Nuclear imaging of rheumatic diseases
Advanced imaging techniques are promising tools to assist in the early diagnosis and monitoring of therapy in various rheumatic diseases. As there is now increasing emphasis on diagnosing inflammatory rheumatic…
RHEUMATOLOGY
Should modern imaging be part of remission criteria in rheumatoid arthritis?
With recent improvements in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), remission has become an achievable goal for a large proportion of RA patients, and remission is now a defined target…
The diagnostic utility of MRI in spondyloarthritis
The recently developed Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society (ASAS) classification criteria for axial and peripheral spondyloarthritis (SpA) are the first criteria ever to include findings on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)…
Imaging in rheumatology: New tools for use in clinical practice in 2012
Introduction “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest one of all?” Imaging has come a long way from simple surface reflections, but is yet to reach the prognostic accuracy…
Vasculitis in the intensive care unit
The systemic vasculitides are a diverse set of diseases linked by the presence of blood-vessel inflammation and are often associated with life-threatening or critical complications, including glomerulonephritis, diffuse alveolar haemorrhage,…
Corrigendum to “Impact of comorbidities on measuring indirect utility by the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form 6D in lower-limb osteoarthritis” [Best Pract & Res Clin Rheumatol 26 (2012) 627–635]
Please be informed that on page 633 the following sentence should read: Patients with OA have a high prevalence of comorbidities [17,44,45], which can be predictors of use of health…
Imaging in vasculitis
Vasculitides may involve small, medium-sized or large arteries. In small-vessel vasculitides imaging studies of lungs, nasal sinuses, cerebrum, heart and other organs are important for determining disease extension and disease…
Fertility and pregnancy in vasculitis
Despite the rarity of vasculitides, fertility and pregnancy outcome in the setting of vasculitis have become a major topic of interest within the past decade. The potential impact of vasculitis…
Quality of life and outcome measures in vasculitis
The primary vasculitides are a life- and organ-threatening set of diseases with a course often marked by alternating periods of active vasculitis and remission. As opposed to clinical trials within…
Thrombosis in vasculitis
Thrombo-embolic disease is an increasingly recognised complication of several vasculitides. A common observation is that thrombo-embolic complications coincide with periods of increased vasculitis disease activity, but the mechanism through which…
