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Repair in Rheumatoid Arthritis, Current Status.
Report of a Workshop at OMERACT 8
DÉSIRÉE van der HEIJDE, ROBERT LANDEWÉ, JOHN T. SHARP for the OMERACT Subcommittee on Repair ABSTRACT. Repair of structural damage in rheumatoid arthritis has drawn much attention with newly available effective treatments. A workshop was held at OMERACT 8 to update current knowledge on the validity of the concept of repair and on the assessment of repair. In preparation for the workshop several studies were performed and the results were presented. This was followed by a discussion and voting on statements on various aspects of repair. A majority of participants agreed that results of the new studies strengthen the validity of the concept of repair, and that repair can be assessed on radiographs. There was less agreement on the best means of measurement and there was a plea for more extensive reporting of data, i.e., not limited to sum scores of all joints together. The conclusions of the workshop mean a big step forward in the acceptance and assessment of repair. (J Rheumatol 2007;34:884–8) Key Indexing Terms:
RADIOGRAPHS From the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University Hospital Maastricht, and CAPHRI Research Institute, University Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands; and the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA. Studies 1 to 3 were supported by unrestricted grants from Abbott, Amgen, and Centocor to the OMERACT Working Group on Repair and by contributed services from BioImaging Technologies. D. van der Heijde, MD, PhD, Professor of Rheumatology; R. Landewé, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University Hospital Maastricht, and CAPHRI Research Institute, University Maastricht; J.T. Sharp, MD, Affiliate Professor of Medicine, University of Washington. Members of the OMERACT Subcommittee on Repair: M. Boers, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; A. Boonen, University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands; S. Einstein, BioImaging Technologies, Newtown, PA, USA; P. Emery, University of Leeds School of Medicine, Leeds, United Kingdom; G. Herborn; R. Rau; S. Wassenberg, Evangelische Fachkrankenhaus Ratingen, Ratingen, Germany; B. Weissman; C. Winalski, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. Address reprint requests to Prof. D. van der Heijde, Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Maastricht, PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands. E-mail: d.vanderheijde@kpnplanet.nl
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