Juvenile idiopathic arthritis: magnetic resonance imaging of the clinically unaffected knee.
E Charlotte van GulikMendy M Welsink-KarssiesJ Merlijn van den BergDieneke Schonenberg-MeinemaKoert M DolmanAnouk M BarendregtCharlotte M NusmanMario MaasTaco W KuijpersRobert HemkePublished in: Pediatric radiology (2018)
Synovial thickening on MRI was present in nearly 35% of the children with clinically inactive JIA. Children with synovial thickening on MRI were significantly younger than those without. This might indicate that younger patients are at risk of subclinical disease activity and under-treatment, although the exact clinical relevance of synovial thickening on MRI has not been determined.
Keyphrases
- juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- disease activity
- magnetic resonance imaging
- contrast enhanced
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- rheumatoid arthritis
- diffusion weighted imaging
- rheumatoid arthritis patients
- young adults
- end stage renal disease
- ankylosing spondylitis
- computed tomography
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- total knee arthroplasty
- prognostic factors
- combination therapy
- replacement therapy
- anterior cruciate ligament