Abstracts tagged "Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and radiography"

Abstract Number: 1332 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Assessing Radiographic Damage in Ankylosing Spondylitis: Variability in Reliability of the Modified Stoke Ankylosing Spondylitis Spine Score According to the Statistical Method
Sibel Z. Aydin¹, Esen Kasapoglu-Gunal², Esra Kurum³, Servet Akar⁴, Eyyup Mungan⁵, Fatma Alibaz-Oner⁶, Helena Marzo-Ortega⁷, Dennis McGonagle⁸, Robert G Lambert⁹, Pamir Atagunduz⁶ and Walter Maksymowych¹⁰, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Koc University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Internal Medicine, Istanbul Medeniyet University Goztepe Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey, ³PhD,Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, ⁴Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Izmir Katip Celebi University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey, ⁵Goztepe training and research hospital, MD, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁶Rheumatology, Marmara University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁷Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit and University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ⁸Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ⁹Radiology, Radiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ¹⁰Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Background/Purpose: Conventional radiography is the main imaging modality to assess damage in the spine in ankylosing spondylitis. Modified Stoke Ankylosing Spondylitis Spine Score (mSASSS) has…
Abstract Number: 1736 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Is There Evidence to Support Replacing Conventional AP Pelvis Radiographs with Dedicated Sacroiliac Joint Views for the Diagnosis of Sacroiliitis?
Ahmed Omar¹, Ismail Sari¹, Mohamed Bedaiwi¹, Nigil Haroon¹ and Robert D Inman², ¹Rheumatology, Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Immunlogy and Institute of Medical Science, Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Despite the development of advanced imaging modalities such as MRI and CT, conventional radiography remains the cornerstone for the diagnosis and classification of Ankylosing…