Definitions and reliability assessment of elementary ultrasound lesions in giant cell arteritis: a study from the OMERACT Large Vessel Vasculitis Ultrasound Working …

S Chrysidis, C Duftner, C Dejaco, VS Schäfer… - RMD open, 2018 - rmdopen.bmj.com
Objectives To define the elementary ultrasound (US) lesions in giant cell arteritis (GCA) and
to evaluate the reliability of the assessment of US lesions according to these definitions in a …

The US7 score is sensitive to change in a large cohort of patients with rheumatoid arthritis over 12 months of therapy

TM Backhaus, S Ohrndorf, H Kellner, J Strunk… - Annals of the …, 2013 - ard.bmj.com
Purpose To determine the sensitivity to change of the US7 score among RA patients under
various therapies and to analyze the effect of each therapeutic option over 1 year. To …

Development and evaluation of a novel ultrasound score for large joints in rheumatoid arthritis: one year of experience in daily clinical practice

W Hartung, H Kellner, J Strunk, H Sattler… - Arthritis care & …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To introduce and evaluate a new standardized ultrasound (US) score developed
for large joints in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods A US score was designed …

Ultrasound-guided sacroiliac joint injection in patients with established sacroiliitis: precise IA injection verified by MRI scanning does not predict clinical outcome

W Hartung, CJ Ross, R Straub, S Feuerbach… - …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Objective. IA injections of SIJs with corticosteroids are often performed in patients suffering
from low back pain due to active sacroiliitis. However, SIJ injections are technically …

The provisional OMERACT ultrasonography score for giant cell arteritis

C Dejaco, C Ponte, S Monti, D Rozza… - Annals of the …, 2023 - ard.bmj.com
Objectives To develop an Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT)
ultrasonography score for monitoring disease activity in giant cell arteritis (GCA) and …

Electrical and thermal conductivity of liquid phase sintered SiC

E Volz, A Roosen, W Hartung, A Winnacker - Journal of the European …, 2001 - Elsevier
Commercial silicon carbide ceramics are semi-conductors. To obtain SiC ceramics with
insulating properties, a synthesised SiC powder which was doped with vanadium and boron …

A comparison of three methods of measuring emphysema

WM Thurlbeck, MS Dunnill, W Hartung, BE Heard… - Human pathology, 1970 - Elsevier
We have assessed between-observer and within-observer variations of three methods of
measuring emphysema in paper mounted whole lung (Gough-Wentworth) sections. These …

Assessing vasculitis in giant cell arteritis by ultrasound: results of OMERACT patient-based reliability exercises

VS Schäfer, S Chrysidis, C Dejaco, C Duftner… - The Journal of …, 2018 - jrheum.org
Objective. To test the reliability of Outcome Measures in Rheumatology Clinical Trials
(OMERACT) consensus-based ultrasound definitions for normal and vasculitic temporal and …

[HTML][HTML] The EFSUMB Guidelines and Recommendations for Musculoskeletal Ultrasound–Part I: Extraarticular Pathologies

D Fodor, SC Rodriguez-Garcia… - Ultraschall in der …, 2022 - thieme-connect.com
The first part of the guidelines and recommendations for musculoskeletal ultrasound,
produced under the auspices of the European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in …

[HTML][HTML] Rheumatoid Arthritis-Associated Autoimmunity Due to Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans and Its Resolution With Antibiotic Therapy

A Mukherjee, V Jantsch, R Khan, W Hartung… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Background: Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans (Aa) is a Gram-negative
coccobacillus recognized as a pathogen in periodontitis and infective endocarditis. By …