TY - JOUR T1 - Combination of MRI-detected bone marrow oedema with 2010 rheumatoid arthritis classification criteria improves the diagnostic probability of early rheumatoid arthritis JF - Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases JO - Ann Rheum Dis SP - 2219 LP - 2220 DO - 10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-205074 VL - 73 IS - 12 AU - Mami Tamai AU - Junko Kita AU - Yoshikazu Nakashima AU - Takahisa Suzuki AU - Yoshiro Horai AU - Akitomo Okada AU - Tomohiro Koga AU - Shin-ya Kawashiri AU - Naoki Iwamoto AU - Kunihiro Ichinose AU - Kazuhiko Arima AU - Satoshi Yamasaki AU - Hideki Nakamura AU - Tomoki Origuchi AU - Masataka Uetani AU - Aya Fukushima AU - Kiyoshi Aoyagi AU - Katsumi Eguchi AU - Atsushi Kawakami Y1 - 2014/12/01 UR - http://ard.bmj.com/content/73/12/2219.abstract N2 - Efficient methods for distinguishing rheumatoid arthritis (RA) at an earlier phase from other diseases are strongly desired since early therapeutic intervention improves clinical and radiographic outcomes of RA.1–4 The clinical 2010 RA classification criteria was established based upon the consensus that RA is an inflammatory disease that develops persistent and/or erosive arthritis.2 ,3 Our series of studies as well as the article describing European League Against Rheumatism recommendations for the use of imaging for the clinical management of RA mention that MRI can be used to improve the certainty of a diagnosis of RA above clinical criteria.5 ,6 The present study was undertaken to investigate whether MRI findings of wrist and finger joints improve the diagnostic performance of 2010 RA classification criteria. One hundred sixty-six patients with early arthritis, who do not fulfil the 1987 RA criteria or other international criteria for rheumatic disease at entry … ER -