Imaging News

The use of ultrasound and MRI successfully enabled the early diagnosis of spondyloarthropies other than and in addition to psoriatic arthritis in patients with psoriasis, according to researchers at Al-Minia University Hospital in Egypt.

Ultrasound was successful in identifying gluteus tendinitis in more than half of patients with greater trochanter pain syndrome, according to researchers.

Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus with onset or complications of intestinal pseudo-obstruction and ureterohydronephrosis had more severe disease activity and organ involvement than patients with systemic lupus erythematosus alone, according to results from a retrospective, observational study.

CT angiography successfully showed improvements made by glucocorticoid treatment in patients with giant-cell arteritis who presented with large-vessel vasculitis, according to researchers from the University of Barcelona.

Biopsy of the labial salivary gland showed high sensibility and specificity with positive and negative predictive values for obtaining a diagnosis of primary Sjögren’s syndrome, according to researchers in Brazil.

Transthoracic sonography may be a sensitive, non-invasive tool for identifying and monitoring early-stage interstitial lung disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, systemic sclerosis and systemic lupus erythematosus, according to researchers from the Medical University of Graz in Graz, Austria.

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis undergo more radiologic procedures than patients without the disease, and despite some guidelines, routine hand and wrist radiographs were not obtained with regularity, making overuse unlikely, according to researchers from the Mayo Clinic.

Compared with healthy participants, patients with fibromyalgia showed reduced hippocampal volume in MRI scans, according to recently published research.

Color Doppler ultrasound was successfully used to diagnose active sacroiliitis in patients with low back pain, with a positive predictive value of 87%, according to researchers.

Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus presented with cardiac abnormalities in electrocardiographic studies — even those with short disease duration; however, serious abnormalities were rare, according to newly published research.