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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Features Found in Indocyanine Green-Based Fluorescence Optical Imaging of Inflammatory Diseases of the Hands.

Egbert Gedat, Jörn Berger, Denise Kiesel, Vieri Failli, Andreas Briel, Pia Welker

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Egbert GedatFaculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Wildau Technical University of Applied Sciences, 15745 Wildau, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4885-5633
Jörn BergerXiralite GmbH, 10115 Berlin, Germany.
Denise KieselInstitute of Functional Anatomy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10115 Berlin, Germany.
Vieri FailliXiralite GmbH, 10115 Berlin, Germany.
Andreas BrielXiralite GmbH, 10115 Berlin, Germany.
Pia WelkerInstitute of Functional Anatomy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10115 Berlin, Germany.
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · DETechnical University of Applied Sciences Wildau · DE

Funding

Federal Ministry of Education and Research 13GW0341
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rheumatologists in Europe and the USA increasingly rely on fluorescence optical imaging (FOI, Xiralite) for the diagnosis of inflammatory diseases. Those include rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and osteoarthritis, among others. Indocyanine green (ICG)-based FOI allows visualization of impaired microcirculation caused by inflammation in both hands in one examination. Thousands of patients are now documented and most literature focuses on inflammatory arthritides, which affect synovial joints and their related structures, making it a powerful tool in the diagnostic process of early undifferentiated arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. However, it has become gradually clear that this technique has the potential to go even further than that. FOI allows visualization of other types of tissues. This means that FOI can also support the diagnostic process of vasculopathies, myositis, collagenoses, and other connective tissue diseases. This work summarizes the most prominent imaging features found in FOI examinations of inflammatory diseases, outlines the underlying anatomical structures, and introduces a nomenclature for the features and, thus, supports the idea that this tool is a useful part of the imaging repertoire in rheumatology clinical practice, particularly where other imaging methods are not easily available.

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fluorescence optical imagingimage analysisimage featureindocyanine green fluorescenceoptical diagnosis imagingrheumatoid diseases

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PMID35892489
PMCPMC9331249
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