Abstracts tagged "Pediatric rheumatology"

Abstract Number: 0784 • ACR Convergence 2021
Use of EuroLupus Cyclophosphamide Dosing for the Treatment of Lupus Nephritis in Childhood-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in North America
Laura Cannon¹, Scott Wenderfer², Laura Lewandowski³, Jennifer Cooper⁴, Beatrice Goilav⁵, Andrea Knight⁶, Aimee Hersh⁷, Stacy Ardoin⁸ and Rebecca Sadun¹, ¹Duke University, Durham, NC, ²Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ³NIAMS, NIH, Rockville, MD, ⁴University of Colorado/Children's Hospital Colorado, Denver, CO, ⁵Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, NY, ⁶Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁷University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁸Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH
Background/Purpose: Childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (cSLE) has higher rates of lupus nephritis (LN) than adult-onset SLE, often requiring intensive immunosuppression. This study examined North American…
Abstract Number: 1159 • ACR Convergence 2021
Improving Healthcare Transition Implementation: Recommendations from Young Patients with Rheumatic Conditions
Courtney Wells¹, Peter Chira², Dana Guglielmo³, Stacy Ardoin⁴, Katelyn Melcher⁵, Meghan Trimble⁶ and Kristine Carandang⁷, ¹University of Wisconsin-River Falls, White Bear Lake, MN, ²Pediatric Rheumatology, University of California San Diego, Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego, CA, ³Student, Atlanta, GA, ⁴Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, ⁵Patient Partner, Ankeny, IA, ⁶Patient Partner, Minneapolis, MN, ⁷Independent, San Diego, CA
Background/Purpose: Implementation of structured healthcare transition processes remains elusive for most US rheumatology clinics (Johnson et al., 2021). Although research studies have proposed models and…
Abstract Number: 1627 • ACR Convergence 2021
Long Term Follow-Up of Patients with Childhood-Onset Lupus Nephritis After Transition to Adult Care
Dahima Cintrón¹, Suheiry Márquez¹ and Luis Vilá², ¹University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, PR, ²University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Background/Purpose: Approximately 20% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are diagnosed before 18 years of age. Pediatric patients have a worse disease course when…
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: 0764 • ACR Convergence 2021
Patients with Juvenile Systemic Sclerosis Have a Distinct Pattern of Organ Involvement: Results from the Juvenile Systemic Sclerosis Inception Cohort
Ivan Foeldvari¹, Jens Klotsche², Ozgur Kasapcopur³, Amra Adrovic⁴, Kathryn Torok⁵, Maria Terreri⁶, Ana Paula Sakamoto⁷, Flavio Sztajnbok⁸, Brian Feldman⁹, Valda Stanevicha¹⁰, Jordi Anton¹¹, Raju Khubchandani¹², Ekaterina Alexeeva¹³, Sindhu Johnson¹⁴, Maria Martha Katsicas¹⁵, Sujata Sawhney¹⁶, Vanessa Smith¹⁷, Simone Appenzeller¹⁸, Tadej Avcin¹⁹, Mikhail Kostik²⁰, Thomas Lehman²¹, Edoardo Marrani²², Dieneke Schonenberg-Meinema²³, Walter Alberto Sifuentes-Giraldo²⁴, Natalia Vasquez-Canizares²⁵, Mahesh Janarthanan²⁶, Hana Malcova²⁷, Monika Moll²⁸, Dana Nemcova²⁹, Anjali Patwardhan³⁰, Maria José Santos³¹, cristina battagliotti³², Lillemor Berntson³³, Blanca Elena Rios Gomes Bica³⁴, Jürgen Brunner³⁵, Rolando Cimaz³⁶, Patricia Costa Reis³⁷, Despina Eleftheriou³⁸, Liora Harel³⁹, Gerd Horneff⁴⁰, Daniela Kaiser⁴¹, Tilmann Kallinich⁴², Dragana Lazarevic⁴³, Kirsten Minden², Susan Nielsen⁴⁴, Farzana Nuruzzaman⁴⁵, Siri Opsahl Hetlevik⁴⁶, Yosef Uziel⁴⁷ and Nicola Helmus⁴⁸, ¹Hamburger Zentrum fuer Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie, Hamburg, Germany, ²German Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin, Germany, ³Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Cerrahpasa Medical School, İstanbul, Turkey, ⁴Cerrahpasa Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁵University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁶UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil, ⁷Federal University of So Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil, ⁸UFRJ/UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ⁹The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁰Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO), Riga, Latvia, ¹¹Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ¹²Jaslok Hospital and Research Center, Mumbai, India, ¹³Scientific Center of Children Health of RAMS, Moscow, Russia, ¹⁴University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁵Hospital de Pediatria J.P Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¹⁶Pediatric Rheumatology Department, Institute of Child Health, Sir Gangarm Hospital, New Delhi, India, ¹⁷Department of Rheumatology and Internal Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium, ¹⁸Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, ¹⁹University Medical Center Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ²⁰Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, ²¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²²University of Florence, Florence, Italy, ²³Emma Children’s Hospital, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²⁴Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain, ²⁵Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, NY, ²⁶Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, India, ²⁷Motol University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic, ²⁸University Tuebingen, Tübingen, Germany, ²⁹Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ³⁰University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, ³¹Rheumatology Department, Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal, ³²Hospital de Niños Dr Orlando Alassia, Santa Fe, Argentina, ³³Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, ³⁴Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ³⁵Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, ³⁶ASST Gaetano Pini-CTO, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, ³⁷Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal, ³⁸Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, ³⁹Scheiders Children Medical Center of Israel, Petah-Tiqva, Israel, ⁴⁰Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO), Sankt Augustin, Germany, ⁴¹Luzerner Kantonsspital, Kinderspital, Luzern, Switzerland, ⁴²Charité University Medicine, Nuremberg, Germany, ⁴³Dept of Pediatric Rheumatology and Immunology Clinical Center Nis, Nis, Serbia, ⁴⁴Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁴⁵Stony Brook Children's Hospital, Stony Brook, NY, ⁴⁶Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ⁴⁷Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel, ⁴⁸Hamburg Centre for Pediatric and Adolescence Rheumatology, Hamburg, Germany
Background/Purpose: Juvenile systemic sclerosis (jSSc) is a rare disease with a prevalence of around 3 in 1,000,000 children. To better capture the clinical manifestations of…
Abstract Number: 0956 • ACR Convergence 2021
Racial Disparities in Renal Outcomes over Time Among Hospitalized Children with SLE and Effects of Hospital Minority Composition
Joyce Chang¹, Cora Sears², Veronica Torres³ and Mary Beth Son¹, ¹Boston Children's Hospital, Brookline, MA, ²Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ³Temple University, Bucks County, PA
Background/Purpose: Racial and ethnic minorities are disproportionately affected by pediatric-onset SLE and have worse outcomes compared to their white counterparts. With ongoing advances in pediatric…
Abstract Number: 1174 • ACR Convergence 2021
Teaching and Reproducibility of a Pediatric Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Scoring System
Ysabella Esteban¹, Jackeline Rodriguez-Smith², Marie Tominna², Arthur Meyers², Michael Henrickson², Amy Cassedy², Tracy Ting² and Patricia Vega-Fernandez², ¹Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ²Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Background/Purpose: Localized musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) examination is used in adult rheumatology clinics and has been shown to be a valid and feasible method for assessing…
Abstract Number: 1628 • ACR Convergence 2021
Reproductive Health Knowledge Gaps, Needs, and Barriers Identified by Pediatric Rheumatology Providers
Kimberly Hays¹, Catherine Lavallee², Brittany Huynh³, Tova Ronis⁴, Barbara Edelheit⁵, Kathryn Cook⁶, Veronica Mruk⁷ and Cuoghi Edens⁸, ¹Penn State Health, Hershey, PA, ²Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Roanoke, VA, ³Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, ⁴Children's National Hospital, Washington, MD, ⁵CT Children's Medical Center, Hartford, CT, ⁶Akron Childrens Hospital, Copley, OH, ⁷Ohio State University / Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, ⁸University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: Rheumatic diseases and their treatments present unique challenges to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) issues facing patients and clinicians. Despite this, literature in the…
Abstract Number: 0175 • ACR Convergence 2021
Correlation of Subclinical Synovitis with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Outcome Measurements
Patricia Vega-Fernandez¹, Edward Oberle², Michael Henrickson¹, Jennifer Huggins¹, Mekibib Altaye³, Amy Cassedy⁴, Johannes Roth⁵ and Tracy Ting¹, ¹Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ²Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, ³Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, ⁴Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁵University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) is the most common rheumatologic disease of childhood. Active joint count (AJC) is one of the key JIA Core Set…
Abstract Number: 0765 • ACR Convergence 2021
Male Juvenile Systemic Sclerosis Patients Have More Severe Disease: Results from the International Juvenile Scleroderma Inception Cohort
Ivan Foeldvari¹, Jens Klotsche², Ozgur Kasapcopur³, Amra Adrovic⁴, Kathryn Torok⁵, Maria Terreri⁶, Ana Paula Sakamoto⁷, Flavio Sztajnbok⁸, Brian Feldman⁹, Valda Stanevicha¹⁰, Jordi Anton¹¹, Raju Khubchandani¹², Ekaterina Alexeeva¹³, Sindhu Johnson¹⁴, Maria Martha Katsicas¹⁵, Sujata Sawhney¹⁶, Vanessa Smith¹⁷, Simone Appenzeller¹⁸, Tadej Avcin¹⁹, Mikhail Kostik²⁰, Thomas Lehman²¹, Edoardo Marrani²², Dieneke Schonenberg-Meinema²³, Walter Alberto Sifuentes-Giraldo²⁴, Natalia Vasquez-Canizares²⁵, Mahesh Janarthanan²⁶, Hana Malcova²⁷, Monika Moll²⁸, Dana Nemcova²⁹, Anjali Patwardhan³⁰, Maria José Santos³¹, cristina battagliotti³², Lillemor Berntson³³, Blanca Elena Rios Gomes Bica³⁴, Jürgen Brunner³⁵, Rolando Cimaz³⁶, Patricia Costa Reis³⁷, Despina Eleftheriou³⁸, Liora Harel³⁹, Gerd Horneff⁴⁰, Daniela Kaiser⁴¹, Tilmann Kallinich⁴², Dragana Lazarevic⁴³, Kirsten Minden², Susan Nielsen⁴⁴, Farzana Nuruzzaman⁴⁵, Siri Opsahl Hetlevik⁴⁶, Yosef Uziel⁴⁷ and Nicola Helmus⁴⁸, ¹Hamburger Zentrum fuer Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie, Hamburg, Germany, ²German Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin, Germany, ³Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Cerrahpasa Medical School, İstanbul, Turkey, ⁴Cerrahpasa Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁵University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁶UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil, ⁷Federal University of So Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil, ⁸UFRJ/UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ⁹The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁰Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO), Riga, Latvia, ¹¹Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ¹²Jaslok Hospital and Research Center, Mumbai, India, ¹³Scientific Center of Children Health of RAMS, Moscow, Russia, ¹⁴University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁵Hospital de Pediatria J.P Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¹⁶Pediatric Rheumatology Department, Institute of Child Health, Sir Gangarm Hospital, New Delhi, India, ¹⁷Department of Rheumatology and Internal Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium, ¹⁸Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, ¹⁹University Medical Center Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ²⁰Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, ²¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²²University of Florence, Florence, Italy, ²³Emma Children’s Hospital, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²⁴Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain, ²⁵Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, NY, ²⁶Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, India, ²⁷Motol University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic, ²⁸University Tuebingen, Tübingen, Germany, ²⁹Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ³⁰University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, ³¹Rheumatology Department, Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal, ³²Hospital de Niños Dr Orlando Alassia, Santa Fe, Argentina, ³³Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, ³⁴Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ³⁵Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, ³⁶ASST Gaetano Pini-CTO, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, ³⁷Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal, ³⁸Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, ³⁹Scheiders Children Medical Center of Israel, Petah-Tiqva, Israel, ⁴⁰Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO), Sankt Augustin, Germany, ⁴¹Luzerner Kantonsspital, Kinderspital, Luzern, Switzerland, ⁴²Charité University Medicine, Nuremberg, Germany, ⁴³Dept of Pediatric Rheumatology and Immunology Clinical Center Nis, Nis, Serbia, ⁴⁴Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁴⁵Stony Brook Children's Hospital, Stony Brook, NY, ⁴⁶Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ⁴⁷Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel, ⁴⁸Hamburg Centre for Pediatric and Adolescence Rheumatology, Hamburg, Germany
Background/Purpose: Juvenile systemic sclerosis (jSSc) is a rare disease with a prevalence of around 3 in 1,000,000 children. To better capture the clinical manifestations of…
Abstract Number: 0960 • ACR Convergence 2021
The Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Start Time Optimization of Biologic Therapy in Polyarticular JIA (STOP-JIA) Study: 24-Month Outcomes
Yukiko Kimura¹, Sarah Ringold², George Tomlinson³, Laura Schanberg⁴, Anne Dennos⁵, Mary Ellen Riordan⁶, Vincent Del Gaizo⁷, Katherine Murphy⁸, Pamela Weiss⁹, Brian Feldman¹⁰, Marc Natter¹¹ and The STOP-JIA CARRA Registry Investigators¹², ¹Hackensack University Medical Center, New York, NY, ²Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, ³University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ⁵Duke University, Durham, NC, ⁶Hackensack University Medical Center, Westwood, NJ, ⁷Childhood Arthritis & Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA), Whitehouse Station, NJ, ⁸Childhood Arthritis & Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA), New Orleans, LA, ⁹Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ¹⁰The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹¹Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ¹²Childhood Arthritis & Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA), Milwaukee, WS
Background/Purpose: The CARRA STOP-JIA study compared the effectiveness of the CARRA Consensus Treatment Plans (CTPs) in achieving clinical inactive disease (CID) in untreated polyarticular JIA…
Abstract Number: 1263 • ACR Convergence 2021
Treatment of Pediatric Lupus Is Associated with Significant Re-Organization of B Cell Chromatin
Joyce Hui-Yuen¹, Kaiyu Jiang², Susan Malkiel³, Betty Diamond³ and James Jarvis⁴, ¹North Shore LIJ Health System, Great Neck, NY, ²University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, ³Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, ⁴University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine, Buffalo, NY
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) may be triggered by gene-environment interactions. Data remain scarce on how epigenetic variance contributes to disease risk in pediatric SLE…
Abstract Number: 1630 • ACR Convergence 2021
Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children: Clinical Characteristics and Predictors for Length of Hospitalization
Lauren Covert¹, Mara Becker², Rebecca Sadun¹ and Heather Van Mater¹, ¹Duke University, Durham, NC, ²Duke University Medical Center/Duke Clinical Research Institute, Chapel Hill, NC
Background/Purpose: Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) is a recently defined post-infectious phenomena associated with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We assessed the demographics, clinical characteristics,…
Abstract Number: 0176 • ACR Convergence 2021
Semi-quantitative Chest Computed Tomography (CT) Analysis in Pediatric Rheumatologic (PR) Patients with Diffuse Lung Disease
Michal Cidon¹, Terry Robinson², Beverley Newman³, Paul Iskander², Paul Thacker⁴, Evan Zucker³, Brian Bartholmai⁴, Dnyanesh Tipre², Tzielan Lee⁵, Rajdeep Pooni⁶ and Rex Moats², ¹Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ²Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ³Stanford Children's Health, Stanford, ⁴Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁵Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, ⁶Stanford Children's Health, Palo Alto, CA
Background/Purpose: Spiral chest CT (SCT) is commonly used to evaluate subclinical lung disease in pediatric rheumatology. However, there are no validated scoring tools to objectively…
Abstract Number: 0766 • ACR Convergence 2021
Baseline Characteristics and Patient Reported Outcomes from a Juvenile Dermatomyositis Registry Inception Cohort
Jessica Neely¹, Kaveh Ardalan², Adam Huber³ and Susan Kim⁴, ¹University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ³Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, ⁴UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM), the most common inflammatory myopathy of children, is rare, with an estimated incidence of 2-4 in 1 million children. Given the…

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].