Abstracts tagged "Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)"

Abstract Number: 563 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
In Ankylosing Spondylitis, a Decrease in MRI Spinal Inflammation Predicts Improvement in Spinal Mobility Independently of Patient Reported Symptomatic Improvement
Pedro Machado¹, Robert Landewé², Jürgen Braun³, Xenofon Baraliakos⁴, Kay-Geert A. Hermann⁵, Benjamin Hsu⁶, Daniel Baker⁷ and Désirée van der Heijde¹, ¹Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam and Atrium Medical Center, Heerlen, Netherlands, ³PsAID taskforce, EULAR, Zurich, Switzerland, ⁴Rheumatology, Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne, Germany, ⁵Radiology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany, ⁶Janssen Research & Development, LLC., Spring House, PA, ⁷Research and Development, Centocor Inc., Malvern/Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: It has been previously shown that spinal mobility in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is associated with the level of inflammation of the spine. However an…
Abstract Number: 2207 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
How Useful Is Imaging of the Sacroiliac Joints (MRI and/or X-ray) in Patients with Possible Spondyloarthritis in the Diagnostic Work-up?
Rosaline van den Berg¹, Manouk de Hooge¹, Victoria Navarro-Compán¹, Floris van Gaalen¹, Monique Reijnierse², Tom Huizinga¹ and Désirée van der Heijde¹, ¹Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: In daily practice, the diagnostic work-up of patients with possible axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) starts with clinical and laboratory data. In many patients MRI and/or…
Abstract Number: 1053 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Severe Joint Injury Assessed by Musculoskeletal Ultrasonography (MSKUS) Predicts the Presence of MRI-Proven Osteitis in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Shin-ya Kawashiri¹, Takahisa Suzuki², Yoshikazu Nakashima¹, Yoshiro Horai³, Naoki Iwamoto³, Kunihiro Ichinose⁴, Kazuhiko Arima³, Mami Tamai², Hideki Nakamura⁵, Tomoki Origuchi⁶, Kiyoshi Aoyagi⁷ and Atsushi Kawakami¹, ¹Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, ²Unit of Translational Medicine, Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, ³Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, ⁴Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Unit of Translational Medicine, Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, ⁵Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, ⁶Department of Health Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, ⁷Department of Public Health, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan
Background/Purpose: MRI-proven osteitis is known as the prognostic factor toward radiographic progression in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Musculoskeletal ultrasonography (MSKUS) is another high sensitive…
Abstract Number: 466 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Synovialitis Plus Articular Cartilage Monitoring Via Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Ultrasound Under Tocilizumab Therapy in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Maria Hoehle¹ and Michael Finkenstaedt², ¹Rheumatology, Hamburg, Germany, ²Private Practice for Radiology and Neuroradiology, Hamburg, Germany
Background/Purpose: To determine remission in RA, recent publications point out the importance of radiological parameters, besides scores like DAS28, TJC, SJC, CrP, patient global assessment,…
Abstract Number: 2211 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Is It Useful to Repeat an MRI of the Sacroiliac Joints in the Diagnostic Work-up for Spondyloarthritis?
Rosaline van den Berg¹, Manouk de Hooge¹, Victoria Navarro-Compán¹, Floris van Gaalen¹, Monique Reijnierse², Tom Huizinga¹ and Désirée van der Heijde¹, ¹Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: In the diagnostic work-up of spondyloarthritis (SpA), imaging of the sacroiliac joints by MRI (MRI-SIJ) is an important step. One study showed that in…
Abstract Number: 1054 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Diffusion Tensor and Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Perfusion Imaging Metrics Discriminate Chronic Tubercular Synovitis From Chronic Inflammatory Synovitis of the Knee
Vikas Agarwal¹, Rakesh K. Gupta², Rishi Awasthi², Deepak Tripathi³, Prativa Sahoo⁴, Vinita Agrawal⁵, Kusum Sharma⁶, Rungmei Marak⁷, Ram Kishore Singh Rathore⁴ and CM Pandey⁸, ¹Clinical Immunology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India, ²Radiodiagnosis, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Lucknow, India, ³Clinical Immunology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Lucknow, India, ⁴Mathematics and statistics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, ⁵Pathology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Lucknow, India, ⁶Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India, ⁷MIcrobiology, Microbiology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Lucknow, India, ⁸Biostatistics, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Lucknow, India
Background/Purpose: The study was performed to quantify dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) metrics in synovium of patients with tubercular synovitis (TS)…
Abstract Number: 293 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Usefulness of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in the Assessment of Myocardial Inflammation and Fibrosis in Children Born to Mothers with Anti-SSA/Ro Antibodies: A Prospective Study of 23 Cases and 6 Controls
Nathalie Costedoat-Chalumeau¹, Alice Maltret², Kateri Levesque¹, Shelby Kutty³, Elisabeth Villain², Phalla Ou⁴ and Gaëlle Guettrot-Imbert⁵, ¹Internal Medicine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hopital Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France, ²Cardiology, Groupe Hospitalier Necker - Enfants Malades, Paris, France, ³Division of Pediatric Cardiology, university of Nebraska Medical Center and Children's Hospital ans Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA, Omaha, ⁴Radiology,, Groupe Hospitalier Necker - Enfants Malades, Paris, France, ⁵Internal Medicine, Hopital Gabriel Montpied, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Background/Purpose: Besides congenital heart blocks (CHB), others manifestations of cardiac neonatal lupus erythematosus syndrome (NLES) include endocardial fibroelastosis (EFE), and dilated cardiomyopathy. Recently, autopsy of…
Abstract Number: 2219 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis and Non-Radiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis Show Similar Response Rates After One Year of Treatment with Etanercept – results of the Esther Trial
In-Ho Song¹, Kay-Geert A. Hermann², Hildrun Haibel¹, Christian Althoff³, Denis Poddubnyy⁴, Joachim Listing⁵, Anja Weiß⁶, Ekkehard Lange⁷, Bruce Freundlich⁸, Martin Rudwaleit⁹ and Joachim Sieper¹⁰, ¹Medical Department I, Rheumatology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany, ²Radiology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany, ³Radiology, Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany, ⁴Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁵German Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin, Germany, ⁶German Rheumatism Research Centre, Berlin, Germany, ⁷BU Specialty Care, Pfizer Pharma AG, Berlin, Germany, ⁸University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁹Endokrinologikum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ¹⁰Medical Department I, Rheumatology, Charité Universitätesmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose: In patients with early axial spondyloarthritis (SpA) with a disease duration < 5 years we assessed whether there is a difference to etanercept (ETA)…
Abstract Number: 1016 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Effect of Evaluation Variability At the Unit of Measurement On the Reliability of Omeract Ramris and Van Der Heijde-Modified Sharp Score
Ruben Tavares¹, Naveen Parasu², Karen Finlay³, Erik Jurriaans³, Hao Wu¹, Karen A. Beattie⁴, Maggie Larche⁵, Lawrence E. Hart⁶, William G. Bensen⁷, Raja S. Bobba⁵, Alfred A. Cividino⁴, Colin E. Webber⁸, Jean-Eric Tarride⁹ and Jonathan D. Adachi¹⁰, ¹McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ²Radiology, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, ³Radiology, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ⁴Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ⁵Rheumatology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ⁶Medicine (Rheumatology), St. Joseph's Health Care, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ⁷Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, St. Joseph's Hospital and McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ⁸Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ⁹Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CE&B) and Economics, Programs for Assessment of Technology in Health (PATH) Research Institute, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ¹⁰St Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: The Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) Rheumatoid Arthritis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Score (RAMRIS) and van der Heijde-modified Sharp score (vdHSS) are recognized semi-quantitative measures…
Abstract Number: 295 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Brain Biopsy Diagnosis in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Negative Childhood Primary Angiitis of the Central Nervous System
Senq-J Lee¹, Cynthia Hawkins², Suzanne Laughlin³, Shehla Sheikh⁴ and Susanne M. Benseler⁴, ¹Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Paediatric Laboratory Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Diagnostic Imaging, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Primary CNS vasculitis in childhood (cPACNS) is a devastating inflammatory brain disease mandating rapid and accurate diagnostic evaluation, in order to optimize neurologic outcomes. …

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