ArticleFrontiers in medicine2025
The EULAR-OMERACT joint-level scoring of ultrasound synovitis demonstrates good construct validity when tested at the patient-level in comparison with measures of disease activity and joint damage in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
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- Cutaneous Thermography in Arthropathies: Quantitative Imaging, Machine Learning, and Clinical Translation.Journal of imaging · 2026Review
- A Dual-Mode Near-Infrared Optical Probe and Monte Carlo Framework for Functional Monitoring of Rheumatoid Arthritis: Addressing Diagnostic Ambiguity and Skin Tone Robustness.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Early and Mid-Term Ultrasound Response to Guselkumab in Psoriatic Arthritis: A Real-World Cohort from a Single Tertiary Rheumatology Center.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- 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
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Abstract
Objective: Patient-level ultrasound joint inflammation outcomes, derived from the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology-Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (EULAR-OMERACT) joint-level scoring of elementary components and the combined score (CS), were compared with measures of disease activity and joint damage in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods: Clinical joint assessment and a 22-joint (bilateral hands/wrists) ultrasonography were performed independently during the same patient study visit. Patient-level ultrasound joint inflammation outcomes [total power Doppler (PD) score, total grayscale (GS) score, total CS, number of joint(s) with CS ≥ 2 (at least moderate synovitis), and number of joint(s) with ultrasound synovitis defined as PD > 0 or GS ≥ 2] derived from the EULAR-OMERACT joint-level scoring system were correlated with Clinical Disease Activity Index (CDAI), 28-joint disease activity score (DAS28), and ultrasound-detected joint damage, i.e., total bone erosion score (TBES). The relationship between the variables was studied using simple linear regression. Results: A total of 83 RA patients underwent scanning of 1,826 joints in this cross-sectional study. All patient-level ultrasound joint inflammation outcomes showed significant correlations ( Conclusion: Patient-level ultrasound joint inflammation outcomes, derived from the EULAR-OMERACT joint-level scoring system, showed good construct validity when compared to both disease activity and joint damage in patients with RA.
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