Showing posts with label spondyloarthropathy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spondyloarthropathy. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Baseline available SIJ MRI 11 years ago at age 28

SIJ MRI 2014, only T1w and T2FSE non fat sat images done

1 year ago I reported chronic bilateral sacroilitis with questionable minimal synovial edema

Now, detailed hx reveals 15 yrs LBP in a 39F.  Carries a dx of RA and has tolerated multiple DMARDs poorly, currently not on therapy.  Referred by orthopedist who tells me she was diagnosed with "spondyloarthropathy in 2015, found to be HLA-B27 positive. All prior Lumbar MRI is essential normal; 2018 exam included Sag STIR images. 

I don't see any real interval change since Nov 2018.  I am told that she has never had other peripheral joint symptoms. Is this actually RA?  Can this be AS (the patient self reports history of AS now) without ankylosis over a course of 5 years?  How would you report this?

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