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Quantification of bone marrow oedema and fat metaplasia in sacroiliac joints in spondyloarthritis patients using histographic magnetic resonance imaging analysis

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CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RHEUMATOLOGY
Volume 40, Issue 7, Pages 1385-1392

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CLINICAL & EXPER RHEUMATOLOGY

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spondyloarthritis; sacroiliac joints; magnetic resonance imaging; bone marrow oedema; histographic analysis

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The objective of this study was to develop a quantitative MRI approach using histographic analysis to detect bone marrow edema (BME) and fat metaplasia in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) at sacroiliac joints (SIJs). The results showed that histographic analysis had good diagnostic accuracy in distinguishing BME from fat metaplasia.
Objective To demonstrate a possible basis for a quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) approach that uses histographic analysis to determine bone marrow oedema (BME) and fat metaplasia at sacroiliac joints (SIJs) level in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA). Methods In this prospective, cross-sectional study, consecutive axSpA patients with inflammatory low back pain underwent 1.5-T MRI. MRI images were scored on a 4-point (0-3) scoring system both for BME and fat metaplasia by two radiologists. A region-of-interest based histographic quantitative analysis was used to assess MRI images. Using the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC-ROC) approach was tested the diagnostic accuracy of histographic analysis for detecting BME vs. BME and fat metaplasia on MRI images. Result 17 of the 43 patients (39.5%) included only had a BME lesion, while the remaining 26 patients (60.5%) had both BME and fat metaplasia at the SIJ level. Inter-rater agreement between readers was good (weighted kappa 0.643). On MRI images, BME and BME+fat metaplasia showed significant difference in histographic analysis (p<0.001), with an AUC-ROC of 0.898, and an optimal cut-off point of 311 at histographic analysis in the distinction of BME vs. fat metaplasia. Conclusion Histographic analysis could represent a method for quantifying BME on MRI images of SIJs in patients with axSpA. This type analysis can provide important prognostic information and guide the choice of treatment in patients with sacroiliitis.

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