The relationship between MRI features and knee pain over 6 years in knees without radiographic osteoarthritis at baseline. Magnusson, K., Turkiewicz, A., Kumm, J., Zhang, F., & Englund, M. Arthritis Care & Research, August, 2020.
The relationship between MRI features and knee pain over 6 years in knees without radiographic osteoarthritis at baseline [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
AIM: To explore whether MRI features suggestive of knee OA are associated with presence of knee pain in possible early-stage OA development. METHODS: We included 294 participants from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (mean [SD] age 50 (3) years, 50% women), with baseline Kellgren and Lawrence grade=0 in both knees, and who had all obtained knee MRIs from 4 different time points over 6 years (baseline, 24, 48 and 72 months). Using a linear mixed model (knees matched within individuals), we studied whether MRI features: meniscal body extrusion (millimeter), cartilage area loss (score 0 to 39), cartilage full thickness loss (0-16), osteophytes (0-29), meniscal integrity (0-10), bone marrow lesions (BML) including bone marrow cysts (0-20), Hoffa or effusion synovitis (absent/present) and popliteal cysts (absent/present) were associated with knee-specific pain as reported on the Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcomes Score (KOOS) questionnaire on 0-100 scale (worst-best). RESULTS: The difference in KOOS knee pain for a knee with a one unit higher score on MRI feature was: for meniscal extrusion -1.52 (95% CI -2.35,-0.69), cartilage area loss -0.23 (-0.48,0.02), cartilage full thickness loss: -1.04 (-1.58,-0.50), osteophytes -0.32 (-0.61,-0.03), meniscal integrity -0.28 (-0.58,0.02), BMLs including potential cysts -0.19 (-0.55,0.16), synovitis 0.23 (-1.14,1.60) and popliteal cysts 0.86 (-0.56,2.29). CONCLUSION: Meniscal extrusion, full thickness cartilage loss and osteophytes are associated with having more knee pain. Although these features may be relevant targets for future trials, the clinical relevance of our findings is unclear because no feature was associated with a clinically important difference in knee pain.
@article{magnusson_relationship_2020,
	title = {The relationship between {MRI} features and knee pain over 6 years in knees without radiographic osteoarthritis at baseline},
	issn = {2151-4658},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.24394},
	doi = {10.1002/acr.24394},
	abstract = {AIM: To explore whether MRI features suggestive of knee OA are associated with presence of knee pain in possible early-stage OA development.
METHODS: We included 294 participants from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (mean [SD] age 50 (3) years, 50\% women), with baseline Kellgren and Lawrence grade=0 in both knees, and who had all obtained knee MRIs from 4 different time points over 6 years (baseline, 24, 48 and 72 months). Using a linear mixed model (knees matched within individuals), we studied whether MRI features: meniscal body extrusion (millimeter), cartilage area loss (score 0 to 39), cartilage full thickness loss (0-16), osteophytes (0-29), meniscal integrity (0-10), bone marrow lesions (BML) including bone marrow cysts (0-20), Hoffa or effusion synovitis (absent/present) and popliteal cysts (absent/present) were associated with knee-specific pain as reported on the Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcomes Score (KOOS) questionnaire on 0-100 scale (worst-best).
RESULTS: The difference in KOOS knee pain for a knee with a one unit higher score on MRI feature was: for meniscal extrusion -1.52 (95\% CI -2.35,-0.69), cartilage area loss -0.23 (-0.48,0.02), cartilage full thickness loss: -1.04 (-1.58,-0.50), osteophytes -0.32 (-0.61,-0.03), meniscal integrity -0.28 (-0.58,0.02), BMLs including potential cysts -0.19 (-0.55,0.16), synovitis 0.23 (-1.14,1.60) and popliteal cysts 0.86 (-0.56,2.29).
CONCLUSION: Meniscal extrusion, full thickness cartilage loss and osteophytes are associated with having more knee pain. Although these features may be relevant targets for future trials, the clinical relevance of our findings is unclear because no feature was associated with a clinically important difference in knee pain.},
	language = {eng},
	journal = {Arthritis Care \& Research},
	author = {Magnusson, Karin and Turkiewicz, Aleksandra and Kumm, Jaanika and Zhang, Fan and Englund, Martin},
	month = aug,
	year = {2020},
	pmid = {32741084},
}

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