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Program: Scientific Session
General Topic: Clinical

Getting to the Heart of the Issue: Perimyocarditis in Autoimmune Diseases

Tuesday, October 28, 2025
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Central Time

    Moderator(s)

  • EK

    Eugene Krustev, MD

    Johns Hopkins University
    Baltimore, Maryland, United States

    Disclosure(s): Mountain Valley MD Hldgs: Stock options or bond holdings in a for-profit corporation or self-directed pension plan (Ongoing)

  • Didem Saygin, MD

    Rush University Medical Center
    Chicago, Illinois, United States

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

    • Session Coordinator(s)

  • Julie Paik, MD, MHS

    Johns Hopkins University
    Baltimore, Maryland, United States

    Disclosure(s): ArgenX: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Priovant: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)

  • MC

    May Choi, MD, FRCPC, MPH

    University of Calgary
    Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Disclosure(s): AstraZeneca: Consultant (Ongoing), Grant/Research Support (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); Celltrion: Consultant (Terminated, January 1, 2024), Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Terminated, January 1, 2024); GlaxoSmithKlein(GSK): Consultant (Terminated, January 2, 2023); Mallickrodt Pharmaceuticals: Consultant (Terminated, January 2, 2023); MitogenDx: Consultant (Ongoing); Organon: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Terminated, January 1, 2024); Werfen: Consultant (Ongoing)

To recognize the challenges of treating perimyocardial involvement in various autoimmune diseases. This session will discuss the immunology behind perimyocarditis in various autoimmune rheumatic diseases and provide an update on the latest therapeutics available including the use of biologics.

Learning Objectives:

  • Examine the immunologic basis of perimyocardial disease in various autoimmune rheumatic diseases
  • Develop an approach to acute and chronic management of perimyocardial disease including the initiating and tapering of biologics

Presentations:

  • 1:00 PM – 1:20 PM Central Time
    Immunology in Cardiac Involvement of Rheumatic Diseases

    Speaker: Luigi Adamo, MD, PhD – Johns Hopkins Unviersity

  • 1:20 PM – 1:40 PM Central Time
    Management of Pericarditis: Initiation and Tapering Biologics

    Speaker: Brittany Weber, MD, PhD – Brigham and Women's Hospital

  • 1:40 PM – 2:00 PM Central Time
    Case Presentations on Lupus and Myositis

    Speaker: Julie Paik, MD, MHS – Johns Hopkins University