Potential of US 7 Score in Evaluating of Disease Activity of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis in the State of Remission
Abstract
Objectives To evaluate the usefulness of the US7 scoring system in detecting synovitis in patients with RA who are in remission of disease. Conclusions With the US7 score, it was possible to find a high percentage of subclinical synovitis in patients in remission of RA according to previous studies published using other scoring systems.
Therefore, US7 might be a simple and effective tool to monitor disease activity of RA even in the state of remission. There was a better correlation between US7 GSUS findings and ACR/EULAR remission criteria than remission assessed according to DAS28 criteria.
Further studies are needed to confirm these findings with US7 scoring system.