treatment and ultrasonography Archives

Abstract Number: 1137 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
Urate Lowering to ACR-Recommended Targets Allows Significant Improvement of Severe Gout: A Monocentric Prospective Trial in Vietnam, Using a Systematic Treatment Protocol
Thomas Bardin^1,2,3, Quang Nguyen Dinh¹, Khoi Tran Minh¹, Nghia Le Hieu¹, Minh Do Duc⁴, Pascal Richette^5,6 and Matthieu Resche-Rigon^3,7, ¹French-Vietnamese Gout Research Center, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, ²Rheumatology, Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris, France, ³Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France, ⁴Molecular Biology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, ⁵Rhumatologie, Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris, France, ⁶Rheumatology Department, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France, ⁷Biostatistics, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: Gout is frequent and severe in Vietnam, where urate-lowering drugs (ULD) are seldom used and many patients are treated only with traditional herbal medicine.…
Abstract Number: 2938 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
Is Synovial Hypertrophy without Doppler Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis Joints Sensitive to Change ? – Results of a Longitudinal Ultrasound Study
Lene Terslev¹, Mikkel Østergaard¹, Joseph Sexton² and Hilde B Hammer², ¹Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, ²Dept. of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Background/Purpose: Ultrasound (US) is used to assess diseases activity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Gray scale (GS) US shows the synovial hypertrophy (SH) and Doppler the…

Abstracts tagged "treatment and ultrasonography"

Urate Lowering to ACR-Recommended Targets Allows Significant Improvement of Severe Gout: A Monocentric Prospective Trial in Vietnam, Using a Systematic Treatment Protocol

Is Synovial Hypertrophy without Doppler Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis Joints Sensitive to Change ? – Results of a Longitudinal Ultrasound Study