RANTES and monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 as sensitive markers of disease activity in patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis: A six-year longitudinal study

Documenting damage progression in a two-

Documenting damage progression in a two-year longitudinal study of rheumatoid arthritis patients with established disease (the DAMAGE study cohort): Is there an advantage in the use of magnetic resonance imaging as compared with plain radiography?

✍ Paul Bird; Bruce Kirkham; Ian Portek; Ron Shnier; Fredrick Joshua; John Edmonds; 📂 Article 📅 2004 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 143 KB 👁 2 views

## Abstract ## Objective In early rheumatoid arthritis (RA), longitudinal studies have demonstrated that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is more sensitive than radiography in demonstrating progressive erosive joint damage. The present study evaluated the progression of erosive damage in patients