Recent Abstracts

ACR 2010

  1. Synovitis and Osteitis Is Very Frequent in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Patients in Clinical Remission: Results from a MRI Study of 300 RA Patients in Clinical Remission or Low Disease Activity State
  2. MRI Bone Edema Is an Independent Predictor of Development of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Patients with Early Undifferentiated Arthritis.
  3. Discriminative Power of Different Combinations of Bones and Joints for Assessing Change in Rheumatoid Arthritis with MRI: Results Based on Pooled Data from Four Multisite Clinical Trials
  4. REMISSION PLUS: Multicenter Evaluation of Low-Field MRI for Monitoring Treatment Response in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients.
  5. Patterns of MRI Bone Erosion in Rheumatoid Arthritis – Which Bones Are Most Frequently Involved and Show Most Change?
  6. The Role of Varus and Valgus Alignment in the Initial Development of Cartilage Damage at the Knee: The MOST Study.
  7. Baseline CRP Predicts Early Improvement in Synovitis, Osteitis, and Erosion on MRI in RA Patients Treated with Tocilizumab: Results from the ACT-RAY MRI Substudy.
  8. Malalignment of the Knee Is Associated with an Increased Risk for Incident and Enlarging Subchondral Bone Marrow Lesions in the More Loaded Compartments: The MOST Study.

EULAR 2010

  1. MRI Findings Correlate With Clinical Assessments And Biomarkers In Patients With Active Moderate Or Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis
  2. Discriminative Power Of Different Combinations Of Bones And Joints For Assessing Change In Rheumatoid Arthritis With Low-Field MRI
  3. Correlation Between Dynamic Contract-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scores Of Inflammation And Ramris Scores Of Synovitis And Bone Marrow Oedema In The Wrist Of Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis
  4. Inter-Reader Reliability Of A Proposed Preliminary Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Scoring System In Hand Osteoarthritis (HOA)
  5. Proposal Of A Preliminary Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Scoring System In Hand Osteoarthritis (HOA)
  6. Clinical and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Assessment In Early Psoriatic Arthritis
  7. Monitoring Joint-Space Narrowing In Rheumatoid Arthritis With 1.5t Whole-Body MRI and 0.2t Extremity MRI In a Multi-Site Clinical Trial: Impress
  8. Short-Term Follow-Up of RA Patients Treated with Rituximab by Extremity-Dedicated MRI: Dynamic MRI Is More Sensitive Than Ramris In the Evaluation of Synovitis
  9. MRI Findings In The Knee In Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: Experience With A Newly Developed Juvenile Arthritis MRI Scoring System (JAMRIS)
  10. Tocilizumab Reduces Synovitis Within 2 Weeks And Pre-Erosive Osteitis Within 12 Weeks In Patients With RA: Results From A Multi-Site Low-Field MRI Study
  11. One Year Follow Up of MRI Evaluation Of RA Patients In Low Disease Activity: Ramris Evaluation And Predictive Factors of Structural Progression
  12. Which US or MRI Characteristics Are Associated With Relapse In Ra Patients In Low Disease Activity Or Remission? An Observational Prospective Study
  13. Which US or MRI Characteristics Are Associated With Radiographic Progression In Ra Patients In Low Disease Activity? An Observational Prospective Study
  14. Low-Field MRI vs. Ultrasound-Which Is More Sensitive In Detecting Inflammation And Bone Damage In MCP And MTP Joints In Mild Or Moderate Rheumatoid Arthritis?
  15. A Pilot Study of 10 Patients Measuring High And Low Field MRI Findings and Clinical Outcomes on Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Treated With Abatacept
  16. MRI and Histological Characterization of Bone Marrow Oedema In Chronic Topahceous Gout

ACR 2009

  1. The Association Between Patella Alta and Structural Features of Patellofemoral Joint Osteoarthritis (OA) On MRI: The MOST Study 

  2.  Early Treatment Effects of Anti-TNF Therapy On MRI Biomarkers of RA Activity  

  3. Automatic Computer Aided Quantification of Synovitis in Rheumatoid Arthritis Using Dynamic MRI and the Impact of Movement Correction On Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) and Region of Interest (ROI) Analysis 

  4. Examining the Cost-Effectiveness of Adding MRI to Early RA Management

  5. Different Cartilage Oligomeric Matrix Protein (COMP) Patterns in Untreated Anti-CCP Positive and Negative Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) 

  6. What Should We Have to Aim for RA Patients: Remission or Low Disease Activity?

  7. Baseline Effusion but Not Synovitis Predicts Cartilage Loss Over 30 Months in Subjects without Tibiofemoral Osteoarthritis - Results From the Multicenter Osteoarthritis (MOST) Study

  8. Association of Plasma n-3 and n-6 Fatty Acids with Synovitis in the Knee: The MOST Study  

  9. Reader Reliability of the OMERACT Psoriatic Arthritis Magnetic Resonance Score (PsAMRIS): Results From An OMERACT Workshop

EULAR 2009

  1. THE MRI PATTERN OF WRIST ARTHRITIS IS SIMILAR IN GOUT AND RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
  2. BASELINE MRI AND RADIOGRAPHS AS PREDICTORS OF THE CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS OF WEIGHT LOSS IN OBESE PATIENTS WITH KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS. A HALF-YEAR RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL.
  3. MAGNETIC RESONANCE AND ULTRASONOGRAPHY FUSION IMAGING IN HAND OSTEOARTHRITIS
  4. PROJECT REMISSIONPLUS: CLINICAL AND RADIOLOGICAL REMISSION. EVALUATION OF A MULTICENTER LOW-FIELD MRI STUDY
  5. MRI AND X-RAY DIAGNOSTICS OF EARLY RHEUMATOID AND EARLY UNCLASSIFIED (UNDIFFERENTIATED) ARTHRITIS.
  6. MRI BONE OEDEMA IS A STRONG PREDICTOR OF THE SUBSEQUENT 5-YEAR RADIOGRAPHIC PROGRESSION IN EARLY RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS. RESULTS FROM A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (CIMESTRA)

ACR 2008

  1. The Association of MRI-detected Tibiofemoral Subchondral Bone Marrow Lesions with Prevalent And Incident Subchondral Bone Attrition: The MOST Study
  2. Assessment Of Synovitis In Knee Osteoarthritis On Contrast-Enhanced MRI Using A Novel Comprehensive Semiquantitative Scoring System: The MOST Study  
  3. Relationship of Adiposity to Inflammatory Components of Knee Osteoarthritis: The MOST Study
  4. Peripheral Psoriatic Arthritis: MRI Definitions Of Key Pathologies And Development Of A MRI Scoring System 
  5. Associations Of Medial Meniscal Tear and Extrusion With The Sites Of Cartilage Loss In The Knee: The MOST Study
  6. Subchondral Bone Attrition is a Reflection of Compartment-Specific Mechanical Load: The MOST Study
  7. Evaluating the Prognostic Role of MRI in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis
  8. Evaluating the Role of MRI in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Diagnosis

EULAR 2008

  1. DYNAMIC MRI OF THE WRIST IN EARLY ARTHRITIS MAY PREDICT ITS OUTCOME
  2. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING IS SENSITIVE FOR THE DETECTION OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS JOINT PATHOLOGIES, BUT LACKS SPECIFICITY

ACR 2007

  1. MRI RAMRIS Scores in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Experience in a Large Community Based Rheumatology Practice
  2. MRI Bone Oedema is the Strongest Predictor of Subsequent Radiographic Progression in Early RA. Results from a 2 Year Randomized Controlled Trial (CIMESTRA)

EULAR 2007

  1. A MODIFICATION OF THE EULAR-OMERACT RA MRI SCORE FOR USE WITH AN EXTREMITY MRI SYSTEM WITH REDUCED FIELD OF VIEW: RAMRIS-RV
  2. COMPARISON OF THE EFFICACY OF CONTRAST-ENHANCED ULTRASONOGRAPHY (US) AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI) IN DETECTING SYNOVIAL PROCESS IN PATIENTS WITH KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS COMPARED TO HEALTHY CONTROLS
  3. DOES DEDICATED EXTREMITY MRI RELIABLY DETECT RA BONE EROSIONS? A COMPARISON WITH HIGH RESOLUTION CT
  4. EXAMINING THE UTILITY OF E-MRI WITH A REDUCED FIELD OF VIEW: AN IMAGING COMPARISON STUDY IN SEVERE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
  5. COMPARISON OF CONTRAST-ENHANCED ULTRASONOGRAPHY (CE-US) AND MR-IMAGING (CE-MRI) IN MONITORING THE EFFICACY OF A BRADYKININ RECEPTOR-2 ANTAGONIST IN PAINFUL KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS (OA)
  6. BONE LESIONS IN THE HANDS AND FEET OF HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS ON MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING RESEMBLE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS EROSIONS