tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Magnetic resonance imaging changes of sacroiliac joints in patients with recent-onset inflammatory back pain: inter-reader reliability and prevalence of abnormalities"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài:Magnetic resonance imaging changes of sacroiliac joints in patients with recent-onset inflammatory back pain: inter-reader reliability and prevalence of abnormalities. | Available online http content 8 1 R11 Research article Magnetic resonance imaging changes of sacroiliac joints in patients with recent-onset inflammatory back pain inter-reader reliability and prevalence of abnormalities Liesbeth Heuft-Dorenbosch1 René Weijers2 Robert Landewe1 3 Sjef van der Linden1 3 and Désirée van der Heijde1 3 Department of Internal Medicine Division of Rheumatology University Hospital Maastricht The Netherlands 2Department of Radiology University Hospital Maastricht The Netherlands 3CAPHRI Research Institute University Maastricht The Netherlands Corresponding author Désirée van der Heijde dhe@ Received 6 Jul 2005 Revisions requested 23 Aug 2005 Revisions received 28 Oct 2005 Accepted 2 Nov 2005 Published 1 Dec 2005 Arthritis Research Therapy 2006 8 R11 doi ar1859 This article is online at http content 8 1 R11 2005 Heuft-Dorenbosch et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is cited. Open Access Abstract To study the inter-reader reliability of detecting abnormalities of sacroiliac SI joints in patients with recent-onset inflammatory back pain by magnetic resonance imaging MRI and to study the prevalence of inflammation and structural changes at various sites of the SI joints. Sixty-eight patients with inflammatory back pain at least four of the five following criteria symptom onset before age 40 insidious onset morning stiffness duration 3 months improvement with exercise - or three out of five of these plus night pain were included 38 male mean age years standard deviation 46 HLA-B27-positive mean symptom duration 18 months with symptom duration 2 years. A MRI scan of the SI joints was made in the coronal plane with the following .