Validity and role of vertebral fracture assessment in detecting prevalent vertebral fracture in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
- Title
- Validity and role of vertebral fracture assessment in detecting prevalent vertebral fracture in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
- Author
- 성윤경
- Keywords
- Vertebral fracture assessment (VFA); Rheumatoid arthritis; Vertebral fracture; Osteoporosisa
- Issue Date
- 2014-03
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam.
- Citation
- Joint, bone, spine : revue du rhumatisme,v.81,no.2 2014년, pp.149 - 153
- Abstract
- Objective: We aimed to identify the validity and the role of vertebral fracture assessment (VFA) for the diagnosis of prevalent vertebral fracture (VF) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients.Methods: Total of 100 women with RA who were 50 years or older were enrolled. All participants underwent lateral imaging of the thoraco-lumbar spine by radiography and VFA. All radiographs were analyzed by two radiologists. Discrepancies between radiologists for spine radiography were resolved by consensus and these results were defined as the reference standard. VFA interpretation was done independently by two nuclear medicine physicians. Fracture defined by VFA measure was done only when two physicians both independently reported fracture. The inter-rater agreement for the detection of VF on VFA was evaluated by kappa statistics. We calculated percent values for the diagnostic validity of VFA in detecting VF in the 100 women as a whole and according to the presence of previous fracture or back pain.Results: The preval
- URI
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1297319X13001796http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11754/50585
- ISSN
- 1297-319X; 1778-7254
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jbspin.2013.07.003; 10.1016/j.jbspin.2013.07.003
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