Imaging is a helpful tool for clinicians to evaluate diseases that induce chronic joint
inflammation. Chronic gout is associated with changes in joint structures that may be …

For patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), remission can be achieved with tight control of
inflammation and early use of disease modifying agents. The importance of remission as an …

As in other inflammatory rheumatic diseases, the objective of psoriatic arthritis (PsA)
treatment is the achievement of a defined target. Recent recommendations propose aiming …

Objectives: To develop an ultrasound enthesis score and to assess its validity in the
diagnostic classification of the spondyloarthropathies (SpAs). Methods: Twenty-five patients …

Objective: To assess the interobserver reliability of the main periarticular and intra-articular
ultrasonographic pathologies and to establish the principal disagreements on scanning …

Objective. To investigate the presence of synovitis, tenosynovitis and enthesitis with power
Doppler (PD) ultrasonography (US) in patients with psoriasis without musculoskeletal …

Asymptomatic hyperuricaemia is defined as a serum urate concentration equal to or above
7.0 mg/dl with no symptoms or clinical signs. Most individuals with hyperuricaemia, however …

Objective: To assess the multiexaminer reproducibility and the accuracy comparing with
cadaver anatomic specimens of ultrasound (US) measurement of femoral articular cartilage …

Objectives To define the elementary ultrasound (US) lesions in giant cell arteritis (GCA) and
to evaluate the reliability of the assessment of US lesions according to these definitions in a …

We conducted a large-scale genetic analysis on giant cell arteritis (GCA), a polygenic
immune-mediated vasculitis. A case-control cohort, comprising 1,651 case subjects with …