Type:
Educational Exhibit
Keywords:
Arthritides, Comparative studies, MR, Musculoskeletal joint
Authors:
K. Pintarić, Z. Snoj, V. Salapura; Ljubljana/SI
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2018/C-1022
Background
Osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip is a common disease especially in older population.
Hip is a weight-bearing joint therefore is especially prone to osteoarthritic changes.
Because of the rapidly evolving articular cartilage therapies there is increased interest in early identification of OA especially in young adults with femuroacetabular impingment and congenital development dysplasia of the hip,
both of them being potential risk factors for consequent hip OA while being surgically treatable conditions.
Moreover,
it is crucial to establish general reporting system for further improvement in diagnosing and subsequently treating hip OA.
To the best of our knowledge,
there are only three published semi-quantative MRI scoring systems for evaluating hip OA; scoring system by Lee et al.
(named SHOMRI)1,
Roemer`s hip osteoarthritis MRI scoring system (named HOAMS)2,
and a scoring system by Neumann et al.3 which was the first introduced MRI scoring system for evaluating hip OA.
The Hip Inflammation MRI Scoring System (HIMRISS)4 has also been described but it is used primarily to evaluate pathologic changes of the hip due to rhemautic conditions and only focuses on so-called active lesions (for example bone marrow lesions,
synovitis and effusion) what is not the aim of this paper.