Abstract Number: 158 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Ultrasound Score of Dominant Hand in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Correlates with DAS28CRP, CDAI and SDAI but Not RAPID-3
Background/Purpose: Musculoskeletal ultrasound (MUS) allows for direct visualization of diverse pathologic features such as cortical bone erosions, synovial thickening, and synovial vascularity in the joints…Abstract Number: 159 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Power Doppler Continuous Quantitative Assessment Techniques Is Faster Than Semiquantitative Assesment in Identification of Therapeutic Response
Background/Purpose: Power Doppler Ultrasound (PD) is widely used to assess the activity of rheumatic diseases (especially in Rheumatoid Arthritis). Up to now a series of…Abstract Number: 160 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
When Compared with a Computerized System Both Experienced and in-Training Sonographers Have Difficulties to Select the Best Doppler Image from a Cine-Loop
Background/Purpose: Cine-loop analysis is an ultrasound technology that allows the acquisition of images in a digital form as a sequence of a determined frame number.…Abstract Number: 161 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Ultrasonographic Evaluation of Rheumatoid Hand: Hand Disability and Disease Activity Correlation
Background/Purpose: To determine hand disability and articular damage in patients with Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and to define their relation with musculoskeletal ultrasonography (US) findings, clinical…Abstract Number: 162 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Ultrasonography Versus Clinical Examination in Early DMARD-Naïve Rheumatoid Arthritis – a Comparative Study of Synovitis on the Individual Joint Level
Background/Purpose: Ultrasonography (US) is increasingly accepted as an important tool in diagnosis and management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, it is not well known to…Abstract Number: 163 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Ultrasonographic Assessment Covers Clinical Examination in the Localization of Ankle Pathology in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Background/Purpose: Though rheumatoid arthritis (RA) commonly affects ankle joints, ankle joints are not included in widely used composite measures of disease activity with 28-joint counts.…Abstract Number: 164 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Subclinical Ankle Involvement in Rheumatoid Arthritis. a Multicentre Ultrasound Study
Background/Purpose: Ankle involvement is frequent in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), with at least 90% of patients affected anytime during the disease course though ankle involvement may…Abstract Number: 165 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Validation of a New Ultrasound Criteria for Subclinical Synovitis in Chronic Inflammatory Polyarthritis
Background/Purpose: We have previously reported that patients with subclinical synovitis defined by synovial hypertrophy grade >2 (SH>2) plus power Doppler (PD) signal had higher disease…Abstract Number: 166 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Validity and Sensitivity to Change of the Semi-Quantitative Omeract Ultrasound Scoring System for Tenosynovitis in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Background/Purpose: Tenosynovitis is frequent in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. One study indicates that tenosynovitis detected by modern imaging has prognostic value with respect to subsequent…Abstract Number: 167 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Negative Gaenslen’s (Squeeze) Test Has a High Negative Predictive Value for Significant Ultrasonographic Metatarsophalangeal Involvement in Early Arthritis
Background/Purpose: Gaenslen's test positivity is characterized by tenderness upon lateral compression (squeezing) of the metacarpophalangeal (MCP) or metatarsophalangeal (MTP) joints. Joint ultrasonography (US) is a…Abstract Number: 168 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Ultrasound Evaluation of the Efficacy of Biologic and Targeted Synthetic Dmards Toward Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients: Kyushu Multicenter Rheumatoid Arthritis Ultrasound Prospective Observational Cohort in Japan
Background/Purpose: Few prospective ultrasound (US) cohort studies of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients treated by biologic or targeted synthetic DMARDs (b/tsDMARDs) are reported. We have been…Abstract Number: 169 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Ultrasonographic Signs of Inflammation of Metatarsophalangeal Joints in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Who Are Treated to Target
Background/Purpose: The feet are often involved in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but physical examination of the metatarsophalangeal (MTP) joints to detect arthritis is challenging especially in…Abstract Number: 170 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Relationship Between Finger Joint Cartilage Evaluated By Ultrasound and Clinical Characteristics in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)
Background/Purpose: Joint destruction is the primary lesion by bone and cartilage damage in RA. By X-ray examination, cartilage destruction is evaluated as a joint space…Abstract Number: 171 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Serum Calprotectin Levels Correlate with Ultrasonographic Synovitis in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
Background/Purpose: Calprotectin (S100A8/9, MRP8/14) has been demonstrated as a promising biomarker of clinical and laboratory disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In addition, two small…Abstract Number: 172 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Prospective Assessment of Carotid Intima Media Thickness in Relation to Activity of the Disease in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, inflammatory disease that is complicated by accelerated atherosclerosis associated with the risk of adverse cardiovascular (CV) events and…
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