Objectives:
This study aims to evaluate femoral cartilage thickness in leprosy patients by using ultrasound.
Patients and methods:
Twenty-one patients previously diagnosed with leprosy (11 males and 10 females), and age, sex and body mass index matched 21 controls were enrolled. Control subjects with a history of any other systemic inflammatory disease and/or knee trauma were excluded. All femoral cartilage evaluations were performed by the same physician who was experienced in musculoskeletal ultrasonography using a linear array probe. Measurements for 42 knees of 21 leprosy patients, and 42 knees of 21 healthy subjects were analyzed.
Results:
Although patients with leprosy had lower femoral cartilage values than those in the control group, the difference was not statistically significant.
Conclusion:
We assume that the non-significantly decreased femoral cartilage thickness in patients with leprosy may be explained by the relative immobilization and biomechanical changes arising from complications.
BT - Archives of Rheumatology DA - 12/2014 DO - 10.5606/archrheumatol.2014.4677 IS - 4 LA - ENG M3 - Article N2 -Objectives:
This study aims to evaluate femoral cartilage thickness in leprosy patients by using ultrasound.
Patients and methods:
Twenty-one patients previously diagnosed with leprosy (11 males and 10 females), and age, sex and body mass index matched 21 controls were enrolled. Control subjects with a history of any other systemic inflammatory disease and/or knee trauma were excluded. All femoral cartilage evaluations were performed by the same physician who was experienced in musculoskeletal ultrasonography using a linear array probe. Measurements for 42 knees of 21 leprosy patients, and 42 knees of 21 healthy subjects were analyzed.
Results:
Although patients with leprosy had lower femoral cartilage values than those in the control group, the difference was not statistically significant.
Conclusion:
We assume that the non-significantly decreased femoral cartilage thickness in patients with leprosy may be explained by the relative immobilization and biomechanical changes arising from complications.
PB - AVES YAYINCILIK A.Ş. PY - 2014 SP - 294 EP - 297 T2 - Archives of Rheumatology TI - Ultrasonographic Measurement of Cartilage Thickness in Patients With Leprosy UR - https://archivesofrheumatology.org/index.php/pub/article/view/692/1078 VL - 29 SN - 2618-6500 ER -