Ankylosing spondylitis is the prototype of immune-mediated inflammatory rheumatic
diseases grouped under the term spondyloarthritis (SpA). An early diagnosis has now …

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects 1% of the general
population. As one of the most severe types of spondyloarthropathy, AS affects the spinal …

Study Design. A prospective cohort study. Objective. To determine the cause-effect
relationship between fusion and sacroiliac joint (SIJ) degeneration after instrumented …

Purpose: To analyze the type and frequency of abnormalities of the sacroiliac joint (SIJ) in
early seronegative spondylarthropathy (SpA) by MR in comparison with CT and …

This retrospective study evaluated the diagnostic value of computed tomography in patients
with sacroiliac pain. Computed tomography scans of the sacroiliac joints of 62 patients with …

OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of sacroiliitis in patients who have back pain in
Crohn's disease (CD) using computed tomography (CT); and to reassess the association of …

Objective. We investigated the performance of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
compared to conventional radiographs for detection of chronic structural changes in the …

OBJECTIVES: In recent years, great progress has been made in the development of
diagnostic tools, therapeutic approaches, and validated outcome measures in the …

Involvement of the sacroiliac joints is the first predominant finding of all seronegative
spondylarthropathies (SpA) subsets, such as ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, and …

Background: Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have an excess burden of axial
spondyloarthritis (axSpA), which, if left untreated, may significantly impact on clinical …