Pain in AS

<p> <list list-type=”bullet”> <li><p>Inflammatory mediators can directly and indirectly induce pain</p></li> <li><p>Pain in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is not strictly inflammatory and involves a…
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Fibromyalgia (FM) can coexist with…
arthritis-research.biomedcentral.com

The presence of Fibromyalgia in Axial Spondyloarthritis can falsely accentuate disease activity, resulting in inappropriate therapeutic escalation.  This is especially so if assessed by purely clinical measures like BASDAI.  Moving to measures incorporating laboratory values of inflammation (eg ASDAS-CRP) should help to mitigate.


With the introduction of ASAS criteria for the diagnosis of axial and peripheral spondyloarthropathy, there has been a debate about whether patients with…
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About 10% of Fibromyalgia patients were found to have Axial Spondyloarthritis by radiologic or clinical criteria.  This is a sizable number, and the possibility of AS should be considered especially in those with elevated acute phase reactants.