Investigators compared differences in pain reports between patients with ankylosing spondylitis and non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis to assess how pain sensitivity was associated with disease and health outcomes.
Researchers evaluated the association between fibromyalgia in psoriatic arthritis and enthesopathy, sleep, fatigue, and quality of life.
Chronic widespread pain may be prevalent in patients with ankylosing spondylitis and undifferentiated spondyloarthritis.
An improved understanding of the gender differences in axial spondyloarthritis can improve disease treatment and reduce disease burden.
Illness perceptions are important in the relationship between back pain and health-related quality of life in patients suspected of axial spondyloarthritis.
Researchers sought to confirm whether concomitant fibromyalgia has a negative effect on TNF blocker response.
Less than one-third of patients with new-onset inflammatory back pain were found to progress to spondyloarthritis during a 13-year period, while most resolved to inflammatory back pain.
Although current guidelines define remission as the absence of clinical and laboratory evidence of significant inflammatory disease,the parameters against which axial spondyloarthritis is assessed to demonstrate clinical remission are unclear.
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Revised recommendations for the management of patients with axial spondyloarthritis have been issued jointly by the Assessment of SpondyloArthritis International Society and the European League Against Rheumatism.
