Real-time versus static scoring in musculoskeletal ultrasonography in patients with inflammatory hand osteoarthritis.

Lotte A van de StadtFéline P B KroonFrits R RosendaalDesirée van der HeijdeMonique ReijnierseNaghmeh RiyaziRagnhild de SlegteJendé van ZebenCornelia F AllaartMargreet KloppenburgMarion C Kortekaas

Published in: Rheumatology (Oxford, England) (2021)

While cross-sectional agreement between real-time and static ultrasonography is good, static ultrasonography measurement of synovial thickening did not show responsiveness to prednisone therapy while real-time ultrasonography did. Therefore, when ultrasonography is used in clinical trials, real-time dynamic scoring should remain the standard for now.

Keyphrases

contrast enhanced
magnetic resonance imaging
clinical trial
cross sectional
magnetic resonance
computed tomography
rheumatoid arthritis
oxidative stress
randomized controlled trial
phase ii