Abstracts tagged "enthesopathy and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)"

Abstract Number: 299 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Definition of New Ultrasound Enthesophytes Score: Application in a Consecutive Series of IBD Patients
Pierluigi Macchioni ¹, federica Martinis ², Giorgia Citriniti³, Nicolò Girolimetto ³ and Carlo Salvarani ⁴, ¹Azienda USL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, ²Università di Verona, Verona, Italy, ³Azienda USL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova-IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Background/Purpose: Recent studies have developed criteria for US definition of entheseal abnormalities (1), however no actual scores are available to determine the extension and severity…