12S123: The Ears Have It: Autoimmune Hearing Loss and Relapsing Polychondritis

Saturday, November 12, 2022

3:00 PM – 3:45 PM Eastern Time

Location: Terrace Ballroom IV

CE: 0.75

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Moderator(s)

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Lara El Khoury, MD

Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Health
Great Neck, NY, United States

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

Autoimmune disease affects multiple organs, including involvement of the ear. Speakers will review mechanisms for autoimmune damage of both the inner and outer ear, as well as mechanism based strategies for therapy

Learning Objectives:

Educate Rheumatologists about mechanisms for autoimmune syndromes that affect the inner and outer ear
Review the causes and treatment of sensorineural hearing loss
Review how genetic studies have identified subtypes of relapsing polychondritis that affect the outer ear

Presentations:

3:00 PM – 3:15 PM Eastern Time

New Insights into Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Speaker: Andrea Vambutas, MD – Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM Eastern Time

A New Classification of Ear Chondritis Revealed by Genetic Studies
Speaker: Peter Grayson, MD, MSc – National Institutes of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM Eastern Time

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