The late-stage forms of degenerative osteoarthritis (OA) are very debilitating and less affordable to therapy. The main objective is to identify early onset symptoms of hand OA patients through imaging techniques (such as ultrasound and MRI). Our primary endpoint is to specify patients with high risk of radiological profression (X-ray).
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patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid psoriasis or any other inflammatory rheumatism
patients suffering from metabolic diseasis such as gout, hemochromatosis, Wilson's disease; or from congenital disease such as displasie, osteogenesis,
Presence of advanced radiographic osteoarthritis based in Kellgreen Lawrence score (=4) in one joint among the 10 previous sites.
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