Among patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) who showed active sacroiliitis on MRI after a washout of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), complete resolution of MRI-visible ...

(HealthDay)—Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) positive for sacroiliitis is seen in a considerable number of healthy individuals without back pain, according to a study recently published in Arthritis & ...

The Dutch researchers tested interreader reliability of SI-joint MRI in 68 patients with inflammatory back pain. Patients had back pain for less than two years and met at least four of these five ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis, MRI sacroiliitis and HLA-B27 positivity, but not ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . MRI interrater reliability is superior to that of radiographs — which demonstrated a significant proportion of ...

Diagnostic algorithms for axial spondyloarthritis (SpA), and classification criteria for use in clinical trials, are being developed and refined. But can axial SpA be ruled out in young patients with ...

New research presented this week at ACR Convergence, the American College of Rheumatology's annual meeting, found that an innovative new artificial neural network can detect radiographic sacroiliitis ...

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, ...

The reason that MRI validation in axial SpA will remain incomplete is that the critical question—'what exactly is axial SpA?'—can never be precisely answered. In this respect, we agree with the ...

Poor agreement was identified regarding MRI- and classification-defined axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) and inflammatory back pain diagnoses in patients with psoriatic disease. Diagnosis of axial ...

The sacroiliac joints are located at the bottom of the spine where it joins to the pelvic bones. These joints play an important role in the movement of the lower limb. Just like most joints in our ...

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 ...