Abstracts tagged "randomized trials and synovitis"

Abstract Number: 897 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Intra-Articular Corticosteroids Are Safe and Have No Major Effect on Structural Progression of Synovitic Knee OA: A 2-Year Randomized Controlled Trial of 3-Monthly Triamcinolone Hexacetonide
Jeffrey Driban¹, Michael P. Lavalley², Lori Lyn Price³, William F. Harvey⁴ and Timothy E. McAlindon⁴, ¹Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, ²Biostatistics, Boston University, Boston, MA, ³Clinical Care Research, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, ⁴Rheumatology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Synovitis is common in knees with OA, and is associated with structural progression. Intra-articular corticosteroids are widely used and could reduce knee OA cartilage…