Abstracts tagged "Ultrasound"

Abstract Number: 1827 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Updated Cardiovascular Risk Tool SCORE2 Provides No Advantage in Identifying Patients with Gout and Carotid Atheroma Plaques
Ernesto Tovar-Sugrañes, Maria-Carmen Lopez-Gonzalez, Cristina Rodriguez-Alvear, Elisabet Perea-Martinez and Mariano Andrès, Dr Balmis Alicante General University Hospital-ISABIAL, Alicante, Spain
Background/Purpose: Standard cardiovascular (CV) risk assessment tool (SCORE, Framingham Heart Study) performed inaccurately in patients with gout and carotid atheroma plaques (thus, at high CV…
Abstract Number: 0493 • ACR Convergence 2022
MRI Is Superior to Ultrasound of Supraaortic Arteries in Detecting Giant Cell Arteritis – Experience of a Single Center
Matthias Froehlich¹, Thorsten A. Bley², Marc Schmalzing³, Michael Gernert¹, Rudolf A. Werner⁴, Jost Hillenkamp⁵, Karl Georg Haeusler⁶ and Konstanze V. Guggenberger², ¹University Hospital Wuerzburg, Dpt. of Internal Medicine II, Wuerzburg, Germany, ²University Hospital Wuerzburg, Dpt. of Radiology, Wuerzburg, Germany, ³University Hospital Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany, ⁴University Hospital Wuerzburg, Dpt. of Nuclear medicine, Wuerzburg, Germany, ⁵University Hospital Wuerzburg, Dpt. of Ophtalmology, Wuerzburg, Germany, ⁶University Hospital Wuerzburg, Dpt. of Neurology, Wuerzburg, Germany
Background/Purpose: Imaging techniques for the detection of mural inflammation are cornerstones in the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis (GCA). Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound…
Abstract Number: 1253 • ACR Convergence 2022
Gray Intensity Ratio Indices as a Method of Discrimination Between Changes Induced by Sport and by Spondyloarthritis in Load-bearing Entheses
Marina Tortosa Cabanas, CARLOS ANTONIO GUILLEN ASTETE and Africa Andreu Suarez, Ramon y Cajal University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: Computer analysis of radiological images has been recently introduced in the study of patients with musculoskeletal pathologies. Our research group has shown that this…
Abstract Number: 1828 • ACR Convergence 2022
Urate-lowering Therapy Reduces Non-Episodic Foot Pain in Patients Who Fail to Meet ACR/EULAR 2015 Gout Classification Criteria: An Effect Predicted by Ultrasound
Rachael Flood¹, Colm Kirby¹, yousef Alammari², David Kane¹ and Ronan Mullan¹, ¹Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ²Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, RIYADH, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
Background/Purpose: Emerging evidence that joints of asymptomatic hyperuricaemic individuals contain monosodium urate (MSU) deposits and that alternative presentations of foot pain occur in hyperuricaemia suggests…
Abstract Number: 0496 • ACR Convergence 2022
Giant Cell Arteritis Relapse Risk – Could the Extent of Vessel Involvement on Temporal and Axillary Arteries Ultrasound Be a Prognostic Marker?
Diogo Esperança Almeida¹, Kate Smith², Borsha Sarker², Andrew Barr³, Richard Wakefield⁴ and Sarah Mackie⁴, ¹Serviço de Reumatologia, Hospital de Braga, Braga, Portugal, Braga, Portugal, ²National Institute for Health and Care Research Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK, Leeds, United Kingdom, ³Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; 4. Department of Rheumatology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom, ⁴Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; National Institute for Health and Care Research Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK, Leeds, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: To determine if disease extent on ultrasound (US) of temporal and axillary arteries predicts a relapsing course of giant cell arteritis (GCA).Methods: We conducted…
Abstract Number: 1254 • ACR Convergence 2022
Ultra High‐Frequency Ultrasound of Labial Salivary Glands in Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome: A Promising Tool to Identify Lymphoproliferative Lesions in Unusual Sites
Giovanni Fulvio¹, Rossana Izzetti², Francesco Ferro³, Gianmaria Governato⁴, Gaetano La Rocca⁵, Silvia Fonzetti⁶, Inmaculada Concepción Navarro García⁷, Marta Mosca⁸, Valentina Donati⁹ and Chiara Baldini¹, ¹University of Pisa, Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ²Unit of Dentistry and Oral Surgery, Pisa, Toscana, Italy, ³Clinical and Experimental Medicine Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ⁴Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ⁵University of Pisa, Rheumatology Unit, Palermo, Palermo, Italy, ⁶Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy, ⁷Clinical and Experimental Medicine Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy, ⁸Rheumatology Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ⁹Pathology Unit, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Background/Purpose: Major salivary gland (MSG) ultrasound (US) is a useful tool in Sjögren's syndrome (SS) diagnostic work-up. Interestingly, in a recent case series, specific US…
Abstract Number: 1900 • ACR Convergence 2022
CoLchicine for Treatment of OsteoArthritis of the Knee (CLOAK)-A Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Trial
Jonathan Samuels¹, Michael Pillinger², Michael Toprover³, Svetlana Krasnokutsky Samuels⁴, Apoorva Patil⁵, Fernando Bomfim⁶, Renata La Rocca Vieira⁶, David Wei⁵, Sydney Catron⁵, Maryfe coronel⁵, Annie Kim⁵ and Sarah Moussavi⁵, ¹NYU Langone, Rye Brook, NY, ²NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, ³Division of Rheumatology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine and Rheumatology Section, New York Harbor Health Care System, New York Campus of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, New York, NY, ⁴Westmed, Rye Brook, NY, ⁵NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, ⁶NYU Langone, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is an inflammatory disease, with a probable role for IL-1b. Calcium and urate crystals may promote OA by activating the NLRP3…
Abstract Number: 0842 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Amount of Fluid in the Retrocalcaneal Area Negatively Correlates with Lower Extremity Function
Brian Honick and Karin Grävare Silbernagel, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Background/Purpose: Patients with midportion Achilles tendinopathy who are screened with diagnostic ultrasound may have a collection of anechoic fluid posteroinferior to Kager's fat pad. A…
Abstract Number: 1261 • ACR Convergence 2022
Scoring Structural Damage in Rheumatoid Arthritis by Ultrasound: Results from a Delphi Process and Web-Based Reliability Exercise by the OMERACT Ultrasound Working Group
Peter Mandl¹, Irina Gessl¹, Georgios Filippou², Silvia Sirotti³, Lene Terslev⁴, Carlos Pineda⁵, Helen Keen⁶, Marina Backhaus⁷, David Bong⁸, Edoardo Cipolletta⁹, Paz Collado¹⁰, Christian Dejaco¹¹, Andrea Delle Sedie¹², Christina Duftner¹³, Hilde Berner Hammer¹⁴, Annmaria Iagnocco¹⁵, Zunaid Karim¹⁶, Esperanza Naredo¹⁷, Wolfgang Schmidt¹⁸, Marcin Szkudlarek¹⁹, Giorgio Tamborrini²⁰, Priscilla Wong²¹, Emilio Filippucci⁹, Peter Balint²² and Maria-Antonietta D'Agostino²³, ¹Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ²Rheumatology Department, Luigi Sacco University Hospital, Siena, Italy, ³Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy, ⁴Copenhagen University Hospital Glostrup, Glostrup, Denmark, ⁵Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitacion, Ciudad de México, Mexico, ⁶University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, ⁷Park-Klinik Weissensee Academic Hospital of the Charité, Berlin, Germany, ⁸Instituto Poal de Reumatologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ⁹Polytechnic University of Marche, Rheumatology Unit, Department of Clinical and Molecular Sciences, "Carlo Urbani" Hospital, Jesi, Italy, ¹⁰Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Severo Ochoa, Madrid, Spain, ¹¹Department of Rheumatology, Hospital of Brunico (SABES-ASDAA), Brunico, Italy, and Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria, ¹²University of Pisa, Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ¹³Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, ¹⁴Diakonhjemmet hospital, Jar, Norway, ¹⁵Academic Rheumatology Centre, University of Turin, Turin, Italy, ¹⁶Department of Rheumatology, Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust, Yorkshire, United Kingdom, ¹⁷Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón and Complutense University, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁸Immanuel Krankenhaus Berlin, Medical Centre for Rheumatology, Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany, ¹⁹Department of Rheumatology, Copenhagen University Hospital at Køge, Copenhagen, Denmark, ²⁰Ultrasound Center and Institute for Rheumatology, Basel, Switzerland, ²¹Division of Rheumatology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong-Kong, Hong Kong, ²²3rd. Department of Rheumatology, National Institute of Rheumatology and Physiotherapy, Budapest, Hungary, ²³Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Roma, Italy
Background/Purpose: Structural damage in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) includes bone erosions, cartilage changes, and joint malalignment; historically evaluated with conventional radiography. Ultrasound (US) has been shown…
Abstract Number: 1970 • ACR Convergence 2022
Detecting Inflammatory Changes in Seronegative Inflammatory Arthritis with Use of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Studies
Clarice P. Lin¹ and Richard C. Chou², ¹University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Department of Medicine, Buffalo, NY, ²University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Division of Allergy, Immunology, & Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Buffalo, NY
Background/Purpose: Recent clinical practice has increasingly utilized musculoskeletal (MS) ultrasound studies to assess inflammation and soft-tissue abnormalities of the joints, such as synovitis and bone…
Abstract Number: 0906 • ACR Convergence 2022
Patients with Seronegative Rheumatoid Arthritis Have a Different Ultrasound-assessed Joint Disease Phenotype Than Seropositive Patients
Natalia Carbonell-Bobadilla¹, Carina Soto-Fajardo², Luis M Amezcua-Guerra³, Ana Beatriz Batres Marroquin⁴, Ana Cristina Medina⁵, Tania Vargas³, Adrián Hernández-Diazcouder³, Valentín Jiménez-Rojas³, Carlos Pineda⁵ and Luis H Silveira⁶, ¹National Institute of Cardiology Ignacio Chávez, Ciudad de México, Mexico, ²Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitacion "Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra", Ciudad de México, Mexico, ³Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez, Ciudad de México, Mexico, ⁴Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra, Ciudad de México, Mexico, ⁵Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitacion, Ciudad de México, Mexico, ⁶Instituto Nacional de Cardiología, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Background/Purpose: Seronegative rheumatoid arthritis (SNRA) tends to be less severe in its presentation and evolution than seropositive rheumatoid arthritis(SPRA), but controversy exists because there have…
Abstract Number: 1263 • ACR Convergence 2022
Impact of Cardiovascular Risk on the Diagnostic Accuracy of the Ultrasound Halo Score for Giant Cell Arteritis
Juan Molina¹, KATERINE FABIOLA LOPEZ GLORIA², Isabel Castrejon³, Juan Carlos Nieto González¹, Julia Martinez-Barrio¹, Ana M Anzola Alfaro⁴, Javier Rivera⁴ and José María Älvaro-Gracia¹, ¹Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, ²Department of Rheumatology, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, Madrid, Spain, ³Hospital Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: To evaluate the impact of cardiovascular risk (CVR) on the diagnostic accuracy of the ultrasonographic (US) Halo Score in patients with suspected giant cell…
Abstract Number: 2024 • ACR Convergence 2022
Salivary Gland Ultrasound May Lead to a More Accurate Stratification of Patients with the Same Serological Profile in Sjögren’s Syndrome: Towards a Personalized Approach
Silvia Fonzetti¹, Francesco Ferro², Gaetano La Rocca³, Giovanni Fulvio⁴, Inmaculada Concepción Navarro García⁵, Gianmaria Governato⁶, Valentina Donati⁷, Marta Mosca⁸ and Chiara Baldini⁴, ¹Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy, ²Clinical and Experimental Medicine Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ³University of Pisa, Rheumatology Unit, Palermo, Palermo, Italy, ⁴University of Pisa, Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ⁵Clinical and Experimental Medicine Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy, ⁶Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ⁷Pathology Unit, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ⁸Rheumatology Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Background/Purpose: Salivary gland ultrasound (SGUS) abnormalities have been increasingly recognized as possible biomarkers for Sjögren's Syndrome (SS) phenotypic stratification. However, to date few studies have…
Abstract Number: 1025 • ACR Convergence 2022
Entheseal Biopsy Approach: An Ultrasound-guided Method for Retrieval of Entheseal Tissue from Psoriatic Arthritis Patients
Maria Gabriella Raimondo¹, Milena Pachowsky¹, Cong Xu¹, Simon Rauber¹, Koray Tascilar¹, Hannah Labinsky², Mario Vogg¹, Mina Saad Aziz Saad¹, David Simon¹, Juergen Rech³, Alina Soare¹, Lars Braeuer⁴, Arnd Kleyer¹, Georg Schett⁵ and Andreas Ramming¹, ¹Department of Internal Medicine 3 – Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, 91054 Erlangen, Germany; Deutsches Zentrum Immuntherapie, Friedrich-Alexander-UniversityErlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ²Department of Internal Medicine 3 - Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, 91054 Erlangen, Germany; Deutsches Zentrum Immuntherapie, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ³University Clinic Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁴Institute of Anatomy, Chair II, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, Erlangen, Germany, ⁵Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
Background/Purpose: Enthesitis as hallmark feature of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) has been mostly addressed through clinical assessment and imaging evaluation, such as MRI or musculoskeletal ultrasound.…
Abstract Number: 1264 • ACR Convergence 2022
Does Vein Wall Thickness Have Prognostic Value in Behcet’s Disease? A Prospective Follow up Study
Kerem Abacar¹, Rabia Ergelen², Fatma Temiz², Yasin Yildiz², Tulin Ergun³, Haner Direskeneli⁴ and Fatma Alibaz-Oner¹, ¹Marmara University, Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Marmara University, School of Medicine, Departmant of Internal Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ³Marmara University, School of Medicine, Department of Dermatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁴Marmara University, Rheumatology, Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Background/Purpose: We reported the first controlled ultrasound study showing increased common femoral vein(CFV) thickness in Behçet's Disease(BD),1 and showed that this is a distinctive feature…

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