Abstracts tagged "cartilage and synovitis"

Abstract Number: 1173 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Inflammatory Severity and Cartilage Damage of Finger Joints in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Dr. Philipp Sewerin¹, Dr. Christoph Schleich², Anja Mueller-Lutz³, Prof. Dr. Benedikt Ostendorf¹, Christian Rubbert⁴, Dr. Christian Buchbender⁵, Prof. Dr. Matthias Schneider⁶, Prof. Dr. Gerald Antoch⁷ and Dr. Falk Miese⁵, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Univ. Duesseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, ²Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Univ. Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany, ³Dep. for diagnostic and interventional Radiology, Univ. Duesseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, ⁴Univ. Duesseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, ⁵Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Univ. Duesseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, ⁶Department of Rheumatology, Univ. Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany, ⁷Department Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Univ. Duesseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Background/Purpose To assess the association of inflammation severity and cartilage damage measured by delayed gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging of the cartilage (dGEMRIC) of metacarpophalangeal (MCP)…