Abstracts tagged "Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)"

Abstract Number: 1941 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Imaging Atherosclerotic Plaque Inflammation In RA: Methodology and Initial Findings In a Single Centre Cohort
Sarah Skeoch¹, Penny Hubbard², Heather Williams^3,4, Dongxiang Xu⁵, Sun Jie⁵, Niranjan Balu⁵, Wei Zhang⁵, Jacqueline James³, Thomas Hatsukami⁵, Chun Yuan⁵, M. Yvonne Alexander⁶, Paul Hockings⁷, John Waterton^4,8 and Ian N. Bruce⁹, ¹Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology and NIHR Manchester Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ²Centre for Imaging Sciences Biomedical Imaging Institute Oxford Road Manchester, M13 9PT United Kingdom, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ³Department of Nuclear Medicine, Central Manchester University Hospitals Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁴Centre for Imaging Sciences Biomedical Imaging Institute, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁵Vascular Imaging Laboratory, Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ⁶Healthcare Science Research Institute, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Healthcare Science Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁷Drug Safety and Metabolism, Astra Zeneca, Mölndal, Sweden, ⁸R&D Personalised Healthcare & Biomarkers, Astra Zeneca, MACCLESFIELD, United Kingdom, ⁹Kellgren Centre for Rheumatology, Central Manchester University Hospitals Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Chronic inflammation in RA may contribute to an unstable atherosclerotic plaque phenotype. Dynamic contrast enhanced MRI (DCE MRI) can be used to image carotid…
Abstract Number: 1586 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Defining Hand Arthritis In Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, From An Ultrasound, Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Antibody Status Perspective
Elisabeth M.A Ball¹, Arthur Grey², Ai Lyn Tan³, Eiji Fukuba⁴, Gunter Steiner⁵, Dennis McGonagle⁶, Aubrey Bell⁷ and Madeleine Rooney⁸, ¹Rheumatology, Queens' University/Musgrave Park Hospital, Belfast, United Kingdom, ²Rheumatology, Musgrave Park Hospital, Belfast, United Kingdom, ³Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ⁴Department of Radiology, Shimane University, Izuma, Japan, ⁵Internal Medicine III, Division of Rheumatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ⁶NIHR Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ⁷Rheumatology Unit, Musgrave Park Hospital, Belfast, United Kingdom, ⁸Medicine, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Musculoskeletal involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is common but poorly characterised with only a few Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) or ultrasound (US) studies…
Abstract Number: 1532 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Anti-Tumor Necrosis Fator Therapy Is Associated With Resolution Of Erosion In The Sacroiliac Joints Of Patients With Spondyloarthritis
Susanne Juhl Pedersen¹, Stephanie Wichuk², Praveena Chiowchanwisawakit³, Robert GW Lambert⁴ and Walter P. Maksymowych², ¹Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Copenhagen University Hospital at Glostrup, Copenhagen, Denmark, ²Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ³Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, ⁴Radiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Background/Purpose: Radiography of the sacroiliac joints (SIJ) in spondyloarthritis (SpA) is a valuable diagnostic tool but is unreliable and unresponsive for assessment of treatment effects.…
Abstract Number: 1361 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Stringent Therapies Improve Clinical, Radiographic and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Outcome In Early-Stage Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients From Japanese Population: Longitudinal Study From Nagasaki Early Arthritis Cohort
Mami Tamai^1,2, Yoshikazu Nakashima³, Junko Kita⁴, Ayuko Takatani⁴, Ayako Nishino³, Takahisa Suzuki³, Yoshiro Horai³, Akitomo Okada⁵, Shin-ya Kawashiri^3,6, Naoki Iwamoto³, Kunihiro Ichinose³, Kazuhiko Arima⁶, Hideki Nakamura³, Tomoki Origuchi⁷, Masataka Uetani⁸, Katsumi Eguchi⁹ and Atsushi Kawakami³, ¹Center for Health & Community Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, ²Unit of Translational Medicine, Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, ³Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, ⁴Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, ⁵Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki Genbaku Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan, ⁶Department of Public Health, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, ⁷Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, ⁸Department of Radiology and Radiation Research, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, ⁹Sasebo City General Hospital, Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan
Background/Purpose: Prognosis of the patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) nowadays is supposed to become better by treat-to-target (T2T) strategy. Osteitis determined by magnetic resonance imaging…
Abstract Number: 1132 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Sensitivity To Change Of Radiographic Fixed-Location and Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Based Cartilage Thickness Measures In The Lateral Compartment Of Knees With Radiographic Osteoarthritis – Data From The Osteoarthritis Initiative
Wolfgang Wirth¹, Jeffrey W. Duryea², Michael C. Nevitt³, Robert J. Buck⁴, David Hunter⁵ and Felix Eckstein¹, ¹Anatomy & Musculoskeletal Research, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria, ²Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF (University of California, San Francisco), San Francisco, CA, ⁴StatAnswers Consulting, Minneapolis, MN, ⁵Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, Australia
Background/Purpose: Radiographic joint space width (JSW) is frequently employed to indirectly assess structural progression in the medial femorotibial compartment, but it is unclear whether assessment…
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: 1243 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Effect of Tocilizumab Treatment On Regional Left Ventricular Function, As Assessed by Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging, in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients without Cardiac Symptoms
Hitomi Kobayashi¹, Isamu Yokoe², Hiroshi Sato¹ and Yasuyuki Kobayashi³, ¹Rheumatology, Itabashi Chuo Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan, ²Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ³Radiology, St.Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with an increased risk of congestive heart failure, possibly via shared mechanisms of inflammation. This study was undertaken to…
Abstract Number: 802 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Milnacipran Reduces Brain Activity During Pain in Fibromyalgia
Anson E. Kairys¹, Richard E. Harris², Eric Ichesco², Johnson P. Hampson², Steven Harte², Daniel J. Clauw³ and Tobias Schmidt-Wilcke², ¹Department of Anesthesiology, Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Anesthesiology/Internal Medicine (Rheum), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Background/Purpose: Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic pain condition characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain and a number of concomitant symptoms such as fatigue, sleep disturbance, cognitive…
Abstract Number: 1119 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Prediction of MRI-Detected Cartilage Loss Over 30 Months Using Simplified Radiographic and Clinical Stratification: The MOST Study
Frank Roemer¹, David T. Felson², Jingbo Niu³, Yuqing Zhang², Michael C. Nevitt⁴, Michel Crema⁵, Cora E. Lewis⁶, James Torner⁷ and Ali Guermazi⁵, ¹Klinikum Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany, ²Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ³Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ⁴Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF (University of California, San Francisco), San Francisco, CA, ⁵Boston University, Boston, MA, ⁶Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁷Epidemiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa City, IA
Background/Purpose: MRI-detected cartilage loss is the main structural outcome measure in large studies of knee OA. Definition of subjects at high risk for cartilage loss…
Abstract Number: 805 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Milnacipran Increases Cortical to Brainstem Connectivity During Pain in Fibromyalgia
Eric Ichesco¹, Tobias Schmidt-Wilcke¹, Anson E. Kairys², Johnson P. Hampson¹, Steven E. Harte¹, Daniel J. Clauw³ and Richard E. Harris¹, ¹Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Department of Anesthesiology, Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Anesthesiology/Internal Medicine (Rheum), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Background/Purpose: Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic widespread pain disorder characterized by muscle tenderness, fatigue, poor sleep, and mood disturbance. Milnacipran is a dual serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake…

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