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Mnemonic for Assessment of the Spondyloarthritis International Society Criteria

SALIH OZGOCMEN, OZGUR AKGUL and MUHAMMAD ASIM KHAN
The Journal of Rheumatology September 2010, 37 (9) 1978; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.100477
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Spondyloarthropathies (SpA) are a group of interrelated and overlapping chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases that include ankylosing spondylitis, reactive arthritis, arthritis associated with psoriasis, Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, and undifferentiated spondyloarthritis. These diseases share many clinical features and an association with HLA-B271. Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society (ASAS) has developed new criteria for inflammatory back pain (IBP), an important clinical feature of the predominantly axial form of SpA2. ASAS has also developed classification criteria for predominantly axial SpA, which will provide a new standard for classifying the nonradiographic early stage of axial SpA3.

We provide 2 mnemonics (IPAIN and SPINEACHE), which will help ease the recall of these 2 criteria, and thus help their more widespread use for rapid screening and classification of patients with axial SpA in daily clinical practice (Table 1 and Table 2).

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IPAIN: a mnemonic for inflammatory back pain.

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SPINEACHE: a mnemonic for the clinical parameters of the ASAS classification for axial spondyloarthritis.

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    1. 1.↵
      1. Khan MA
      . Ankylosing spondylitis. New York: Oxford University Press; 2009:1–147.
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      1. Sieper J,
      2. van der Heijde D,
      3. Landewe R,
      4. Brandt J,
      5. Burgos-Vagas R,
      6. Collantes-Estevez E,
      7. et al.
      New criteria for inflammatory back pain in patients with chronic back pain: a real patient exercise by experts from the Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society (ASAS). Ann Rheum Dis 2009;68:784–8.
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      1. Rudwaleit M,
      2. van der Heijde D,
      3. Landewe R,
      4. Listing J,
      5. Akkoc N,
      6. Brandt J,
      7. et al.
      The development of Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society classification criteria for axial spondyloarthritis (part II): validation and final selection. Ann Rheum Dis 2009;68:777–83.
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