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by the disease. Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) is a recently accepted tool for the assessment of bone status, and therefore could be used to monitor bone changes in RA patients . In a cross-sectional study we ...
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for all RA patients to detect bone erosions and juxta-articular osteopenia . The degree of radiological damage (bone erosion) was assessed by the original Sharp score [31]. Statistical analysis Data were ...
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is associated with periarticular and generalized bone loss [1, 2, 17, 18]. The pyridinium compounds Pyd and Dpyd are measured to assess collagen degradation in RA [19–21]. Pyd is a marker of type I and II ...
, as evidenced by the semi- quantitative arthritis score (P ...
, cartilage, and periarticular soft tissue [1]. With prolonged survival of these patients the consequences of oxalate deposition into extrarenal tissue, especially into bone, become a major problem. Oxalosis ...
informative revealing only a degree of periarticular osteopenia in active disease [1]. More recently, traditional diagnostic measures in RA have been expanded since the advent of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI ...
. Descriptive results were expressed as the median value and the distribution or the number (percentage) of patients according to the category of the variable ( quantitative or qualitative). Ethics statement Data ...
of periarticular osteoporosis in knee OA patients [ 20 , 21 ] and in animals with experimentally induced OA [ 8 , 22 , 23 ]. It is hypothesized that increased subchondral sclerosis [ 5 , 6 , 10 ] leads ...
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