Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI of synovitis in knee osteoarthritis: repeatability, discrimination and sensitivity to change in a prospective experimental study
Publication: European Radiology
James W. MacKay, Faezeh Sanaei Nezhad, Tamam Rifai, Joshua D. Kaggie, Josephine H. Naish, Caleb Roberts, Martin J. Graves, John C. Waterton, Robert L. Janiczek, Alexandra R. Roberts, Andrew McCaskie, Fiona J. Gilbert & Geoff J. M. Parker
16 February 2021
Summary
Using a method called dynamic contrast enhancement, where gadolinium contrast is used to detect synovitis (inflammation) in the knee, as a predictor of osteoarthritis. Researchers follow patients for 6-months to detect changes and found it may predict osteoarthritis development.