Abstracts tagged "Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)"

Abstract Number: 1116 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Prospective Evaluation Of The Diagnostic Value Of Conventional Radiography, Ultrasound and MRI In Comparison To Clinical Examination For The Assessment Of Heel and Knee Enthesitis In Patients With Peripheral Spondyloarthritis and Controls
Xenofon Baraliakos¹, Uta Kiltz², Frank Heldmann³, Heiner Appel⁴, Friedrich Dybowski⁵, Manfred Igelmann⁶, Ludwig H. Kalthoff⁷, Claudia Klink⁸, Dietmar MJ Krause⁹, Ertan Saracbasi³, Elmar Schmitz-Bortz¹⁰ and Jürgen Braun³, ¹Rheumatology, Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne, Germany, ²Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Ruhr-University Bochum, Herne, Germany, ³Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne, Germany, ⁴Rheumatology and Nephrology Practice, Hamm, Germany, ⁵Rheumatology Practice, Herne, Germany, ⁶Private Rheumatology office, Bochum, Germany, ⁷Private rheumatology office, Herne, Germany, ⁸Private rheumatology office, Gladbeck, Germany, ⁹Internistische und rheumatologische Gemeinschaftspraxis, Gladbeck, Germany, ¹⁰Rheumatology practice, Hattingen, Germany
Background/Purpose: Spondyloarthritides (SpA) are characterized by inflammatory and structural changes in the axial skeleton and in peripheral joints and entheses. Imaging has an essential role…
Abstract Number: 1127 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Semiquantitative MRI Features Of Knee Osteoarthritis Show Compartment-Specific Relationships With Quantitative Cartilage Thickness Loss: The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study
Ali Guermazi¹, Felix Eckstein², Daichi Hayashi³, Frank Roemer⁴, Wolfgang Wirth², Tianzhong Yang⁵, Jingbo Niu⁶, Leena Sharma⁷, Michael C. Nevitt⁸, Cora E. Lewis⁹, James Torner¹⁰ and David T. Felson¹¹, ¹Boston University, Boston, MA, ²Anatomy & Musculoskeletal Research, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria, ³Department of Radiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ⁴Radiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ⁵Clinical Epidemiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ⁶Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ⁷Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁸Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF (University of California, San Francisco), San Francisco, CA, ⁹Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ¹⁰Epidemiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa City, IA, ¹¹Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Structural progression of knee OA has been associated with several radiographic and MRI-measured pathological features of OA, including malalignment, meniscal pathology and bone marrow…
Abstract Number: 1131 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Peri-Articular Fractal Signature Analysis and Bone Mineral Density Measure Different Aspects Of Bone: Cross-Sectional Data From The Osteoarthritis Initiative
Jeffrey B. Driban¹, Felix Liu², Alina O'Brien³, Lori Lyn Price⁴, Grace H. Lo⁵, Michael C. Nevitt⁶, Charles Eaton⁷, Timothy E. McAlindon⁸ and John A. Lynch⁹, ¹Rheumatology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, ²University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ³Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, ⁴Biostatistics Research Center, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, ⁵VA HSR&D Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety; Medical Care Line and Research Care Line; Department of Medicine, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ⁶Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF (University of California, San Francisco), San Francisco, CA, ⁷Center for Primary Care and Prevention, Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, Providence, RI, ⁸Division of Rheumatology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, ⁹Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Peri-articular fractal signature analysis (FSA) and bone mineral density (paBMD) are potentially cost-effective prognostic imaging markers for osteoarthritis (OA) progression. While we know that…
Abstract Number: 829 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Is The Severity Of Knee Osteoarthritis On MRI Associated With Outcome Of Exercise Therapy?
Jesper Knoop¹, Joost Dekker², Marike van der Leeden^3,4, Martin van der Esch⁴, J.P. Klein⁵, David J. Hunter⁶, Leo D. Roorda⁴, Martijn P.M. Steultjens⁷ and Willem F. Lems⁸, ¹Amsterdam Rehabilitation Research Center, Reade, centre for rehabilitation and rheumatology, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²Rehabilitation Medicine, Psychiatry and EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ³Rehabilitation Medicine/EMGO, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁴Amsterdam Rehabilitation Research Center | Reade, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁵Radiology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁶Rheumatology, Institute of Bone and Joint Research, Kolling Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, ⁷Institute for Applied Health Research and School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland, ⁸Rheumatology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: To evaluate associations between severity of knee osteoarthritis (OA) on MRI and treatment outcome in knee OA patients treated with exercise therapy. Methods: Ninety-five…
Abstract Number: 359 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Tocilizumab Treatment Increases Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction and Decreases Left Ventricular Mass Index In Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Without Cardiac Symptoms : Assessment By Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging At 3.0 Tesla
Hitomi Kobayashi^1,2, Isamu Yokoe³, Hiroshi Sato², Yasuyuki Kobayashi⁴, Kihei Yoneyama⁵, Masaharu Hirano⁶ and Masami Takei⁷, ¹Division of Hematology and Rheumatology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ²Rheumatology, Itabashi Chuo Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan, ³Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ⁴Radiology, St.Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan, ⁵Cardiology, St.Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan, ⁶Cardiology, Tokyo Medical Colleage, Tokyo, Japan, ⁷Division of Hematology and Rheumatology, NIhon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: Left ventricular (LV) dysfunction in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may result, at least in part, from inflammation that may be regional and global. Therefore, therapies…
Abstract Number: 82 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Anatomical Variation In The Morphology Of The Posterior Cruciate Ligament Synovio-Entheseal Complex and Correlation With Degenerative Change
Daniel Binks¹, Diane Bergin², Tony Freemont³, Aleksandra Radjenovic¹ and Dennis McGonagle⁴, ¹NIHR Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ²Radiology, Galway University Hospitals, Galway, Ireland, ³School of Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁴Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds and NIHR Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Ligament attachments are often found to form complex anatomical functional units involving the ligaments themselves as well as associated synovium and bony tuberosities. Furthermore,…
Abstract Number: 151 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The mtDNA Haplogroups Influence The Cartilage Integrity In Osteoarthritis. Data From The Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI)
Ignacio Rego-Pérez¹, Angel Soto-Hermida², Mercedes Fernández-Moreno², Sonia Pértega-Díaz³, Juan Fernández-Tajes², María Eugenia Vázquez-Mosquera², Estefanía Cortés-Pereira², Sara Relaño-Fernández², Natividad Oreiro-Villar², Carlos Fernández-López² and Francisco J. Blanco^4,5,6, ¹Servicio de Reumatología. Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC). Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas. Universidade da Coruña (UDC), A Coruña, Spain, ²INIBIC-Hospital Universitario A Coruña. Rheumatology Division. Genomic Group, A Coruña, Spain, ³Unidad de Epidemiología Clínica y Bioestadística. Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC). Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas. Universidade da Coruña (UDC), A Coruña, Spain, ⁴Osteoarticular and Aging Res. Lab. CIBER-BBN. INIBIC- University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain, ⁵Proteo-Red/ISCIII, Madrid, Spain, ⁶CIBER-BBN-ISCIII, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is ideally suited for detect structural changes and degradation in cartilage against the limitations of radiographic common methods. Changes in…
Abstract Number: 65 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Frequency Of Bone Marrow Oedema Adjacent To The Cruciate Ligament Peri-Entheseal Vascular Channels In Inflammatory and Degenerative Arthritis
Daniel Binks^1,2, Melissa Matzelle³, Diane Bergin⁴, Richard J. Hodgson^2,5, Ai Lyn Tan^1,2, Ellen M. Gravallese⁶, Dennis McGonagle^1,2,7 and Aleksandra Radjenovic^1,2, ¹Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ²NIHR Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ³Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, ⁴Radiology, Galway University Hospitals, Galway, Ireland, ⁵NIHR-Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit and Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ⁶Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA, ⁷Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds and NIHR Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: We noted in mouse models of inflammatory arthritis (IA) that an early point of entry of inflammation into the marrow space occurred at sites…
Abstract Number: 2839 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Effects Of Treatment On Spinal Fat Lesions As Assessed By MRI With The Fat Spondyloarthritis Spine Score
Susanne Juhl Pedersen¹, Zheng Zhao², Stephanie Wichuk³, Robert GW Lambert⁴ and Walter P. Maksymowych³, ¹Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Copenhagen University Hospital at Glostrup, Copenhagen, Denmark, ²Department of Rheumatology, University of Alberta and PLA General Hospital, Beijing, PR China, Beijing, AB, China, ³Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ⁴Radiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Background/Purpose: Fat lesions develop after resolution of inflammation in the spine (1), and have also been shown to predict development of new syndesmophytes (2). Consequently,…
Abstract Number: 2805 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Synovial Explant Inflammatory Mediator Production Is Associated With Synovitis While Not With Bone Marrow Edema In Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Cross Sectional Study
Martin Andersen¹, Mikael Boesen², Karen Ellegaard¹, Robin Christensen³, Kalle Söderström⁴, Søren Torp-Pedersen¹, Bente Danneskiold-Samsøe¹, Else Marie Bartels⁵, Nina Vendel⁶, Niels H. Søe⁷, Pieter Spee⁸, Ulrik GW Mørch⁹, Lars Karlsson⁴ and Henning Bliddal¹⁰, ¹Rheumatology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg, The Parker Institute, Department of Rheumatology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg, Denmark, Frederiksberg, Denmark, ²Radiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg, Department of Radiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg, Denmark, Frederiskberg, Denmark, ³Department of Rheumatology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg, The Parker Institute, Department of Rheumatology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg, Denmark, Frederiksberg, Denmark, ⁴Biopharmaceutical Research Unit, Novo Nordisk, Translational Immunology, Biopharmaceutical Research Unit, Måløv, Novo Nordisk, Denmark, Måløv, Denmark, ⁵Rheumatology, Copenhagen University Hospital,Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg, The Parker Institute, Department of Rheumatology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg, Denmark, Frederiksberg, Denmark, ⁶Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Operations, Gentofte University Hospital, Denmark, Hellerup, Denmark, ⁷Department of Orthopedics, Section of Hand Surgery, Gentofte University Hospital, Department of Orthopedics, Section of Hand Surgery, Gentofte University Hospital, Denmark, Hellerup, Denmark, ⁸Biopharmaceutical Research Unit Novo Nordisk, Translational Immunology, Biopharmaceutical Research Unit, Måløv, Novo Nordisk, Denmark, Måløv, Denmark, ⁹Biomarkers, Søborg, Novo Nordisk, Denmark, Biomarkers, Søborg, Novo Nordisk, Denmark, Søborg, Denmark, ¹⁰The Parker Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Background/Purpose: Synovitis and bone damage may represent two distinct but overlapping pathological processes in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Whereas the bulk of synovial cells contribute to…
Abstract Number: 2692 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Evidence That Fat Metaplasia Is a Key Intermediary In The Development Of Sacroiliac Joint Ankylosis Following Repair Of Erosions In Patients With Spondyloarthritis
Walter P. Maksymowych¹, Stephanie Wichuk¹, Praveena Chiowchanwisawakit², Robert GW Lambert³ and Susanne Juhl Pedersen⁴, ¹Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ²Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, ³Radiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ⁴Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Copenhagen University Hospital at Glostrup, Copenhagen, Denmark
Background/Purpose: Fat metaplasia is detected as bright signal on T1W MRI and has been shown to develop after resolution of inflammation in spine and sacroiliac…
Abstract Number: 2534 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Intensive Diet and Exercise for Arthritis Trial (IDEA): 18-Month Radiographic and MRI Outcomes
David J. Hunter¹, D. Beavers², Felix Eckstein³, Ali Guermazi⁴, Richard F. Loeser⁵, Barbara J. Nicklas⁶, Shannon Mihalko⁷, Gary D. Miller⁷, Mary Lyles⁸, Paul DeVita⁹, Claudine Legault¹⁰, J. Jeffery Carr¹¹, Jeff D. Williamson⁸ and Stephen P. Messier⁷, ¹Rheumatology, Institute of Bone and Joint Research, Kolling Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, ²Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, ³Anatomy & Musculoskeletal Research, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria, ⁴Radiology, Boston University, Boston, MA, ⁵Section Of Molecular Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, ⁶Center on Aging, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, ⁷Department of Health and Exercise Science, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, ⁸Center on Aging, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, ⁹Department of Exercise and Sport Science, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, ¹⁰Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, ¹¹Department of Radiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
Background/Purpose: Dietary induced weight loss is a proven non-pharmacologic intervention for osteoarthritis. Based upon current literature it is unclear if weight loss modifies structural progression.…
Abstract Number: 1103 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Cumulative Occupational Physical Load As Risk Factor for Knee Osteoarthritis
Allison M. Ezzat¹, Jolanda Cibere², Mieke Koehoorn³, Eric C. Sayre⁴ and Linda C. Li⁵, ¹School of Rehabilitation Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ²Division of Rheumatology, Arthritis Research Centre of Canada, Richmond, BC, Canada, ³University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁴Arthritis Research Centre of Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁵Department of Physical Therapy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Background/Purpose: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) results from the interaction of multiple risk factors, one of which may be physically demanding occupations. The purpose of this study…
Abstract Number: 611 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Impaired Diffusion Tensor Imaging Findings in the Corpus Callosum and Cingulum May Underlie Impaired Learning and Memory Abilities in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Daphna Paran¹, Elissa Ash², Ira Litinsky¹, Valerie Aloush¹, Marina Anouk¹, Dan Caspi³, Talma Hendler⁴ and Irit Shapira-Lichter⁴, ¹Rheumatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Ctr, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, ²Neurology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Ctr, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, ³Rheumatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, ⁴Functional Brain Center, Wohl Institute for Advanced Imaging, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Ctr, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Background/Purpose: Memory impairment is prevalent in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), however the pathogenesis is unknown. In a previous functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) study we…
Abstract Number: 2538 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Association of Fat Mass and Skeletal Muscle Mass with Clinical and Structural Knee Osteoarthritis: The Netherlands Epidemiology of Obesity Study
A. Willemien Visser¹, Marieke Loef¹, Martin den Heijer², Monique Reijnierse³, Frits R. Rosendaal² and Margreet Kloppenburg⁴, ¹Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ³Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁴Rheumatology and Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Body mass index (BMI) is an important risk factor for knee osteoarthritis (OA), but BMI depends only upon height and weight and gives no…

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