Funding Information: This work was supported by Reuma Nederland and Novartis. Publisher Copyright: © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.; Objectives To determine how much of the effect of vertebral corner inflammation on development of syndesmophytes is explained by vertebral corner fat deposition. Methods Pa...
Publisher Copyright: © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ.; OBJECTIVES: To investigate the associations between MRI detected vertebral corner inflammation (VCI) and vertebral corner fat deposition (VCFD) on whole spine low-dose CT scan (ldCT) detected syndesmophyte formation and growth. METHODS: Patients from the Sensitive Imaging in Ankylosing Spondylitis coho...
© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology.; OBJECTIVES: In radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (r-axSpA), spinal damage manifests as syndesmophytes and facet joint ankylosis (FJA). We evaluated whether the presence of one lesion increased the risk of the other lesion. METHODS: Patients with r-axSpA underwent low-dose CT (ldCT) and MRI of the wh...