ArticleRheumatology advances in practice2023
Multimodal ultrasound muscle assessment in patients with rheumatic diseases: a patient-based reliability study.
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- Insights Into Late-Onset Rheumatoid Arthritis (LORA): Characteristics (Clinical and Imaging), Comorbidities, and Therapeutic Targets.Geriatrics & gerontology international · 2026Review
- Multimodal ultrasound in the assessment of muscle involvement in systemic sclerosis patients: results from a bicentric study.Rheumatology (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Sarcopenia in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management.Rheumatology international · 2025Review
- Comparing thermographic heat signatures with joint inflammation detected by ultrasound at the knees in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)-Based Semi-Quantitative Methods for Rheumatoid Arthritis: From Scoring to Measurement.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
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Abstract
Objectives: The aim was to explore the inter-reliability of a newly developed US scanning protocol (multimodal US) for the assessment of different aspects of sarcopenia-related muscle involvement, including muscle mass, muscle quality and muscle stiffness [using point shear-wave elastography (SWE)], in patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs). Methods: Quadriceps muscle mass (i.e. muscle thickness), muscle quality (i.e. muscle echogenicity evaluated with both a visual semi-quantitative scale and a dedicated software package for image analysis, ImageJ) and point SWE measurements were obtained by two rheumatologists (blinded to each other's evaluation) in consecutive RMD patients without previous/current myositis or neuromuscular disorders.Inter-reliability was assessed using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) for continuous variables and Cohen's kappa (κ) for categorical variables. Results: A total of 45 RMD patients were enrolled [mean age 54.5 (16.0) years, male-to-female ratio 1:1.5, mean BMI 24.6 (4.6) kg/m Conclusion: Multimodal US is a novel and reliable tool for the evaluation of different aspects of muscle involvement (muscle mass, muscle quality and muscle stiffness) in RMD patients.
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