MRI-tis in the early diagnosis of axial SpA: Issues and limitations

Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 666-669

  De Rycke, Leen ^a   Maas, Mario ^a   Tak, Paul P ^a   Baeten, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL SPONDYLOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACROILIITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPONDYLOSIS; VALIDITY;

HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SACROILIITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING;

EID: 78049529461     PISSN: 17594790     EISSN: 17594804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2010.161     Document Type: Review

References (20)

1. Dougados, M. et al. The European Spondylarthropathy Study Group preliminary criteria for the classification of spondylarthropathy. Arthritis Rheum. 34, 1218-1227 (1991).
2. van der Linden, S., Valkenburg, H. A. & Cats, A. Evaluation of the diagnostic criteria for ankylosing spondylitis. A proposal for modification of the New York criteria. Arthritis Rheum. 27, 361-368 (1984).
3. van Tubergen, A. et al. Radiographic assessment of sacroiliitis by radiologists and rheumatologists: does training improve quality? Ann. Rheum. Dis. 62, 519-525 (2003).
4. Rudwaleit, M. et al. The early disease stage in axial spondylarthritis: results from the German Spondyloarthritis Inception Cohort. Arthritis Rheum. 60, 717-727 (2009).
5. Haibel, H. et al. Efficacy of adalimumab in the treatment of axial spondylarthritis without radiographically defined sacroiliitis: results of a twelve-week randomized, double-blind, placebocontrolled trial followed by an open-label extension up to week fifty-two. Arthritis Rheum. 58, 1981-1991 (2008).
6. Kozin, F., Carrera, G. F., Ryan, L. M., Foley, D. & Lawson, T. Computed tomography in the diagnosis of sacroiliitis. Arthritis Rheum. 24, 1479-1485 (1981).
7. Fam, A. G., Rubenstein, J. D., Chin-Sang, H. & Leung, F. Y. Computed tomography in the diagnosis of early ankylosing spondylitis. Arthritis Rheum. 28, 930-937 (1985).
8. Fewins, H. E., Whitehouse, G. H. & Bucknall, R. C. Role of computed tomography in the evaluation of suspected sacroiliac joint disease. J. R. Soc. Med. 83, 430-432 (1990).
9. Wittram, c., Whitehouse, G. H., Williams, J. W. & Bucknall, R. C. A comparison of MR and CT in suspected sacroiliitis. J. Comput. Assist. Tomogr. 20, 68-72 (1996).
10. Yu, W. et al. Comparison of radiography, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging in the detection of sacroiliitis accompanying ankylosing spondylitis. Skeletal Radiol. 27, 311-320 (1998).
11. Puhakka, K. B. et al. Imaging of sacroiliitis in early seronegative spondylarthropathy. Assessment of abnormalities by MR in comparison with radiography and CT. Acta Radiol. 44, 218-229 (2003).
12. Rudwaleit, M. et al. The development of Assessment of Spondyloarthritis International Society (ASAS) classification criteria for axial spondyloarthritis (part I): classification of paper patients by expert opinion including uncertainty appraisal. Ann. Rheum. Dis. 68, 770-776 (2009).
13. Rudwaleit, M. et al. The development of Assessment of Spondyloarthritis International Society (ASAS) classification criteria for axial spondyloarthritis (part II): validation and final selection. Ann. Rheum. Dis. 68, 777-783 (2009).
14. Heuft-Dorenbosch, L. et al. Performance of various criteria sets in patients with inflammatory back pain of short duration; the Maastricht early spondyloarthritis clinic. Ann. Rheum. Dis. 66, 92-98 (2007).
15. Weber, U. et al. The diagnostic utility of MRI in spondyloarthritis: an international multicentre evaluation of 187 subjects (the MORPHO study). Arthritis Rheum. doi:10.1002/art.27571.
16. Bennett, A. N. et al. Evaluation of the diagnostic utility of spinal magnetic resonance imaging in axial spondylarthritis. Arthritis Rheum. 60, 1331-1341 (2009).
17. Weber, U. et al. Sensitivity and specificity of spinal inflammatory lesions assessed by whole-body magnetic resonance imaging in patients with ankylosing spondylitis and recentonset inflammatory back pain. Arthritis Rheum. 61, 900-908 (2009).
18. Oostveen, J., Prevo, R., den Boer, J. & van de Laar, M. Early detection of sacroiliitis on magnetic resonance imaging and subsequent development of sacroiliitis on plain radiography. A prospective, longitudinal study. J. Rheumatol. 26, 1953-1958 (1999).
19. Bennett, A. N. et al. Severity of baseline magnetic resonance imaging-evident sacroiliitis and HLA-B27 status in early inflammatory back pain predict radiographically evident ankylosing spondylitis at eight years. Arthritis Rheum. 58, 3413-3418 (2008).
20. Madsen, K. B., Schiottz-Christensen, B. & Jurik, A. G. Prognostic significance of magnetic resonance imaging changes of the sacroiliac joints in spondyloarthritis-a followup study. J. Rheumatol. 37, 1718-1727 (2010).