Does bone edema determined by magnetic resonance imaging reflect severe disease status in patients with early-stage rheumatoid arthritis?
Bone edema based on our scoring system may reflect severe disease status in patients with early-stage RA. However, its clinical value at entry in prognostication of RA should be examined through prospective clinical followup studies.
Discovery-based metabolomics reveals the potential to identify novel markers of cART intervention and metabolite disruption in HIV-positive patients, which may enable the efficacy, compliance and side effects of these pharmaceutical mixtures to be investigated.