets within…

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