Arthritis Rheumatol 2019 Oct
2019 Update of the American College of Rheumatology/Spondylitis Association of America/Spondyloarthritis Research and Treatment Network Recommendations for the Treatment of Ankylosing Spondylitis and Nonradiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis.
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This is an ongoing controversy in the field(s), with some studies suggesting that clinical differences allow differentiation of axial involvement in psoriatic arthritis from classical ankylosing spondylitis. The concept was recently the topic of a study by Feld and colleagues published in Rheumatolo...
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Treating these patients is challenging. It's always good to circle back to first-line therapy recommendations for axial spondyloarthritis and ensure that patients are doing physical therapy or exercise daily. Patients whose IBD is in remission may be able to add a COX-2 selective NSAID (celecoxib), ...