Abstract Number: 2716 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A New Score to Predict Digital Ulcers Combining Clinical Data, Imaging and Patient History in Systemic Sclerosis
Background/Purpose: Ischemic complications such as digital ulcers (DU) are a common complication in systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients. The aim of this study was to combine…Abstract Number: 2773 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Management of a Suspected Case of GCA: An Opinion Survey
Background/Purpose: Giant-cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common vasculitis. Specialists have formulated recommendations on how to manage a patient with a possible diagnosis of GCA.…Abstract Number: 1679 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Different Cut-Offs for Renal Resistive Index Reflect Renal and Other Organ Involvement and Predict Worsening in SSc Patients
Background/Purpose: Renal Resistive Index (RRI), measured by Doppler ultrasound, reflects changes in both renal vascular and tubular-interstitial compartments and systemic vascular compliance related to age…Abstract Number: 2862 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Diverse Disease Activity Measures Demonstrate That the Routine Assessment of Patient Index Data with 3 Measures (Rapid-3) Assesses Only Non Inflammatory Components of Disease and Should Not be Utilized in a Treat to Target Strategy in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Background/Purpose: Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) patients to target (T2T) has been shown to result in better outcomes in patients with RA. Surrogate measures of disease…Abstract Number: 130 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Anti-CCP Status Determines the Power Doppler Oscillation Pattern in Rheumatoid Arthritis – a Prospective Study
Title: Anti-CCP Status Determines the Power Doppler Oscillation Pattern in Rheumatoid Arthritis – a Prospective Study Abstract: Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory…Abstract Number: 140 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Relationship Between the Prevalence of Subclinical Tenosynovitis and Therapy in Patients with RA in Clinical Remission: Results from Italian Society of Rheumatology Study Group
Background/Purpose: This study is a sub-analysis of the data from the patient cohort of STARTER (The Sonographic Tenosynovitis Assessment in RheumaToid arthritis patiEnts in Remission)…Abstract Number: 545 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Utility of Power Doppler Ultrasound-Detected Synovitis for the Prediction of Short Term Flare in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients in Clinical Remission
Background/Purpose: Ultrasound has been shown to detect subclinical synovitis in patients who are in clinical remission, in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The value of power Doppler…Abstract Number: 551 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Changes in Diverse Disease Activity Measures Are Highly Correlated Following the Initiation of Most Treatment Modalities in the Management of Longstanding Rheumatoid Arthritis
Background/Purpose: Treating rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients to target (T2T) has been shown to result in better outcomes in patients with relatively recent onset RA. The…Abstract Number: 1902 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Detecting the Pulmonary Vascular Involvement and the Changes in Gene Activation Profiles at Early Stage of Systemic Sclerosis in Patients with Raynaud Phenomenon
Background/Purpose: Raynaud phenomenon (RP) is known to precede other disease manifestations of systemic sclerosis (SSc), and classically viewed as reversible vasospasm due to functional changes…Abstract Number: 2524 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Achievement of Imaging Remission Among Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis in Clinical Remission and Their Characteristics
Background/Purpose: Therapeutic goal of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is to achieve disease remission. However, several remission criteria have not always equated to the complete absence of…Abstract Number: 3063 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Ocular Findings and Ocular Blood Flow Changes in Takayasu Arteritis: A Subclinical Reduction in Blood Flow with a Milder Clinical Course of Retinopathy
Background/Purpose: Ocular involvement in Takayasu arteritis (TAK) mainly arises due to complications related with altered ocular blood flow or side effects of the treatments. In…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: 186 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
B Flow, a Novel Ultrasound Modality in the Assessment of Synovitis in RA
Background/Purpose: B flow is a vascular ultrasound (US) technique in which the high resolution aspect of gray scale US is optimized to demonstrate movement of…Abstract Number: 930 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Evaluation of Temporomandibular Joint Arthritis with Ultrasound in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Background/Purpose: Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) arthritis is a common yet widely under recognized feature of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA). It is often clinically silent and difficult…
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