1. The new frontiers of ultrasound in the complex world of vasculitides and scleroderma
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L Gargani, Nemanja Damjanov, Eugenio Picano, Olga Kaloudi, Francesco Porta, Marco Matucci-Cerinic, and Wolfgang A. Schmidt
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Vasculitis ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Scleroderma, Systemic ,business.industry ,Outcome measures ,medicine.disease ,Systemic scleroderma ,Scleroderma ,Disease activity ,Clinical Practice ,Rheumatology ,Echocardiography ,medicine ,Physical therapy ,Humans ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Ultrasonography ,business ,Intensive care medicine ,Lung ,Musculoskeletal System - Abstract
Modern US equipment allows rheumatologists to directly visualize vascular, musculoskeletal, dermal and internal organ structure. In multisystemic and challenging diseases such as vasculitides and scleroderma, where new outcome measures are required in both clinical practice and trials, US measures promise reproducible and objective scores of disease activity and extension. US reveals early pathognonomic abnormalities and may help start early treatment.
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- 2012
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