The average eight-year delay between symptom onset and diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis might improve with wider use of sacroiliac-joint MRI in patients with inflammatory back pain. (Heuft ...

Unless the source is a systemic inflammatory disorder, such as Ankylosing spondylitis, it is rare that both sacroiliac joints would be symptomatic at the same time.

While magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the sacroiliac joints positive for inflammation are not always specific in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), their prevalence in ...

The number of patients who attained MCID in the sacroiliac joint and spine was approximately three-times greater in the pooled tofacitinib group compared with placebo (P < .05 for sacroiliac ...

Spinal Inflammation in the Absence of Sacroiliac Joint Inflammation on Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients With Active Nonradiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis van der Heijde, Sieper J ...

Source Reference: Nicolaes J, et al "Performance analysis of a deep-learning algorithm to detect the presence of inflammation in MRI of sacroiliac joints in patients with axial spondyloarthritis ...

The sacroiliac joint lies next to the bottom of the spine, ... Dysfunction and inflammation of the sacroiliac joints may cause pain. Leg-length discrepancy, lumbar spine fusion surgery, ...

Source Reference: Renson T, et al "Progressive increase in sacroiliac joint and spinal lesions detected on magnetic resonance imaging in healthy individuals in relation to age" Arthritis Rheumatol ...

There is no single provocative test that is highly sensitive for diagnosing SI joint inflammation, ... Thawrani DP, Agabegi SS, Asghar F. Diagnosing sacroiliac joint pain.

According to the researchers, 40% of the included participants were smokers, and 18% were identified as blue collar. Smoking was independently associated with more sacroiliac joint inflammation on ...