Osteoporosis is a silent disease without any evidence of disease until a fracture occurs.
Approximately 200 million people in the world are affected by osteoporosis and 8.9 million …

Effective prevention and management of osteoporosis would require suitable methods for
population screenings and early diagnosis. Current clinically-available diagnostic methods …

We investigated the possible clinical feasibility and accuracy of an innovative ultrasound (US)
method for diagnosis of osteoporosis of the spine. A total of 342 female patients (aged 51–…

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the influence of low dose methotrexate (MTX) on bone using data
from a large multicenter, cross-sectional study on bone mineral density (BMD) in women with …

Objective To define the role of ultrasound (US) for the assessment of patients with rheumatoid
arthritis (RA) in clinical remission, including joint and tendon evaluation. Methods A …

Background Symptomatic severe osteoarthritis and hip osteoporotic fractures are the main
conditions requiring total hip arthroplasty (THA), whereas total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is …

Background Radiofrequency Echographic Multi Spectrometry (REMS) is a non-ionizing
technology for the densitometric assessment of osteoporosis. It has already been validated in …

Purpose To investigate the effectiveness of the T-score values provided by Radiofrequency
Echographic Multi Spectrometry (REMS) in the identification of patients at risk for incident …

Objectives. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of US-detected tenosynovitis in RA
patients in clinical remission and to explore its clinical correlates. Methods. A total of 427 RA …

Background Accurate estimation of the imminent fragility fracture risk currently represents a
challenging task. The novel Fragility Score (FS) parameter, obtained during a …