%0 Journal Article
%T Experience of Patients Undergoing Mini-Arthroscopy Compared to MRI in the Earliest Phases of Arthritis
%A Maria J. H. de Hair
%A Marleen G. H. van de Sande
%A Mario Maas
%A Danielle M. Gerlag
%A Paul P. Tak
%J International Journal of Clinical Medicine
%P 1-5
%@ 2158-2882
%D 2013
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ijcm.2013.412A2001
%X <p class=\"MsoNormal\">
	<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Objective</span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">: </span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">To evaluate the expectations and experience of
patients undergoing mini-arthroscopy compared to contrast enhanced MRI for
research purposes. </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Methods</span></span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">: </span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Seventeen
patients with early, active arthritis (Group A) and 21 autoan</span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">tibody-positive individuals without any evidence of
arthritis upon physical examination (Group B) were included. All subjects
underwent both contrast enhanced MRI and synovial biopsy sampling by mini-arthroscopy
of the same joint within one week. At inclusion and after both procedures,
subjects filled in questionnaires with items about expectations and experience
with regard to the procedures.</span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> </span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Results</span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">: </span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Before procedures</span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">, </span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">s</span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">ubjects in
group B had </span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">a </span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">higher fear of and reluctance to undergo
mini-arthroscopy compared to MRI (p &lt; 0.0001 and p = 0.001, respectively).
Before procedures</span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">,</span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> 42% of the subjects preferred MRI, 11% of the subjects preferred
mini-arthroscopy and 47% had no preference for ei</span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">ther
procedure. After both procedures</span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">, </span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">subjects preferences changed to 39% for MRI,
32% for mini-arthroscopy and 29% for no preference for one or the other
procedure.</span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> When comparing Group A with Group B, there were no signif</span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">i</span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">cant differences in preference before
%K Arthritis
%K Rheumatoid
%K Synovium
%K Arthroscopy
%K MRI
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=41310