AB0746 EVALUATING TENDER AND SWOLLEN JOINTS FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF INFLAMMATORY PAIN IN PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS USING ULTRASOUND

Background: Tender and Swollen Joint Counts (TJC, SJC) are items of disease activity scores in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Recent studies suggest that TJC do not adequately reflect ongoing inflammation in RA when using Ultrasound (US) as a reference standard, and that pain might be due to other, non-inflammatory causes. 1, 2 In PsA, the role of tenderness and swelling of joints for reflecting active inflammation has...