Patient-reported outcomes and safety in patients undergoing synovial biopsy: comparison of ultrasound-guided needle biopsy, ultrasound-guided portal and forceps and arthroscopic-guided synovial biopsy techniques in five centres across Europe.

Søren Andreas JustFrances HumbyHanne LindegaardLaurent Meric de BellefonPatrick DurezElsa Vieira-SousaRui TeixeiraMaria StoenoiuJens WerlinrudSofie RosmarkPia Veldt LarsenArthur PrattErnest ChoyNagui GendiMaya H BuchChristopher J EdwardsPeter C TaylorIain B McInnesJoão Eurico FonsecaCostantino PitzalisAndrew Filer

Published in: RMD open (2018)

Overall, our results do not suggest a significant difference in safety or patient tolerability between US-NB, US-P&F and AGSB sampling. Further, corticosteroid therapy as part of the biopsy procedure and sequential biopsies is safe and well tolerated in patients.

Keyphrases

ultrasound guided
fine needle aspiration
patient reported outcomes
patients undergoing
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
prognostic factors
open label
case report
mesenchymal stem cells
patient reported
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