Clinical Challenges: Diagnosing Axial Spondyloarthritis
The diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) can be highly challenging because its hallmark symptom — chronic back pain — is experienced by some 20% of adults at some point in their lives. Yet axSpA only accounts for 0.5% to 1% of those cases, “so axSpA is lost within a sea of chronic back pain,” said […]
Clinical Challenges: Early Disease in Axial Spondyloarthritis
Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is the currently favored term for a spectrum of painful disorders affecting the spine, and most specifically the sacroiliac joints. Its prototypical form was ankylosing spondylitis, defined some 40 years ago as a condition characterized by the presence of radiographic sacroiliitis. However, ankylosing spondylitis today is considered a misnomer because while it […]