Abstracts tagged "juvenile arthritis and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)"

Abstract Number: 165 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
The Apparent Diffusion Coefficient As a Quantitative Imaging Biomarker of Therapeutic Response in Enthesitis-Related Arthritis
Timothy Bray¹, Kanimozhi Vendhan¹, Nicola Ambrose², David Atkinson¹, Shonit Punwani¹, Corinne Fisher², Debajit Sen², Yiannis Ioannou² and Margaret Hall-Craggs¹, ¹Centre for Medical Imaging, UCL, London, United Kingdom, ²Arthritis Research UK Centre for Adolescent Rheumatology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose : Early treatment in enthesitis-related arthritis (ERA) may have a disease-modifying effect with consequently improved outcomes. However, disease activity may be difficult to assess,…