Andrea Delle Sedie, Lene Terslev, George A W Bruyn, Tomas Cazenave, Stavros Chrysidis, Mario Diaz, Marco Di Carlo, Marilena Frigato, Luna Gargani, Marwin Gutierrez, Alojzija Hocevar, Annamaria Iagnocco, Aaron Juche, Helen Keen, Peter Mandl, Esperanza Naredo, Mohamed Mortada, Carlos Pineda, Rositsa Karalilova, Francesco Porta, Viviana Ravagnani, Carlo Scirè, Teodora Serban, Kate Smith, Maria S Stoenoiu, Marika Tardella, Karina Torralba, Richard Wakefield, Maria Antonietta D'Agostino
OBJECTIVES: Over the last years ultrasound has shown to be an important tool for evaluating lung involvement, including interstitial lung disease (ILD) a potentially severe systemic involvement in many rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD). Despite the potential sensitivity of the technique the actual use is hampered by the lack of consensual definitions of elementary lesions to be assessed and of the scanning protocol to apply. Within the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) Ultrasound Working Group we aimed at developing consensus-based definitions for ultrasound detected ILD findings in RMDs and assessing their reliability in dynamic images...
April 2024: Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism