ArticlePloS one2020
Thermal characteristics of rheumatoid feet in remission: Baseline data.
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- Chronic Pain and Joint Hypermobility: A Brief Diagnostic Review for Clinicians and the Potential Application of Infrared Thermography in Screening Hypermobile Inflamed Joints.The Yale journal of biology and medicine · 2024Review
- Thermography at the Elbow Among Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Comparison with Ultrasound-Detected Joint Inflammation Findings.Rheumatology and therapy · 2024Article
- Deciphering the relationship between temperature and immunity.Discovery immunology · 2024Review
- Use of Infrared Thermography in Medical Diagnosis, Screening, and Disease Monitoring: A Scoping Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Receiver operating characteristic analysis using a novel combined thermal and ultrasound imaging for assessment of disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Microenvironmental influences on T cell immunity in cancer and inflammation.Cellular & molecular immunology · 2022Review
- Effects of Continuous Infusion of Lidocaine under Ultrasound-Guided Cervical Sympathetic Ganglion Catheterization on Cerebral Hemodynamics and Thermal Imaging Characteristics of Head and Neck in Patients with Angioneurotic Headache.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2022Article
- The Role of Cutaneous Microcirculatory Responses in Tissue Injury, Inflammation and Repair at the Foot in Diabetes.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2021Review
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Abstract
objectivesStudies have shown conflicting characteristic thermographic patterns of the feet in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, to date no studies have compared thermographic patterns of patients with RA in remission and healthy controls. Thus this study aimed to investigate whether the thermal characteristics of the feet of RA patients, in clinical and radiological remission differ to those of healthy controls.
methodsUsing convenience sampling, RA patients were recruited upon confirmed absence of synovitis by clinical examination and musculoskeletal ultrasound. Thermal images of the feet were taken. Each foot was subdivided into medial, central, lateral, forefoot and heel regions. Subsequently, temperatures in the different regions were analyzed and compared to a cohort of healthy adults.
resultsData from 32 RA patients were compared to that of 51 healthy controls. The Independent samples T-Test demonstrated a significant difference in temperatures in all the regions of the forefoot between RA participants versus healthy subjects (Table 1). Using the One-Way ANOVA test, no significant difference was found between all the forefoot regions (p = 0.189) of RA patients. Independent sample T-test found significant differences in all heel regions between the two groups (Table 2). One-Way ANOVA demonstrated no significant differences (p = 0.983) between the different foot regions (n = 192) of RA patients.
conclusionThese findings suggest that RA patients in clinical and radiological remission exhibit significantly different feet thermographic patterns compared to healthy controls. This data will provide the basis for future studies to assess whether thermographic patterns change with disease activity.
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