Diagnostic Value of Hand Ultrasound Versus MRI in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Sohag University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Patient's With Rheumatoid Arthritis

Treatments: Radiation: Ultrasound and MRI

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04961853

Soh-Med-21-07-12

Details and patient eligibility

About

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is one of the most common autoimmune rheumatic diseases, affecting one in 100 individuals worldwide. It is considered a complex systemic multifactorial inflammatory process in which the immune system targets synovial joints and causes mild to severe joint destruction with extra-articular manifestations.

If left untreated, RA leads to deformity, considerable disability, and major comorbid conditions, including cardiovascular disease and increased mortality.

Early treatment with targeted therapies can alter long-term outcomes by minimizing disease activity, preventing joint damage and disability, and improving patients' quality of life.

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Adult-onset disease.
2. Patients who fulfill the 2010 American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism classification criteria for rheumatoid arthritis.

Exclusion criteria

1. Any patient with any collagen disease rather than Rheumatoid arthritis.
2. Patients with joints deformities.
3. Patient's with implanted metal clips or wires or artificial pacemaker.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 1 patient group

Cases

Experimental group

Treatment:

Radiation: Ultrasound and MRI