At this ACR Convergence 2025 session, experts discussed the importance of vaccinating immunocompromised patients with non-live vaccines.
JIA: The Transition to Adult Care
Experts addressed considerations for how to aid patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) in their transition to adult care, specifically highlighting clinical pearls for those with pediatric uveitis and TMJ arthritis.
The Intersection of Immunology & Rheumatology
The winning case study in this year’s Thieves Market highlight a case study from Malaysia with a patient who initially presented with seronegative inflammatory arthritis but experienced recurrent infections and had a porcelain aorta.
Does High-Intensity Interval Training Lower Inflammatory Disease Activity?
Experts discuss high-intensity interval training as an underused “disease-modifying drug” for inflammatory diseases. Learn how to safely integrate it into patient treatment plans.
Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition Disease Diagnosis & Treatment Gaps Remain
CPPD diagnosis is difficult & treatments are limited. Experts review radiology challenges, off-label options like colchicine, & emerging biologics.
Research Gets Closer to Development of a Drug to Treat Osteoarthritis
Richard F. Loeser, Jr., MD, MACR, delivering the Oscar Gluck Memorial Lecture at ACR Convergence 2025, discussed research into new treatments for osteoarthritis.
How Lymphatic Drainage Controls Synovial Inflammation
Why do lymphatics fail in inflammatory arthritis? Research from ACR Convergence 2025 points to a network of telocytes & mast cells that control synovial drainage.
Balancing Optimism & Skepticism in CAR T for SLE
At ACR Convergence 2025, Joan T. Merrill, MD, overviewed the current research landscape of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), raising important scientific questions about these emerging treatments.
Incomplete Penetrance in Autoinflammatory Diseases
At this ACR Convergence 2025 session, immunologist Dusan Bogunovic, PhD, discussed his team’s research into how genetic immune diseases manifest with different phenotypes in different people.
Meeting Management Challenges in axSpA
At this ACR Convergence 2025 session, experts discussed emerging concepts with axial spondyloarthritis, including the most effective MRI specifications for diagnosis, challenges with axial juvenile spondyloarthritis & the many mimics of axSpA.