ReviewClinical rheumatology2013
Assessing rheumatoid arthritis disease activity with ultrasound.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Comparison and correlation study of synovial ultrasound indices and serum VEGF in rheumatoid wrist arthritis before and after treatment.Clinical rheumatology · 2022Article
- The association between disease duration and mood disorders in rheumatoid arthritis patients.Clinical rheumatology · 2022Article
- Value of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasonography in Evaluating Rheumatoid Arthritis: Preliminary Research Based on an Animal Model.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2021Article
- The changing role of ultrasonography examination in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in light of recent studies.Reumatologia · 2020Review
- Value of contrast-enhanced ultrasound for detection of synovial vascularity in experimental rheumatoid arthritis: an exploratory study.The Journal of international medical research · 2019Article
- The value of joint ultrasonography in predicting arthritis in seropositive patients with arthralgia: a prospective cohort study.Arthritis research & therapy · 2018Article
- Knee joint synovitis: study of correlations and diagnostic performances of ultrasonography compared with histopathology.RMD open · 2018Article
- Comparison of the clinical effectiveness of US grading scoring system vs MRI in the diagnosis of early rheumatoid arthritis (RA).Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2017Article
- Is ultrasound a better target than clinical disease activity scores in rheumatoid arthritis with fibromyalgia? A case-control study.PloS one · 2015Article
- Musculoskeletal Ultrasound in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis - Correlations with Disease Activity Score.Current health sciences journalArticle
- The Clinical Utility of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound for Disease Activity Evaluation and Therapeutic Response Prediction in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients: A Narrative Review.Journal of medical ultrasoundReview
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Abstract
In practice, composite indices are used for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity evaluation. Despite valid and widely used, not rarely composite indices miss accuracy. Ultrasound (US) is more precise than clinical examination in synovitis appraisal. US-based disease activity estimation depends on the detection of synovitis. The most common synovitis abnormalities are proliferation, effusion, and neoangiogenesis. Gray scale ultrasound identifies synovial hypertrophy and effusion with its good soft tissue contrast. Additionally, power Doppler ultrasound depicts neoangiogenesis within synovia, remarking local inflammation. Several studies have combined local US findings to develop a patient level disease activity index. Most of them summed selected joint scores in an overall score of disease activity and evaluated its correlation with clinical composite indexes. To be incorporated into clinical practice, an overall US score must have some fundamental characteristics such as reproducibility, viability, and sensitivity to change over time. In global US score development, finding the joints that truly estimate individual disease activity is highly challenging. This article presents an up-to-date literature review on assessing RA disease activity with US and depicts the challenges in finding the perfect global US score.
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