Abstract
Current State of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Training and Implementation among Rheumatologists in Arab Countries
Highlights
Musculoskeletal Ultrasound (MSUS) is a safe and a non invasive technique that had a good satisfaction and acceptability from patients [1]
The pathological definition of synovial hypertrophy, enthesopathy, tenosynovitis and bone erosion was reported by the Outcome Measures in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Clinical Trial (OMERACT) ultrasound working group [7]
It was distributed to Arab rheumatologists who were present at the Panarab Congress of Rheumatology “ARLAR 2016”, which took place from 24 to 26 March 2016 in Marrakech in Morocco
Summary
Musculoskeletal Ultrasound (MSUS) is a safe and a non invasive technique that had a good satisfaction and acceptability from patients [1]. It has been increasingly incorporated into rheumatologists’s practice during the last decade.it has been established to evaluate joints lesions in patients with rheumatic diseases, to assess individual’s response to treatment and to guide interventional procedures [2,3]. The same group had published recently the definition of the minimal disease activity in RA by MSUS and the scoring system for synovitis in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) [8]. Some organizations have published recommendations and guidelines for the standard format and elements of MSUS report, in order to standardize the MSUS examination and interpretation, [9,10,11]
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