A comparison of thermal characteristics of the small joints of the hands between patients with rheumatoid arthritis and healthy controls

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dc.authoridYUCEL, AYCA AYSE/0000-0003-3178-4226
dc.authoridIrim, Yakup/0000-0002-1267-7153
dc.contributor.authorUgur, Sevcan
dc.contributor.authorIrim, Yakup
dc.contributor.authorYuecel, Ayse Ayca
dc.contributor.authorCarlak, Hamza Feza
dc.contributor.authorKacar, Cahit
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-23T19:25:46Z
dc.date.available2025-03-23T19:25:46Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.departmentSinop Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractObjectives: This study aims to investigate the thermal characteristics of the small joints of the hands between patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and healthy controls. Patients and methods: Between December 2020 and May 2021, a total of 52 RA patients (9 males, 43 females; mean age: 52.1 +/- 11.1 years; range, 38 to 68 years) who met the revised American College of Rheumatology and European League Against Rheumatism (ACR/EULAR) classification criteria and 26 healthy controls (10 males, 16 females; mean age: 51.2 +/- 8.2 years; range, 38 to 68 years) were included. Joint tenderness was evaluated using Ritchie articular index (RAI). Joint tenderness was scored from 0 to 3. Thermal data were collected from the hand regions of individuals. A FLIR T450sc microbolometer infrared thermal camera with 320 & YEN;240 resolution was used for the thermography of individuals. Bilaterally proximal interphalangeal joints (1-5) and metacarpophalangeal joints (1-5) were evaluated. The mean temperature was compared between the patients and healthy controls. Results: The mean disease duration of patients with RA was 10.4 +/- 8.9 years. The mean temperature values of thejoints in the patients with a RA RAI score of 0, 1, 2, 3 were 32.43 +/- 1.59 degrees C; 32.71 +/- 1.36 degrees C; 33.12 +/- 1.23 degrees C; 33.60 +/- 0.99 degrees C, respectively. The mean temperature was 31.14 +/- 1.51 degrees C in healthy controls. The mean temperature values of the joints in the RA patients with RAI score of 0 was higher compared to healthy controls (p<0.05). Patients with a Ritchie sensitivity score of 1 had a higher mean temperature compared to patients with score of 0 (p<0.05). In RA patients, thejoints with a RAI score of 1 had higher mean temperature values than thejoints with RAI score of 0 (p<0.05). The mean temperature values of the joints with RAI score of 2 were also higher than the joints with RAI score of 1 (p<0.05). Conclusion: Our study results suggest that thermal imaging may be an objective tool for diagnosis and assessing disease activity in RA.
dc.identifier.doi10.46497/ArchRheumatol.2024.10753
dc.identifier.endpage623
dc.identifier.issn2618-6500
dc.identifier.issue4
dc.identifier.pmid40060131
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85213295188
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ3
dc.identifier.startpage617
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.46497/ArchRheumatol.2024.10753
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11486/4561
dc.identifier.volume39
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001422193300011
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ4
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMed
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTurkish League Against Rheumatism
dc.relation.ispartofArchives of Rheumatology
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_WOS_20250323
dc.subjectRheumatoid arthritis
dc.subjectsmall joints of the hands
dc.subjectthermal imaging
dc.titleA comparison of thermal characteristics of the small joints of the hands between patients with rheumatoid arthritis and healthy controls
dc.typeArticle

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