Abstracts tagged "Pathophysiology and synovium"

Abstract Number: 1197 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Characteristics of the Distribution of Normal Feeding Vessels between Young and Elderly Adults in Wrist Joints of Healthy Volunteers Depicted By Ultrasound (MSKUS)
Kenta Misaki¹, Kei Ikeda², Kenshi Inoue³, Moemi Miyazaki³, Naofumi Dobashi³ and Yasuhiko Imaizumi⁴, ¹Rheumatology, Kita-Harima Medical Center, Ono, Japan, ²Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Chiba University Hospital, Chiba, Japan, ³Kita-Harima Medical Center, Ono, Japan, ⁴kita-Harima Medical Center, Ono, Japan
Background/Purpose: Synovial vascularity as measured by power Doppler (PD) of MSKUS is correlated to rheumatoid arthritis disease activity, and PD signal reveals the prevalence of…