TY - JOUR T1 - Utility of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Diagnosis and Monitoring Enthesitis in Patients with Spondyloarthritis: an OMERACT Systematic Literature Review JF - The Journal of Rheumatology JO - J Rheumatol DO - 10.3899/jrheum.181083 SP - jrheum.181083 AU - Ashish J. Mathew AU - Simon Krabbe AU - Richard Kirubakaran AU - Andrew J. Barr AU - Philip G. Conaghan AU - Paul Bird AU - Mikkel Østergaard Y1 - 2019/02/01 UR - http://www.jrheum.org/content/early/2019/01/23/jrheum.181083.abstract N2 - Objective A systematic literature review was performed to document published MRI lesion definitions and scoring systems for enthesitis in SpA. Methods PubMed, EMBase and Cochrane library databases were searched for original publications involving adult SpA patients undergoing MRI of axial/peripheral joints. Selected articles were assessed for quality using a standardised assessment tool and metric indices. Results Considering the heterogeneous nature, quality and outcome measures of studies, statistical data pooling was considered inappropriate. A qualitative narrative of results was undertaken based on study designs. Conclusion Lack of a comprehensive, validated score warrants additional research to develop an MRI enthesitis scoring system. ER -