The use of ultrasound for the assessment of enthesitis in patients with spondyloarthritis

Subclinical enthesopathy in patients with psoriasis and its association with other disease parameters: a power Doppler ultrasonographic study

“…Salvarani et al (18) also agreed that patients with isolated peripheral enthesitis can be considered as a subset of patients with psoriatic arthritis. Asymptomatic US enthesopathy was present in 36% of patients in our study, while it was present in 56% (8), 33.3% (14), 11.6% (19), and 32.9% (20) in previous studies.…”

Presence of enthesopathy demonstrated with ultrasonography in systemic sclerosis

“…it is expensive, has low accessibility, is inconvenient to some of the patients, lacks sensitivity and specificity for peripheral enthesitis and inable to image multiple entheses sites simultaneously [4,20,21]. It is shown that ultrasonography is a valid and reliable assessment tool for the evaluation of enthesitis in spondyloarthritis [4,10,19] and superior to show structural change, calcification and inflammatory activity in the tendons and ligaments [23,23].…”

Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease have Higher Sonographic Enthesitis Scores than Normal Individuals: Pilot Study in Taiwan

“…However, no cutoff level for the GUESS score has been established to differentiate between patients and normal controls. The Madrid Sonographic Enthesitis Index has a recommended cutoff level for spondyloarthropathy [29,30], but we did not use it because it has a relatively complicated scoring method (score range, 0e136).…”