Journal article
Severe radiographic knee osteoarthritis – does Kellgren and Lawrence grade 4 represent end stage disease? – the MOST study
Osteoarthritis and cartilage, Vol.23(9), pp.1499-1505
09/2015
DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2015.04.018
PMCID: PMC4558267
PMID: 25929973
Abstract
To determine what MRI-detectable osteoarthritis features that are not visualized on radiography demonstrate progression longitudinally in Kellgren and Lawrence (KL) grade 4 knees.
We studied subjects from the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study who had KL grade 4 knees at baseline and had baseline and 30-month MRI. Cartilage damage, bone marrow lesions (BMLs), meniscal damage, synovitis (signal changes in Hoffa fat pad), and effusion (fluid equivalent signal in the joint cavity) were semiquantitatively scored using the Whole Organ MRI Score (WORMS) system in five subregions of the medial and lateral tibiofemoral (TF) compartments. Analysis was performed for the compartment showing bone-on-bone appearance (“index”) on radiograph and also for the other TF compartment of the same knee. Synovitis and effusion were assessed for the whole knee. Changes in scores at follow-up were noted for each feature. For cartilage and BML, within-grade changes were also recorded.
140 subjects (164 knees) were included (50% women, mean age 66.0 ± 8.6 years, mean BMI 30.4 ± 5.1 kg/m2). Longitudinally, 51 index compartments (34%) showed an increase in the sum of cartilage scores from all subregions. In the other compartment, 25% showed an increase in the sum score for cartilage damage. For BMLs in the index compartment, 50 knees (33%) showed an increase in maximum score and 32 (21%) showed a decrease. Meniscal status mostly remained stable. Effusion worsened in 36 knees (25%) and improved in 13 knees (9%). Synovitis worsened in 14 knees (10%) and improved in six knees (4%).
In KL grade 4 knees, MRI-detected cartilage loss and fluctuation of BMLs, effusion, and synovitis occurred frequently over a 30-month period.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Severe radiographic knee osteoarthritis – does Kellgren and Lawrence grade 4 represent end stage disease? – the MOST study
- Creators
- A Guermazi - Quantitative Imaging Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USAD Hayashi - Quantitative Imaging Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USAF Roemer - Quantitative Imaging Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USAD.T Felson - Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USAK Wang - Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USAJ Lynch - Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USAS Amin - Department of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USAJ Torner - College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USAC.E Lewis - Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USAM.C Nevitt - Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Osteoarthritis and cartilage, Vol.23(9), pp.1499-1505
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.joca.2015.04.018
- PMID
- 25929973
- PMCID
- PMC4558267
- NLM abbreviation
- Osteoarthritis Cartilage
- ISSN
- 1063-4584
- eISSN
- 1522-9653
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100000049, name: National Institute on Aging, award: U01-AG-18820, U01-AG-18832, U01-AG-18947, U01-AG-19069; DOI: 10.13039/501100004191, name: Novo Nordisk; DOI: 10.13039/100000002, name: National Institutes of Health
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/2015
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology; Surgery; Injury Prevention Research Center; Neurosurgery
- Record Identifier
- 9983995146502771
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