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Utrecht Osteoarthritis Research - UROAR

Research aim

Our group studies osteoarthritis, from disease mechanisms to treatment strategies. Using a translational approach, we connect lab research to patient care, aiming to create effective diagnostic tools and patient-centered therapies.

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Recent publications

Impact of quantified knee positioning on the measurement of minimal joint space width using statistical shape models Eva Bax, Chien Nguyen, Roel Custers, Vahid Arbabi, Hassan Rayegan, Willem Paul Gielis, Claudia Lindner, Tim F. Cootes, Margreet Kloppenburg, Francisco J Blanco, Ida K Haugen, Francis Berenbaum, Mylène P. Jansen, Simon Mastbergen, Frank W Roemer, Felix Eckstein, Wolfgang Wirth, MC Kruyt, H Weinans
Osteoarthritis Imaging, 2025, vol. 5
Unicompartmental versus bicompartmental joint space width measures Eva A Bax, Roel J H Custers, Nienke van Egmond, Moyo C Kruyt, Hassan Rayegan, Margreet Kloppenburg, Francisco J Blanco, Ida K Haugen, Francis Berenbaum, Frank W Roemer, Harrie Weinans, Simon C Mastbergen, Mylène P Jansen
Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 2025, vol. 34, p.297-303
Joint distraction versus custom-made unloading orthosis for knee osteoarthritis - A clinical and radiological study M R Huizinga, A J de Vries, M P Jansen, S C Mastbergen, P C Jutte, R W Brouwer
The Knee, 2025, vol. 56, p.637-645
Deep Learning Based Automatic Ankle Tenosynovitis Quantification from MRI in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis Saeed Arbabi, Vahid Arbabi, Lorenzo Costa, Iris Ten Katen, Simon C Mastbergen, Peter R Seevinck, Pim A de Jong, Harrie Weinans, Mylène P Jansen, Wouter Foppen
Diagnostics, 2025, vol. 15
Application of knee joint distraction M P Jansen, S C Mastbergen
Connective tissue research, 2025, vol. 66, p.497-503
Cartilage thickness distribution and its dependence on demographic, radiographic, and MRI structural pathology in knee osteoarthritis-data from the IMI-APPROACH cohort Mylène P Jansen, Tom D Turmezei, Kishan Dattani, Dimitri A Kessler, Simon C Mastbergen, Margreet Kloppenburg, Francisco J Blanco, Ida K Haugen, Francis Berenbaum, Wolfgang Wirth, Felix Eckstein, Frank W Roemer, James W MacKay
Skeletal Radiology, 2025, vol. 54, p.2025-2034