Creation of an assessment score for small, medium and large joints, through joint ultrasound examination in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
- Conditions
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Registration Number
- RBR-79ttm4m
- Lead Sponsor
- niversidade Federal de São Paulo
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruitment completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Rheumatoid arthritis for more than 1 year, according to the ACR criteria (Arnett, Edworthy et al. 1988); Age between 30 and 60 years, stratified in the following age groups: 30 to 39 years: 33.3%, 40 to 49 years: 33.3% and 50 to 60 years: 33.3%; Female and male sex, in the proportion of three women for each man; Have accepted to participate in the previous study and signed the free and informed consent form for the study from which we used the data.
Diagnosis of diabetes mellitus; Diagnosis of hypothyroidism; Diagnosis of hemophilia; Suspected pregnancy, current pregnancy or until the 6th month of postpartum; Women in active lactation; History of trauma in the studied joints; History of septic arthritis in the joints studied.
History of surgery on the joints studied.
Symptomatic osteoarthritis in the studied joints.
Severe joint deformities.
Overlap with another collagen.
Corticosteroid infiltration in any joint to be studied for less than 6 months.
Corticosteroid infiltration into any joint that has not been studied for less than 1 month.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method