ArticleRheumatology international2018
Superb microvascular imaging (SMI) for evaluating hand joint lesions in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in clinical remission.
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- The Use of Superb Microvascular Imaging in Evaluating Rheumatic Diseases: A Systematic Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Pooled it
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- Development and evaluation of multimodal ultrasound radiomics models for predicting active inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis.Skeletal radiology · 2026Article
- [Advances in ultrasound diagnostics in children with rheumatic diseases].Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie · 2026Review
- Microvascular imaging is superior to power doppler in synovitis vascular flow detection in rheumatoid arthritis using the OMERACT-EULAR scoring system.Arthritis research & therapy · 2026Article
- Development and validation of a combined ultrasound-radiomics model for assessing rheumatoid arthritis disease activity: a prospective, two-center diagnostic study.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- The value of super microvascular imaging and shear wave elastography in evaluating synovial lesions in knee osteoarthritis.Journal of back and musculoskeletal rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Power Doppler artifacts in evaluating inflammatory arthritis of small joints: comparison with a superb microvascular imaging technique.Journal of ultrasound · 2022Article
- Superb microvascular imaging is as sensitive as contrast-enhanced ultrasound for detecting synovial vascularity in rheumatoid arthritis.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2022Article
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- Systemic inflammatory response index as an independent risk factor for ischemic stroke in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a retrospective study based on propensity score matching.Clinical rheumatology · 2021Article
- Musculoskeletal ultrasound using superb microvascular imaging documents treatment response to biosimilar infliximab in rheumatoid arthritis.BMJ case reports · 2021Article
- The value of the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio as complementary diagnostic tools in the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis: A multicenter retrospective study.Journal of clinical laboratory analysis · 2021Article
- Evaluation of Periarticular Soft Tissues in Patients With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis by Superb Microvascular Imaging and Shear Wave Elastography.Archives of rheumatology · 2020Article
- The changing role of ultrasonography examination in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in light of recent studies.Reumatologia · 2020Review
- Prediction of recurrence and remission using superb microvascular imaging in rheumatoid arthritis.Journal of medical ultrasonics (2001) · 2020Article
- The superb microvascular imaging is more sensitive than conventional power Doppler imaging in detection of active synovitis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.Clinical rheumatology · 2019Article
- Study on the Correlation between 7-joint Ultrasound Score and Disease Activity in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.Journal of medical ultrasoundArticle
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Abstract
The utility of superb microvascular imaging (SMI) for evaluating hand joint lesions in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in clinical remission is unreported. This study aimed to compare SMI and power Doppler imaging (PDI) for the evaluation of hand joint lesions in these patients. Twenty-six patients with RA in clinical remission were enrolled. A total of 572 joints (52 wrist, 260 proximal interphalangeal, and 260 metacarpophalangeal joints) were detected by SMI and PDI. A semi-quantitative scale of 0-3 was used to compare the detection of synovial blood flow signal by SMI and PDI. Inter-observer agreement for the assessment of SMI and PDI scores was measured with kappa values. In the ten healthy volunteers, SMI and PDI signals were both scored 0. In the 26 RA patients, the remission rate via PDI was 65.4% but was only 42.3% via SMI. SMI also detected microvessel flow signal in seven patients diagnosed with clinical remission via PDI. Moreover, a total of 106 blood flow signals (18.5%) were detected by SMI, while 50 blood flow signals (8.7%) were detected by PDI. Compared with PDI, SMI increased 18.0% of power flow signals from Grade 0-1 and increased 13.7% of power flow signals from Grade 1-2. One joint classified as Grade 1 by PDI was classified as Grade 0 by SMI. Inter-observer agreement for PDI and SMI semi-quantitative scoring was moderate (kappa = 0.463). SMI seems more sensitive than PDI for detecting hand joint lesions in RA in clinical remission PDI, and could aid the achievement of true remission in RA patients.
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