PEDERZOLI , Silvia Maria Rita

Objective To estimate the placebo effect in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) through a meta-analysis of phase III clinical trials with placebo comparator. Methods A systematic literature search was carried out up to December 2014. For parallel design studies the outcome was evaluated as a single 1-dimensional (1-D) variable or as a composite...

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Objective: To compare the American College of Rheumatology paediatric (ACRp) response criteria and conventional radiography with MRI findings in a cohort of patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Methods: Forty consecutive patients (30 girls, 10 boys; median age 10.8 years) with arthritis of the wrist starting treatment with...

Objective To introduce a novel automated method for the quantification of the inflamed synovial membrane volume (SV) using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and to investigate its feasibility and validity in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Methods The tool was tested on 58 patients with JIA and wrist involvement. Thirty-six...