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- The study emphasizes the importance of accurate diagnosis and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, highlighting dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) as a useful tool for detecting inflammation and determining disease stages.
- DCE-MRI was utilized to monitor changes in vascular permeability in mice with collagen-induced arthritis, correlating imaging results with vessel density assessed through immunohistochemistry.
- Results showed that the volume-normalized transfer constant increased during active arthritis but decreased post-treatment with methotrexate, indicating its potential as a reliable biomarker for assessing disease progression and treatment effectiveness.
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Purpose: Proper diagnosis and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis are extremely important to optimize treatment outcomes. Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) may be used as a biomarker to detect inflammatory changes in synovial joints and to discriminate active and inactive stages of the disease. The aim of this study was to investigate vascular permeability changes associated with inflammatory arthritis progression and its treatment.
Methods: Arthritis was induced in DBA/1J mice by immunization with type-II collagen emulsified in complete Freund's adjuvant. Severity of arthritis was monitored using the clinical arthritis index. MR images of mice were obtained at different stages of arthritis progression and at 3 weeks after methotrexate treatment. Immunohistochemical staining using an anti-CD31 antibody was used to assess vessel density.
Results: Volume-normalized transfer constant increased progressively until the active stage of arthritis was reached, and thereafter declined gradually. The pattern of volume-normalized transfer constant changes quantified using DCE-MRI correlated with vascular densities and immunohistochemical findings. Furthermore, volume-normalized transfer constant and densities decreased significantly in a dose-dependent manner after treatment with methotrexate.
Conclusion: Volume-normalized transfer constant assessed by DCE-MRI can be used as an imaging biomarker for tracking disease progression and for monitoring therapeutic efficacy in inflammatory arthritis. Magn Reson Med 76:926-934, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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