ReviewJournal of ultrasonography2016
Role of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of rheumatic diseases in light of ACR/EULAR guidelines.
Review in Journal of ultrasonography, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03228342 (The Impact of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound-added to Clinical Evaluations- on Patient Reported Outcomes), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers.
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The Impact of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound-added to Clinical Evaluations- on Patient Reported Outcomes: A Prospective Study of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Classified in Remission/Low Disease Activity (ULTRAPRO)
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- Diagnostic Accuracy and Concordance of Standardized vs. Non-Standardized Joint Physical Examination for Assessing Disease Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Paired Comparison Using Ultrasound as Reference Standard.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Fat, flames and ultrasounds: the effects of obesity on pediatric joint inflammation.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2025Review
- Ultrasonography Enthesitis and Synovitis Screening in Psoriatic Patients: A Case Control Study.Mediterranean journal of rheumatology · 2023Article
- Sclerodermic hand: a retrospective study on the role of ultrasonography in the detection of subclinical joint involvement.Clinical rheumatology · 2023Article
- Case Report and Literature Review of an Atypical Polymyalgia Rheumatica and Its Management.International medical case reports journal · 2023Article
- Multi-, Inter-, and Transdisciplinarity within the Public Health Workforce: A Scoping Review to Assess Definitions and Applications of Concepts.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Emerging Era of Interventional Imaging in Rheumatology: An Overview During the Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic.Open access rheumatology : research and reviews · 2022Review
- North American musculoskeletal ultrasound scanning protocol of the hip, knee, ankle, and foot: update of a Delphi consensus study.Clinical rheumatology · 2021Article
- [Effect of FVIII doses on joint structure and function in adolescents with severe hemophilia A: mid-term results of a prospective cohort study].Nan fang yi ke da xue xue bao = Journal of Southern Medical University · 2021Article
- Should ultrasound be used routinely in the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis?Irish journal of medical science · 2020Review
- Towards Convergence: How to Do Transdisciplinary Environmental Health Disparities Research.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Standardized, musculoskeletal ultrasonographic reference values for healthy Korean adults.The Korean journal of internal medicine · 2019Article
- 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
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
In the past years, ultrasound imaging has become an integral element of the diagnostic process in rheumatic diseases. It enables the identification of a range of inflammatory changes in joint cavities, sheaths and bursae, and allows their activity to be assessed. In 2012, experts of the European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology prepared recommendations concerning the role of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of musculoskeletal diseases. Ultrasound was considered the method of choice in imaging peripheral synovitis. Moreover, ultrasound imaging has been popularized thanks to the new classification criteria for rheumatoid arthritis issued by the American College of Rheumatology and European League Against Rheumatism in 2010. They underline the role of ultrasound imaging in the detection of articular inflammatory changes that are difficult to assess unambiguously in the clinical examination. These criteria have become the basis for recommendations prepared by experts from the European League Against Rheumatism concerning medical imaging in rheumatoid arthritis. Nine of ten recommendations concern ultrasonography which is relevant in detecting diseases, predicting their progression and treatment response, monitoring disease activity and identifying remission. In the new criteria concerning polymyalgia rheumatica from 2012, an ultrasound scan of the shoulder and pelvic girdle was considered an alternative to clinical assessment. Moreover, the relevance of ultrasonography in the diagnosis and monitoring of peripheral spondyloarthropathies was widely discussed in 2014 during the meeting of the European League Against Rheumatism in Paris.
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