Abstracts tagged "skin"

Abstract Number: 0964 • ACR Convergence 2025
A Single-Cell Atlas Reveals Dermal Endothelial Heterogeneity and Disease-Specific Pathways in Autoimmune Disorders
Haoyu Pan¹, Jinyi Qian¹, Shuyi Yu¹, Zhixia Yang¹, Jason S. Knight², Eliza Tsou³ and Hui Shi⁴, ¹Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Ruijin Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, Shanghai, Shanghai, China (People's Republic), ²University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA., Ann Arbor, MI, ⁴Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai, China (People's Republic)
Background/Purpose: Autoimmune conditions with skin involvement, including scleroderma (SSc), antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and psoriasis (PSO), involve intricate interactions between immune cells…
Abstract Number: 0118 • ACR Convergence 2025
Single-cell RNA sequencing of skin reveals vascular dysregulation in antiphospholipid syndrome
Ecem Sevim¹, Sumith Panicker², Gustaf Wigerblad³, Stefania Dell'orso⁴, Sharon Osgood², Leslie Castelo-Soccio⁵, Keisuke Nagao⁶ and Yogendra Kanthi⁷, ¹NIAMS/NIH, Bethesda, MD, ²NHLBI/NIH, Bethesda, ³National Institutes of Health, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁴National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, ⁵NIAMS/NIH, Bethesda, ⁶NIAMS, Bethesda, MD, ⁷National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is a systemic autoimmune thromboinflammatory disorder defined by persistent antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) and characterized clinically by macrovascular thrombosis, microvascular disease, and…
Abstract Number: 2495 • ACR Convergence 2025
IL-6/STAT3 Signaling is Central for Chemokine Production in E2-Induced Dermal Inflammation
Nicolas Ancona¹, Yucui Li², Ludivine Renaud³, Carol Feghali-Bostwick³ and DeAnna Baker Frost³, ¹MUSC Rheumatology & Immunology, Charleston, SC, ²Shanxi Academy of Medical Sciences, Tongji Shanxi Hospital, Third Hospital of Shanxi, Medical University Taiyuan, Shanxi, China (People's Republic), ³Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Background/Purpose: Scleroderma (SSc) is an autoimmune disease characterized by dermal inflammation and fibrosis. Patients with SSc have high systemic levels of estradiol (E2), a form…
Abstract Number: 0962 • ACR Convergence 2025
Spatial Proteomics Analysis of the organization of tertiary lymphoid structures in Systemic Sclerosis Skin
Dennis Bleck¹, Karen Drechsel², Tim Filla³, Yi-Nan Li⁴, Andrea-Hermina Györfi⁵, Alexandru-Emil Matei⁶ and Jörg Distler⁷, ¹University Hospital Düsseldorf, Department of Rheumatology, Hiller Research Center, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, ²University Hospital Düsseldorf, Department of Rheumatology, Hiller Research center, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, ³Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University. Hiller Research Center, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University., Düsseldorf, Germany, ⁴University Hospital of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University., Düsseldorf, Germany, ⁶Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University. Hiller Research Center, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University. Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP, and Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence for Immune Mediated Diseases CIMD, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Düsseldorf, Germany, ⁷University Hospital Duesseldorf and HHU, Duesseldorf, Germany
Background/Purpose: Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) is a rare autoimmune connective tissue disease and presents a significant medical challenge. It is characterized by fibrotic tissue remodeling, along…
Abstract Number: 2418 • ACR Convergence 2025
ORF1p Expression Correlates with STING Activation and IFN Signatures in SLE Nonlesional Skin
Mehrnaz Gharaee-Kermani¹, Svenja Henning², John LaCava³, Tomas Mustelin⁴ and J. Michelle Kahlenberg¹, ¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²University of Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ³Rockefeller University, New York City, NY, NJ, ⁴University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Type I interferons (IFNs) are elevated in the skin and blood of patients with systemic (SLE) and cutaneous (CLE) lupus erythematosus. Upregulation of type…
Abstract Number: 0949 • ACR Convergence 2025
The Cancer-associated Female-biased Factor VGLL3 Drives Autoimmunity and Fibrosis
Mehrnaz Gharaee-Kermani¹, Poulami Dey², Vincent van Drongelen¹, Joanna Rew¹, Rachael Bogle³, Marisa Hildebrandt¹, Benjamin Klein¹, Rezvan Moallemian¹, Monique E Verhaegen¹, Andrzej A Dlugosz⁴, Lam Tsoi¹, J. Michelle Kahlenberg¹, Johann Gudjonsson¹ and Allison C Billi¹, ¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, ³University of Michigan, Holland, OH, ⁴University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Background/Purpose: Autoimmune disease is far more common in women than men. We have determined that the skin of healthy women is primed for autoimmunity due…
Abstract Number: 2374 • ACR Convergence 2025
Bimekizumab Efficacy And Safety Through 5 Years In Patients With Moderate To Severe Plaque Psoriasis In The US And Canada
Andrew Blauvelt¹, Saakshi Khattri², Phoebe Rich³, Ronald Vender⁴, Kenneth B. Gordon⁵, Balint Szilagyi⁶, Heather Herr⁷, Bertram Knapp⁶, Delphine Deherder⁸, Sarah Kavanagh⁹ and Kim Papp¹⁰, ¹Blauvelt Consulting, LLC, Portland, OR, ²The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, ³Oregon Dermatology and Research Center, Portland, OR, ⁴Dermatrials Research Inc., Hamilton, ON, Canada, ⁵Department of Dermatology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ⁶UCB, Monheim am Rhein, Germany, ⁷UCB, Smyrna, GA, ⁸UCB, Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium, ⁹UCB, Morrisville, NC, ¹⁰Probity Medical Research and Alliance Clinical Trials, Waterloo, and Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Given the chronic nature of psoriasis, and the loss of response observed with biologic therapies over time, it is crucial to establish the long-term…
Abstract Number: 0927 • ACR Convergence 2025
Improved Skin Lymphatic Flow Regulates Dendritic Cells to Mediate Lymph Node Fibroblast Alterations and Immune Responses in Lupus
Mir Howlader¹ and Theresa Lu², ¹Weill Cornell Medical College, Brooklyn, NY, ²Hospital for Special Surgery, NEW YORK, NY
Background/Purpose: Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease with a global loss of self-tolerance. Lupus patients are photosensitive where exposure to even ambient sunlight results in…
Abstract Number: 2175 • ACR Convergence 2025
Skin Manifestations of Rheumatic Diseases: Educating Providers to Improve Diagnostic Skills
Brittany Ashe¹, Ellen Koch², Tiffany Yang¹ and Kathryn Torok², ¹UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: Among pediatric patients with scleroderma, there is a significant delay between onset of symptoms and diagnosis ranging from 1.2-1.6 years for Localized Scleroderma (LS)…
Abstract Number: 0678 • ACR Convergence 2025
Targeting the plasma cell niche in systemic sclerosis: A case series about the bispecific anti-BCMAxCD3 antibody teclistamab in severe, treatment-refractory patients
Andrea-Hermina Györfi¹, Ayla Nadja Stuetz², Christina Duesing³, Laura-Marie Lahu⁴, Franca Sophie Deicher⁵, Yi-Nan Li⁶, Celine van Saan⁵, Alexandru-Emil Matei⁷, Alexander Hoelscher⁵, Peter-Martin Bruch⁸, Sarah Koziel⁸, Manuel Roehrich⁹, Mareike Cramer¹⁰, Bernhard Homey⁵, Bjoern Buehring¹¹, Alexander Kreuter¹², Aleksandar Radujkovic⁵, Claus Peter Heußel¹³, Hanns-Martin Lorenz¹⁴, Ricardo Grieshaber-Bouyer¹⁵, Georg Schett¹⁶, Jörg Distler¹⁷ and Wolfgang Merkt¹⁸, ¹Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University., Düsseldorf, Germany, ²Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University. Hiller Research Center, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, ³Klinik für Rheumatologie, Düsseldorf, Germany, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University. Hiller Research Center, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany, ⁵Uniklinik Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, ⁶University Hospital of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, ⁷Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University. Hiller Research Center, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University. Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP, and Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence for Immune Mediated Diseases CIMD, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Düsseldorf, Germany, ⁸University Hospital Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany, ⁹Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Mainz, ¹⁰University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, ¹¹Bergisches Rheuma-Zentrum, Krankenhaus St Josef, Wuppertal, Germany, ¹²HELIOS St. Elisabeth Clinic Oberhausen, University Witten-Herdecke, Oberhausen, Germany, ¹³Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, ¹⁴Universitétsklinikum Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, ¹⁵University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ¹⁶Uniklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, Erlangen, Germany, ¹⁷University Hospital Duesseldorf and HHU, Duesseldorf, Germany, ¹⁸University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) possesses the highest case-related mortality of all rheumatic diseases. B cell-targeting, including CD19-targeting CAR-T cells, has shown efficacy but failed to…
Abstract Number: 1870 • ACR Convergence 2025
Paracrine WNT Signaling Modulates Profibrotic Macrophage Metabolic Activation in Systemic Sclerosis
emily Morris¹, Helen Jarnagin¹, Chen-Yu Wang¹, Michael Whitfield² and Patricia Pioli³, ¹Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH, ²Geisel School of Medicine, Lebanon, NH, ³Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH
Background/Purpose: An immune fibrotic axis consisting of activated macrophages (MØs) and fibroblasts has been identified in autoimmune systemic sclerosis (SSc) that drives disease across affected…
Abstract Number: 0574 • ACR Convergence 2025
Bimekizumab 3-Year Efficacy In Patients With Psoriasis And Risk Factors For Progression To Psoriatic Arthritis Or Screening Positive For Psoriatic Arthritis: Long-Term Results From Five Phase 3/3b Trials
Richard G. Langley¹, Joseph F Merola², Diamant Thaçi³, Emi Nishida⁴, Bruce Strober⁵, Richard B. Warren⁶, José M. López Pinto⁷, Christina Crater⁸, Sarah Kavanagh⁸ and Paolo Gisondi⁹, ¹Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, ²Department of Dermatology and Department of Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ³Institute and Comprehensive Center for Inflammation Medicine, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany, ⁴Nagoya City West Medical Center, Nagoya, Japan, ⁵Department of Dermatology, Yale University, New Haven, and Central Connecticut Dermatology Research, Cromwell, CT, ⁶Dermatology Centre, Northern Care Alliance, NHS Foundation Trust & Division of Musculoskeletal and Dermatological Sciences, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁷UCB, Madrid, Spain, ⁸UCB, Morrisville, NC, ⁹Section of Dermatology and Venereology, Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Background/Purpose: Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) affects up to one-third of patients with psoriasis;1 early identification and intervention for patients with psoriasis and risk factors (RFs) for…
Abstract Number: 1863 • ACR Convergence 2025
Bag3 in systemic sclerosis: possible therapeutic target and biomarker for pulmonary fibrosis
Claudia Iannone¹, Margot De Marco², Antonina Minniti³, Giuseppe Armentaro⁴, Antonia Falco², Angela D'Ardia², paola Manzo², Liberato Marzullo⁵, Anna Basile², Alessandra Rosati², Maria Caterina Turco², Roberto Caporali⁶ and Nicoletta Del Papa⁷, ¹University of Milan, Gaetano Pini CTO, Milano, Milan, Italy, ²Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry "Schola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Baronissi, Italy, Baronissi, Campania, Italy, ³ASST Gaetano Pini, milano, Milan, Italy, ⁴ASST Pini-CTO, Clinical Rheumatology Unit, Milano, Italy, ⁵Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry "Schola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Baronissi, Italy, Baronissi, Italy, ⁶University of Milan and ASST Gaetano Pini-CTO, Milano, Italy, ⁷ASST Pini CTO, Milano, Milan, Italy
Background/Purpose: BAG3 (Bcl2-associated athanogene 3) regulates cellular pathways including apoptosis and autophagy, and induces fibroblast-to-myofibroblast transformation. In systemic sclerosis (SSc), myofibroblasts drive fibrosis of skin…
Abstract Number: 0865 • ACR Convergence 2025
Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis of Calcinosis Cutis in Dermatomyositis Uncovers Disease-Associated Pathways Involving IL-6, Tissue Remodeling, and Osteopontin
Cassie Parks¹, York Wang¹, Lisa Christopher-Stine², Jemima Albayda², Joel Sunshine³, Shira Ziegler¹ and Chris Mecoli¹, ¹Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ³Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore
Background/Purpose: Calcinosis cutis affects up to 20% of adults with dermatomyositis (DM), causing significant morbidity including recurrent infections, incapacitating pain, and functional impairment. Current management…
Abstract Number: 1760 • ACR Convergence 2025
Targeting the Female-biased Factor VGLL3 in Cutaneous and Systemic Lupus
Vincent van Drongelen¹, Joanna Rew¹, Emma Griffin², Kelly Young², Olesya Plazyo¹, Mehrnaz Gharaee-Kermani¹, Li-Jyun Syu², Stefan Stoll², Jiliang Zhou³, Nicole Ward⁴, J. Michelle Kahlenberg¹, Lam Tsoi¹, Andrzej A Dlugosz², Johann Gudjonsson¹ and Allison C Billi¹, ¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, ³Augusta University, Augusta, ⁴Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Background/Purpose: Approximately 90% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus are women, and skin is one of the most frequently affected organs. We previously found that…

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