Ultrasound Inflammatory Markers

SAN DIEGO — Imaging and symptom rating scales offer physicians ample opportunity to follow patients with suspected myositis and “tease out” fast vs. slow progressors, noted a speaker at the 2023 Congress of Clinical Rheumatology West.

In patients with early psoriatic arthritis who are naïve to disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs, swollen joints are a better predictor of synovitis than tender joints, according to data published in Rheumatology Advances in Practice.

Vascular ultrasound, using high-end equipment and optimized settings, may be an effective replacement for temporal artery biopsy as a first-line diagnostic tool in patients with suspected giant cell arteritis, according to a Danish study.