Sex differences and early treatment of axial spondyloarthritis

Rusman, Tamara

Publication date

September 2022

Publisher

s.n.

Abstract

Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is a chronic inflammatory rheumatic disease that mainly affects the axial skeleton. The disease manifests itself at a young age (<40 years) and can be divided in a subtype with radiographic changes of the sacroiliac joints according to the Modified New York criteria, called ankylosing spondylitis (AS, or radiographic axSpA) and a subtype without radiographic changes, non-radiographic axSpA (nr-axSpA). For both, the radiographic and nr-axSpA, the main clinical symptom is chronic low back pain with an inflammatory character. In addition to the inflammatory back pain, articular (arthritis) and extra-articular manifestations (such as: uveitis, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and psoriasis) add to the disease bur...

Extracted data

We use cookies to provide a better user experience.

Data Protection

Sex differences and early treatment of axial spondyloarthritis

Abstract

Extracted data

Sex differences and early treatment of axial spondyloarthritis

Abstract

Extracted data

Related items

Related items