Performance of various criteria sets in patients with inflammatory back pain of short duration; the Maastricht early spondyloarthritis clinic.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To describe how patients presenting with inflammatory back pain (IBP) of short duration can be classified by different sets of classification criteria for spondyloarthritis (SpA) and ankylosing spondylitis, and which clinical and imaging features are of discernible importance.

Methods

68 patients with IBP of a maximum of 2 years' duration were included in the early spondyloarthritis cohort. Detailed history, clinical examination and imaging of sacroiliac joints by plain radiography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were obtained. The Berlin criteria set for SpA that has a prominent place for MRI and human leucocyte antigen B27 was used to quantify the relative contribution of MRI in classifying SpA.

Results

14 of the 68 patients had ankylosing spondylitis accor

SUBMITTER: Heuft-Dorenbosch L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1798391 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature