Power Doppler signal at the enthesis and bone erosions are the most discriminative OMERACT ultrasound lesions for SpA: results from the DEUS (Defining Enthesitis on Ultrasound in Spondyloarthritis) multicentre study.
Andrea Di MatteoGianluca SmerilliStefano Di DonatoAn Ran LiuAndrea BeccioliniFederica CamardaTomas CazenaveEdoardo CipollettaDavide CorradiniJuan José de AgustínGiulia Maria Destro CastanitiEleonora Di DonatoLuca Di GesoEmine DuranBayram FarisogullariMarco FornaroFrancesca FranciosoPamela GiorgisAmelia GranelCristina Hernández-DíazRudolf HorvathJana HurnakovaDiogo JesusOmer KaradagLing LiJosefina MarinMaría Victoria MartireXabier MichelenaErica MoscioniLaura MunteanMatteo PigaMarcos RosemffetJoão RoviscoDidem SahinFausto SalaffiLiliana SaraivaCrescenzio SciosciaMaria-Magdalena TamasShun TanimuraAliki VenetsanopoulouLucio Ventura-RiosOrlando VillotaCatalina Villota-ErasoParaskevi Vasileios VoulgariGentiana VukatanaJohana Zacariaz HereterHelena Marzo-OrtegaWalter GrassiEmilio FilippucciPublished in: Annals of the rheumatic diseases (2024)
This large multicentre study assessed the value of different ultrasound findings of enthesitis in SpA, identifying the most discriminative ultrasound lesions and entheseal sites for SpA. Ultrasound could differentiate between SpA-related enthesitis and other forms of entheseal pathology (ie, mechanical enthesitis), thus improving the assessment of entheseal involvement in SpA.