A clinical perspective on imaging in juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Tarsia, Maria (author), Zajc Avramovič, Mojca (author), Gazikalović, Ana (author), Ključevšek, Damjana (author), Avčin, Tadej (author)

In recent years, imaging has become increasingly important to confirm diagnosis, monitor disease activity, and predict disease course and outcome in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Over the past few decades, great efforts have been made to improve the quality of diagnostic imaging and to reach a consensus on which methods and scoring systems to use. However, there are still some critical issues, and the diagnosis, course, and management of JIA are closely related to clinical assessment. This review discusses the main indications for conventional radiography (XR), musculoskeletal ultrasound (US), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), while trying to maintain a clinical perspective. The diagnostic-therapeutic timing at which one or the other method should be used, depending on the disease/patient phenotype, will be assessed, considering the main advantages and disadvantages of each imaging modality according to the currently available literature. Some brief clinical case scenarios on the most frequently and severely involved joints in JIA are also presented.

• Language: English
• Keywords: children, conventional radiography, imaging, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: MF - Faculty of Medicine
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 490-504
• Numbering: Vol. 54, iss. 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-158162
• UDC: 616-07
• ISSN on article: 0301-0449
• DOI: 10.1007/s00247-023-05815-2
• COBISS.SI-ID: 196654339
• Publication date in RUL: 27.05.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Pediatric radiology
• Shortened title: Pediatr. radiol.
• Publisher: Springer Nature
• ISSN: 0301-0449
• COBISS.SI-ID: 5638919

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