ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2023
Diagnostics of Sacroiliac Joint Differentials to Axial Spondyloarthritis Changes by Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
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- Diagnostic features of osteitis condensans ilii by MRI-a systematic literature review.Skeletal radiology · 2025Pooled it
- No major effect of age (< 40 vs. ≥ 40 years) on response to secukinumab in patients with axSpA: a post hoc analysis of six phase 3 trials.Arthritis research & therapy · 2026Trial
- Imaging characteristics of osteitis condensans ilii. A follow-up study.Skeletal radiology · 2026Article
- Comparative radiologic characteristics of isotretinoin-induced sacroiliitis and axial spondyloarthritis.Irish journal of medical science · 2026Article
- Sex differences in axial spondyloarthritis: biological mechanisms, clinical phenotypes, and therapeutic implications - a narrative review.Medicine and pharmacy reports · 2026Review
- Evaluation of the Diagnostic Performance of ChatGPT in Radiographic Staging of Sacroiliitis According to the Modified New York Criteria.Archives of rheumatology · 2026Article
- Case report-Stumped: back pain in a cricketer.South African journal of sports medicine · 2026Article
- MRI-defined sacroiliitis and spinal inflammation in chronic back pain: real-world patterns in axial spondyloarthritis and axial psoriatic arthritis.Rheumatology advances in practice · 2026Article
- When it is not sacroiliitis.Skeletal radiology · 2025Review
- Sacroiliac joint dysfunction: anatomy, pathophysiology, differential diagnosis, and treatment approaches.Skeletal radiology · 2025Review
- Development of international consensus on a standardised image acquisition protocol for diagnostic evaluation of the sacroiliac joints by MRI: an ASAS-SPARTAN collaboration.Annals of the rheumatic diseases · 2024Article
- Imaging of Sacroiliac Pain: The Current State-of-the-Art.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Review
- The sacroiliac joint across ages - what is normal?Therapeutic advances in musculoskeletal disease · 2024Review
- Performance of Fully Automated Algorithm Detecting Bone Marrow Edema in Sacroiliac Joints.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Novel insights into the anatomy and histopathology of the sacroiliac joint and correlations with imaging signs of sacroiliitis in case of axial spondyloarthritis.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Review
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Abstract
The diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is usually based on a pattern of imaging and clinical findings due to the lack of diagnostic criteria. The increasing use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the sacroiliac joints (SIJ) to establish the diagnosis early in the pre-radiographic phase has resulted in a shift in the paradigm with an increasing frequency of axSpA diagnoses and a changed sex distribution. Non-radiographic axSpA affects males and females nearly equally, whereas ankylosing spondylitis predominantly occurs in males. The MRI-based increasing frequency of axSpA in women is mainly due to the presence of subchondral bone marrow edema (BME) on fluid-sensitive MR sequences, which may be a non-specific finding in both women and men. Due to the somewhat different pelvic tilt and SIJ anatomy, women are more prone than men to develop strain-related MRI changes and may have pregnancy-related changes. Awareness of non-specific subchondral BME at the SIJ is important as it can imply a risk for an incorrect SpA diagnosis, especially as the clinical manifestations of axSpA may also be non-specific. Knowledge of relevant MRI and clinical features of differential diagnoses is needed in the diagnostic workout of patients with suspected axSpA considering that non-SpA-related SIJ conditions are more common in patients with low back or buttock pain than axSpA sacroiliitis. The purpose of this review was to present current knowledge of the most frequent differential diagnoses to axSpA sacroiliitis by MRI taking the clinical characteristics into account.
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