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Program: Scientific Session
General Topic: Clinical

Flying Solo: Recognizing and Treating Single-Organ Vasculitis

Sunday, October 26, 2025
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Central Time
CE: 1.5

    Moderator(s)

  • Adam Kilian, MD

    Associate Professor of Medicine
    Saint Louis University
    George Washington University
    St. Louis, Missouri, United States

    Disclosure(s): AbbVie/Abbott: Advisor or Review Panel Member (Ongoing), Consultant (Ongoing); Amgen: Advisor or Review Panel Member (Ongoing), Consultant (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); AstraZeneca: Advisor or Review Panel Member (Ongoing), Consultant (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); GlaxoSmithKlein(GSK): Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Novartis: Advisor or Review Panel Member (Ongoing), Consultant (Ongoing)

  • RR

    Rennie Rhee, MD, MS

    University of Pennsylvania
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

    Disclosure(s): Novartis: Consultant (Terminated, December 6, 2024)

    • Session Coordinator(s)

  • CK

    Curry Koening, MD,MS

    University of Texas Dell Medical School
    Austin, Texas, United States

    Disclosure(s): Boehringer-Ingelheim: Advisor or Review Panel Member (Ongoing); Novartis: Advisor or Review Panel Member (Terminated, December 31, 2024)

  • Adam Kilian, MD

    Associate Professor of Medicine
    Saint Louis University
    George Washington University
    St. Louis, Missouri, United States

    Disclosure(s): AbbVie/Abbott: Advisor or Review Panel Member (Ongoing), Consultant (Ongoing); Amgen: Advisor or Review Panel Member (Ongoing), Consultant (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); AstraZeneca: Advisor or Review Panel Member (Ongoing), Consultant (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); GlaxoSmithKlein(GSK): Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Novartis: Advisor or Review Panel Member (Ongoing), Consultant (Ongoing)

While rheumatologists are familiar with systemic vasculitides, they are less familiar with
the non-systemic vasculitides, which affect only one organ. Single-organ vasculitis
represents a specific entity in need of wider recognition and understanding.
Here, the diagnosis and management of single-organ vasculitis will be discussed by highlighting three forms rheumatologists are likely to encounter: Isolated cutaneous vasculitis, primary angiitis of the central nervous system, and clinically
isolated aortitis.

Learning Objectives:

  • Review the epidemiology of the specific forms of single-organ vasculitis
  • Discuss the differential diagnosis and evaluation of patients with single-organ vasculitis
  • Examine the pitfalls and clinical pearls in the diagnosis and management of single-organ vasculitis

Presentations:

  • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Central Time
    Cutaneous Vasculitis

    Speaker: Robert Micheletti, MD – Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Central Time
    CNS Vaculitis

    Speaker: Rula A. Hajj-Ali, MD – Cleveland Clinic

  • 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Central Time
    Isolated Aortitis

    Speaker: Tanaz Kermani, MD;MS – University of California Los Angeles