Optical spectral transmission to monitor disease activity in arthritis patients: longitudinal follow-up comparison with clinical parameters

• Published in: Rheumatology (Oxford, England) Vol. 64; no. 6; pp. 3319 - 3327
• Main Authors: Triantafyllias, Konstantinos, Alhaddad, Mohammed, Baraliakos, Xenofon, Muthuraman, Muthuraman, Schwarting, Andreas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford Publishing Limited (England) 01.06.2025
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Arthritis; Arthritis - diagnosis; Arthritis, Rheumatoid - diagnosis; Arthritis, Rheumatoid - diagnostic imaging; Biomarkers; Case-Control Studies; Correlation analysis; Disease; Disease transmission; Female; Finger Joint - diagnostic imaging; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Inflammatory diseases; Joint diseases; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Middle Aged; ROC Curve; Severity of Illness Index; Wrist; Wrist Joint - diagnostic imaging; disease activity; optical spectral transmission; monitoring; inflammatory arthritis

To examine the longitudinal associations of optical spectral transmission (OST) with clinical inflammatory arthritis activity markers in order to investigate its potential in monitoring disease activity. OST measurements were performed in 1312 wrist and finger joints of 60 patients with clinical sus...