OBJECTIVE: To validate reliability, correlation and responsiveness of two whole-body MRI scores for the hip/pelvis region in spondyloarthritis. METHODS: Assessment of hip/pelvis inflammation in 4 multi-reader exercises using the OMERACT MRI Whole-body score for Inflammation in Peripheral joints and Entheses (MRI-WIPE) and Hip Inflammation Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scoring System (HIMRISS). RESULTS: In exercises 3-4 (11/20 cases, respectively; 9 readers) reliability was mostly good for the 3 best calibrated readers. Median pairwise single-measure ICC for status were 0.58-0.65 (WIPE-osteitis), 0.10-0.88 (HIMRISS-osteitis) and for status/change 0.38-0.72/0.52-0.60 (WIPE-synovitis/effusion) and 0.68-0.89/0.78-0.85 (HIMRISS-synovitis/effusion). SRM was 1.23 for WIPE-osteitis, while lower for WIPE-synovitis/effusion and HIMRISS. CONCLUSION: MRI-WIPE and HIMRISS may after further validation be useful in future spondyloarthritis trials.
Wetterslev, M., Lambert, R. G., Maksymowych, W. P., Eshed, I., Pedersen, S. J., Bird, P., Stoenoiu, M., Krabbe, S., Mathew, A. J., Foltz, V., Gandjbakhch, F., Paschke, J., De Marco, G., Marzo-Ortega, H., Carron, P., Poulsen, A. E., Jaremko, J. L., Conaghan, P. G., & Østergaard, M. (2021). Arthritis and enthesitis in the hip and pelvis region in spondyloarthritis - OMERACT validation of two whole-body MRI methods. Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, 51(4), 940-945. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semarthrit.2021.05.006 (Original work published 2021)