Imaging News

Among patients with gout, those with cardiovascular monosodium urate deposits, confirmed via dual energy CT, demonstrate a higher risk for major adverse cardiac events, according to data published in Rheumatology.

DESTIN, Fla. — Detection and treatment of interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis calls for early and aggressive action, according to data presented at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology East.

All diagnoses of giant cell arteritis made through temporal artery ultrasound were unchanged at 1 month — and at 2 years, for those with available data — in a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Most rheumatology groups at VA medical centers reported having at least one provider using point-of-care ultrasound, while 69% of VA rheumatology chiefs of staff expressed interest in more training for their team, according to data.

A new metric reliably confirms giant cell arteritis in suspected cases by combining a validated clinical scoring tool with ultrasonography, according to data in The Lancet Rheumatology.

Ultrasound can differentiate spondyloarthritis-related enthesitis from other entheseal pathologies such as mechanical enthesitis, according to data published in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.

Patients with pro-inflammatory diets demonstrate worse knee osteoarthritis pain and a greater risk for 10-year severe pain trajectory, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

SAN DIEGO — An automated deep learning model accurately identified and predicted joint space narrowing and erosion based on hand radiographs of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, according to data presented at ACR Convergence 2023.

SAN DIEGO — Biologic-naïve patients with radiographic axial spondylarthritis who receive ixekizumab for 16 weeks demonstrate reduced erosion scores and increased backfill scores, according to data presented at ACR Convergence 2023.