diagnosis and spondylarthropathy Archives

Abstract Number: 1344 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012
Diagnostic Value of High Sensitivity C Reactive Protein for Early Axial Spondyloarthritis: Results From the Devenir Des Spondylarthopathies Indifferenciees Recentes Cohort
Victoria Navarro-Compán¹, Désirée van der Heijde², Bernard Combe³, Claudine Cosson⁴ and Floris van Gaalen¹, ¹Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Deptartment of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ³Rheumatology, Hopital Lapeyronie, Montpellier, France, ⁴Biochemistry, Hôpital Bicêtre, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: The average delay in spondyloarthritis (SpA) diagnosis after symptom onset is one of the longest among the inflammatory rheumatic diseases. Elevated C-reactive protein (CRP)…

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