Research

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

  • American College of Rheumatology annual meeting Boston 2014

Ultrasound Detected Synovitis Correlates with Histological Synovitis in a Cohort of Early Rheumatoid Arthritis patients –Results from Barts Early Arthritis Cohort

  • European League Against Rheumatism annual conference Paris 2014

Ultrasound Measures Of Synovitis Reflects Histological Synovial Inflammation in Early Arthritis Patients

  • British Society Rheumatology annual conference Liverpool 2014

Ultrasound Measures Of Synovitis Reflects Histological Synovial Inflammation in Early Arthritis Patients

 

 

ABSTRACTS (selected)

Ultrasound guided diagnostic synovial biopsies – an audit of a rheumatology led serviceNora Ng, Frances Humby, Maria Di Cicco, Silvia Deidda, Arti Mahto, Dev Pyne, Bruce Kidd, Michele Bombardieri, Nurhan Sutcliffe, Costantino Pitzalis ,Stephen Kelly Accepted BSR 2014

 Synovial Ectopic Lymphoneogenesis Predicts Clinical Response To Certolizumab Pegol In Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis – Di Cicco, Maria, Kelly, Stephen, Humby, Frances, Ng, Nora, Dadoun, Sabrina, Hands, Rebecca, Rocher, Vidalba ; Nerviani, Alessandra ; Bombardieri, Michele; Pitzalis, Costantino

Arthritis Rheum 2013;65 Suppl 10 :1314

Synovial sublining macrophages: a sensitive biomarker for response to treatment in early RA patients S. Deidda, F. Humby, S. Kelly, M. Di Cicco, N. Ng, R. Hands, M. Bombardieri, C. Pitzalis. Ann Rheum Dis 2013;72(Suppl3):583

Synovial ectopic lymphoid-like structures are associated with diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis, disease activity and antibody status in early arthritis patients
M. Di Cicco, S. Dadoun, F. Humby, S. Kelly, N. Ng, R. E. Hands, C. Buckley, I. McInnes, P. Taylor, M. Bombardieri, C. Pitzalis Ann Rheum Dis 2013;72(Suppl3):192

Clinical, imaging and histological characteristics of patients with rheumatoid arthritis at different stages of disease progressionNg N, Humby F, Bombardieri M, Kelly S, Di Cicco M, Dadoun S, Hands R, Rocher V, Kidd B, Pyne D, Pitzalis C

Rheumatology (2013) 52 (suppl 1): i56-i94


PUBLICATIONS

The development of small joint ultrasound guided synovial biopsy for the evaluation of anti-rheumatic therapies in clinical trials in Rheumatoid Arthritis
 Humby F , Kelly S, Hands R.E, Rocher V, DiCicco M, Ng N, Zou L, Bombardieri M, Pitzalis C. Submitted to Ann Rheum Dis.

Ultrasound parameters correlate with synovial vascular density and cytokine expression in early Rheumatoid Arthritis S. Kelly, M. Bombardieri, A. Marrelli, F. Humby, S. Riahi, N. Ng, M. Di Cicco, A. Mahto, L. Zou, D. Pyne, R. Hands, C. Pitzalis
. Submitted to Ann Rheum Dis.

Ultrasound-guided synovial biopsy: a safe, well-tolerated and reliable technique for obtaining high-quality synovial tissue from both large and small joints in early arthritis patients.
Kelly S, Humby F, Filer A, Ng N, Di Cicco M, Hands RE, Rocher V, Bombardieri M, D’Agostino MA, McInnes IB, Buckley CD, Taylor PC, Pitzalis C. Ann Rheum Dis. 2013 Dec 13. Epub

Real life experience confirms sustained response to long-term biologics and switching in ankylosing spondylitis Coates LC, Cawkwell LS, Ng NW, Bennett AN, Bryer DJ, Fraser AD, Emery P, Marzo-Ortega H. Rheumatology. Oxford: Jun 2008. 47(6): 897-900

Sustained response to long-term biologics and switching in psoriatic arthritis: results from real life experience. Coates LC, Cawkwell LS, Ng NW, Bennett AN, Bryer DJ, Fraser AD, Emery P, Marzo-Ortega H.
Ann Rheum Dis. 2008 May. 67(5):717-9.