These investigators tried to characterize a robust shared microbiota among patients with spondyloarthritis, acute anterior uveitis, and Crohn’s disease in a large cohort. Participants had not received ...

Facet joint inflammation is linked to a more than threefold increase in the risk for subsequent ankylosis at the same spinal location in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA). Researchers ...

Patients with hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) may have subclinical spondyloarthritis (SpA) features, e.g., sacroiliitis and ...

Atul A. Deodhar, MD: The use of opioids is quite common in this population, mainly because back pain is so common in this population. Depending on which survey you look at, 30% to 40% of the patients ...

Bimzelx is now approved for the treatment of adult patients with psoriatic arthritis, non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis, and ankylosing spondylitis. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ...

Ultrasound assessment of enthesitis can effectively distinguish patients with vs without SpA, with inflammatory B-mode lesions serving as the strongest independent marker.

Chronic inflammatory back pain (IBP) is one of the characteristic features of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), but it's not the only one that frontline healthcare professionals need to be mindful of ...

In patients with spondyloarthritis, onset of common musculoskeletal symptoms such as back pain led to diagnostic delays averaging over 7 years. Onset with extra-musculoskeletal manifestations such as ...

Medically reviewed by David Ozeri, MD Key Takeaways Sacroiliitis is inflammation of the sacroiliac joints in the pelvic ...

Atul A. Deodhar, MD: Like everything in medicine, the diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis is based on pattern recognition. If a patient comes in with back pain, the first thing you are going to think ...

People with Crohn's disease and related joint inflammation linked to immune system dysfunction have distinct gut bacteria or microbiota, with the bacterium Mediterraneibacter gnavus being a potential ...