Enteropathic spondyloarthropathy: A common genetic background with inflammatory bowel disease?

Treatment of arthralgias and spondyloarthropathy associated with inflammatory bowel disease

Spondylodiscitis and pseudarthrosis in a patient with enteropathic spondyloarthropathy.

Bath medallion reproduced with permission of the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath. The seronegative spondyloarthropathies consist ofa group ofdisorders which includes idiopathic (primary) ankylosing spondylitis, juvenile ankylosing spondylitis, reactive arthritis (or Reiter's syndrome), psoriatic arthritis, and spondylitis of inflammatory bowel disease (enteropathic spondylo...

Spondyloarthropathy and idiopathic inflammatory bowel diseases.

: Spondyloarthropathy (SpA) as observed in patients with idiopathic inflammatory bowel diseases is categorized according to the recently developed criteria of the European Spondylarthropathy Group, and belongs to a large complex of rheumatic disorders, encompassing ankylosing spondylitis, Reiter's disease, psoriatic arthritis, and reactive arthritis. It has been recognized for many years that p...

Auto-antibodies in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease Unclassified

Background: Inflammatory bowel disease unclassified (IBDU) is considered to be an aberrant immune response with loss of tolerance to many antigens. Objective: This paper tries to address whether there is any value to test for auto-antibodies in such patients. Methods: 60 patients with inflammatory bowel disease unclassified participated in the study. Auto-antibodies to nuclear antigen, intestin...

Sweet Syndrome Accompanying Inflammatory Bowel Disease in a Child

Acute neutrophilic dermatosis, first described in 1964 by Robert Douglas Sweet, is characterized by sudden onset fever, neutrophilic leukocytosis, and well demarcated erythematous papules, nodules, and plaques with dense neutrophilic infiltrates on histologic evaluation.Here is a report of a 7-year-old girl who presented with high grade fever, and discrete erythematous papular skin eruptions, w...