The Agreement Between Blood Pool - Delayed Bone Scintigraphy and Tc-99m Human Immunoglobulin G (HIG) Scintigraphy in the Determination of the Presence and Severity of Inflammatory Arthritis
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OBJECTIVE In this study, it was aimed to investigate the agreement between early phase of bone scintigraphy - human immunoglobulin scintigraphy (EPBS-HIG) and late phase bone scintigraphy - HIG (LPBS-HIG) in the determination of the presence and also the severity of inflammatory arthritis. MATERIAL AND METHODS Twenty-eight patients (23 female, 5 male; between 19 to 80 years of age) with inflammatory arthritis were included in the study. Tc-99m HIG and blood pool/late phase bone scintigraphies were performed in all patients. In scintigraphic examinations, the joints were scored with the degree of accumulation of the radiopharmaceutical by the semiquantitative analysis (0=Background activity, 1=Faint uptake, 2=Moderate uptake, 3=Marked uptake) which is called as visually active joint score as severity index of the disease. To estimate the agreement between EPBS - HIG and LPBS - HIG in the determination of the presence and severity of inflammatory arthritis, 2x2 kappa coefficients were calculated. RESULTS Our results showed good agreement between EPBS - HIG for the presence of inflammation (kappa: 0.72) but not for the severity of the disease (kappa: 0.29), poor agreement between LPBS - HIG for both the presence (kappa: 0.51) and severity (kappa: 0.01) of inflammatory arthritis. CONCLUSION The blood pool scintigraphy could be used in the investigation of the presence of inflammatory arthritis because the good agreement with HIG and the lower cost but not for the severity of the disease Conflict of interest:None declared.
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