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The OMERACT Ultrasound Task Force — Status and Perspectives

2011; The Journal of Rheumatology Publishing Company Limited; Volume: 38; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3899/jrheum.110425

1499-2752

Esperanza Naredo, Richard J. Wakefield, Annamaria Iagnocco, Lene Terslev, Emilio Filippucci, Frédérique Gandjbakhch, Philippe Aegerter, Sibel Zehra Aydın, Marina Backhaus, Péter Bálint, George A. W. Bruyn, Paz Collado, Stephanie Finzel, Jane Freeston, Marwin Gutiérrez, Fredrick Joshua, Sandrine Jousse‐Joulin, David Kane, Helen Keen, Ingrid Möller, Péter Mandl, Sarah Ohrndorf, Carlos Pineda, Wolfgang Schmidt, Marcin Szkudlarek, Philip G. Conaghan, Maria Antonietta D’Agostino,

Musculoskeletal synovial abnormalities and treatments

This article reports the most recent work of the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) Ultrasound Task Force, and highlights the future research priorities discussed at the OMERACT 10 meeting. Results of the following studies were presented: (1) intra- and interobserver reliability of ultrasound detecting and scoring synovitis in different joints of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA); (2) systematic review of previous ultrasound scoring systems of synovitis in RA; (3) enthesitis systematic review and Delphi definition exercise in spondyloarthritis enthesitis; (4) enthesitis intra- and interobserver reliability exercise; and (5) Delphi definition exercise in hand osteoarthritis, and reliability exercises. Study conclusions were discussed, and a future research agenda was approved, notably further validation of an OMERACT ultrasound global synovitis score (GLOSS) in RA, emphasizing the importance of testing feasibility, predictive value, and added value over standard clinical variables. Future research areas will include validating scoring systems for enthesitis and osteoarthritis, and testing the metric qualities of ultrasound for evaluating tenosynovitis and structural damage in RA.