Positive synovial vascularity in patients with low disease activity indicates smouldering inflammation leading to joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis: Time-integrated joint inflammation estimated by synovial vascularity in each finger joint

Rheumatology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 523-528

  Fukae, Jun ^a   Isobe, Masato ^a   Kitano, Akemi ^a   Henmi, Mihoko ^a   Sakamoto, Fumihiko ^a   Narita, Akihiro ^a   Ito, Takeya ^a   Mitsuzaki, Akio ^a   Shimizu, Masato ^a   Tanimura, Kazuhide ^a   Matsuhashi, Megumi ^a   Kamishima, Tamotsu ^a   Atsumi, Tatsuya ^b   Koike, Takao ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Low disease activity; Power Doppler sonography; Rheumatoid arthritis; Synovial vascularity

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; BUCILLAMINE; ETANERCEPT; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; TACROLIMUS; TOCILIZUMAB;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGER JOINT; FOLLOW UP; FOOT RADIOGRAPHY; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; JOINT INJURY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SIMPLIFIED DISEASE ACTIVITY INDEX; SYNOVIAL VASCULARITY; SYNOVIUM; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FINGER JOINT; HUMANS; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; SYNOVITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874029693     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kes310     Document Type: Article

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