Utility of the Ultrasound Examination of the Hand and Wrist Joints in the Management of Established Rheumatoid Arthritis

To investigate the usefulness of point-of-care hand and wrist joint ultrasound (US) examination in patients with established rheumatoid arthritis (RA).Fifty-one RA patients were evaluated using clinical disease activity measures and gray-scale and power Doppler (PD) US. Agreement between US and clinical findings and its impact on physicians' confidence and clinical decision were assessed.Agreement between intraarticular PD signal and joint...