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Goodbye to the term ‘ankylosing spondylitis’, hello ‘axial spondyloarthritis’: time to embrace the ASAS-defined nomenclature by Désirée van der Heijde; Anna Molto; Sofia Ramiro; Jürgen Braun; Maxime Dougados; Floris A van Gaalen; Lianne S Gensler; Robert D Inman; Robert B M Landewé; Helena Marzo-Ortega; Victoria Navarro-Compán; Andri Phoka; Denis Poddubnyy; Mikhail Protopopov; John Reveille; Martin Rudwaleit; Percival Sampaio-Barros; Alexandre Sepriano; Joachim Sieper; Filip E Van den Bosch; Irene van der Horst-Bruinsma; Pedro M Machado; Xenofon Baraliakos is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is the historic term used for decades for the HLA-B27-associated inflammatory disease affecting mainly the sacroiliac joints (SIJ) and spine. Classification criteria for AS have radiographic sacroiliitis as a dominant characteristic. However, with the availability of MRI of SIJ, it could be demonstrated that the disease starts long before definite SIJ changes become visible on radiographs. The Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society, representing a worldwide group of experts reached consensus on changes in the nomenclature pertaining to axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), such as the terminology of diagnosis and of assessment of disease activity tools. These are important changes in the field, as experts in axSpA are now in agreement that the term axSpA is the overall term for the disease. A further differentiation, of which__radiographic__versus__non-radiographic__is only one aspect, may be relevant for research purposes. Another important decision was that the terms AS and radiographic axSpA (r-axSpA) can be used interchangeably, but that the preferred term is r-axSpA. Based on the decision that axSpA is the correct terminology, a proposal w

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Author

Désirée van der Heijde; Anna Molto; Sofia Ramiro; Jürgen Braun; Maxime Dougados; Floris A van Gaalen; Lianne S Gensler; Robert D Inman; Robert B M Landewé; Helena Marzo-Ortega; Victoria Navarro-Compán; Andri Phoka; Denis Poddubnyy; Mikhail Protopopov; John Reveille; Martin Rudwaleit; Percival Sampaio-Barros; Alexandre Sepriano; Joachim Sieper; Filip E Van den Bosch; Irene van der Horst-Bruinsma; Pedro M Machado; Xenofon Baraliakos

Publisher

BMJ

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)