Abstracts tagged "Pediatric rheumatology"

Abstract Number: 1298 • ACR Convergence 2025
Identifying Psychosocial Profiles in Youth with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: A K-Means Clustering Analysis of Resilience Subgroups
Sabrina Gmuca¹, Jan Leonard², Alexis Z. Tomlinson², Mackenzie McGill², Nellie Butler², Rui Xiao³, Peter F. Cronholm³, Tonya M. Palermo⁴, Jami F. Young⁵, Abby R. Rosenberg⁶ and Pamela Weiss⁷, ¹Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, ³University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴University of Washington School of Medicine; Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, ⁵Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, ⁶Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Boston Children’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School, Boston, ⁷Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: Psychological resilience is low among youth with chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) at baseline. We aimed to explore resilience profiles among youth with CMP during…
Abstract Number: 1281 • ACR Convergence 2025
Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health Screening, Diagnoses, and Outcomes in Patients with Childhood-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Alicia Tran¹, Indrani Das², Zhaoyu Ding³, Daniela Dominguez⁴, Sefi Kronenberg⁵, Lawrence Ng⁶, Alene Toulany¹, Gwyneth Zai⁷, Deborah Levy¹, Andrea Knight⁸ and Linda Hiraki¹, ¹The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³SickKids Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, ⁵Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁷Centre for Addiction & Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁸Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Patients with childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (cSLE) face higher risks of depression and anxiety compared to healthy peers. In 2022, standardized mental health (MH)…
Abstract Number: 0824 • ACR Convergence 2025
Characterizing Immune Responses in Abatacept-treated Patients with Limited Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Lwiza AitDowd¹, Ekaterina Murzin², Alexandra Pommier³, Ki Pui Lam⁴, Claudia Harris⁵, Melanie Kohlheim⁶, Grant Schulert⁷, Marc Sudman⁸, Eveline Wu⁹, Laura Schanberg¹⁰, Peter Nigrovic¹¹, James Lederer¹² and Lauren Henderson¹³, ¹Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁴Division of Immunology, Boston Childrens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁵Division of Immunology, Boston Childrens Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁶CARRA, Granville, OH, ⁷Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁸Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, ⁹UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ¹⁰Duke University Medical Center, DURHAM, NC, ¹¹Boston Children's Hospital, Brookline, MA, ¹²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Millis, MA, ¹³Boston Children's Hospital, Watertown, MA
Background/Purpose: Our ability to tailor treatments to individual patients with JIA remains limited. To identify candidate biomarkers that may be associated with treatment response, we…
Abstract Number: 0418 • ACR Convergence 2025
Evaluation of Disease Activity in the Knee Joint Through Clinical, Radiologic, Synovial Fluid and Histopathologic Measurements of Inflammation in Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Patricia Vega-Fernandez¹, Kelly Rogers², Alyssa Sproles², Sherry Thornton¹, Lexi Auld³, Jackeline Rodriguez-Smith¹, Ekemini Ogbu¹, Kara Murphy Schmidt⁴, McKenzie Vater⁵, Katelyn Banschbach⁶, Grant Schulert¹, Alexei Grom¹, Sheila Angeles-Han², Hermine Brunner¹, Jennifer Huggins⁷, Daniel Lovell¹, Amy Cassedy⁸, Yuriy Baglaenko², Tracy Ting¹ and Sara Szabo¹, ¹Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ²Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, ³Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Division of Rheumatology, Cincinnati, OH, ⁴Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Louisville, KY, ⁵Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Fort Thomas, KY, ⁶cincinnati Children's hospital, Villa Hills, KY, ⁷Cincinnati Children's Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁸Cincinnati Children's hospital medical center, cincinnati, OH
Background/Purpose: Clinical, radiologic and biomarker data are measurements used in the assessment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) disease activity. The development of ultrasound-guided synovial biopsy…
Abstract Number: 0193 • ACR Convergence 2025
Evaluation of electronic health record and efficiency tool utilization by pediatric subspecialists
Samantha Coss¹, Alison Brittain², Jennifer Lee³, Julie Young¹, Ivana Stojkic¹, John Mahan⁴ and Alysha Taxter⁵, ¹Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, ²Nationwide Children's Hospital, Canal Winchester, OH, ³Department of Gastroenterology, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, ⁴Department of Nephrology, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, ⁵Nationwide Children's, Columbus, OH
Background/Purpose: Excessive interaction with the electronic health record (EHR) is frequently cited as a common source of physician burnout. The administrative burden and extended documentation…
Abstract Number: 2678 • ACR Convergence 2025
The Association Between Medication Taper Duration and Time to JIA Disease Flare: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Christian-Immanuel Oliveros¹, Kelly Rouster-Stevens², Laura Johnson³ and Sampath Prahalad⁴, ¹Emory University / Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, ²Emory University/Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Peachtree Corners, GA, ³Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ⁴Emory + Children's Pediatric Institute, Atlanta, GA
Background/Purpose: Once clinically inactive, many patients with oligoarticular (oligoJIA) or polyarticular JIA (polyJIA) are interested in de-escalating therapy in a safe and successful manner. Many…
Abstract Number: 2158 • ACR Convergence 2025
Evaluating Nailfold Capillary Changes as Indicators of Disease Activity in Juvenile Dermatomyositis
Zilan Zheng¹, Laila Metni², Susan Kim³ and Jessica Neely⁴, ¹University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, ³UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco, CA, ⁴UCSF, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is a rare pediatric autoimmune myopathy characterized by skin and muscle inflammation, resulting in microvascular changes that can be visualized in…
Abstract Number: 2135 • ACR Convergence 2025
Medication Use and Disease Activity in Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Registry
Christina Gulla¹, Mary Beth Son², Tara Lozy³, Yukiko Kimura⁴ and Ginger Janow⁵, ¹Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ, ²Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital, Center for Discovery and Innovation, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Nutley, ⁴Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁵Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital at Hackensack Meridian Health, Hackensack, NJ
Background/Purpose: Historically, treatment for systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA) included high dose glucocorticoids (GC) and conventional systemic (cs) disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) with significant…
Abstract Number: 1819 • ACR Convergence 2025
Spatial Transcriptomic Profiling Reveals Interferon Activation and CD8⁺ T Cell Dominance in Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis-Macrophage Activation Syndrome Liver Inflammation
Esraa Eloseily¹, Taskin Sabit², Lara Berklite³, Grant Schulert⁴ and Alexei Grom⁴, ¹UT Southwestern Children's Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ²Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Division of Rheumatology, Cincinnati, OH, ³Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, ⁴Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Background/Purpose: Systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (SJIA) with macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) involves severe systemic inflammation and hepatocellular injury. Our prior histopathology studies showed increased CD8⁺…
Abstract Number: 1699 • ACR Convergence 2025
Protein-coding Somatic Genetic Variation in Lymphocytes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Siva Kasinathan¹, Minh Pham² and Ansuman Satpathy², ¹Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, ²Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
Background/Purpose: The genetic and environmental factors underlying pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are incompletely resolved. While inherited genetic variation has been extensively queried in…
Abstract Number: 1296 • ACR Convergence 2025
Liver Biopsy Findings in Pediatric SLE: A Large Tertiary Center Experience
Meredith Rae¹, Dawn Gist², Kaylani Patel³, Krupa Mysore³, Andrea Ramirez², Marietta De Guzman² and Eyal Muscal², ¹Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, ²Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ³Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital, Houston
Background/Purpose: Distinguishing lupus hepatitis (LH) from autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) in SLE is clinically challenging but critical for guiding treatment duration. The mechanisms differ; AIH results…
Abstract Number: 1280 • ACR Convergence 2025
Investigating the Association Between SARS-CoV-2 Infection, COVID-19 Vaccination, and Autoimmune Diseases in a Pediatric Population: A comprehensive analysis
Yonatan Butbul Aviel¹, Arad Dotan², Dana Arnheim² and Cynthia Freiberg³, ¹Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel, ²Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel, Tel Aviv, Israel, ³Maccabi Healthcare Services, Tel Aviv, Israel, Tel Aviv
Background/Purpose: During the COVID-19 pandemic there were reports of an increased association between COVID 19 and various autoimmune diseases (AID) in adults. This study aims…
Abstract Number: 0823 • ACR Convergence 2025
Longitudinal model of paired peripheral blood CITE-seq and skin scRNA-seq data in juvenile systemic sclerosis (jSSc) patients following autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) reveals reduced expression of SSc marker genes
Julia Elrod¹, Theresa hutchins², Anwesha Sanyal², Paul Szabolcs², Paulina Horvei², Jon Li², F. William Townes¹ and Kathryn Torok², ¹Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA, ²University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: Juvenile systemic sclerosis (jSSc) is a rare, life-threatening autoimmune disease characterized by fibrosis and immune dysregulation. Autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) is an emerging…
Abstract Number: 0405 • ACR Convergence 2025
Juvenile Psoriatic Arthritis and Enthesitis-Related Arthritis: 4-Year Results From the JUNIPERA Extension Study
Hermine Brunner¹, Ivan Foeldvari², Gerd Horneff³, Antonio Mera Varela⁴, Angelo Ravelli⁵, Sharonjeet Kaur⁶, Swapnil Suhas Dahale⁷, Ruvie Martin⁸, Daniel Lovell¹, Alberto Martini⁹ and Nicolino Ruperto¹⁰, ¹Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ²Hamburger Zentrum fuer Kinder und Jugendrheumatologie, Rheumatology, Hamburg, Germany, ³Asklepios Klinik, Hamburg, Germany, ⁴Rheumatology Division. Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago and Instituto de Investigaciones Sanitarias (IDIS), School of Medicine, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, ⁵IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy, Genoa, Genoa, Italy, ⁶Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland, ⁷IQVIA, Mumbai, India, ⁸Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, NJ, ⁹Università di Genova, Genova, Italy, ¹⁰Université Milano Bicocca and Fondazione IRCSS S. Gerardo dei Tintori, Monza, Monza and Brianza, Italy
Background/Purpose: Secukinumab demonstrated efficacy and safety in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), including enthesitis-related arthritis (ERA) and juvenile psoriatic arthritis (JPsA), for up to…
Abstract Number: 0129 • ACR Convergence 2025
Analysis of Antiphosphatidylserine/prothrombin Antibodies as a Predictor of Lupus Anticoagulant in the Pediatric Population
Jonathan Marilao¹, Sean Yates² and Elizabeth Sloan³, ¹University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, ²University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, ³UT Southwestern, Children's Medical Center, and Scottish Rite for Children, Dallas, TX
Background/Purpose: Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS) is a systemic thromboinflammatory autoimmune disease characterized by thrombotic or obstetric events occurring in individuals with persistently positive antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL).…

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