Role of Greyscale and Power Doppler Sonography in Therapy Monitoring in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Rheumatoid Arthritis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00854243

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Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the role of musculoskeletal ultrasound and power Doppler in early therapy monitoring of rheumatoid arthritis patients.

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adults: age at disease onset >18 years and < 50 years
• Disease duration < 3 month
• Fulfilling ARA criteria for classification of RA
• DMARD naive

Exclusion criteria

• Age at diagnosis < 18 years
• Disease duration > 3 month
• Previous use of DMARDS
• Previous use of biologics