Calcium pyrophosphate disease remains—50 years after its initial description—a challenging disease to diagnose and manage. Newly-reached consensus among European experts suggests standard nomenclature ...

People with CPPD disease have diverse presentations, and understanding of this common disease has lagged other types of arthritis – partly because there have been no validated classification criteria.

Rhomboid, birefringent calcium pyrophosphate (CPP) crystals are seen under polarizing light microscopy in this sample of synovial fluid that was obtained from a patient with acute CPP crystal ...

Calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD) disease is a common, symptomatic arthritis, but until now there have been there are no validated classification criteria. This has hampered research in this ...

A European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) task force has released new guidance on imaging of crystal-induced arthropathies (CiA). The document provides recommendations for using ...

Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) appears to have limited utility for differentiating between gout and calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease (CPPD), according to a German prospective cohort ...