Abstracts tagged "osteophytosis and ultrasound"

Abstract Number: 438 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
What Characterizes Osteoarthritis: Ultrasound-Detected Inflammation but Not Osteophytes Is More Common in Hand Osteoarthritis Than in Painless Bony Enlargements
Nina Gasperi¹, Antonella Adinolfi², Arnd Kleyer³, Melanie Hagen³, Christiane Gasperi⁴, Martin Weger⁵, Stefan Kiechl⁶, Johann Willeit⁶, Georg Schett³, Annamaria Iagnocco⁷, Arno Gasperi⁸, Agnes Mayr⁹ and Christian Dejaco^10,11, ¹Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria, Graz, Austria, ²Department of Medicine, surgery and Neurosciences, University of Siena, Siena, Italy, Siena, Italy, ³Department of Internal Medicine 3—Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen–Nürnberg (FAU), Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, Erlangen, Germany, ⁴Department of Neurology, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Munich, Germany, ⁵Department of Internal Medicine, Bruneck Hospital, Bruneck, Italy, Bruneck, Italy, ⁶Department of Neurology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria, Innsbruck, Austria, ⁷Academic Rhematology Center, University of Torino, Turin, Italy, Turin, Italy, ⁸Department of Neurology, Bruneck Hospital, Bruneck, Italy, Bruneck, Italy, ⁹Department of Laboratory Medicine, Bruneck Hospital, Italy, Bruneck, Italy, ¹⁰Rheumatology Service, South tyrolean Health trust, Hospital of Bruneck, Bruneck, Italy, Bruneck, Italy, ¹¹Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria, Graz, Austria
Background/Purpose: To study structural and inflammatory ultrasound lesions in elderly subjects with hand osteoarthritis (HOA) as well as in pain-free subjects with bony enlargements of…
Abstract Number: 928 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Value of Early Ultrasound-Detected Osteophytes in Hand Osteoarthritis: Predicting the Future
Alexander Mathiessen¹, Barbara Slatkowsky-Christensen², Tore K. Kvien³, Ida K. Haugen⁴ and Hilde Berner Hammer², ¹Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ²Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ³Dept. of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ⁴P.O. Box 23, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Vinderen, Norway
Background/Purpose: Ultrasound is more sensitive than conventional radiographs in detecting small osteophytes in hand osteoarthritis (OA). Osteophytes can be seen prior to joint space narrowing…