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Structural predictors of response to intra-articular steroid injection in symptomatic knee osteoarthritis
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Maricar, Nasimah, Parkes, Matthew J., Callaghan, Michael J., Hutchinson, Charles E., Gait, Andrew D., Hodgson, Richard, Felson, David T. and O’Neill, Terence W. (2017) Structural predictors of response to intra-articular steroid injection in symptomatic knee osteoarthritis. Arthritis Research & Therapy, 19 (1). 88. doi:10.1186/s13075-017-1292-2 ISSN 1478-6354.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13075-017-1292-2
Abstract
Background:
The aim was to examine if structural factors could affect response to intra-articular steroid injections (IASI) in knee osteoarthritis (OA).
Method:
Persons with painful knee OA participated in an open-label trial of IASI where radiographic joint space narrowing (JSN) and Kellgren-Lawrence (KL) grade, whole-organ magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scores (WORMS) and quantitative assessment of synovial tissue volume (STV) were assessed on baseline images. Participants completed the Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) and a question about knee pain with a visual analogue scale for pain during nominated activity (VASNA), and Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT)-Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) criteria were used to assess responder status within 2 weeks (short term) and 6 months (longer term). Regression models were used to examine predictors of short and longer term response to IASI.
Results:
Subjects (n = 207) attended and had IASI. Information on responder status was available on 199 participants. Of these, 188 subjects, mean age 63.2 years (standard deviation (SD) 10.3), 97 (51.6%) female, had x-rays and 120 had MRI scans available. Based on the OMERACT-OARSI criteria, 146 (73.4%) participants responded to therapy and 40 (20.1%) were longer term responders. A few factors were associated with a reduced KOOS-pain and VASNA response though none were associated with OMERACT-OARSI responder status in the short term. Higher MRI meniscal damage (odds ratio (OR) = 0.74; 95% CI 0.55 to 0.98), increasing KL maximal grade (OR = 0.43; 95% CI 0.23 to 0.82) and joint space narrowing (JSN) maximal score (OR = 0.60; 95% CI 0.36 to 0.99) were each associated with a lower odds of longer term responder status. Baseline synovitis was not associated with treatment response. The predicted probability of longer term response decreased from 38% to 12% as baseline maximal JSN increased from grade 0 to 3.
Conclusion:
Compared with those who have mild structural damage, persons with more severe knee damage on either MRI or x-ray are less likely to respond to knee IASI.
Trial registration:
ISRCTN.com, ISRCTN07329370. Registered 21 May 2010. Retrospectively registered
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RD Surgery | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Population, Evidence & Technologies (PET) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Knee -- Diseases -- Treatment, Osteoarthritis -- Treatment, Pain -- Treatment, Chronic pain -- Treatment, Osteoarthritis -- Complications | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Arthritis Research & Therapy | ||||||
Publisher: | BioMed Central Ltd. | ||||||
ISSN: | 1478-6354 | ||||||
Official Date: | 8 May 2017 | ||||||
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Volume: | 19 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Article Number: | 88 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1186/s13075-017-1292-2 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 26 September 2017 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 2 October 2017 | ||||||
Funder: | Arthritis Research UK | ||||||
Grant number: | 18676 |
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