The value of ultrasound–defined tenosynovitis and synovitis in the prediction of persistent arthritis

Ilfita Sahbudin; Ruchir Singh; Paola De Pablo; Elizabeth Rankin; Benjamin Rhodes; Elizabeth Justice; Emma Derrett-Smith; Esther Nicole Amft; Nehal Narayan; CM McGrath; Sangeetha Baskhar; Jeanette Trickey; Mark Maybury; Karim Raza; Andrew Filer

doi:10.1093/rheumatology/keac199

The value of ultrasound–defined tenosynovitis and synovitis in the prediction of persistent arthritis

Ilfita Sahbudin, Ruchir Singh, Paola De Pablo, Elizabeth Rankin, Benjamin Rhodes, Elizabeth Justice, Emma Derrett-Smith, Esther Nicole Amft, Nehal Narayan, CM McGrath, Sangeetha Baskhar, Jeanette Trickey, Mark Maybury, Karim Raza, Andrew Filer

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Objectives: The value of ultrasound-defined tenosynovitis in predicting the persistence of inflammatory arthritis is not well described. In particular, the predictive utility of ultrasound-defined tenosynovitis of larger tendons is yet to be reported. We assessed the value of ultrasound-defined tenosynovitis alongside ultrasound-defined synovitis and clinical and serological variables in predicting persistent arthritis in an inception cohort of disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD)-naïve patients with early arthritis.

Methods: One hundred and fifty DMARD-naïve patients with clinically apparent synovitis of one or more joints and a symptom duration ⩽3 months underwent baseline clinical, laboratory and ultrasound (of 19 bilateral joints and 16 bilateral tendon compartments) assessments. Outcomes were classified as persistent or resolving arthritis after 18 months follow-up. The predictive value of ultrasound-defined tenosynovitis for persistent arthritis was compared with those of ultrasound-defined synovitis, clinical and serological variables.

Results: At 18 months, 99 patients (66%) had developed persistent arthritis and 51 patients (34%) had resolving disease. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that ultrasound-detected digit flexor tenosynovitis (OR:6.6,95%CI:2.0-22.1,p=0.002) provided independent predictive data for persistence over and above the presence of ultrasound-detected joint synovitis and rheumatoid factor antibodies. In the RF/ACPA-negative sub-cohort, ultrasound-defined digit flexor tenosynovitis remained a significant predictive variable (OR:4.7,95%CI:1.4-15.8,p=0.012), even after adjusting for ultrasound-defined joint synovitis.

Conclusion: Ultrasound-defined tenosynovitis provided independent predictive data for the development of persistent arthritis. The predictive role of ultrasound-defined digit flexor tenosynovitis should be further assessed; investigators should consider including this tendon site as a candidate variable when designing imaging-based predictive algorithms for persistent inflammatory arthritis development.

Original language	English
Article number	keac199
Number of pages	13
Journal	Rheumatology (Oxford, England)
Volume	2022
Early online date	12 Apr 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keac199
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 12 Apr 2022

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early arthritis
ultrasound
prediction
persistent arthritis

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Rheumatoid Arthritis Centre for Excellence (RACE 2)
Filer, A., Lord, J., Raza, K., Scheel-Toellner, D., Anderson, G., Buckley, C., Clark, A. & Falahee, M.
ARTHRITIS RESEARCH UK
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Sahbudin, I., Singh, R., De Pablo, P., Rankin, E., Rhodes, B., Justice, E., Derrett-Smith, E., Amft, E. N., Narayan, N., McGrath, CM., Baskhar, S., Trickey, J., Maybury, M., Raza, K., & Filer, A. (2022). The value of ultrasound–defined tenosynovitis and synovitis in the prediction of persistent arthritis. Rheumatology (Oxford, England), 2022, Article keac199. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keac199

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The value of ultrasound–defined tenosynovitis and synovitis in the prediction of persistent arthritis

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