Inflammatory Arthritis
Leon Lenchik1

1Wake Forest School of Medicine

Synopsis

Highlights:

MRI in patients with suspected inflammatory arthritis allows for earlier therapy and slows disease progression

TALK TITLE

Inflammatory Arthritis

TARGET AUDIENCE

Radiologists, technologists, researchers

OUTCOME/OBJECTIVES

Understand the role of MRI in clinical evaluation of inflammatory arthritis

PURPOSE

To show case examples of MRI used for evaluation of inflammatory arthritis

METHODS

Review current recommendations form the American College of Rheumatology and EULAR

RESULTS

Role of MRI is expanding

DISCUSSION

MRI is competing with ultrasound

Plain films remain an important of patient management

CONCLUSION

MRI interpretation is becoming more standardized

There are other diagnosis besides Rheumatoid Arthritis and Psoriatic Arthritis

Infection should always be excluded

Acknowledgements

No acknowledgement found.

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Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 25 (2017)