Credit: Shutterstock. Healthy volunteers, patients with chronic back pain, and runners did not have deep bone marrow edema lesions, but 89.4% of axial SpA patients and 14.3% of women with postpartum ...

MRI interrater reliability is superior to that of radiographs — which demonstrated a significant proportion of both false negative and false positive findings — for global sacroiliitis impression ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A newly developed artificial neural network can accurately detect radiographic sacroiliitis in patients with ...

Sacroiliitis on conventional radiography, a key diagnostic feature of axial spondyloarthritis (SpA), often appears only late in the disease course. With the introduction of potent biologic agents that ...

In this study, Arnbak and colleagues evaluated the relationship between clinical and laboratory features of spondyloarthritis and magnetic resonance (MR) findings of the spine and sacroiliac joints in ...

New research presented at ACR Convergence, the American College of Rheumatology's annual meeting, shows that an artificial intelligence-based analysis model, called an artificial neural network, ...

Radiographic diagnosis of sacroiliitis is difficult, with large interobserver variation being reported. A number of small studies have suggested that CT might be superior to radiography for the ...

Spondyloarthritis (SpA) has two forms: axSpA, which affects the spine and sacroiliac joints predominantly, and peripheral SpA, which affects the peripheral joints. Manifestation of axSpA can be either ...

Development of the new criteria (see Figure 2) began with 20 experts in SpA (all ASAS members) reviewing clinical data of 71 real patients who had presented to a rheumatology department in Berlin ...

A 24-year-old man presents to his primary care physician with a six-month history of low back pain. He has no history of trauma, fever or weight loss, and his pain has not responded to nonsteroidal ...

MRI Considerable proportion of healthy individuals without back pain have MRI positive for sacroiliitis. HealthDay News — Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) positive for sacroiliitis is seen in a ...