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Mikkel Østergaard

Mikkel Østergaard

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110
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43990
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5571
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60

Overview

Mikkel Østergaard is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and has produced extensive research in the field of medicine, with a strong focus on rheumatology. Their work spans several subfields including immunology, orthopedics and sports medicine, hematology, and pathology and forensic medicine.

Their research topics cover a range of areas connected to autoimmune and inflammatory disorders, with significant contributions to studies on spondyloarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Additional focus areas include psoriasis treatment and pathogenesis, bone and joint diseases, systemic lupus erythematosus research, and spine and intervertebral disc pathology.

Frequent publication venues for their research are diverse and include:

  • Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Lara D. Veeken
  • RMD Open
  • The Journal of Rheumatology
  • Arthritis Research & Therapy

Mikkel Østergaard has coauthored numerous papers with several researchers who frequently collaborate on related medical topics. These coauthors include Merete Lund Hetland, Lykke Midtbøll Ørnbjerg, Björn Guðbjörnsson, Walter P. Maksymowych, and Susanne Juhl Pedersen.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Active conventional treatment and three different biological treatments in early rheumatoid arthritis: phase IV investigator initiated, randomised, observer blinded clinical trial (2020, BMJ)
  • Abatacept inhibits inflammation and onset of rheumatoid arthritis in individuals at high risk (ARIAA): a randomised, international, multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (2024, The Lancet)
  • Data-driven definitions for active and structural MRI lesions in the sacroiliac joint in spondyloarthritis and their predictive utility (2021, Lara D. Veeken)
  • MRI lesions of the spine in patients with axial spondyloarthritis: an update of lesion definitions and validation by the ASAS MRI working group (2022, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases)
  • Drug retention, inactive disease and response rates in 1860 patients with axial spondyloarthritis initiating secukinumab treatment: routine care data from 13 registries in the EuroSpA collaboration (2020, RMD Open)

Best Publications

  • Treating rheumatoid arthritis to target: 2014 update of the recommendations of an international task force

    Josef S Smolen;Ferdinand C Breedveld;Gerd R Burmester;Vivian Bykerk

  • Musculoskeletal ultrasound including definitions for ultrasonographic pathology

    Richard J Wakefield;Peter V Balint;Marcin Szkudlarek;Emilio Filippucci

  • Defining active sacroiliitis on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for classification of axial spondyloarthritis: a consensual approach by the ASAS/OMERACT MRI group

    M. Rudwaleit;A. G. Jurik;K.-G. A. Hermann;R. Landewé

  • OMERACT Rheumatoid Arthritis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies. Core set of MRI acquisitions, joint pathology definitions, and the OMERACT RA-MRI scoring system.

    Mikkel Østergaard;Charles Peterfy;Philip Conaghan;Fiona McQueen

  • EULAR recommendations for the use of imaging of the joints in the clinical management of rheumatoid arthritis

    Alexandra N. Colebatch;Christopher John Edwards;Mikkel Østergaard;Désirée Van Der Heijde

  • Interobserver agreement in ultrasonography of the finger and toe joints in rheumatoid arthritis

    Marcin Szkudlarek;Michel Court-Payen;Søren Jacobsen;Mette Klarlund

  • Direct comparison of treatment responses, remission rates, and drug adherence in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with adalimumab, etanercept, or infliximab: results from eight years of surveillance of clinical practice in the nationwide Danish DANBIO registry.

    Merete Lund Hetland;Ib Jarle Christensen;Ulrik Tarp;Lene Dreyer

  • Multinational evidence-based recommendations for the use of methotrexate in rheumatic disorders with a focus on rheumatoid arthritis: integrating systematic literature research and expert opinion of a broad international panel of rheumatologists in the 3E Initiative

    K Visser;W Katchamart;E Loza;J A Martinez-Lopez

  • EULAR recommendations for the use of imaging in the diagnosis and management of spondyloarthritis in clinical practice

    P Mandl;V Navarro-Compán;L Terslev;P Aegerter

  • Power doppler ultrasonography for assessment of synovitis in the metacarpophalangeal joints of patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A comparison with dynamic magnetic resonance imaging

    Marcin Szkudlarek;Michel Court‐Payen;Charlotte Strandberg;Mette Klarlund

  • Ultrasonography of the metatarsophalangeal joints in rheumatoid arthritis: comparison with magnetic resonance imaging, conventional radiography, and clinical examination.

    Marcin Szkudlarek;Eva Narvestad;Mette Klarlund;Michel Court-Payen

  • Defining active sacroiliitis on MRI for classification of axial spondyloarthritis: update by the ASAS MRI working group

    Robert G W Lambert;Pauline A C Bakker;Désirée van der Heijde;Ulrich Weber

  • MRI bone oedema is the strongest predictor of subsequent radiographic progression in early rheumatoid arthritis. Results from a 2-year randomised controlled trial (CIMESTRA)

    M L Hetland;B Ejbjerg;K Hørslev-Petersen;S Jacobsen

  • Inflammatory lesions of the spine on magnetic resonance imaging predict the development of new syndesmophytes in ankylosing spondylitis: Evidence of a relationship between inflammation and new bone formation

    Walter P. Maksymowych;Praveena Chiowchanwisawakit;Praveena Chiowchanwisawakit;Tracey Clare;Susanne J. Pedersen

  • Magnetic resonance imaging–determined synovial membrane volume as a marker of disease activity and a predictor of progressive joint destruction in the wrists of patients with rheumatoid arthritis

    Mikkel Østergaard;Michael Hansen;Michael Stoltenberg;Peter Gideon

  • An introduction to the EULAR–OMERACT rheumatoid arthritis MRI reference image atlas

    M Østergaard;J Edmonds;F McQueen;C Peterfy

  • Magnetic resonance imaging findings in 84 patients with early rheumatoid arthritis: bone marrow oedema predicts erosive progression

    Espen A Haavardsholm;Pernille Bøyesen;Mikkel Østergaard;Arnulf Schildvold

  • Risankizumab, an IL-23 inhibitor, for ankylosing spondylitis: results of a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, proof-of-concept, dose-finding phase 2 study.

    Dominique Baeten;Mikkel Østergaard;James Cheng-Chung Wei;Joachim Sieper

  • Ultrasonography of the metacarpophalangeal and proximal interphalangeal joints in rheumatoid arthritis: a comparison with magnetic resonance imaging, conventional radiography and clinical examination

    Marcin Szkudlarek;Mette Klarlund;Eva Narvestad;Michel Court-Payen

  • The diagnostic utility of magnetic resonance imaging in spondylarthritis: an international multicenter evaluation of one hundred eighty-seven subjects.

    Ulrich Weber;Robert G. W. Lambert;Mikkel Østergaard;Juerg Hodler

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip G. Conaghan
Philip G. Conaghan University of Leeds
Paul Emery
Paul Emery University of Leeds
Walter P. Maksymowych
Walter P. Maksymowych University of Alberta
Charles Peterfy
Charles Peterfy University of California, San Francisco
Søren Jacobsen
Søren Jacobsen Copenhagen University Hospital
Bent Deleuran
Bent Deleuran Aarhus University Hospital
Tore K. Kvien
Tore K. Kvien University of Oslo
Harry K. Genant
Harry K. Genant University of California, San Francisco
Henning Bliddal
Henning Bliddal Copenhagen University Hospital
Robin Christensen
Robin Christensen University of Southern Denmark

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