Ultrasonographic Involvement of the anterior chest wall in Spondyloarthritis: Factors associated with 5-years structural progression. A prospective study in 58 patients.

Introduction: To evaluate, factors associated with new ultrasonographic lesions of the anterior chest wall in spondyloarthritis (SpA) after a follow up of 5 years.

Methods: SpA Patients included in 2013 in a first study were evaluated five years later. Ultrasound B mode and power Doppler examination of the two sternoclavicular joints and the manubrio-sternal joint were performed by the same two examinators at baseline and five years later.

Muscle involvement on 18F-FDG PET-CT in polymyalgia rheumatica. A controlled retrospective study of 101 patients.

Unlabelled: 18F-fluoro deoxy glucose PET scanner (18F-FDG-PET-CT) has shown its interest in the diagnosis of polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and makes possible to evaluate the metabolic activity of the entire musculoskeletal system and in particular muscular structures. The purpose of this study was to evaluate muscle involvement using 18F-FDG-PET-CT in the case of PMR, compared to a non PMR population.

Methods: This is a monocentric retrospective study of patients with PMR (ACR/EULAR 2012 criteria) who had an 18F-FDG-PET-CT examination.

Analysis of the early signs of septic sacroiliitis on computed tomography.

Objective: Septic sacroiliitis is a difficult diagnosis rarely considered in an emergency in case of pelvic pain associated with fever. In these cases, a computed tomography (CT) is classically performed to exclude digestive or gynecological disorder, but the sacroiliac joint is not systematically analyzed. The aim of the present study was to detect the early signs of septic sacroiliitis on CT.

Value of serum procalcitonin for the diagnosis of bacterial septic arthritis in daily practice in rheumatology.

Introduction/objectives: Septic arthritis is a diagnostic and therapeutic emergency because of a high morbidity and mortality. Nevertheless, the etiologic diagnosis is often difficult. The aim of our study was to determine if serum procalcitonin was a discriminatory biomarker in case of arthritis of undetermined etiology.

Efficacy of new treatments for dactylitis of psoriatic arthritis: update of literature review.

Dactylitis is a frequent disabling feature of psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Therapeutic strategy on dactylitis is not really codified. We performed a complementary literature review (since a previous one in 2014) of efficacy of new treatments recently used in PsA on this specific clinical manifestation.

Vascular involvement in axial spondyloarthropathies.

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory joint disease that involves the entheses, causing inflammatory pain and functional impairments. Patients may experience extraarticular manifestations such as uveitis, psoriasis, and inflammatory bowel disease. These, together with the increased risk of cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis and the development of spinal fusion, are the main determinants of adverse disease outcomes.

Therapeutic response to prednisone in relation to age in polymyalgia rheumatica: a comparison study.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of age on the therapeutic response to prednisone. This was a retrospective, monocentric study. We included patients diagnosed with PMR, according to ACR 2012 criteria.

Etanercept for treating axial spondyloarthritis.

Axial spondyloarthritis is an inflammatory rheumatic disease causing back pain, functional impairment and potential ankylosis in the advanced stage. In this context, TNF blockers have been a major therapeutic advance. Etanercept is a soluble recombinant TNF receptor fusion protein in this vain.

Standardized Follow-up of Patients with Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis Treated with a Single Intra-articular Injection of a Combination of Cross-Linked Hyaluronic Acid and Mannitol.

Objectives: The objective of this study is to obtain pilot data from daily practice conditions of a viscosupplement made of a cross-linked high-molecular-weight hyaluronic acid (HA) combined with mannitol in patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA).

Methods: The data of 40 consecutive patients, 29 women and 11 men, who were prospectively followed up for 6 months, using a standardized procedure, were retrospectively analyzed. All patients have received a single intra-articular injection of HAnox-M-XL (4.

Utility of 18F-fluoro-dexoxyglucose positron emission tomography for the diagnosis of polymyalgia rheumatica: a controlled study.

Objectives: To compare (18)F-fluoro-dexoxyglucose PET/CT (FDG-PET/CT) findings in patients with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and controls without rheumatologic disease.

Methods: We retrospectively included 50 patients with a diagnosis of PMR as well as 53 patients with a neoplasm as a control group. All patients underwent FDG-PET/CT.