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Roemer FW, Eckstein F, Guermazi A. Magnetic resonance imaging-based semiquantitative and quantitative assessment in osteoarthritis. Rheum Dis Clin North Am 2010; 35:521-55. [PMID: 19931802 DOI: 10.1016/j.rdc.2009.08.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Whole organ magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based semiquantitative (SQ) assessment of knee osteoarthritis (OA), based on reliable scoring methods and expert reading, has become a powerful research tool in OA. SQ morphologic scoring has been applied to large observational cross-sectional and longitudinal epidemiologic studies as well as interventional clinical trials. SQ whole organ scoring analyzes all joint structures that are potentially relevant as surrogate outcome measures of OA and potential disease modification, including cartilage, subchondral bone, osteophytes, intra- and periarticular ligaments, menisci, synovial lining, cysts, and bursae. Resources needed for SQ scoring rely on the MRI protocol, image quality, experience of the expert readers, method of documentation, and the individual scoring system that will be applied. The first part of this article discusses the different available OA whole organ scoring systems, focusing on MRI of the knee, and also reviews alternative approaches. Rheumatologists are made aware of artifacts and differential diagnoses when applying any of the SQ scoring systems. The second part focuses on quantitative approaches in OA, particularly measurement of (subregional) cartilage loss. This approach allows one to determine minute changes that occur relatively homogeneously across cartilage structures and that are not apparent to the naked eye. To this end, the cartilage surfaces need to be segmented by trained users using specialized software. Measurements of knee cartilage loss based on water-excitation spoiled gradient recalled echo acquisition in the steady state, fast low-angle shot, or double-echo steady-state imaging sequences reported a 1% to 2% decrease in cartilage thickness annually, and a high degree of spatial heterogeneity of cartilage thickness changes in femorotibial subregions between subjects. Risk factors identified by quantitative measurement technology included a high body mass index, meniscal extrusion and meniscal tears, knee malalignment, advanced radiographic OA grade, bone marrow alterations, and focal cartilage lesions.
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- Frank W Roemer
- Quantitative Imaging Center, Department of Radiology, Boston University School of Medicine, FGH Building, 3rd floor, 820 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02118, USA.
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Bansal PN, Joshi NS, Entezari V, Grinstaff MW, Snyder BD. Contrast enhanced computed tomography can predict the glycosaminoglycan content and biomechanical properties of articular cartilage. Osteoarthritis Cartilage 2010; 18:184-91. [PMID: 19815108 DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2009.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2009] [Revised: 08/25/2009] [Accepted: 09/09/2009] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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OBJECTIVE An early hallmark of osteoarthritis (OA) is the progressive loss of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), the extracellular matrix (ECM) component of articular cartilage that confers it with compressive stiffness. Our aim in this work is to establish the feasibility of using Contrast Enhanced Computed Tomography (CECT) with an anionic iodinated contrast agent - Cysto Conray II - as a minimally invasive tool to measure the changes in the GAG content as well as the compressive stiffness of articular cartilage. METHODS The GAG content of mated osteochondral plugs excised from bovine patello-femoral joints was progressively degraded using chondroitinase ABC. The mated plugs were then immersed in an anionic, tri-iodinated contrast agent, imaged using peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT), subjected to an unconfined compressive stress relaxation test and the GAG content measured using 1,9-dimethylmethylene blue (DMMB) assay. Partial correlation analysis was performed to compare the variation in X-ray attenuation measured by pQCT to the variation in GAG content and in equilibrium compressive modulus. RESULTS The X-ray attenuation of cartilage exposed to an anionic, tri-iodinated, contrast agent measured by quantitative computed tomography (QCT) accounted for 83% of the variation in GAG content (r(2)=0.83, P<0.0001) and 93% of the variation in the equilibrium compressive modulus (r(2)=0.93, P<0.0001). CONCLUSION Using a mated osteochondral plug model to evaluate the biochemical composition and biomechanical properties of cartilage, this study demonstrates the interrelationships between X-ray attenuation, GAG content, and equilibrium compressive modulus, and that CECT can be used to monitor and quantify changes in the GAG content and biomechanical properties of articular cartilage.
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- Orthopedic Biomechanics Laboratory, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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Qazi AA, Jørgensen DR, Lillholm M, Loog M, Nielsen M, Dam EB. A framework for optimizing measurement weight maps to minimize the required sample size. Med Image Anal 2010; 14:255-64. [PMID: 20189869 DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2010.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2008] [Revised: 01/21/2010] [Accepted: 01/21/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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We propose a fully automatic statistical framework for identifying the non-negative, real-valued weight map that best discriminate between two groups of objects. Given measurements on a spatially defined grid, a numerical optimization scheme is used to find the weight map that minimizes the sample size required to discriminate the two groups. The weight map produced by the method reflects the relative importance of the different areas in the objects, and the resulting sample size reduction is an important end goal in situations where data collection is difficult or expensive. An example is in clinical studies where the cost and the patient burden are directly related to the number of participants needed for the study. In addition, inspection of the weight map might provide clues that can lead to a better clinical understanding of the objects and pathologies being studied. The method is evaluated on synthetic data and on clinical data from knee cartilage MRI. The clinical data contain a total of 159 subjects aged 21-81 years and ranked from zero to four on the Kellgren-Lawrence osteoarthritis severity scale. Compared to a uniform weight map, we achieve sample size reductions up to 58% for cartilage thickness measurements. Based on quantifications from both morphometric and textural based imaging features, we also identify the most pathological areas in the articular cartilage.
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- Arish A Qazi
- Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Wang YXJ, Griffith JF, Ahuja AT. Non-invasive MRI assessment of the articular cartilage in clinical studies and experimental settings. World J Radiol 2010; 2:44-54. [PMID: 21160740 PMCID: PMC2999310 DOI: 10.4329/wjr.v2.i1.44] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2009] [Revised: 01/12/2010] [Accepted: 01/20/2010] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Attrition and eventual loss of articular cartilage are important elements in the pathophysiology of osteoarthritis (OA). Preventing the breakdown of cartilage is believed to be critical to preserve the functional integrity of a joint. Chondral injuries are also common in the knee joint, and many patients benefit from cartilage repair. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and advanced digital post-processing techniques have opened possibilities for in vivo analysis of cartilage morphology, structure, and function in healthy and diseased knee joints. Techniques of semi-quantitative scoring of human knee cartilage pathology and quantitative assessment of human cartilage have been developed. Cartilage thickness and volume have been quantified in humans as well as in small animals. MRI detected cartilage loss has been shown to be more sensitive than radiographs detecting joint space narrowing. It is possible to longitudinally study knee cartilage morphology with enough accuracy to follow the disease-caused changes and also evaluate the therapeutic effects of chondro-protective drugs. There are also several MRI methods that may allow evaluation of the glycosaminoglycan matrix or collagen network of articular cartilage, and may be more sensitive for the detection of early changes. The clinical relevance of these methods is being validated. With the development of new therapies for OA and cartilage injury, MR images will play an important role in the diagnosis, staging, and evaluation of the effectiveness of these therapies.
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Bagheri MH, Nazhvani SD, Nikahval B, Pakbaz S, Tanideh N, Mehrabani D. Articular cartilage changes in experimental osteoarthritis in rabbits: MRI and morphological findings. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1007/s00580-009-0951-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Nondestructive assessment of sGAG content and distribution in normal and degraded rat articular cartilage via EPIC-microCT. Osteoarthritis Cartilage 2010; 18:65-72. [PMID: 19744590 PMCID: PMC3268049 DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2009.07.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2008] [Revised: 06/05/2009] [Accepted: 07/16/2009] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of quantifying the Equilibrium Partitioning of an Ionic Contrast agent via Microcomputed Tomography (EPIC-microCT) to nondestructively assess sulfated glycosaminoglycan (sGAG) content and distribution in rat articular cartilage ex vivo, and in doing so to establish a paradigm for extension of this technique to other small animal models. DESIGN After determination of an appropriate incubation time for the anionic contrast agent, EPIC-microCT was used to examine age-related differences in cartilage sGAG content between 4-, 8-, and 16-week old (n=5 each) male Wistar rats and to evaluate sGAG depletion in the right femora of each age group after 60 min of digestion with chondroitinase ABC. The EPIC-microCT measurements were validated by histological safranin-O staining, and reproducibility was evaluated by triplicate scans of six femora. RESULTS Cartilage attenuation gradually increased with cumulative digestion time and reached a plateau at approximately 60 min with a 16.0% temporal increase (P<0.01). Average femoral articular cartilage attenuation increased by 14.2% from 4- to 8-weeks of age (P<0.01) and further increased by 2.5% from 8 to 16 weeks (P<0.05). After 60 min of digestion, femoral articular cartilage attenuations increased by 15-17% in each age group (P<0.01). Correspondingly, sGAG optical density decreased with age and digestion, and showed a linear correlation (r=-0.88, slope=-1.26, P<0.01, n=30) with EPIC-microCT cartilage attenuation. High reproducibility was indicated by a low coefficient of variation (1.5%) in cartilage attenuation. CONCLUSIONS EPIC-microCT imaging provides high spatial resolution and sensitivity to assess sGAG content and three-dimensional distribution in rat femoral articular cartilage.
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Fripp J, Crozier S, Warfield SK, Ourselin S. Automatic segmentation and quantitative analysis of the articular cartilages from magnetic resonance images of the knee. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING 2010; 29:55-64. [PMID: 19520633 PMCID: PMC3717377 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2009.2024743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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In this paper, we present a segmentation scheme that automatically and accurately segments all the cartilages from magnetic resonance (MR) images of nonpathological knees. Our scheme involves the automatic segmentation of the bones using a three-dimensional active shape model, the extraction of the expected bone-cartilage interface (BCI), and cartilage segmentation from the BCI using a deformable model that utilizes localization, patient specific tissue estimation and a model of the thickness variation. The accuracy of this scheme was experimentally validated using leave one out experiments on a database of fat suppressed spoiled gradient recall MR images. The scheme was compared to three state of the art approaches, tissue classification, a modified semi-automatic watershed algorithm and nonrigid registration (B-spline based free form deformation). Our scheme obtained an average Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) of (0.83, 0.83, 0.85) for the (patellar, tibial, femoral) cartilages, while (0.82, 0.81, 0.86) was obtained with a tissue classifier and (0.73, 0.79, 0.76) was obtained with nonrigid registration. The average DSC obtained for all the cartilages using a semi-automatic watershed algorithm (0.90) was slightly higher than our approach (0.89), however unlike this approach we segment each cartilage as a separate object. The effectiveness of our approach for quantitative analysis was evaluated using volume and thickness measures with a median volume difference error of (5.92, 4.65, 5.69) and absolute Laplacian thickness difference of (0.13, 0.24, 0.12) mm.
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- Jurgen Fripp
- CSIRO, ICTC, The Australian e-Health Research Centre-BioMedIA, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, 4029 Herston, Qld., Australia.
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Bae KT, Shim H, Tao C, Chang S, Wang JH, Boudreau R, Kwoh CK. Intra- and inter-observer reproducibility of volume measurement of knee cartilage segmented from the OAI MR image set using a novel semi-automated segmentation method. Osteoarthritis Cartilage 2009; 17:1589-97. [PMID: 19577672 PMCID: PMC2941641 DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2009.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2008] [Revised: 05/12/2009] [Accepted: 06/03/2009] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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OBJECTIVE We developed a semi-automated method based on a graph-cuts algorithm for segmentation and volumetric measurements of the cartilage from high-resolution knee magnetic resonance (MR) images from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) database and assessed the intra- and inter-observer reproducibility of measurements obtained via this method. DESIGN MR image sets from 20 subjects of varying Kellgren-Lawrence (KL) grades (from 0 to IV) on fixed flexion knee radiographs were selected from the baseline double-echo and steady-state (DESS) knee MR images in the OAI database (0.B.1 Imaging Data set). Two trained radiologists independently performed the segmentation of knee cartilage twice using the semi-automated method. The volumes of segmented cartilage were computed and compared. The intra- and inter-observer reproducibility were determined by means of the coefficient of variation (CV%) of repeated cartilage segmented volume measurements. The subjects were also divided into the low- (0, I or II) and high-KL (III or IV) groups. The differences in cartilage volume measurements and CV% within and between the observers were tested with t tests. RESULTS The mean (+/-SD) intra-observer CV% for the 20 cases was 1.29 (+/-1.05)% for observer 1 and 1.67 (+/-1.14)% for observer 2, while the mean (+/-SD) inter-observer CV% was 1.31 (+/-1.26)% for session 1 and 1.79 (+/-1.72)% for session 2. There was no significant difference between the two intra-observer CV%'s (P=0.272) and between the two inter-observer CV%'s (P=0.353). The mean intra-observer CV% of the low-KL group was significantly smaller than that for the high-KL group for observer 1 (0.83 vs 1.86%: P=0.025). The segmentation processing times used by the two observers were significantly different (observer 1 vs 2): (mean 49+/-12 vs 33+/-6min) for session 1 and (49+/-8 vs 32+/-8min) for session 2. CONCLUSION The semi-automated graph-cuts method allowed us to segment and measure cartilage from high-resolution 3T MR images of the knee with high intra- and inter-observer reproducibility in subjects with varying severity of OA.
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- K T Bae
- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
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Liodakis E, Hankemeier S, Jagodzinski M, Meller R, Krettek C, Brand J. The role of preoperative MRI in knee arthroscopy: a retrospective analysis of 2,000 patients. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc 2009; 17:1102-6. [PMID: 19554312 DOI: 10.1007/s00167-009-0835-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2009] [Accepted: 05/29/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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The aim of this study was to investigate, to what extent routine preoperative MRI scans could set the indications for knee arthroscopies and reduce the number of diagnostic arthroscopies. For this retrospective cohort study, 1,000 patients who had knee arthroscopies documented in 1994/1995 were compared with 1,000 patients that were treated in 2004/2005. The preoperative diagnoses that gave indications for knee arthroscopy were compared with the intraoperative findings. The congruence of preoperative diagnosis with the intraoperative findings was evaluated comparing both study populations. The number of patients who were referred to orthopaedic trauma surgeons with MRI increased from 24% to 56%. A high congruence of preoperative diagnosis and intraoperative findings was found in 49% in 1994/1995 and 55% in 2004/2005. However, regarding the most important outcome parameter, the number of diagnostic arthroscopies, no improvement was found (3% in both periods). The presented data suggests that MRI scans are not routinely necessary as an indication for knee arthroscopy, as clinical examination and plain radiograph are sufficient. However, MRI scans do allow a more detailed characterization of the expected findings and can therefore be helpful in therapy planning.
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- E Liodakis
- Department of Trauma Surgery, Medical School Hannover, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30627, Hannover, Germany.
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Hellio Le Graverand MP, Buck RJ, Wyman BT, Vignon E, Mazzuca SA, Brandt KD, Piperno M, Charles HC, Hudelmaier M, Hunter DJ, Jackson C, Kraus VB, Link TM, Majumdar S, Prasad PV, Schnitzer TJ, Vaz A, Wirth W, Eckstein F. Subregional femorotibial cartilage morphology in women--comparison between healthy controls and participants with different grades of radiographic knee osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis Cartilage 2009; 17:1177-85. [PMID: 19341831 DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2009.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2008] [Revised: 01/19/2009] [Accepted: 03/06/2009] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To identify subregional differences in femorotibial cartilage morphology between healthy controls and women with different grades of radiographic knee osteoarthritis (OA). DESIGN 158 women aged > or =40 years were studied. Weight-bearing extended anterior-posterior (AP) and Lyon schuss radiographs were obtained and the Kellgren Lawrence grade (KLG) determined. 97 women had a body mass index (BMI)< or =28, no symptoms, and were AP KLG0. 61 women had a BMI> or =30, symptoms in the target knee, and mild (KLG2=31) to moderate (KLG3=30) medial femorotibial radiographic OA in the AP views. Coronal spoiled gradient echo water excitation sequences were acquired at 3.0 Tesla. Total plate and regional measures of cartilage morphology of the weight-bearing femorotibial joint were quantified. RESULTS KLG2 participants displayed, on average, thicker cartilage than healthy controls in the medial femorotibial compartment (particularly anterior subregion of the medial tibia (MT) and peripheral [external, internal] subregions of the medial femur), and in the lateral femur. KLG3 participants displayed significantly thinner cartilage than KLG0 participants in the medial weight-bearing femur (central subregion), in the external subregion of the MT, and in the internal subregion of the lateral tibia. These differences were generally unaffected when possible effects of demographic covariates were considered. CONCLUSIONS The results indicate that in femorotibial OA regional cartilage thickening and thinning may occur, dependent on the (radiographic) disease status of the joint. These changes appear to display a heterogeneous spatial pattern, where certain subregions are more strongly affected than others.
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Pienkowski D, Resig J, Talwalkar V, Tylkowski C. Novel three-dimensional MRI technique for study of cartilaginous hip surfaces in Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease. J Orthop Res 2009; 27:981-8. [PMID: 19405084 DOI: 10.1002/jor.20909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Treatment of Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCPD) may improve if new knowledge can be obtained regarding how articular cartilage changes shape during the course of this disorder. A new technique is presented showing how analyses of magnetic resonance images can be used to quantify the three-dimensional changes in the femoral and acetabular articulating cartilage surfaces of children with LCPD. Ten male subjects (8 +/- 1 years) with unilateral LCPD were enrolled in this IRB approved study. Sets of magnetic resonance images of both hips were obtained at three different times. Three-dimensional virtual models of the cartilage were created from these images, and mathematical spheres were fit to the articulating surfaces. Five parameters (size, shape deformity (sphericity error), radial growth rate, joint fit, and joint incongruity) were used to quantify cartilage surface shape. Data were analyzed by using a linear mixed-model. Joint incongruity, i.e., the distance between the centers of the femoral and acetabular spheres, was slightly more than 2.5 times larger (p = 0.001) in LCPD hips than the contralateral normal hips. Cartilage shape deformity was 65% larger in hips with LCPD than in normal hips. Growth rates of the femoral head and the opposing acetabular surface showed that distortion of the femoral surface occurred first and the opposing acetabular surface followed. Mean radial difference (acetabular surface radius minus femoral surface radius) in LCPD hips was less than half (p < 0.01) the value of normal hips. Interobserver variability was approximately 10% of the value attributable to LCPD. This is the first known report presenting a technique that quantifies the three-dimensional size, deformity, growth, fit. and incongruity of the femoral and acetabular articulating cartilaginous surfaces of LCPD and contralateral normal hips. The data obtained support the use of this technique and provide pilot data for a future clinical study of LCPD. Objective assessment of cartilage shape enabled by this technique may aid future diagnoses, enable monitoring of three-dimensional femoral and acetabular remodeling, and permit quantitative assessment of treatment efficacy.
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- David Pienkowski
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, K401 Kentucky Clinic, 740 S. Limestone, Lexington, Kentucky 40536-0284, USA.
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Identification of progressors in osteoarthritis by combining biochemical and MRI-based markers. Arthritis Res Ther 2009; 11:R115. [PMID: 19630944 PMCID: PMC2745797 DOI: 10.1186/ar2774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2009] [Revised: 05/22/2009] [Accepted: 07/24/2009] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Introduction At present, no disease-modifying osteoarthritis drugs (DMOADS) are approved by the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration); possibly partly due to inadequate trial design since efficacy demonstration requires disease progression in the placebo group. We investigated whether combinations of biochemical and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based markers provided effective diagnostic and prognostic tools for identifying subjects with high risk of progression. Specifically, we investigated aggregate cartilage longevity markers combining markers of breakdown, quantity, and quality. Methods The study included healthy individuals and subjects with radiographic osteoarthritis. In total, 159 subjects (48% female, age 56.0 ± 15.9 years, body mass index 26.1 ± 4.2 kg/m2) were recruited. At baseline and after 21 months, biochemical (urinary collagen type II C-telopeptide fragment, CTX-II) and MRI-based markers were quantified. MRI markers included cartilage volume, thickness, area, roughness, homogeneity, and curvature in the medial tibio-femoral compartment. Joint space width was measured from radiographs and at 21 months to assess progression of joint damage. Results Cartilage roughness had the highest diagnostic accuracy quantified as the area under the receiver-operator characteristics curve (AUC) of 0.80 (95% confidence interval: 0.69 to 0.91) among the individual markers (higher than all others, P < 0.05) to distinguish subjects with radiographic osteoarthritis from healthy controls. Diagnostically, cartilage longevity scored AUC 0.84 (0.77 to 0.92, higher than roughness: P = 0.03). For prediction of longitudinal radiographic progression based on baseline marker values, the individual prognostic marker with highest AUC was homogeneity at 0.71 (0.56 to 0.81). Prognostically, cartilage longevity scored AUC 0.77 (0.62 to 0.90, borderline higher than homogeneity: P = 0.12). When comparing patients in the highest quartile for the longevity score to lowest quartile, the odds ratio of progression was 20.0 (95% confidence interval: 6.4 to 62.1). Conclusions Combination of biochemical and MRI-based biomarkers improved diagnosis and prognosis of knee osteoarthritis and may be useful to select high-risk patients for inclusion in DMOAD clinical trials.
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Buck RJ, Wyman BT, Le Graverand MPH, Hudelmaier M, Wirth W, Eckstein F. Does the use of ordered values of subregional change in cartilage thickness improve the detection of disease progression in longitudinal studies of osteoarthritis? ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009; 61:917-24. [DOI: 10.1002/art.24613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW To review radiographic and MRI developments in measuring osteoarthritis progression in the tibiofemoral compartment of the knee. RECENT FINDINGS Standardized techniques for measuring joint space width in the medial tibiofemoral compartment, using standardized radiographic protocols, have become accepted for quantifying changes in tibiofemoral in knee osteoarthritis. In addition, there is a significant body of supporting data on the longitudinal change in MRI-derived cartilage morphology (thickness, volume) as an end point to reflect osteoarthritis progression/cartilage loss. SUMMARY This review appraises the current methods of measurement of osteoarthritis progression and limitations with regards their interpretation and further development.
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Quantitative MR Imaging of Cartilage and Trabecular Bone in Osteoarthritis. Radiol Clin North Am 2009; 47:655-73. [DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2009.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Andreisek G, White LM, Sussman MS, Kunz M, Hurtig M, Weller I, Essue J, Marks P, Eckstein F. Quantitative MR imaging evaluation of the cartilage thickness and subchondral bone area in patients with ACL-reconstructions 7 years after surgery. Osteoarthritis Cartilage 2009; 17:871-8. [PMID: 19230721 DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2008.05.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2008] [Revised: 05/19/2008] [Accepted: 05/31/2008] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the cartilage thickness (ThC) and subchondral bone area (tAB) of the operated and contra-lateral non-operated (healthy) knees in patients with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)-reconstruction 7 years after surgery using a quantitative and regional cartilage MR imaging (qMRI) technique. METHODS Charts of 410 patients with ACL-reconstructions were retrospectively reviewed. Fifty-two patients (male/female, 28/24; mean age, 33.3 years) were included. Patients underwent KT-1000 testing and qMRI of both knees using coronal fat-saturated 3D spoiled gradient-recalled echo (SPGR) sequences (TR/TE, 44/4 ms) at 1.5 T. Quantitative analyses of ThC and tAB in the femoro-tibial cartilage plates were performed using a subregional approach. In addition, qualitative and quantitative assessment of femoral condyle shapes was performed. t tests with Bonferroni corrections were used for statistical analysis of side-to-side differences between the operated and non-operated knees. RESULTS KT-1000 testing was abnormal in 3/52 patients (6%). Lateral femoral tAB was significantly lower (-9.2%), and medial tibial tAB was significantly larger (+2%) in the operated vs non-operated knee (P<0.001). Regional and subregional ThC side-to-side differences were less than 0.1mm and, except for the external lateral femoral subregion, they were not statistically significant. Flattened and broader shapes of medial femoral condyles (P<0.001) were found in operated knees. No significant association of presence of cartilage or meniscus lesions at surgery with ThC 7 years post-operatively was found (P=0.06-0.98). CONCLUSION There is evidence for changes in the tAB and femoral shape 7 years post-ACL-reconstruction, but no side-to-side differences in subregional ThC were found between the operated and contra-lateral non-operated knees.
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- Division of Musculoskeletal Imaging, Department of Medical Imaging, Mount Sinai Hospital and the University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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Magnetic resonance image segmentation using semi-automated software for quantification of knee articular cartilage---initial evaluation of a technique for paired scans. Skeletal Radiol 2009; 38:505-11. [PMID: 19252907 PMCID: PMC3018074 DOI: 10.1007/s00256-009-0658-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2008] [Revised: 01/20/2009] [Accepted: 01/23/2009] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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PURPOSE Software-based image analysis is important for studies of cartilage changes in knee osteoarthritis (OA). This study describes an evaluation of a semi-automated cartilage segmentation software tool capable of quantifying paired images for potential use in longitudinal studies of knee OA. We describe the methodology behind the analysis and demonstrate its use by determination of test-retest analysis precision of duplicate knee magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data sets. METHODS Test-retest knee MR images of 12 subjects with a range of knee health were evaluated from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) pilot MR study. Each subject was removed from the magnet between the two scans. The 3D DESS (sagittal, 0.456 mm x 0.365 mm, 0.7 mm slice thickness, TR 16.5 ms, TE 4.7 ms) images were obtained on a 3-T Siemens Trio MR system with a USA Instruments quadrature transmit-receive extremity coil. Segmentation of one 3D-image series was first performed and then the corresponding retest series was segmented by viewing both image series concurrently in two adjacent windows. After manual registration of the series, the first segmentation cartilage outline served as an initial estimate for the second segmentation. We evaluated morphometric measures of the bone and cartilage surface area (tAB and AC), cartilage volume (VC), and mean thickness (ThC.me) for medial/lateral tibia (MT/LT), total femur (F) and patella (P). Test-retest reproducibility was assessed using the root-mean square coefficient of variation (RMS CV%). RESULTS For the paired analyses, RMS CV % ranged from 0.9% to 1.2% for VC, from 0.3% to 0.7% for AC, from 0.6% to 2.7% for tAB and 0.8% to 1.5% for ThC.me. CONCLUSION Paired image analysis improved the measurement precision of cartilage segmentation. Our results are in agreement with other publications supporting the use of paired analysis for longitudinal studies of knee OA.
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Shim H, Chang S, Tao C, Wang JH, Kwoh CK, Bae KT. Knee Cartilage: Efficient and Reproducible Segmentation on High-Spatial-Resolution MR Images with the Semiautomated Graph-Cut Algorithm Method. Radiology 2009; 251:548-56. [DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2512081332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Hunter DJ. One small step in the right direction for MRI measurement performance. Osteoarthritis Cartilage 2009; 17:557-8. [PMID: 19196526 DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2009.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2009] [Accepted: 01/08/2009] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Bowyer J, Heapy CG, Flannelly JK, Waterton JC, Maciewicz RA. Evaluation of a magnetic resonance biomarker of osteoarthritis disease progression: doxycycline slows tibial cartilage loss in the Dunkin Hartley guinea pig. Int J Exp Pathol 2009; 90:174-81. [PMID: 19335556 PMCID: PMC2676705 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2613.2008.00634.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2008] [Accepted: 10/23/2008] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The objective was to assess the effect of doxycycline treatment on a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) biomarker of cartilage volume loss, and on matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) activity in a guinea pig osteoarthritis model. Guinea pigs (9 months old) were dosed with vehicle or doxycycline, 0.6, 3.0 mg/kg/day for 66 days. Fat-suppressed 3D gradient-echo MRI of the left knee was acquired pre- and post dosing. Change in medial tibial plateau (MTP) cartilage volume (MT.VC) was determined using image analysis. At termination, MTP cartilage was removed from knees and proteolytic MMP activity determined using a fluorescent peptide substrate assay. Vehicle-treated animals lost 20.5% (95% CI mean 25.6-15.1) MT.VC. The doxycycline (0.6 mg/kg/day) group lost 8.6% (P < 0.05, 95% CI 20.6 to -5.3) whilst the 3.0 mg/kg/day group lost 10.0% (P < 0.05, 95% CI 13.9-6.0%). Endogenous levels of active MMPs were below limits of detection in all samples. However, doxycycline treatment ablated amino phenyl mercuric acid activated MMP-13 and MMP-8 levels, reduced MMP-9 levels by 65% and MMP-1 levels by 24%. Doxycycline treatment resulted in partial protection from MT.VC loss and was associated with complete reduction in MMP-13 and MMP-8, and partial reduction in MMP-9 activity. These data imply a role of MMPs in cartilage degeneration but incomplete protection suggests that additional doxycycline insensitive mechanisms are important in this model. The protective effect of doxycycline correlates with the clinical finding of lessened joint space narrowing, strengthens the utility of this animal model in identifying disease-modifying osteoarthritic drugs and supports the use of MRI biomarkers of cartilage loss.
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- Respiratory and Inflammation Research Area, AstraZeneca, Mereside, Alderley Park, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK.
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MR imaging of cartilage and its repair in the knee - a review. Eur Radiol 2009; 19:1582-94. [DOI: 10.1007/s00330-009-1352-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2008] [Revised: 01/20/2009] [Accepted: 01/26/2009] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Eckstein F, Hudelmaier M, Cahue S, Marshall M, Sharma L. Medial-to-lateral ratio of tibiofemoral subchondral bone area is adapted to alignment and mechanical load. Calcif Tissue Int 2009; 84:186-94. [PMID: 19148562 PMCID: PMC2929533 DOI: 10.1007/s00223-008-9208-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2008] [Accepted: 11/06/2008] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Malalignment is known to affect the medial-to-lateral load distribution in the tibiofemoral joint. In this longitudinal study, we test the hypothesis that subchondral bone surface areas functionally adapt to the load distribution in malaligned knees. Alignment (hip-knee-ankle angle) was measured from full limb films in 174 participants with knee osteoarthritis. Coronal magnetic resonance images were acquired at baseline and 26.6 +/- 5.4 months later. The subchondral bone surface area of the weight-bearing tibiofemoral cartilages was segmented, with readers blinded to the order of acquisition. The size of the subchondral bone surface areas was computed after triangulation by proprietary software. The hip-knee-ankle angle showed a significant correlation with the tibial (r (2) = 0.25, P < 0.0001) and femoral (r (2) = 0.07, P < 0.001) ratio of medial-to-lateral subchondral bone surface area. In the tibia, the ratio was significantly different between varus (1.28:1), neutral (1.18:1), and valgus (1.13:1) knees (analysis of variance [ANOVA]; P < 0.00001). Similar observations were made in the weight-bearing femur (0.94:1 in neutral, 0.97.1 in varus, 0.91:1 in valgus knees; ANOVA P = 0.018). The annualized longitudinal increase in subchondral bone surface area was significant (P < 0.05) in the medial tibia (+0.13%), medial femur (+0.26%), and lateral tibia (+0.19%). In the medial femur, the change between baseline and follow-up was significantly different (ANOVA; P = 0.020) between neutral, varus, and valgus knees, with the increase in surface area being significantly greater (P = 0.019) in varus than in neutral knees. Tibiofemoral subchondral bone surface areas are shown to be functionally adapted to the medial-to-lateral load distribution. The longitudinal findings indicate that this adaptational process may continue to take place at advanced age.
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- Felix Eckstein
- Institute of Anatomy and Musculoskeletal Research, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria.
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Xie L, Lin AS, Levenston ME, Guldberg RE. Quantitative assessment of articular cartilage morphology via EPIC-microCT. Osteoarthritis Cartilage 2009; 17:313-20. [PMID: 18789727 PMCID: PMC2683349 DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2008.07.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2008] [Accepted: 07/31/2008] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The objective of the present study was to validate the ability of Equilibrium Partitioning of an Ionic Contrast agent via microcomputed tomography (EPIC-microCT) to nondestructively assess cartilage morphology in the rat model. DESIGN An appropriate contrast agent (Hexabrix) concentration and incubation time for equilibration were determined for reproducible segmentation of femoral articular cartilage from contrast-enhanced microCT scans. Reproducibility was evaluated by triplicate scans of six femora, and the measured articular cartilage thickness was independently compared to thickness determined from needle probe testing and histology. The validated technique was then applied to quantify age-related differences in articular cartilage morphology between 4, 8, and 16-week-old (n=5 each) male Wistar rats. RESULTS A 40% Hexabrix/60% phosphate buffered saline (PBS) solution with 30 min incubation was optimal for segmenting cartilage from the underlying bone tissue and other soft tissues in the rat model. High reproducibility was indicated by the low coefficient of variation (1.7-2.5%) in cartilage volume, thickness and surface area. EPIC-microCT evaluation of thickness showed a strong linear relationship and good agreement with both needle probing (r(2)=0.95, slope=0.81, P<0.01, mean difference 11+/-22 microm, n=43) and histology (r(2)=0.99, slope=0.97, P<0.01, mean difference 12+/-10 microm, n=30). Cartilage volume and thickness significantly decreased with age while surface area significantly increased. CONCLUSION EPIC-microCT imaging has the ability to nondestructively evaluate three-dimensional articular cartilage morphology with high precision and accuracy in a small animal model.
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- Liqin Xie
- George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, 315 Ferst Drive, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0405
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- George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, 315 Ferst Drive, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0405
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, 233 Durand Building, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4038
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- George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, 315 Ferst Drive, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0405,Correspondence to: Robert E. Guldberg, Ph.D., Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, 315 Ferst Drive, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0405, 404-894-6589 (P), 404-385-1397 (F),
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Dam EB, Byrjalsen I, Karsdal MA, Qvist P, Christiansen C. Increased urinary excretion of C-telopeptides of type II collagen (CTX-II) predicts cartilage loss over 21 months by MRI. Osteoarthritis Cartilage 2009; 17:384-9. [PMID: 18768336 DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2008.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2008] [Accepted: 07/23/2008] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Osteoarthritis (OA) is characterized by increased bone and cartilage metabolism leading to joint damage. The urinary excretion of C-telopeptides of type II collagen (CTX-II) has earlier predicted progression in radiographic OA (ROA)--useful for participant selection in clinical studies of potential disease modifying OA drugs (DMOADs). We investigated the longitudinal interrelationship between CTX-II and knee cartilage volume quantified from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). METHODS We followed 158 subjects [48% females, 36 with knee ROA at baseline (BL)] for 21 months. The Kellgren and Lawrence (KL) index and joint space width were assessed from radiographs (acquired load-bearing, semi-flexed). MRI scans were acquired from a 0.18 T Esaote scanner (40 degrees flip angle (FA), TR 50 ms, TE 16 ms, scan time 10 min, resolution 0.7 mm x 0.7 mm x 0.8 mm) and medial tibial and femoral cartilage volume was quantified. Radiographs and MRI were acquired at BL and follow-up. Fasting morning urine samples (second void) were collected for BL CTX-II measurement. RESULTS CTX-II was 56% higher in ROA subjects (P=0.0001). In addition, elevated BL CTX-II was associated with radiographic progression (by KL or joint space narrowing) although not statistically significant. Contrarily, elevated BL CTX-II predicted longitudinal cartilage loss by MRI (middle/high tertiles had odds ratios 4.0/3.9, P<0.01) corresponding to 3.1% increased yearly cartilage loss. CONCLUSION Prognostic markers in study selection criteria must ensure that placebo-treated participants progress to enable efficacy demonstration. And efficacy markers must allow progression detection within the study period. Our results support applying CTX-II for selection of high risk subjects and applying the fully automatic MRI-based framework for quantification of cartilage loss.
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- E B Dam
- Nordic Bioscience A/S, Herlev Hovedgade 207, DK-2730 Herlev, Denmark.
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Li W, Abram F, Beaudoin G, Berthiaume MJ, Pelletier JP, Martel-Pelletier J. Human hip joint cartilage: MRI quantitative thickness and volume measurements discriminating acetabulum and femoral head. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2009; 55:2731-40. [PMID: 19126452 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2008.925679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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This paper aims at developing a quantitative system for measuring human hip cartilage thickness and volume using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A new MRI-acquisition technique, named axial rotation, where the acquisition planes are organized around a virtual axis, was used. The MRI protocol consists of a 2-D multiple-echo data image combination (MEDIC) using water excitation. Inner and outer interface contours of acetabulum and femoral head cartilage are obtained using a semiautomated 3-D segmentation method and combined to form 3-D surfaces. A local spherical coordinate system computed from the original contours enables cartilage thickness and volume computation. An anatomical labeling is performed automatically for thickness and volume measurements in predefined subregions: inferior, anterior, superior, and posterior. A registration module is introduced allowing the assessment of cartilage changes over time. Validation of the system was conducted with three protocols each involving data obtained from nine subjects: 1) registration process accuracy; 2) intrareader reproducibility; and 3) intervisit coefficient of variation. Data showed excellent correlation coefficients for either the intrareader (r>or=0.0942, p<0.0001 ) or intervisit (r>or=0.0837, p<0.005) protocols. This noninvasive system, which enables the quantification of cartilage thickness and volume in the human hip joint using MRI, is the first to discriminate the acetabular and femoral head cartilage throughout the entire hip without the use of an external device, and to implement hip registration for follow-up studies on the same subject.
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- Wei Li
- ArthroVision, Montreal, QC H2K 1B6, Canada.
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Imaging often plays an important role in pivotal clinical trials of drugs or devices that have been submitted for approval to regulatory agencies that grant approval for the marketing and sale of these products on the basis of documentation of their safety and efficacy. Imaging biomarkers can help substantiate either or both of these characteristics. This article focuses on how to successfully incorporate imaging biomarkers into clinical trials through a process of careful planning and diligent execution. Planning starts with posing and then answering a number of questions that pertain to the product under study. What will the claimed benefit of the product be? Is there a current standard of care that involves imaging, and will that standard of care help in the documentation of safety and efficacy? Are there relevant novel imaging biomarkers? Are there any relevant guidance documents issued by the regulatory agencies? After imaging biomarkers are identified, their role and benefit must be understood. Will they help diagnose subjects? Will they stratify subjects for enrollment? Will they identify those who are more likely to benefit? Will they help document progression of disease and effectiveness of intervention? Execution must occur in close collaboration with regulatory agencies and with the involvement of imaging experts and imaging core laboratories to ensure attention to key components: imaging charter, investigator training and certification, 21 CFR Part 11 (Part 11 of Title 21 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations)-compliant data management, real-time incoming image quality control for eligibility reads and investigator feedback, and centralized image analysis for safety and efficacy by certified readers.
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- Peter Steiger
- Optasia Medical Inc., 365 Boston Post Road #340, Sudbury, MA 01776, USA.
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Acebes C, Roman-Blas JA, Delgado-Baeza E, Palacios I, Herrero-Beaumont G. Correlation between arthroscopic and histopathological grading systems of articular cartilage lesions in knee osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis Cartilage 2009; 17:205-12. [PMID: 18676161 DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2008.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2008] [Accepted: 06/18/2008] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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PURPOSE Arthroscopic and particularly histopathological assessments have been used to evaluate alterations of knee cartilage in osteoarthritis (OA). The aim of this study was to examine the correlation between an arthroscopic method to grade the severity of chondropathies and the histological/histochemical grading system (HHGS) applied to the corresponding articular cartilage areas in knee OA. METHODS The articular cartilage surface was examined by chondroscopy using the Beguin and Locker severity criteria, analysing the lesions in 72 chondroscopic areas. Afterwards, samples were obtained by dividing the cartilage surface of the medial tibiofemoral compartment of three OA knee joints into equal squares and they were evaluated histologically using the HHGS. The correlation between both grading methods was assessed using the weighted Kappa coefficient (K(w)). RESULTS The results obtained with both scores showed good agreement (K(w): mean+/-standard deviation, 0.619+/-0.071). While the average HHGS scores of the chondral samples showed a better agreement with arthroscopic grades 0, I and II, the arthroscopic evaluation has a tendency to overestimate chondral lesions for histological grades III and IV. The intra- and inter-observer reliability of the HHGS evaluation of chondral lesions was excellent (Intraclass Correlation Coefficient: 0.909 and 0.941, respectively). CONCLUSION In this study, we found a good quantitative correlation between established arthroscopic severity and histopathological scoring systems, particularly in less advanced lesions. Our results suggest that the arthroscopic method is a valuable tool in clinical research to score chondropathies in the medial femorotibial compartment of the OA knee, although some limitations should not be overlooked.
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- C Acebes
- Bone and Joint Research Unit, Service of Rheumatology, Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain.
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With the recognition that osteoarthritis is a disease of the whole joint, attention has focused increasingly on features in the joint environment which cause ongoing joint damage and are likely sources of pain. This article reviews current ways of assessing osteoarthritis progression and what factors potentiate it, structural abnormalities that probably produce pain, new understandings of the genetics of osteoarthritis, and evaluations of new and old treatments.
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- David T Felson
- Boston University School of Medicine, Suite 200, 650 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA.
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Lange AK, Vanwanseele B, Foroughi N, Baker MK, Shnier R, Smith RM, Singh MAF. Resistive Exercise for Arthritic Cartilage Health (REACH): a randomized double-blind, sham-exercise controlled trial. BMC Geriatr 2009; 9:1. [PMID: 19144148 PMCID: PMC2649134 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-9-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2008] [Accepted: 01/13/2009] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Background This article provides the rationale and methodology, of the first randomised controlled trial to our knowledge designed to assess the efficacy of progressive resistance training on cartilage morphology in women with knee osteoarthritis. Development and progression of osteoarthritis is multifactorial, with obesity, quadriceps weakness, joint malalignment, and abnormal mechanical joint forces particularly relevant to this study. Progressive resistance training has been reported to improve pain and disability in osteoarthritic cohorts. However, the disease-modifying potential of progressive resistance training for the articular cartilage degeneration characteristic of osteoarthritis is unknown. Our aim was to investigate the effect of high intensity progressive resistance training on articular cartilage degeneration in women with knee osteoarthritis. Methods Our cohort consisted of women over 40 years of age with primary knee osteoarthritis, according to the American College of Rheumatology clinical criteria. Primary outcome was blinded measurement of cartilage morphology via magnetic resonance imaging scan of the tibiofemoral joint. Secondary outcomes included walking endurance, balance, muscle strength, endurance, power, and velocity, body composition, pain, disability, depressive symptoms, and quality of life. Participants were randomized into a supervised progressive resistance training or sham-exercise group. The progressive resistance training group trained muscles around the hip and knee at 80% of their peak strength and progressed 3% per session, 3 days per week for 6 months. The sham-exercise group completed all exercises except hip adduction, but without added resistance or progression. Outcomes were repeated at 3 and 6 months, except for the magnetic resonance imaging scan, which was only repeated at 6 months. Discussion Our results will provide an evaluation of the disease-modifying potential of progressive resistance training for osteoarthritis. Trial Registration ANZCTR Reference No. 12605000116628
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- Angela K Lange
- Exercise, Health and Performance Faculty Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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Guermazi A, Eckstein F, Hellio Le Graverand-Gastineau MP, Conaghan PG, Burstein D, Keen H, Roemer FW. Osteoarthritis: current role of imaging. Med Clin North Am 2009; 93:101-26, xi. [PMID: 19059024 DOI: 10.1016/j.mcna.2008.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most prevalent joint disease; it is increasingly common in the aging population of Western society and has a major health economic impact. Despite surgery and symptom-oriented approaches there is no efficient treatment. Conventional radiography has played a role in the past in confirming diagnosis and demonstrating late bony changes and joint space narrowing. MRI has become the method of choice in large research endeavors and may become important for individualized treatment planning. This article focuses on radiography and MRI, with insight into other modalities, such as ultrasound, scintigraphy, and CT. Their role in OA diagnosis, follow-up, and research is discussed.
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- Ali Guermazi
- Department of Radiology, Boston University School of Medicine, 820 Harrison Avenue, FGH Building, Third Floor, Boston, MA 02118, USA.
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Takahashi T, Yamanaka N, Ikeuchi M, Yamamoto H. Reproducibility of joint space width and the intermargin distance measurements in patients with medial osteoarthritis of the knee in various degrees of flexion. Skeletal Radiol 2009; 38:37-42. [PMID: 18773204 DOI: 10.1007/s00256-008-0572-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2008] [Revised: 07/20/2008] [Accepted: 07/28/2008] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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OBJECTIVE This study tested the variability and reproducibility of measurements of the joint space width (JSW) and intermargin distance (IMD) of the medial tibial plateau in specific positions of knee flexion in osteoarthritic knees in order to evaluate the most useful knee angle for radiographic measurements. DESIGN Radiographs from 56 knees with osteoarthritis from 46 patients were taken with the knees in conventional full extension and 15 degrees , 30 degrees , and 45 degrees of flexion with weight bearing. Three orthopedic surgeons independently measured the JSW and IMD at the narrowest point and the midpoint of medial tibial plateau using a computer-assisted method. RESULTS The JSW and IMD were smallest at 15 degrees flexion, both measured at the narrowest point and the midpoint of the medial compartment. Reproducibility of the IMD at the midpoint was better than at the narrowest point for all four flexion angles. CONCLUSION Measurements of the medial JSW and IMD are smallest at 15 degrees of knee flexion indicating that radiographs should be obtained at this angle in order to best demonstrate the extent of osteoarthritis.
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- Toshiaki Takahashi
- Department of Bone and Joint Surgery, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Shitsukawa, Toon, Ehime, 791-0295, Japan.
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Parsons S, Alesci S, Feuerstein G, Wang J. Biomarkers in the development of novel disease-modifying therapies for osteoarthritis. Biomark Med 2008; 2:587-602. [DOI: 10.2217/17520363.2.6.587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Identification and utilization of biomarkers is vitally important for the successful development of disease-modifying osteoarthritis drugs. Biochemical and imaging platforms hold great promise to deliver such biomarkers. Studies indicate a marked increase in biochemical products arising from the breakdown and biosynthesis of collagen, extracellular matrix and bone in osteoarthritis. These molecules have been associated with disease severity and may also have prognostic value as indicators of disease progression. However, issues including biological variability and lack of tissue specificity currently hinder the utility of these molecular markers in drug development. Imaging technologies hold great potential for sensitive and accurate measurement of disease-related structural damage. Drawbacks, including expense, need for validation and limited accessibility also limit the utility of these technologies. In this article, the potential value and challenges in developing and utilizing biomarkers in disease-modifying osteoarthritis drug development will be discussed.
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- Stephanie Parsons
- Discovery Translational Medicine, Wyeth Research, Collegeville, PA 19426, USA
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- Discovery Translational Medicine, Wyeth Research, Collegeville, PA 19426, USA
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- Discovery Translational Medicine, Wyeth Research, Collegeville, PA 19426, USA
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- Discovery Medicine & Clinical Pharmacology, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ 08765, USA
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Bliddal H, Boesen M, Christensen R, Kubassova O, Torp-Pedersen S. Imaging as a follow-up tool in clinical trials and clinical practice. Best Pract Res Clin Rheumatol 2008; 22:1109-26. [DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2008.09.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The osteoarthritis initiative: report on the design rationale for the magnetic resonance imaging protocol for the knee. Osteoarthritis Cartilage 2008; 16:1433-41. [PMID: 18786841 PMCID: PMC3048821 DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2008.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 482] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2007] [Accepted: 06/26/2008] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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OBJECTIVES To report on the process and criteria for selecting acquisition protocols to include in the osteoarthritis initiative (OAI) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study protocol for the knee. METHODS Candidate knee MR acquisition protocols identified from the literature were first optimized at 3Tesla (T). Twelve knees from 10 subjects were scanned one time with each of 16 acquisitions considered most likely to achieve the study goals and having the best optimization results. The resultant images and multi-planar reformats were evaluated for artifacts and structural discrimination of articular cartilage at the cartilage-fluid, cartilage-fat, cartilage-capsule, cartilage-meniscus and cartilage-cartilage interfaces. RESULTS The five acquisitions comprising the final OAI MRI protocol were assembled based on the study goals for the imaging protocol, the image evaluation results and the need to image both knees within a 75 min time slot, including positioning. For quantitative cartilage morphometry, fat-suppressed, 3D dual-echo in steady state (DESS) acquisitions appear to provide the best universal cartilage discrimination. CONCLUSIONS The OAI knee MRI protocol provides imaging data on multiple articular structures and features relevant to knee OA that will support a broad range of existing and anticipated measurement methods while balancing requirements for high image quality and consistency against the practical considerations of a large multi-center cohort study. Strengths of the final knee MRI protocol include cartilage quantification capabilities in three planes due to multi-planar reconstruction of a thin slice, high spatial resolution 3D DESS acquisition and the multiple, non-fat-suppressed image contrasts measured during the T2 relaxation time mapping acquisition.
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Toward integrated automated analysis of articular cartilage and trabecular bone in osteoarthritis. Acad Radiol 2008; 15:1479-81. [PMID: 19000864 DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2008] [Revised: 10/02/2008] [Accepted: 10/02/2008] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Eckstein F, Wirth W, Hudelmaier M, Stein V, Lengfelder V, Cahue S, Marshall M, Prasad P, Sharma L. Patterns of femorotibial cartilage loss in knees with neutral, varus, and valgus alignment. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 59:1563-70. [DOI: 10.1002/art.24208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Raynauld JP, Martel-Pelletier J, Abram F, Dorais M, Haraoui B, Choquette D, Bias P, Emmert KH, Laufer S, Pelletier JP. Analysis of the precision and sensitivity to change of different approaches to assess cartilage loss by quantitative MRI in a longitudinal multicentre clinical trial in patients with knee osteoarthritis. Arthritis Res Ther 2008; 10:R129. [PMID: 18986534 PMCID: PMC2656228 DOI: 10.1186/ar2543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2008] [Revised: 09/17/2008] [Accepted: 11/05/2008] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Introduction Cartilage thickness and volume loss measurements using quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI) are suggested to detect significant cartilage changes over short time intervals. We aimed to compare these two different approaches looking at the global knee and subregions, using data from an osteoarthritis (OA) multicentre randomised clinical trial. Methods Three hundred and fifty-five patients with symptomatic knee OA were recruited for a two-year, double-blind, randomised clinical trial evaluating the effect of 200 mg licofelone twice daily and 500 mg naproxen twice daily on cartilage loss, and 301 patients had baseline MRI. MRIs were performed at baseline, 6, 12 and 24 months. Cartilage volume and thickness in the global joint, medial and lateral compartments, and central weight-bearing subregions of the medial and lateral femoral condyles and tibial plateaus were analysed. Data were analysed for the mean value imputed for intent-to-treat (ITT-MVI) and statistical analyses were performed using two-sample Student's t-test. Results Cartilage mean thickness loss in the global joint, lateral and medial compartments, as well as in medial compartments stratified according to patients with or without meniscal extrusion, was significantly less in the licofelone compared with the naproxen group at 12 and 24 months. Interestingly, these data were similar to those found when using cartilage volume loss as an outcome. Although greater cartilage volume and mean thickness loss was seen in central weight-bearing subregions of the medial and lateral compartments compared with the whole compartment and also in patients with meniscal lesions/extrusion, suggesting good sensitivity to change, its high standard deviation precluded for the condyles a high statistical power and abrogated statistically significant differences between the treatment groups. Conclusions These data demonstrate that both the measurement of cartilage thickness and that of cartilage volume provide the same level of sensitivity to estimate cartilage loss in a clinical trial. However, the potential of gaining statistical power with the use of thickness/volume change in knee subregions as an outcome seems negated by high inter-patient variability. Moreover, there is no superiority in statistical power by selecting patients with meniscal extrusion.
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- Jean-Pierre Raynauld
- Osteoarthritis Research Unit, University of Montreal Hospital Centre, Notre-Dame Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Kijowski R, Tuite M, Passov L, Shimakawa A, Yu H, Hu H, Reeder SB. Cartilage imaging at 3.0T with gradient refocused acquisition in the steady-state (GRASS) and IDEAL fat-water separation. J Magn Reson Imaging 2008; 28:167-74. [PMID: 18581337 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To demonstrate the feasibility of evaluating the articular cartilage of the knee joint at 3.0T using gradient refocused acquisition in the steady-state (GRASS) and iterative decomposition of water and fat with echo asymmetry and least-squares estimation (IDEAL) fat-water separation. MATERIALS AND METHODS Bloch equation simulations and a clinical pilot study (n = 10 knees) were performed to determine the influence of flip angle of the IDEAL-GRASS sequence on the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of cartilage and synovial fluid and the contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) between cartilage and synovial fluid at 3.0T. The optimized IDEAL-GRASS sequence was then performed on 30 symptomatic patients as part of the routine 3.0T knee MRI examination at our institution. RESULTS The optimal flip angle was 50 degrees for IDEAL-GRASS cartilage imaging, which maximized contrast between cartilage and synovial fluid. The IDEAL-GRASS sequence consistently produced high-quality fat- and water-separated images of the knee with bright synovial fluid and 0.39 x 0.67 x 1.0 mm resolution in 5 minutes. IDEAL-GRASS images had high cartilage SNR and high contrast between cartilage and adjacent joint structures. The IDEAL-GRASS sequence provided excellent visualization of cartilage lesions in all patients. CONCLUSION The IDEAL-GRASS sequence shows promise for use as a morphologic cartilage imaging sequence at 3.0T.
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- Richard Kijowski
- Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin, 600 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53792, USA.
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Carballido-Gamio J, Link TM, Majumdar S. New techniques for cartilage magnetic resonance imaging relaxation time analysis: texture analysis of flattened cartilage and localized intra- and inter-subject comparisons. Magn Reson Med 2008; 59:1472-7. [PMID: 18506807 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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MR relaxation time measurements of knee cartilage have shown potential to characterize knee osteoarthritis (OA). In this work, techniques that allow localized intra- and inter-subject comparisons of cartilage relaxation times, as well as cartilage flattening for texture analysis parallel and perpendicular to the natural cartilage layers, are presented. The localized comparisons are based on the registration of bone structures and the assignment of relaxation time feature vectors to each point in the bone-cartilage interface. Cartilage flattening was accomplished with Bezier splines and warping, and texture analysis was performed with second-order texture measures using gray-level co-occurrence matrices (GLCM). In a cohort of five normal subjects the performance and reproducibility of the techniques were evaluated using T1rho maps of femoral knee cartilage. The feasibility of creating a mean cartilage relaxation time map is also presented. Successful localized intra- and inter-subject T1rho comparisons were obtained with reproducibility similar to that reported in the literature for regional T2. Improvement of the reproducibility of GLCM features was obtained by flattening the T1rho maps. The results indicate that the presented techniques have potential in longitudinal and population studies of knee OA at different stages of the disease.
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- Julio Carballido-Gamio
- Musculoskeletal and Quantitative Imaging Research Group, Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, USA.
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Quantitative imaging of musculoskeletal tissue, including radiography, computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), has become the essential methodology in clinical practice for diagnosis and monitoring of various musculoskeletal conditions. Furthermore, quantitative imaging technologies have become indispensable for research and development in diseases of the human skeleton. Standardized methods of image analysis have been developed through the years to quantify measurements on bone and cartilage with high precision and accuracy. Key areas of musculoskeletal disease where quantitative imaging is currently employed are osteoporosis and arthritis.
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- Peter Augat
- Biomechanics Laboratory, Trauma Center Murnau, 82418 Murnau, Germany.
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Minimum joint space width and tibial cartilage morphology in the knees of healthy individuals: a cross-sectional study. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 2008; 9:119. [PMID: 18778479 PMCID: PMC2542509 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-9-119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2008] [Accepted: 09/08/2008] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The clinical use of minimum joint space width (mJSW) and cartilage volume and thickness has been limited to the longitudinal measurement of disease progression (i.e. change over time) rather than the diagnosis of OA in which values are compared to a standard. This is primarily due to lack of establishment of normative values of joint space width and cartilage morphometry as has been done with bone density values in diagnosing osteoporosis. Thus, the purpose of this pilot study is to estimate reference values of medial joint space width and cartilage morphometry in healthy individuals of all ages using standard radiography and peripheral magnetic resonance imaging. DESIGN For this cross-sectional study, healthy volunteers underwent a fixed-flexion knee X-ray and a peripheral MR (pMR) scan of the same knee using a 1T machine (ONI OrthOne, Wilmington, MA). Radiographs were digitized and analyzed for medial mJSW using an automated algorithm. Only knees scoring <or=1 on the Kellgren-Lawrence scale (no radiographic evidence of knee OA) were included in the analyses. All 3D SPGRE fat-sat sagittal pMR scans were analyzed for medial tibial cartilage morphometry using a proprietary software program (Chondrometrics GmbH). RESULTS Of 119 healthy participants, 73 were female and 47 were male; mean (SD) age 38.2 (13.2) years, mean BMI 25.0 (4.4) kg/m2. Minimum JSW values were calculated for each sex and decade of life. Analyses revealed mJSW did not significantly decrease with increasing decade (p > 0.05) in either sex. Females had a mean (SD) medial mJSW of 4.8 (0.7) mm compared to males with corresponding larger value of 5.7 (0.8) mm. Cartilage morphometry results showed similar trends with mean (SD) tibial cartilage volume and thickness in females of 1.50 (0.19) microL/mm2 and 1.45 (0.19) mm, respectively, and 1.77 (0.24) microL/mm2 and 1.71 (0.24) mm, respectively, in males. CONCLUSION These data suggest that medial mJSW values do not decrease with aging in healthy individuals but remain fairly constant throughout the lifespan with "healthy" values of 4.8 mm for females and 5.7 mm for males. Similar trends were seen for cartilage morphology. Results suggest there may be no need to differentiate a t-score and a z-score in OA diagnosis because cartilage thickness and JSW remain constant throughout life in the absence of OA.
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Guermazi A, Burstein D, Conaghan P, Eckstein F, Hellio Le Graverand-Gastineau MP, Keen H, Roemer FW. Imaging in Osteoarthritis. Rheum Dis Clin North Am 2008; 34:645-87. [DOI: 10.1016/j.rdc.2008.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Eckstein F, Maschek S, Wirth W, Hudelmaier M, Hitzl W, Wyman B, Nevitt M, Le Graverand MPH. One year change of knee cartilage morphology in the first release of participants from the Osteoarthritis Initiative progression subcohort: association with sex, body mass index, symptoms and radiographic osteoarthritis status. Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 68:674-9. [PMID: 18519425 DOI: 10.1136/ard.2008.089904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) is a multicentre study targeted at identifying biomarkers for evaluating the progression and risk factors of symptomatic knee OA. Here cartilage loss using 3 Tesla (3 T) MRI is analysed over 1 year in a subset of the OAI, together with its association with various risk factors. METHODS An age- and gender-stratified subsample of the OAI progression subcohort (79 women and 77 men, mean (SD) age 60.9 (9.9) years, body mass index (BMI) 30.3 (4.7)) with both frequent symptoms and radiographic OA in at least one knee was studied. Coronal FLASHwe (fast low angle shot with water excitation) MRIs of the right knee were acquired at 3 T. Seven readers segmented tibial and femoral cartilages blinded to order of acquisition. Segmentations were quality controlled by one expert. RESULTS The reduction in mean cartilage thickness (ThC) was greater (p = 0.004) in the medial than in the lateral compartment, greater (p = 0.001) in the medial femur (-1.9%) than in the medial tibia (-0.5%) and greater (p = 0.011) in the lateral tibia (-0.7%) than in the lateral femur (0.1%). Multifactorial analysis of variance did not reveal significant differences in the rate of change in ThC by sex, BMI, symptoms and radiographic knee OA status. Knees with Kellgren-Lawrence grade 2 or 3 and with a BMI >30 tended to display greater changes. CONCLUSIONS In this sample of the OAI progression subcohort, the greatest, but overall very modest, rate of cartilage loss was observed in the weight-bearing medial femoral condyle. Knees with radiographic OA in obese participants showed trends towards higher rates of change than those of other participants, but these trends did not reach statistical significance.
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- F Eckstein
- Institute of Anatomy and Musculoskeletal Research, PMU, Salzburg, Austria.
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Muhle C, Ahn JM, Trudell D, Resnick D. Magnetic resonance imaging of the femoral trochlea: evaluation of anatomical landmarks and grading articular cartilage in cadaveric knees. Skeletal Radiol 2008; 37:527-33. [PMID: 18401581 DOI: 10.1007/s00256-008-0475-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2007] [Revised: 01/29/2008] [Accepted: 02/03/2008] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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PURPOSE The purpose of the study was to define magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings before and after contrast medium opacification of the knee joint in cadaveric specimens to demonstrate anatomical landmarks of the trochlear surface in relation to the neighboring structures, and to evaluate different MRI sequences in the detection of cartilage defects of the trochlear and patellar surface of the knee. MATERIALS AND METHODS The morphology and relationship of the proximal trochlear surface to the prefemoral fat of the distal femur were investigated by use of different MR sequences before and after intra-articular gadolinium administration into the knee joint in ten cadaveric knees. Anatomic sections were subsequently obtained. In addition, evaluation of the articular surface of the trochlea was performed by two independent observers. The cartilage surfaces were graded using a 2-point system, and results were compared with macroscopic findings. RESULTS Of 40 cartilage surfaces evaluated, histopathologic findings showed 9 normal surfaces, 20 containing partial-thickness defects, and 11 containing full-thickness defects. Compared with macroscopic data, sensitivity of MR sequences for the two reviewers was between 17 and 90%; specificity, 75 and 100%; positive predictive value, 75 and 100%; negative predictive value, 20 and 100%, depending on patellar or trochlea lesions. Interobserver variability for the presence of disease, which was measured using the kappa statistic, was dependent on the MR sequence used between 0.243 and 0.851. CONCLUSION Magnetic resonance imaging sequences can be used to evaluate the cartilage of the trochlear surface with less accuracy when compared with the results of grading the articular cartilage of the patella.
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- Claus Muhle
- Department of Radiology, Marienhospital Vechta, Vechta, Germany.
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Wirth W, Eckstein F. A technique for regional analysis of femorotibial cartilage thickness based on quantitative magnetic resonance imaging. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING 2008; 27:737-744. [PMID: 18541481 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2007.907323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 161] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The objective of this work was to develop a methodology for measuring cartilage thickness in anatomically based subregions in the tibial and in the central weight-bearing femoral cartilage from magnetic resonance (MR) images. The tibial plateau was divided into a central area of the total subchondral bone area (tAB), and anterior, posterior, internal, and external subregions surrounding it. In the weight-bearing femoral condyles, central, internal, and external subregions were determined. The Euclidean distance between the tAB and cartilage surface was used for determining cartilage thickness. The reproducibility of the method was evaluated on test-retest data sets of 12 participants (six healthy, six with osteoarthritis). The subregion size was varied systematically to study the influence on the reproducibility. The size of the subregions was highly consistent under conditions of repositioning (standard deviation 0.0%-0.3%). The precision errors for regional mean cartilage thickness measurements ranged from 19 microm (1.5%) to 84 microm (4.7%). The computation of regional cartilage thickness values from segmented MR images is shown to be highly reproducible and robust under conditions of joint repositioning. In longitudinal studies, this technique may substantially enhance the ability of quantitative MRI to monitor structural changes in osteoarthritis at narrow time intervals.
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- Wolfgang Wirth
- Chondrometrics GmbH, Ulrichshöglerstr. 23, 83404 Ainring, Germany.
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Bolbos R, Benoit-Cattin H, Langlois JB, Chomel A, Chereul E, Odet C, Janier M, Pastoureau P, Beuf O. Measurement of knee cartilage thickness using MRI: a reproducibility study in a meniscectomized guinea pig model of osteoarthritis. NMR IN BIOMEDICINE 2008; 21:366-75. [PMID: 17708519 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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The in vivo precision (reproducibility) of quantitative MRI is of particular importance in osteoarthritis (OA) progression of small magnitude and response to therapy. In this study, three-dimensional high-resolution MRI performed at 7 T was used to assess the short-term reproducibility of measurements of mean tibial cartilage thickness in a meniscectomized guinea pig model of OA. MR image acquisition was repeated five times in nine controls (SHAM) and 10 osteoarthritic animals 3 months after meniscectomy (MNX), in vivo. The animals were then killed for histomorphometric assessment and correlation with the MRI-based measurements. Medial tibial cartilage thickness was measured on MR images using semi-automatic dedicated 3D software developed in-house. The reproducibility of measurements of cartilage thickness was assessed by five repeated MRI examinations with a short recovery delay between examinations (48 h). The computed coefficients of variation were 8.9% for the SHAM group and 8.2% for the MNX group. The coefficients of variation were compatible with expected thickness variations between normal and pathological animals. A positive agreement and significant partial correlation (Spearman r' = 0.74; P < 0.01) between the MRI and histomorphometric data was established. Three-dimensional high-resolution MRI is a promising non-invasive research tool for in vivo follow-up. This modality could be used for staging and monitoring therapy response in small-animal models of OA.
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- R Bolbos
- Plate-forme ANIMAGE, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, Rhône-Alpes Genopole, Lyon, France
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Pelletier JP, Raynauld JP, Berthiaume MJ, Abram F, Choquette D, Haraoui B, Beary JF, Cline GA, Meyer JM, Martel-Pelletier J. Risk factors associated with the loss of cartilage volume on weight-bearing areas in knee osteoarthritis patients assessed by quantitative magnetic resonance imaging: a longitudinal study. Arthritis Res Ther 2008; 9:R74. [PMID: 17672891 PMCID: PMC2206376 DOI: 10.1186/ar2272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 180] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2007] [Revised: 07/10/2007] [Accepted: 07/31/2007] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The objective of this study was to identify, on a symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (OA) cohort, the risk factors associated with the progression of the disease. More specifically, we investigated the correlation between knee cartilage volume loss from subregions over the span of 24 months by means of quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI) with demographic, clinical, radiological, and MRI structural changes. A cohort of 107 patients with knee OA selected from a large trial evaluating the effect of a bisphosphonate underwent x-rays and MRI of the knee at baseline and 24 months. Joint space width (JSW) and joint space narrowing (JSN) and cartilage volume loss over time in subregions of the tibial plateaus and femoral condyles were quantitated. Structural changes in the subchondral bone (hypersignal) and in the menisci (tear and extrusion) were also evaluated. The greatest cartilage volume loss was found in the medial compartment, and risk factors included female gender, JSW, meniscal lesions, and bone changes at baseline. Subregion analysis revealed that the greatest cartilage volume loss at 24 months was found in the central area of the medial tibial plateau (15%; p < 0.0001) and of the medial femoral condyle (12%; p < 0.0001). These findings were associated with the presence at baseline of meniscal extrusion, particularly severe meniscal extrusion, medial and severe meniscal tear, bone hypersignal, high body mass index (BMI), smaller JSW, increases in Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) pain and patient global scores over time, and greater JSN. Parameters predicting medial central femoral condyle cartilage volume loss at 24 months were lateral meniscal tear, SF-36 and BMI at baseline, and JSN. At the medial central tibial plateau, the parameters were severe meniscal extrusion, severe lateral meniscal tear, and bone hypersignal in the lateral compartment at baseline, and WOMAC pain change. Meniscal damage and bone changes are the features most closely associated with the greatest subregional cartilage volume loss. Interestingly, for the first time, JSN was strongly associated with cartilage loss in the central areas of plateaus and condyles. This study also further confirms the correlation between cartilage volume loss and JSN and symptomatic changes at 24 months.
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- Jean-Pierre Pelletier
- Osteoarthritis Research Unit, University of Montreal Hospital Center, 1560 Sherbrooke Street East, Montreal, QC, Canada H2L 4M1
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- Osteoarthritis Research Unit, University of Montreal Hospital Center, 1560 Sherbrooke Street East, Montreal, QC, Canada H2L 4M1
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- Radiology Department, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, 5415, boulevard de l'Assomption, Montreal, QC, Canada H1T 2M4
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- Research & Development, ArthroVision, 1871 Sherbrooke Street East, Montreal, QC, Canada H2K 1B6
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- Osteoarthritis Research Unit, University of Montreal Hospital Center, 1560 Sherbrooke Street East, Montreal, QC, Canada H2L 4M1
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- Osteoarthritis Research Unit, University of Montreal Hospital Center, 1560 Sherbrooke Street East, Montreal, QC, Canada H2L 4M1
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- Health Care Research Center, Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, 8700 Mason-Montgomery Road, Mason, OH 45040-9462, USA
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- Health Care Research Center, Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, 8700 Mason-Montgomery Road, Mason, OH 45040-9462, USA
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- Health Care Research Center, Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, 8700 Mason-Montgomery Road, Mason, OH 45040-9462, USA
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- Osteoarthritis Research Unit, University of Montreal Hospital Center, 1560 Sherbrooke Street East, Montreal, QC, Canada H2L 4M1
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Tameem HZ, Selva LE, Sinha US. Morphological atlases of knee cartilage: shape indices to analyze cartilage degradation in osteoarthritic and non-osteoarthritic population. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 2007:1310-3. [PMID: 18002204 DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2007.4352538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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3D magnetic resonance imaging of the articular cartilage allows accurate morphological assessment of the cartilage with relevance for identifying osteoarthritis (OA) status and to monitor progression and response to treatment. We propose the creation of morphological atlases of the cartilage using normal subjects segregated by age, sex, and gender. These atlases capture the variation of shape in normal subjects and are then used to classify new imaging studies as belonging to ;normal (asymptomatic of OA)' or ;abnormal (symptomatic of OA)'. The classification is performed by (i) analysis of the 3D deformation field required to move voxels to their corresponding locations in the atlas. Deformations beyond +/-2SD of normal variations constitute regions with large morphological changes; (ii) generating active shape models from the normal subject data and using the shape coefficients to classify cartilage morphology. The methodology is evaluated with an atlas of 20 normal subjects in one sub-type and testing the classification potential with 3 subjects symptomatic and 3 subjects asymptomatic of OA.
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- Hussain Z Tameem
- Biomedical Engineering Department and Medical Imaging Informatics Program at University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA.
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D'Anjou MA, Moreau M, Troncy E, Martel-Pelletier J, Abram F, Raynauld JP, Pelletier JP. Osteophytosis, subchondral bone sclerosis, joint effusion and soft tissue thickening in canine experimental stifle osteoarthritis: comparison between 1.5 T magnetic resonance imaging and computed radiography. Vet Surg 2008; 37:166-77. [PMID: 18251811 DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-950x.2007.00363.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To compare use of 1.5 T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed radiography (CR) for morphologic and temporal evaluation of osteophytosis, subchondral sclerosis, joint effusion, and synovial thickening in experimentally induced canine stifle osteoarthritis (OA). STUDY DESIGN Prospective study. ANIMALS Dogs (n=8). METHODS CR (mediolateral and caudocranial projections) and MRI (dorsal 3D T1-weighted gradient echo, sagittal 3D SPGR and T2-weighted fast spin echo with fat saturation) were performed at baseline (n=8) and at week 4 (n=5), week 8 (n=8), and week 26 (n=5) after cranial cruciate ligament transection. Osteophytosis, subchondral bone sclerosis, and joint effusion were scored on CR and MRI, and synovial thickening on MRI. RESULTS MRI was more sensitive than CR for detection of osteophytosis and could better discriminate joint effusion from soft tissue thickening, although scores for these variables strongly correlated between modalities (rho=0.94 [osteophytosis] and 0.80 [effusion]; P<.001). Scores for subchondral bone sclerosis also correlated (rho=0.54, P<.004), although this variable may have been over interpreted on CR. Joint effusion and synovial thickening peaked at week 8, before partially regressing at week 26. Conversely, osteophytosis and sclerosis progressed semi-linearly over 26 weeks. CONCLUSION MRI is more sensitive than radiography in assessing onset and progression of osteophytosis in canine experimental stifle OA and provides enhanced discrimination between joint effusion and synovial thickening. CLINICAL RELEVANCE MRI is as a more powerful imaging modality that should be increasingly used in animals to assess the joint related effects of disease-modifying OA drugs.
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- Marc-André D'Anjou
- Companion Animal Research Group, Département de Sciences Cliniques, Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire, Université de Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada.
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Urquhart DM, Soufan C, Teichtahl AJ, Wluka AE, Hanna F, Cicuttini FM. Factors that may mediate the relationship between physical activity and the risk for developing knee osteoarthritis. Arthritis Res Ther 2008; 10:203. [PMID: 18279536 PMCID: PMC2374461 DOI: 10.1186/ar2343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Studies investigating the effect of physical activity on risk for developing osteoarthritis at weight-bearing joints have reported conflicting results. We examine evidence to suggest that this may be due to the existence of subgroups of individuals who differ in their response to physical activity, as well as methodological issues associated with the assessment of knee joint structure and physical activity. Recommendations for future studies of physical activity and the development of knee osteoarthritis are discussed.
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- Donna M Urquhart
- Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Melbourne 3004, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Melbourne 3004, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Melbourne 3004, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Melbourne 3004, Australia
- Baker Heart Research Institute, AMREP Centre, Commercial Road, Melbourne, 3004, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Melbourne 3004, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Melbourne 3004, Australia
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