The evidence for whole-spine MRI in the assessment of axial spondyloarthropathy

Bennett, Alexander N.; Marzo‐Ortega, Helena; Rehman, Amer; Emery, Paul; McGonagle, Dennis

doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep427

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“…USD is operator-dependent, however, and lacks sufficient resolution and penetration depth to adequately and reliably visualize the sacroiliac joints 41. Whole-body MRI has also been proposed as an alternative method to evaluate the axial skeleton in adults with early disease 42,43. In adults with early inflammatory back pain, 24% and 22% had both lumbar and sacroiliac joint lesions or lumbar spinal lesions only, respectively, which were detectable by whole-body MRI 44.…”

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Diagnosis and treatment of enthesitis-related arthritis

Weiss¹

2012

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Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a chronic, inflammatory disease of unknown etiology. The enthesitis-related arthritis (ERA) JIA category describes a clinically heterogeneous group of children including some who have predominately enthesitis, enthesitis and arthritis, juvenile ankylosing spondylitis, or inflammatory bowel disease-associated arthropathy. ERA accounts for 10%–20% of JIA. Common clinical manifestations of ERA include arthritis, enthesitis, and acute anterior uveitis. Axial disease is also common in children with established ERA. Treatment regimens for ERA, many of them based on adults with rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis, include the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs, and biologic agents either individually or in combination.

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