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Modic Change Edema in Chronic Low Back Pain Treated With Infliximab or Placebo: The BackToBasic Trial.
Magnhild H Dagestad, Nils Vetti, Lars C Haugli Bråten, Elisabeth Gjefsen, Lars Grøvle, Ansgar Espeland

Spine (Phila Pa 1976)· August 2025

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Elisabeth Gjefsen, John A Zwart, Lars C Bråten, Ansgar Espeland, Guro L Goll

Arthritis Rheumatol· July 2025

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Efficacy of a Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitor in Chronic Low-Back Pain With Modic Type 1 Changes: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Elisabeth Gjefsen, Lars C Bråten, Erica Ponzi, Magnhild H Dagestad, Gunn H Marchand, Ansgar Espeland

Arthritis Rheumatol· May 2025

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Preoperative fatty infiltration of paraspinal muscles assessed by MRI is associated with less improvement of leg pain 2 years after surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis.
Hasan Banitalebi, Erland Hermansen, Christian Hellum, Ansgar Espeland, Kjersti Storheim

Eur Spine J· May 2024

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Bacterial growth in patients with low back pain and Modic changes: protocol of a multicentre, case-control biopsy study.
Mads Peder Rolfsen, Karianne Wiger Gammelsrud, Ansgar Espeland, Lars Christian Bråten, Sverre Bugge Mjønes

BMJ Open· May 2024

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Dixon T2 imaging of vertebral bone edema: reliability and comparison with short tau inversion recovery.
Magnhild H Dagestad, Monika K Toppe, Per M Kristoffersen, Elisabeth Gjefsen, Erling Andersen, Ansgar Espeland

Acta Radiol· March 2024

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Longitudinal Relationship Between Reduced Modic Change Edema and Disability and Pain in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain.
Ansgar Espeland, Per Martin Kristoffersen, Lars Christian Haugli Bråten, Lars Grøvle, Margreth Grotle

Spine (Phila Pa 1976)· December 2023

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Long-Term Use of Amoxicillin Is Associated with Changes in Gene Expression and DNA Methylation in Patients with Low Back Pain and Modic Changes.
Maria Dehli Vigeland, Siri Tennebø Flåm, Magnus Dehli Vigeland, Ansgar Espeland, Manuela Zucknick

Antibiotics (Basel)· July 2023

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Cytokine Patterns as Predictors of Antibiotic Treatment Effect in Chronic Low Back Pain with Modic Changes: Subgroup Analyses of a Randomized Trial (AIM Study).
Lars Christian Haugli Bråten, Elisabeth Gjefsen, Kristina Gervin, Are Hugo Pripp, Jan Sture Skouen, Ansgar Espeland

J Pain Res· May 2023

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Amoxicillin Did Not Reduce Modic Change Edema in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain: Subgroup Analyses of a Randomised Trial (the AIM Study).
Per M Kristoffersen, Nils Vetti, Lars Grøvle, Jens I Brox, Lars C Haugli Bråten, Ansgar Espeland

Spine (Phila Pa 1976)· February 2023

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Minimal important change was on the lower spectrum of previous estimates and responsiveness was sufficient for core outcomes in chronic low back pain.
Lars Christian Haugli Bråten, Lars Grøvle, Monica Wigemyr, Maja Wilhelmsen, Elisabeth Gjefsen, Ansgar Espeland

J Clin Epidemiol· November 2022

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A novel MRI index for paraspinal muscle fatty infiltration: reliability and relation to pain and disability in lumbar spinal stenosis: results from a multicentre study.
Hasan Banitalebi, Jørn Aaen, Kjersti Storheim, Anne Negård, Tor Åge Myklebust, Ansgar Espeland

Eur Radiol Exp· July 2022

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Apparent diffusion coefficient values in Modic changes - interobserver reproducibility and relation to Modic type.
Magnhild H Dagestad, Nils Vetti, Per M Kristoffersen, John-Anker Zwart, Kjersti Storheim, Ansgar Espeland

BMC Musculoskelet Disord· July 2022

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Correlation between gene expression and MRI STIR signals in patients with chronic low back pain and Modic changes indicates immune involvement.
Maria Dehli Vigeland, Siri Tennebø Flåm, Magnus Dehli Vigeland, Ansgar Espeland, Per Martin Kristoffersen

Sci Rep· January 2022

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Reliability of preoperative MRI findings in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis.
Hasan Banitalebi, Ansgar Espeland, Masoud Anvar, Erland Hermansen, Christian Hellum

BMC Musculoskelet Disord· January 2022

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Oedema on STIR modified the effect of amoxicillin as treatment for chronic low back pain with Modic changes-subgroup analysis of a randomized trial.
Per Martin Kristoffersen, Lars C H Bråten, Nils Vetti, Lars Grøvle, Christian Hellum, Ansgar Espeland

Eur Radiol· June 2021

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Facet Arthropathy Following Disc Replacement Versus Rehabilitation: A Prospective Study With 8-Year Follow-Up.
Håvard Furunes, Linda Berg, Ansgar Espeland, Hanne Thoresen, Gesche Neckelmann

Spine (Phila Pa 1976)· November 2020

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The effect of infliximab in patients with chronic low back pain and Modic changes (the BackToBasic study): study protocol of a randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter trial.
Elisabeth Gjefsen, Lars Christian Haugli Bråten, Guro Løvik Goll, Monica Wigemyr, Nils Bolstad, Ansgar Espeland

BMC Musculoskelet Disord· October 2020

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Clinical effect modifiers of antibiotic treatment in patients with chronic low back pain and Modic changes - secondary analyses of a randomised, placebo-controlled trial (the AIM study).
Lars Christian Haugli Bråten, Lars Grøvle, Ansgar Espeland, Are Hugo Pripp, Margreth Grotle

BMC Musculoskelet Disord· July 2020

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Association of Modic change types and their short tau inversion recovery signals with clinical characteristics- a cross sectional study of chronic low back pain patients in the AIM-study.
Lars Christian Haugli Bråten, Elina Iordanova Schistad, Ansgar Espeland, Per Martin Kristoffersen, Anne Julsrud Haugen

BMC Musculoskelet Disord· June 2020

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Cost-utility analysis of antibiotic treatment in patients with chronic low back pain and Modic changes: results from a randomised, placebo-controlled trial in Norway (the AIM study).
Margreth Grotle, Lars Christian Bråten, Jens Ivar Brox, Ansgar Espeland, Zinajda Zolic-Karlsson

BMJ Open· June 2020

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Short tau inversion recovery MRI of Modic changes: a reliability study.
Per Martin Kristoffersen, Nils Vetti, Kjersti Storheim, Lars Christian Bråten, Mads Peder Rolfsen, Ansgar Espeland

Acta Radiol Open· January 2020

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Efficacy of antibiotic treatment in patients with chronic low back pain and Modic changes (the AIM study): double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, multicentre trial.
Lars Christian Haugli Bråten, Mads Peder Rolfsen, Ansgar Espeland, Monica Wigemyr, Jörg Aßmus

BMJ· October 2019

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Facet arthropathy evaluation: CT or MRI?
Linda Berg, Hanne Thoresen, Gesche Neckelmann, Håvard Furunes, Christian Hellum, Ansgar Espeland

Eur Radiol· September 2019

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Disc and nerve root findings on lumbar MRI with straightened v s flexed hips and knees-pilot study.
Ansgar Espeland, Nina Dalen

Br J Radiol· April 2019

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