Rheumatology

Ultrasound

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How do you make the decision to empirically treat for GCA when a patient is referred but cannot be immediately seen in clinic?

When a PCP calls with concern for GCA and is wondering whether to start empiric steroids what data do you prioritize to make that decision and do you ...

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Are there circumstances when you may consider imaging enthesitis in patients with psoriatic arthritis?

What imaging modality would be most helpful?

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Does synovial biopsy provide diagnostic value in undifferentiated inflammatory arthritis?

Apart from ruling out malignancy or infection?

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How do you differentiate the normal feeding vessel to the lunate from an erosion or power doppler signal on ultrasound?

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When performing salivary gland ultrasound for Sjogren's, what else do you include in the differential diagnosis?

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Do you utilize ethyl chloride spray prior to steroid injections?

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How do you manage arthralgias with subclinical synovitis seen on US or MRI?

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Is there a role for ultrasound in assessing for "clinically silent" inflammatory arthritis prior to tapering DMARD therapy?

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Papers discussed in this category

Journal of clinical medicine, 2022 Apr 21

Ultrasound of the Heel Improves Diagnosis-Tender Entheses in the Heel Region Rarely Corresponds to Inflammatory Enthesitis in Patients with Peripheral Spondyloarthritis.

Clinical and experimental rheumatology, 2020 Feb 11

Assessment of enthesis in patients with psoriatic arthritis and fibromyalgia using clinical examination and ultrasound.

Journal of clinical medicine, 2021 Dec 29

Use of Ultrasonography to Discriminate Psoriatic Arthritis from Fibromyalgia: A Post-Hoc Analysis of the ULISSE Study.

Clinical and experimental rheumatology, 2022 Mar 01

Ultrasound evaluation of the Achilles enthesis in inflammatory and non-inflammatory processes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Eur J Radiol, 2020 Jan 17

Ultrasound characterization of pseudoerosions and dorsal joint recess morphology of the hand and wrist in 100 asymptomatic subjects.

Joint Bone Spine, 2019 Jan 31

Ultrasonographic criteria for the diagnosis of erosive rheumatoid arthritis using osteoarthritic patients as controls compared to validated radiographic criteria.

Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.), 2018-06

Transcriptional Profiling of Synovial Macrophages Using Minimally Invasive Ultrasound-Guided Synovial Biopsies in Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Lancet,

Rituximab versus tocilizumab in anti-TNF inadequate responder patients with rheumatoid arthritis (R4RA): 16-week outcomes of a stratified, biopsy-driven, multicentre, open-label, phase 4 randomised controlled trial.

Nat Med, 2022 Jun

Inching closer to precision treatment for rheumatoid arthritis.

Nat Med, 2022 May 19

Rituximab versus tocilizumab in rheumatoid arthritis: synovial biopsy-based biomarker analysis of the phase 4 R4RA randomized trial.

Curr Opin Rheumatol, 2013 May

New learnings on the pathophysiology of RA from synovial biopsies.

Arthritis Res Ther, 2014 Apr 30

Synovial phenotypes in rheumatoid arthritis correlate with response to biologic therapeutics.

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