Nearly 30% of patients with cutaneous psoriasis (PsO) developed psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Among these patients 20 % will have severe destructive arthritis. The risk of developing PsA is significantly higher in patients with nail involvement (OR = 2.24; 95% CI \[1.26-3.98\]). The risk is particularly high for the peripheral form of PsA and onycholysis (OR=2.80; 95% CI \[1.34-5.85\]). Thus the investigators wanted to test the hypothesis that onycholysis, in patients without PsA, is a potential clinical marker of subclinical distal enthesopathy and, by extension, of bone micro-structural alterations. Patients and Methods The investigators will recruit 4 groups of subjects: 1. Patients with peripheral PsA, 2. Patients with psoriatic nail onycholysis, 3. Patients with PsO only 4. Healthy match control subjects. The investigators will assess the presence of enthesopathy by ultrasonography and bone structural damages (by HR-pQCT) in all subjects at baseline and 4 years.
Age range
18 Years – 65 Years
Sex
ALL
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distal phalangeal bone erosion of the 2 index fingers of the hand
Timeframe: at baseline and after 4 years of follow-up