B C Gracia Tello, L Sáez Comet, G Lledó, M Freire Dapena, M A Mesa, M Martín-Cascón, A Guillén Del Castillo, E Martínez Robles, C P Simeón-Aznar, J A Todolí Parra, D C Varela, G Maldonado Vélez, A Marín Ballvé, J Aramburu Llorente, L Pérez Abad, E Ramos Ibáñez
OBJECTIVES: The European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) supports the use of nailfold videocapillaroscopy (NVC) to identify disease patterns (DPs) associated with systemic sclerosis (SSc) and Raynaud's phenomenon (RP). Recently, EULAR proposed an easy-to-manage procedure, a so-called Fast Track algorithm, to differentiate SSc from non-SSc patterns in NVC specimens. However, subjectivity among capillaroscopists remains a limitation. Our aim was to perform a software-based analysis of NVC peculiarities in a cohort of samples from SSc and RP patients and, subsequently, build a Fast Track-inspired algorithm to identify DPs without the constraint of interobserver variability...
March 26, 2024: Rheumatology