Percentage of patients with spondyloarthritis in patients referred because of chronic back pain and performance of classification criteria: experience from the Spondyloarthritis Caught Early (SPACE) cohort

Abstract

The inclusion criteria of the SPACE cohort yield the same high numbers of SpA patients compared with referral strategies like inflammatory back pain, HLA-B27+ or sacroiliitis, yet are easier to apply. The ASAS axSpA criteria outperformed the other criteria; 38.2% fulfilled the ASAS axSpA criteria. Patients fulfilling the clinical arm of the ASAS axSpA reflect a group of patients similar to those fulfilling the imaging arm.

A comparison of clinical and laboratory profile of non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis and ankylosing spondylitis

“…The frequency of HLA B27 positivity was higher in both the groups compared to a previous study conducted on HLA B27 typing in Asian Indians 11 ; as well as in the GESPIC and SPACE 12 cohorts. This could be explained due to the high sensitivity of the in-house PCR typing methodology used to detect HLA B27 in our study.…”

Clinical presentation of patients suffering from recent onset chronic inflammatory back pain suggestive of spondyloarthritis: The DESIR cohort

“…Under these circumstances, performance of the different sets of classification criteria applied in early disease give some information upon accuracy of their use as diagnosis tools. It is noteworthy that these performances in the DESIR cohort are not so different that those observed in other similar cohorts of early possible spondyloarthritis [24,36].…”

“…the patients with a level of confidence of the rheumatologist below 8) could be considered as a potential "disease group" since the inclusion criteria made mandatory a level of confidence above 5. However, it should be noticed that such methodology has been previously used in this area [24].…”

Draft «aspine» Mobile Application for Patients With Early Axial Spondyloarthritis

“…Во-первых, дебют аксСпА приходится на молодой, трудоспособный возраст [5][6][7][8][9], когда ввиду активной тру-довой занятости у человека нет времени посещать врачей для регулярного наблюдения за состоянием здоровья. Во-вторых, укомплектованность медицинских учреждений врачами ревматологами в настоящее время не удовлетворя-ет растущим потребностям населения, особенно на уровне первичного звена.…”