Abstracts tagged "diagnostic criteria and interdisciplinary rheumatology team"

Abstract Number: 661 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Bridging the Gap between Symptom Onset and Diagnosis in Axial Spondyloarthritis
Laura Passalent^1,2,3, Kala Sundararajan⁴, Anthony V. Perruccio⁵, Christopher Hawke^6,7, Nigil Haroon^8,9,10, Robert D Inman^3,11,12 and Y. Raja Rampersaud^5,6,13, ¹Rheumatology, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Arthritis Program, Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Orthopaedic Research Department, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Arthritis Program, Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶Orthopaedics, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁷Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁸Arthrits Program, Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁹Rheumatology, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁰Medicine, Rheumatology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹¹Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹²Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹³University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is diagnosed an average of 9 years after symptom onset (1), partly because inflammatory back pain (IBP) can be difficult…

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