Entheseal involvement in a group of psoriatic arthritis patients: An ultrasonographic study

xlomafota13 shared this article with you from Inoreader Entheseal involvement in a group of psoriatic arthritis patients: An ultrasonographic study Via Experimental and therapeutic medicine Exp Ther Med. 2021 Sep;22(3):1044. doi: 10.3892/etm.2021.10476. Epub 2021 Jul 21. ABSTRACT Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is an inflammatory potentially destructive disease that requires early diagnosis and therapeutic approach. Its main pathogenic event and the condition's hallmark is considered to be enthesitis. Clinical examination of the enthesis can be a challenge in the clinical practice; thus, ultrasonography (US) has emerged as an indispensable imaging tool for evaluating both structural and inflammatory changes of this structure. In the present study, we aimed to analyze the type and frequency of entheseal involvement in PsA patients by US examination, performing a retrospective study on 41 patients diagnosed with PsA. Ultrasonographically confirmed enthesitis, identified according to Outcome Measures in Rheumatology group (OMERACT, initially Outcome Measures in Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Trials) definitions, was present in 26 o f the included patients, Achilles enthesis being the most common site involved. The prevalence of tendon structure abnormalities and the presence of entesophytes underlines the importance of chronic inflammation on entheseal sites. US examination has proven to be a reliable imaging method, with significant and continuous improvement, which is clearly a requisite part for current understanding and diagnosis of enthesitis and more than this, for the patient follow-up algorithm. PMID:34373730 | PMC:PMC8343913 | DOI:10.3892/etm.2021.10476 View on the web Inoreader. Take back control of your news feed. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.