Diagnostic Impact of Subcutaneous Edema in Gouty Feet Detected by Dual-Energy Computed Tomography and Ultrasound
Julia Held, Christoph Strolz, Monique Reijnierse, Mihra Taljanovic, Pietro G Lacaita, Miar Ouaret, Elke R Gizewski, Günter Weiss, Andrea S Klauser, Andrea Ciarmiello · 2024
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Description
Julia Held and co-authors find a swelling clue in gouty feet in a 2024 imaging study. Gout floods joints with urate crystals, and the team asked how often the skin tissue above them swells with lymph fluid. Seventy-nine patients in an acute flare had both ultrasound and dual-energy CT scans of the foot.
More than half showed subcutaneous lymphedema on imaging. Nearly every swollen case also held urate deposits outside the joint, while no patient with joint-only deposits had swelling. That tight link suggests the swelling flags disease that has spilled beyond the joint space. A lower-threshold scan protocol also proved far more sensitive for finding rim deposits than the standard one. The authors say spotting the swelling can sharpen both diagnosis and staging of foot gout.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Julia Held, Christoph Strolz, Monique Reijnierse, Mihra Taljanovic, Pietro G Lacaita, Miar Ouaret, Elke R Gizewski, Günter Weiss, Andrea S Klauser, Andrea Ciarmiello |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |