TY - JOUR T1 - Prospective MRI score to predict negative EULAR response in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) before therapy-escalation to a biological therapy JF - Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases JO - Ann Rheum Dis SP - e44 LP - e44 DO - 10.1136/annrheumdis-2017-211257 VL - 76 IS - 11 AU - Philipp Sewerin AU - Stefan Vordenbaeumen AU - Ralph Brinks AU - Benedikt Ostendorf Y1 - 2017/11/01 UR - http://ard.bmj.com/content/76/11/e44.abstract N2 - Dear EditorWe read with great interest the article by Baker et al1 who showed that early MRI measures independently predict erosive progression on X-ray and MRI after 1 and 2 years in therapy-naive patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from the randomised-controlled GO-BEFORE trial. Due to these findings, we re-evaluated MRI data from the German REMISSION-PLUS Cohort2 ,3 at our centre to verify if a MRI score may predict negative response in patients with RA before therapy-escalation … ER -