Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between radiographic features and measures of pain and physical function in hand osteoarthritis

Abstract

Radiographic hand OA is associated with tenderness in the same joint, and erosive development strongly predicts future joint tenderness independent of other radiographic features.

Body mass index and progressive hand osteoarthritis: data from the Oslo hand osteoarthritis cohort

“…Thirty finger joints, including the distal/proximal/thumb interphalangeal, metacarpophalangeal, and first carpometacarpal joints, were scored for global OA severity according to the Kellgren-Lawrence (KL) scale (grade 0-4) (10) by one reader (IKH). The intra-reader reliability was good (weighted kappa ¼ 0.82) (11). One rheumatologist (BS-C) performed a clinical joint examination of all patients, including assessment for tenderness upon palpation in the 30 hand joints.…”

Imaging of osteoarthritis (OA): What is new?

“…when summed from semi-quantitative CR scores) and self-reported pain at rest or during activities. At joint level, however, a recent study has suggested a positive cross-sectional association between radiographic features of hand OA and hand pain [20], and radiographic progression, especially incident erosions, were associated with incident joint tenderness [20].…”

Radiological Pain Predictors in Knee Osteoarthritis, a Four Feature Selection Comparison: Data from the OAI

“…Differences and advantages of X-ray or MRI techniques have been studied [9][10][11][12][13][14], it is important to take into account that in emerging countries the first approach to diagnose knee OA is X-ray imaging, in early stages of OA the use of MRI images in an exploratory stage is not allowed by the monetary cost to the public health systems. This is an important reason to develop a robust prognostic method based on a very extended imaging tool, the X-ray imaging technology.…”