Imaging News

The FDA has granted 510(k) clearance to Siemens Medical Solutions Inc. for the Siemens Naeotom Alpha, a new advancement in diagnostic CT imaging, according to a company press release.

Healio announced the launch of Rheum and Boards, a quiz-based, online learning resource for rheumatologists, according to a Healio press release.

In children who present to the pediatric ED, a point-of-care ultrasonography decision-support algorithm — a rule-in tool — accurately diagnosed transient synovitis, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

This past spring, two studies shed light on how some of the largest clinician organizations and publishers in rheumatology, including the American College of Rheumatology and EULAR, have failed to provide adequate training materials or clear guidelines when it comes to caring for patients of color.

Genicular artery embolization is safe and “highly effective” in reducing symptoms of moderate-to-severe knee osteoarthritis in patients who have been unresponsive to other conservative therapy, according to data.

EULAR has released a list of 23 recommendations — including 21 “mandatory” items — such as blinding, the development of scoring systems and defining target pathologies, for all rheumatic and musculoskeletal disease studies using ultrasound.

Researchers studying a Belgian cohort of patients with hand osteoarthritis observed evidence of radiological progression over 2 years even without clinical worsening, according to data published in Arthritis Research & Therapy.

Artificial neural networks can assess and detect radiographic sacroiliitis, helping physicians to diagnose and classify axial spondyloarthritis, according to data presented at the American College of Rheumatology 2020 Annual Meeting.

The COVID-19 pandemic, in places like Detroit, with a large working-class population, can highlight the gap between the rich and the poor. It can demonstrate how political unrest can impact the response to a critical situation. Moreover, it can show how health care workers can face both personal and professional challenges in managing an outbreak of this magnitude.

As a general rule, rheumatologists are comfortable with ambiguous diagnoses, given that so many of the conditions they manage are marked by a wide spectrum of presentations and manifestations. A prime example is axial spondyloarthritis, which is divided into two categories: radiographic axial spondyloarthritis — also called ankylosing spondylitis — and nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis. Discussion surrounding the nonradiographic form of this disease has been known to prompt the almost preposterous fundamental question: Is it even a thing?