{"id":2122,"date":"2019-08-23T19:19:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T19:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2026-01-29T18:53:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:53:36","slug":"spondyloarthritis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/spondyloarthritis\/","title":{"rendered":"ASAS Categorization Criteria for Spondyloarthritis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Assessment in SpondyloArthritis international Society (ASAS) criteria were validated in an international cohort trial with a sensibility and specificity close to 82.9 and 84.4%, respectively.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ASAS Categorization Criteria for Spondyloarthritis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ASAS Categorization Criteria for spondyloarthritis (SpA) in patients under 45 years old of age with lower back pain of 3 months duration.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Radiological diagnosis of sacroiliitis + 1 or more features of spondyloarthritis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">OR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HLA B27 + 2 or more features of spondyloarthritis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Features of spondyloarthritis<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Low inflammatory pain<\/li>\n<li>Arthritis<\/li>\n<li>Enthesitis<\/li>\n<li>Uve\u00edtis<\/li>\n<li>Dactilitis<\/li>\n<li>Psoriasis<\/li>\n<li>Crohn\/colitis<\/li>\n<li>Good response to NSAIDs<\/li>\n<li>Family history of spondyloarthropathy<\/li>\n<li>HLA B27<\/li>\n<li>High CRP levels<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Radiological diagnosis of sacroiliitis<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Active (acute) inflammation in the MRI highly suggestive of sacroiliitis due to SpA<\/li>\n<li>Radiological sacroiliitis defined according to the New York criteria (grade &gt;2 bilateral or grade 3-4 unilateral)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Lambert RG, Bakker PA, van der Heijde D, Weber U, Rudwaleit M, Hermann KG, Sieper J, Baraliakos X, Bennett A, Braun J, Burgos-Vargas R, Dougados M, Pedersen SJ, Jurik AG, Maksymowych WP, Marzo-Ortega H, \u00d8stergaard M, Poddubnyy D, Reijnierse M, van den Bosch F, van der Horst-Bruinsma I, Landew\u00e9 R. Defining active sacroiliitis on MRI for classification of axial spondyloarthritis: update by the ASAS MRI working group. Ann Rheum Dis. 2016 Nov;75(11):1958-1963. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/26768408\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Banegas Illescas ME, L\u00f3pez Men\u00e9ndez C, Rozas Rodr\u00edguez ML, Fern\u00e1ndez Quintero RM. New ASAS criteria for the diagnosis of spondyloarthritis: diagnosing sacroiliitis by magnetic resonance imaging.\u00a0Radiologia. 2014 Jan-Feb;56(1):7-15. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/24119715\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sieper J, Rudwaleit M, Baraliakos X, Brandt J, Braun J, Burgos-Vargas R, Dougados M, Hermann KG, Landew\u00e9 R, Maksymowych W, van der Heijde D. The Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society (ASAS) handbook: a guide to assess spondyloarthritis.\u00a0Ann Rheum Dis. 2009 Jun;68 Suppl 2:ii1-44. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/19433414\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kim TJ, Ramiro S. Defining early axial spondyloarthritis: insights and applications of the Assessment of Spondyloarthritis International Society international consensus. J Rheum Dis. 2026 Jan 1;33(1):19-24. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/41409813\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created: Aug 16, 2019.<br \/>\nUp-date: Jan 29, 2026.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[106,109,107,16,15,110,105,108],"class_list":["post-2122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rheumatology","tag-asas","tag-categorizacion","tag-categorization","tag-criteria","tag-criterios","tag-espondiloartritis","tag-spa","tag-spondyloarthritis"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10605,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions\/10605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}