Imaging

4 years 5 months ago
Use of diagnostic imaging for #GCA is ⬆️
Use of temporal artery biopsy⬇️
data from #MayoClinicRheumatology @garveythomasma1
#acr20 #RheumTwitter https://t.co/kQTg5FTlVq

Large vessel vasculitis (LVV) and CNS vasculitis are rare subsets of vasculitis. The challenges related to these diseases are well known to the rheumatologists who treat around the world. There are…

4 years 5 months ago
Scoring hand x-rays for Sharp scores is painfully tedious and not always perfectly consistent.
Why not get a computer to do it? Turns out you can - a deep adaptive machine learning model does as well as a human, each x-ray in literally one second.
#ACR20 ABST0493 @RheumNow https://t.co/SvqkaFy8XZ

Importance of Central Imaging Reads in SpA: Dr. Eric Ruderman
Dr. Eric Ruderman examines Abstract #0447 about the difference in local vs. central imaging reads, as presented at the 2020 ACR annual meeting.

4 years 5 months ago
Diagnosis in GCA is changing.
Some questions from these nice Olmsted County data:
- why are dx in women declining?
- in the past, without imaging, were we missing GCA diagnoses?
It's easy to forget how far we've come in GCA!
@MayoClinic @MdWarrington #ACR20 ABST0517 @RheumNow https://t.co/QsW8BSsf1a


4 years 5 months ago
Another interesting study demonstrating the use of ultrasound to assess psoriatic arthritis. In very early, DMARD naïve PsA, clinically swollen joints are associated with PD synovitis, but tender, non-swollen joints are not @RheumNow #ACR20 Abst#313

4 years 5 months ago
Emerging trend #MachineLearning - SpA expert Dr Dennis Poddubnyy talks at #ACR20 press conference - Development and Validation of an #artificial_intelligence Approach for the Detection of Radiographic Sacroiliitis using MRI @RheumNow

4 years 5 months ago
Small study showed poor to fair agreement of PE and US findings of hands in PsA. Do you use US in your clinic for diagnostics? #ABS0314 @RheumNow #ACR20 https://t.co/6oQG4SB1d3 https://t.co/SQK7uhX02T


4 years 5 months ago
Tips for assessing enthesial thickening by ultrasound:
- check the contralateral side
- convex appearance
@RheumNow #ACR20 #mskus https://t.co/kvburcX4Ju

Each pharmaceutical company has spent months and years preparing to present and highlight their featured clinical trials and abstracts at ACR 2020. This is our selection of their best studies…