Abstracts tagged "clinical practice and non-radiographic"

Abstract Number: 589 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Patients with Nr-Axspa Show a Statistically Higher Disease Burden in Clinical Practice Compared with Patients with Radiographic Axial Spa
Lennart TH Jacobsson¹, Tomas Husmark², Elke Theander³, Kenneth Henriksson⁴, Katharina Büsch⁵ and Martin Johansson⁵, ¹Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, ²Rheumatology, Falu Hospital, Falun, Sweden, ³Skane University Hospital Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, ⁴Rheumatology city clinic, Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁵AbbVie AB, Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden
Background/Purpose The ASAS axial SpA classification criteria was published in 2009 but so far there has been limited research on axial SpA patients in clinical…