Nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis: clinical and therapeutic relevance. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Current classification criteria for axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) provide for the inclusion of patients with a wide range of presentations and manifestations. While not considered a formal subclassification, patients are often divided into radiographic or nonradiographic axSpA based on the presence or absence of radiographic sacroiliitis. This review will focus on nonradiographic axSpA and will discuss clinical manifestations of disease that distinguish, or in many cases do not distinguish, this entity from other individuals with axSpA. This review will also cover treatment paradigms for nonradiographic axSpA, particularly the use of biologic therapies, where current data suggest that nonradiographic disease should be managed largely the same as radiographic disease, or classical ankylosing spondylitis.

publication date

  • December 22, 2017

Research

keywords

  • Spondylitis, Ankylosing

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC5741895

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85038936838

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1002/art.11325

PubMed ID

  • 29273055

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 19

issue

  • 1