Introduction Axial spondyloarthritis (SpA) is an inflammatory disease that predominantly affects vertebral and sacroiliac joint. Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory multi-system disease associated with the formation of non-caseating granulomas within involved systems (1). Both diseases can involve ocular manifestations of which anterior uveitis are common feature. Articular involvement has been repo...

BACKGROUND Sacroiliac intraarticular injection by the traditional technique can be challenging to perform when the joint is covered with osteophytes or is extremely narrow. OBJECTIVE To examine whether there is enough space for the needle to be advanced from the L5-S1 interspinous space to the upper one-third sacroiliac joint (SIJ) by magnetic resonance image (MRI) analysis as an alternative ...

We studied 186 paraplegic patients to clarify the pathogenesis of the sacroiliac (SI) joint abnormalities reported in these patients. Partial or complete fusion of SI joints was noted in 47 patients (25%), and milder degrees of abnormalities of these joints were present in 27 patients (15%). The abnormalities differed from those seen in ankylosing spondylitis and were found more commonly in pat...

OBJECTIVE The etiology and pathology of pain in the lumbosacral region and pelvis of pregnant women during and after pregnancy have not been fully determined. This study evaluated if lower back pain during pregnancy and after childbirth is connected with static alterations in the alignment of the pelvis, dysfunction of sacroiliac joints, and irritation of the pelvic ligaments and spine in the l...