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Suspected inflammatory arthritis

MedGen UID:
748008
•Concept ID:
C2317127
•
Disease or Syndrome
SNOMED CT: Suspected inflammatory arthritis (431956005)

Professional guidelines

PubMed

ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Chronic Extremity Joint Pain-Suspected Inflammatory Arthritis, Crystalline Arthritis, or Erosive Osteoarthritis: 2022 Update.
Expert Panel on Musculoskeletal Imaging, Subhas N, Wu F, Fox MG, Nacey N, Aslam F, Blankenbaker DG, Caracciolo JT, DeJoseph DA, Frick MA, Jawetz ST, Said N, Sandstrom CK, Sharma A, Stensby JD, Walker EA, Chang EY
J Am Coll Radiol 2023 May;20(5S):S20-S32. doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2023.02.020. PMID: 37236743
Care of patients with early inflammatory arthritis in the Wellington region according to the British Society of Rheumatology's best practice tariff standards.
Farquhar HJ, Taylor WJ
N Z Med J 2021 Apr 16;134(1533):71-79. PMID: 33927425
ACR Appropriateness Criteria(®) Chronic Extremity Joint Pain-Suspected Inflammatory Arthritis.
Expert Panel on Musculoskeletal Imaging:, Jacobson JA, Roberts CC, Bencardino JT, Appel M, Arnold E, Baccei SJ, Cassidy RC, Chang EY, Fox MG, Greenspan BS, Gyftopoulos S, Hochman MG, Mintz DN, Newman JS, Rosenberg ZS, Shah NA, Small KM, Weissman BN
J Am Coll Radiol 2017 May;14(5S):S81-S89. doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2017.02.006. PMID: 28473097

Recent clinical studies

Etiology

Diagnostic Value of Short Course Low-dose Prednisolone in Patients with Clinically Suspected Seronegative Inflammatory Arthritis - A Retrospective Study.
Shan S, Mian M
Curr Rheumatol Rev 2024;20(3):296-303. doi: 10.2174/0115733971273652231213092458. PMID: 38173068
Utility of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound in Psoriatic Arthritis.
Hum RM, Barton A, Ho P
Clin Ther 2023 Sep;45(9):816-821. Epub 2023 Aug 8 doi: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2023.07.017. PMID: 37563062
Evaluating a new referral pathway from physical therapists to rheumatologists: A qualitative study.
Orozco T, Feldman DE, Bernatsky S, Légaré J, Perreault K, Tawiah AK, Zummer M, Hudon A
J Interprof Care 2022 Nov-Dec;36(6):932-940. Epub 2022 Apr 24 doi: 10.1080/13561820.2022.2044295. PMID: 35465806
The Effect of Triage Assessments on Identifying Inflammatory Arthritis and Reducing Rheumatology Wait Times in Ontario.
Ahluwalia V, Lineker S, Sweezie R, Bell MJ, Kendzerska T, Widdifield J, Bombardier C; Allied Health Rheumatology Triage Investigators
J Rheumatol 2020 Mar;47(3):461-467. Epub 2019 Jun 1 doi: 10.3899/jrheum.180734. PMID: 31154411
The impact of rheumatologist-performed ultrasound on diagnosis and management of inflammatory arthritis in routine clinical practice.
Kelly S, Davidson B, Keidel S, Gadola S, Gorman C, Meenagh G, Reynolds P
BMC Musculoskelet Disord 2017 Nov 22;18(1):487. doi: 10.1186/s12891-017-1850-4. PMID: 29166885Free PMC Article

Diagnosis

Utility of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound in Psoriatic Arthritis.
Hum RM, Barton A, Ho P
Clin Ther 2023 Sep;45(9):816-821. Epub 2023 Aug 8 doi: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2023.07.017. PMID: 37563062
Syndrome of progressive deforming non-inflammatory arthritis of childhood: two patients of camptodactyly-arthropathy-coxa vara-pericarditis syndrome.
Johnson N, Chaudhary H, Kumrah R, Pilania RK, Sharma Y, Sharma A, Kaur A, Mukherjee S, Kakkar N, Vignesh P
Rheumatol Int 2021 Oct;41(10):1875-1882. Epub 2020 Aug 19 doi: 10.1007/s00296-020-04688-0. PMID: 32813152
Physical Therapists' Ability to Distinguish Between Inflammatory and Noninflammatory Arthritis and to Appropriately Refer Patients to a Rheumatologist.
Ehrmann Feldman D, Bernatsky S, Orozco T, El-Khoury J, Desmeules F, Laliberté M, Perreault K, Grad R, Zummer M, Woodhouse L
Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 2020 Dec;72(12):1747-1754. Epub 2020 Nov 6 doi: 10.1002/acr.24081. PMID: 31560453
The Effect of Triage Assessments on Identifying Inflammatory Arthritis and Reducing Rheumatology Wait Times in Ontario.
Ahluwalia V, Lineker S, Sweezie R, Bell MJ, Kendzerska T, Widdifield J, Bombardier C; Allied Health Rheumatology Triage Investigators
J Rheumatol 2020 Mar;47(3):461-467. Epub 2019 Jun 1 doi: 10.3899/jrheum.180734. PMID: 31154411
The impact of rheumatologist-performed ultrasound on diagnosis and management of inflammatory arthritis in routine clinical practice.
Kelly S, Davidson B, Keidel S, Gadola S, Gorman C, Meenagh G, Reynolds P
BMC Musculoskelet Disord 2017 Nov 22;18(1):487. doi: 10.1186/s12891-017-1850-4. PMID: 29166885Free PMC Article

Therapy

Diagnostic Value of Short Course Low-dose Prednisolone in Patients with Clinically Suspected Seronegative Inflammatory Arthritis - A Retrospective Study.
Shan S, Mian M
Curr Rheumatol Rev 2024;20(3):296-303. doi: 10.2174/0115733971273652231213092458. PMID: 38173068
The impact of rheumatologist-performed ultrasound on diagnosis and management of inflammatory arthritis in routine clinical practice.
Kelly S, Davidson B, Keidel S, Gadola S, Gorman C, Meenagh G, Reynolds P
BMC Musculoskelet Disord 2017 Nov 22;18(1):487. doi: 10.1186/s12891-017-1850-4. PMID: 29166885Free PMC Article
Achievement of NICE quality standards for patients with new presentation of inflammatory arthritis: observations from the National Clinical Audit for Rheumatoid and Early Inflammatory Arthritis.
Ledingham JM, Snowden N, Rivett A, Galloway J, Ide Z, Firth J, MacPhie E, Kandala N, Dennison EM, Rowe I
Rheumatology (Oxford) 2017 Feb;56(2):223-230. Epub 2016 Oct 1 doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/kew308. PMID: 27694337Free PMC Article
Early treatment of psoriatic arthritis improves prognosis.
McLaughlin M, Ostör A
Practitioner 2014 Dec;258(1777):21-4, 3. PMID: 25603589
Early recognition improves prognosis in elderly onset RA.
Negoescu A, Ostör AJ
Practitioner 2014 Jan;258(1767):11-4, 2. PMID: 24617098

Prognosis

Diagnostic Value of Short Course Low-dose Prednisolone in Patients with Clinically Suspected Seronegative Inflammatory Arthritis - A Retrospective Study.
Shan S, Mian M
Curr Rheumatol Rev 2024;20(3):296-303. doi: 10.2174/0115733971273652231213092458. PMID: 38173068
Physical Therapists' Ability to Distinguish Between Inflammatory and Noninflammatory Arthritis and to Appropriately Refer Patients to a Rheumatologist.
Ehrmann Feldman D, Bernatsky S, Orozco T, El-Khoury J, Desmeules F, Laliberté M, Perreault K, Grad R, Zummer M, Woodhouse L
Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 2020 Dec;72(12):1747-1754. Epub 2020 Nov 6 doi: 10.1002/acr.24081. PMID: 31560453
Early treatment of psoriatic arthritis improves prognosis.
McLaughlin M, Ostör A
Practitioner 2014 Dec;258(1777):21-4, 3. PMID: 25603589
Early recognition improves prognosis in elderly onset RA.
Negoescu A, Ostör AJ
Practitioner 2014 Jan;258(1767):11-4, 2. PMID: 24617098

Clinical prediction guides

Diagnostic Value of Short Course Low-dose Prednisolone in Patients with Clinically Suspected Seronegative Inflammatory Arthritis - A Retrospective Study.
Shan S, Mian M
Curr Rheumatol Rev 2024;20(3):296-303. doi: 10.2174/0115733971273652231213092458. PMID: 38173068
Utility of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound in Psoriatic Arthritis.
Hum RM, Barton A, Ho P
Clin Ther 2023 Sep;45(9):816-821. Epub 2023 Aug 8 doi: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2023.07.017. PMID: 37563062
Physical Therapists' Ability to Distinguish Between Inflammatory and Noninflammatory Arthritis and to Appropriately Refer Patients to a Rheumatologist.
Ehrmann Feldman D, Bernatsky S, Orozco T, El-Khoury J, Desmeules F, Laliberté M, Perreault K, Grad R, Zummer M, Woodhouse L
Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 2020 Dec;72(12):1747-1754. Epub 2020 Nov 6 doi: 10.1002/acr.24081. PMID: 31560453
Achievement of NICE quality standards for patients with new presentation of inflammatory arthritis: observations from the National Clinical Audit for Rheumatoid and Early Inflammatory Arthritis.
Ledingham JM, Snowden N, Rivett A, Galloway J, Ide Z, Firth J, MacPhie E, Kandala N, Dennison EM, Rowe I
Rheumatology (Oxford) 2017 Feb;56(2):223-230. Epub 2016 Oct 1 doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/kew308. PMID: 27694337Free PMC Article

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