Miranda van Lunteren
Miranda is a post-doctoral clinical researcher and clinical study coordinator at Department of Rheumatology of the Leiden University Medical Center in Leiden. In 2020 she obtained her PhD on the burden of early axial spondyloarthritis. Her major research interest is axial spondyloarthritis, with a focus on observational studies, imaging and patient-reported outcomes. She has an interest in methodology and clinical trials.
Miranda is incoming co-chair of the EMEUNET Social Media Sub-Committee, study coordinator of the ASAS CLASSIC study, and a member of the Y-ASAS Website Subgroup.
Oral OP0245 | Thursday, 4 June 2026, 08:45-08:55 BST Session: Clinical Abstracts Sessions: This is a woman’s world Presenting author: N. Ziade (Lebanon) Title: Fertility and pregnancy outcomes in Axial Spondyloarthritis: A multinational study of 500 patients from 15 Arab countries  This large multinational study across 15 Arab countries among 519 patients diagnosed with axSpA reported that fertility and pregnancy outcomes were largely preserved, subfertility rates were low and pregnancy outcomes were comparable to the general population. Smoking emerged as the main modifiable factor associated with prolonged time to pregnancy. These findings provide reassuring real-world evidence and highlight the importance of proactive reproductive counselling and smoking cessation in patients diagnosed with axSpA. |
| Oral OP0236 | Thursday, 4 June 202, 08:35 – 08:45 BST Session: Clinical Abstract Sessions: Optimising Care in Spondyloarthritis Presenting author: W.P. Maksymowych (Canada) Title: The 2025 Assessment of SpondyloArthritis International Society (ASAS) and Spondyloarthritis Research and Treatment Network (SPARTAN) Revised Classification Criteria for Axial Spondyloarthritis: Development and Validation in the Classification of AxSpA Inception Cohort Study The worldwide CLASSIC study (n=1,015 from 61 centres in 27 countries) showed that the 2009 ASAS classification criteria for axSpA did not meet the prespecified targets for sensitivity and specificity (≥75%/≥90%). Two high-performing proposals for new criteria were developed in which imaging was emphasized and a more focused set of clinical features was incorporated. The ASAS-SPARTAN revised classification criteria was selected by voting and achieved the prespecified sensitivity and specificity targets in the validation dataset using local reading. |
| Poster POS0936 | Friday, 5 June 2026, 09:30-10:30 BST Session: Poster View V Presenting author: D. Capelusnik (Israel) Title: Development and validation analysis of a Corrected Axial Spondyloarthritis Metrology Index This study introduces Corrected Axial Spondyloarthritis Metrology Index (CASMI), a height-, sex-, and age-adjusted alternative to the BASMI for reducing bias in the assessment of spinal mobility. Developed in the MOBILITY study and validated in the OASIS cohort, CASMI shows lower influence of non-disease factors while maintaining strong correlations with disease outcomes. Compared to BASMI, CASMI has been developed as a more personalized and accurate measure of mobility in axSpA, improving sensitivity to subtle impairment in spinal mobility. |
| Poster POS0191 | Thursday, 4 June 2026, 16:18-16:24 BST Session: Clinical Poster Tours: SpArking new research in Spondyloarthritis Presenting author: A. Steimer (Switzerland) Title: Early diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis is associated with less long-term spinal structural damage: a longitudinal analysis of the Swiss Clinical Quality Management registry This longitudinal analysis from the SCQM cohort (n=376 patients; of which 138 early axSpA and 238 established axSpA) demonstrates that early diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis (≤2 years symptom duration) is associated with clinically relevant less long-term spinal radiographic damage compared to established axSpA. Using advanced modelling of spinal structural progression, the study highlights a potential “window of opportunity,” showing the importance of timely diagnosis and early treatment. |
| Poster POS0191 | Friday, 5 June 2026, 10:00-10:06 Session: Clinical Poster Tours: A spotlight on SpA Presenting author: G. Ayan (Türkiye) Title: Low-dose CT, MRI or radiographs: which imaging modality best captures spinal structural progression in axial spondyloarthritis? This study compares different imaging modalities for detecting structural progression of the spine in axial spondyloarthritis using the SPACE cohort. Low-dose CT demonstrated the higher sensitivity to change when compared with spinal radiographs and MRI, in particular for syndesmophyte formation and development, despite an overall minimal progression across imaging modalities. These findings show that low-dose CT as the most responsive tool for monitoring progression of structural damage of the spine. |