sacroiliac joints
What is the reliability of non trained investigators in recognising structural MRI lesions of sacroiliac joints in patients with recent inflammatory back pain? Results of the DESIR cohort
... the sacroiliac joints (X-SIJ) or active sacroiliitis on ...the sacroiliac joints (MRI-SIJ), and have been described by the ASAS/OMERACT MRI ...
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High bone turnover assessed by 18F-fluoride PET/CT in the spine and sacroiliac joints of patients with ankylosing spondylitis: comparison with inflammatory lesions detected by whole body MRI
... the sacroiliac joints (SIJ) and spinal structures (sacroiliitis, spondylitis, spondylodiscitis, spondyloarthritis, and enthe- sitis). The clinical symptoms are paralleled over time by some osteodestructive ...
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Anatomy of the sacroiliac joints in children and adolescents by computed tomography
... The sacroiliac joints (SIJ) play an important role in spondyloarthritis as the diagnosis often is confirmed based on sacroiliitis by ...the sacroiliac joints is also frequent in juvenile ...
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MRI evidence of structural changes in the sacroiliac joints of patients with non radiographic axial spondyloarthritis even in the absence of MRI inflammation
... Recent studies have described several structural lesions on MRI in the sacroiliac joints (SIJ) [9–11]. Erosion is considered present when there is a breach in the cortical bone of either the iliac or sacral ...
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Diagnositic value of pelvic enthesitis on MRI of the sacroiliac joints in enthesitis related arthritis
... SI joints for the evaluation of the deep pelvic entheses, as is recom- mended by the ASAS handbook guidelines ...the sacroiliac joints, and thus the entheses [10, 15, ...
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Identification of subgroups of inflammatory and degenerative MRI findings in the spine and sacroiliac joints: a latent class analysis of 1037 patients with persistent low back pain
... Several MRI findings, including degenerative findings such as disc degeneration, disc herniations and vertebral endplate signal changes (i.e. Modic changes), have been associated with clinical presence of LBP. Also, and ...
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Relevance of structural damage in the sacroiliac joints for the functional status and spinal mobility in patients with axial spondyloarthritis: results from the German Spondyloarthritis Inception Cohort
... Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) covers both patients with non-radiographic (nr) axSpA – often the earlier stage of axSpA – and patients with radiographic axSpA, also termed ankylosing spondylitis (AS). The latter is ...
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Magnetic resonance imaging changes of sacroiliac joints in patients with recent onset inflammatory back pain: inter reader reliability and prevalence of abnormalities
... A MRI examination of the SI joints was performed using a 1.5 Tesla Philips Gyro scan ACS-NT (Philps, Best, The Nether- lands). Patients were scanned in a supine position using a Synergy-spine coil as the surface ...
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Intercorrelation between MRI disease activity scores of the sacroiliac joints and the spine, and clinical disease activity indices in patients with axial spondyloarthritis
... Abbreviations: ASDAS, Assessment of Spondyloarthritis Disease Activity Score; BASDAI, Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index; BASFI, Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional[r] ...
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Tumor necrosis factor inhibitor therapy but not standard therapy is associated with resolution of erosion in the sacroiliac joints of patients with axial spondyloarthritis
... MRI Sacroiliac Joint Structural Score (SSS) is a new scoring instrument that assesses a broader spectrum of structural lesions in the SIJ, which include erosion, fat metaplasia, backfill, and ankylosis ...
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Fat metaplasia on MRI of the sacroiliac joints increases the propensity for disease progression in the spine of patients with spondyloarthritis
... facet joints from patients with long-standing AS has demonstrated subchondral fi broblastic tissue, which includes lipid within fi broblasts as well as macrophages, which invades the overlying car- tilage as a ...
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Can erosions on MRI of the sacroiliac joints be reliably detected in patients with ankylosing spondylitis? A cross sectional study
... SIJ: sacroiliac joint; SpA: spondyloarthritis; STIR: short tau inversion recovery sequence; T1FS: T1-weighted fat saturated sequence; T1SE: T1-weighted spin echo sequence; T2GE: T2-weighted gradient echo ...
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Quantifying bone marrow inflammatory edema in the spine and sacroiliac joints with thresholding
... the sacroiliac (SI) joints in these patients is important for diagnosis and ...SI joints is important as it may reflect subclinical disease activity [3] and be a predictor of radiographic progression ...
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Effect of certolizumab pegol over 96 weeks of treatment on inflammation of the spine and sacroiliac joints, as measured by MRI, and the association between clinical and MRI outcomes in patients with axial spondyloarthritis
... SI joints, which poten- tially aids the decision-making process when considering treatment with an antitumour necrosis factor ...SI joints as assessed by MRI and structural progression from nr-axSpA to ...
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The incidence of bone marrow oedema at the sacroiliac joints in a non rheumatological population — a retrospective cohort study
... Methods This study was a retrospective cohort study consisting of all patients, 18 to 45 years of age, referred for a SIJ MRI between 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017 both dates included at t[r] ...
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Sacroiliac Pain: A Clinical Approach for the Neurosurgeon.
... intervene: sacroiliac joint, intervertebral discs, nerve roots, facet joint, vertebrae, spinal cord, ligaments, and ...disc, sacroiliac joints, and facet joints that, through diagnostic ...
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MANAGEMENT OF ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS THROUGH PANCHAKARMA - A CASE STUDY .......
... Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory disorder that primarily involves the sacroiliac joints and the axial skeleton. There is also a variable involvement of peripheral joints and ...
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CURRENT APPROACHES AND PROBLEMS IN ANKYLOSING SPONDOLYTIS: IMMUNOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
... from sacroiliac joints and is accompanied with enthesitis, presenting as chronic inflammation at the sites of ligamentous and tendinous insertions into ...
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Imaging in rheumatology: reconciling radiology and rheumatology
... Abstract Imaging in rheumatology was in the past largely confined to radiographs of the hands and sacroiliac joints (SIJs) helping to establish the diagnosis and then monitoring disease progression. ...
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Spondyloarthritis related and degenerative MRI changes in the axial skeleton an inter and intra observer agreement study
... the sacroiliac joints, substantial or almost perfect observer agreement was found for the grading of bone marrow oedema and fatty marrow deposition, the depth of bone marrow oedema and for subchondral ...
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