This study aimed to investigate the histopathological feature of sacroiliitis and to examine its relationship with imaging features using various imaging techniques. Computed-tomography (CT)-guided needle biopsy of the sacroiliac (SI) joints was performed in 36 patients with spondyloarthritis. Histopathological examination was performed on the samples and subjects were divided as with or withou...

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Objective. To assess the clinical utility of repeat sacroiliac joint computed tomography (CT) in sacroiliitis by assessing the proportion of patients changing from normal to pathologic at CT and to which degree there is progression of established sacroiliitis at repeat CT. Methods. In a retrospective analysis of 334 patients (median age 34 years) with symptoms suggestive of inflammatory back pa...

INTRODUCTION Psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) increase cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, but surrogate markers for CVD in these disorders are inadequate. Because the presence of sacroiliitis may portend more severe PsA, we hypothesized that sacroiliitis defined by computed tomography (CT) would be associated with increased vascular inflammation defined by 18-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron ...

Pyogenic sacroiliitis (PS) is an acute form of sacroiliitis that mostly starts with very painful buttock pain. Here in this case, the followup magnetic resonance (MR) images of a 49-year-old male patient with PS is displayed. After his sacroiliitis was documented by MR images, he was treated with the combination of rifampicin plus streptomycin and moxifloxacin. Serial MR investigations were don...

OBJECTIVES The aims of this study were to identify and characterize features of sacroiliitis in patients with non-radiographic inflammatory low back pain by ultrasonography (USG) and to correlate the findings with that of MRI. METHODS MRI and USG of SI joints were performed on 29 patients who fulfilled the definition of inflammatory low back pain according to the Assessment of SpondyloArthrit...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was a comparative evaluation of radiography and MRI in the diagnostics of sacroiliitis in patients with a clinical diagnosis of spondyloartropathy, according to the current ASAS criteria. MATERIAL/METHODS Sacroiliac joints radiograms and MRI were conducted in 101 consecutive patients, aged 19-71 yrs (mean age: 40.6 yrs). The patients were referred by a s...

OBJECTIVE To observe the influence of human leucocyte antigen B27 (HLA-B27) status and gender on sacroiliitis on computed tomography (CT) in ankylosingspondylitis (AS). METHODS We reviewed the archived medical records of the AS inpatients admitted in the Rheumatology Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University during the period from January 2007 through January 2...

Background: Sacroiliitis is a common extraintestinal manifestation of Crohn’s disease but its association with the HLA-B27 phenotype is less evident. Polymorphisms in the CARD15 gene have been linked to higher susceptibility for Crohn’s disease. In particular, associations have been found with ileal and fibrostenosing disease, young age at onset of disease, and familial cases. Objectives: To in...

BACKGROUND Radiographic sacroiliitis is the hallmark of ankylosing spondylitis (AS), and detection of acute sacroiliitis is pivotal for early diagnosis of AS. Although radiographic sacroiliitis is a distinguishing feature of AS, sacroiliitis can be seen in a variety of other disease entities. CASE PRESENTATION We present an interesting case of sacroiliitis in a patient with Paget disease; the...