Diagnostic Value of Hand Ultrasound Versus MRI in Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Conditions
- Patient's With Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Interventions
- Radiation: Ultrasound and MRI
- Registration Number
- NCT04961853
- Lead Sponsor
- Sohag University
- Brief Summary
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.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 30
- Adult-onset disease.
- Patients who fulfill the 2010 American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism classification criteria for rheumatoid arthritis.
- Any patient with any collagen disease rather than Rheumatoid arthritis.
- Patients with joints deformities.
- Patient's with implanted metal clips or wires or artificial pacemaker.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Cases Ultrasound and MRI -
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Diagnostic performance of Ultrasound and MRI in Rheumatoid Arthritis of the hand 3 months determine the diagnostic value and associated weakness and strength aspects of hand ultrasound versus MRI in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, particularly in early disease.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Sohag University Hospital
🇪🇬Sohag, Egypt