TABLE 1.

Patient Characteristics

CharacteristicData
Age (y)
 Mean50.5 (SD, 16.9)
 Median51.0 (range, 5.0–87.0)
Sex
 Female185 (51.4%)
 Male173 (48.1%)
 Unknown2 (0.5%)
Joint inflammatory disease
 Spondyloarthropathies110 (30.6%)
 RA89 (24.7%)
 Osteoarthritis43 (11.9%)
 Pigmented villonodular synovitis28 (7.8%)
 Hemophilic arthropathy23 (6.4%)
 Undifferentiated arthritis22 (6.1%)
 Juvenile idiopathic arthritis19 (5.3%)
 Other inflammatory arthritis15 (4.2%)
 Recurrent joint effusion after surgery9 (2.5%)
 Unknown2 (0.5%)
Concurrent medication
 nbDMARD323 (89.7%)
 bDMARD21 (5.8%)
 Unknown16 (4.5%)
Joint treated
 Knee324 (82.7%)
 Ankle24 (6.1%)
 Elbow18 (4.6%)
 Wrist13 (3.3%)
 Shoulder9 (2.3%)
 Hip4 (1.0%)
Radiopharmaceutical
 [90Y]Y-citrate327 (83.4%)
 [186Re]Re-sulfide39 (10.0%)
 Unknown26 (6.6%)
Radiologic class of joint destruction
 0218 (55.6%)
 136 (9.2%)
 235 (8.9%)
 336 (9.2%)
 Unknown67 (17.1%)
  • nbDMARD = nonbiologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug; bDMARD = biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug.

  • Data are number followed by percentage in parentheses, except for age. Total patients = 360, and total joints = 392.