Acute anterior uveitis in first-degree relatives of axial spondyloarthritis probands should trigger a screening for axial SpA, according to researchers in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.
“Here, we report features from patients’ clinical history that best predict presence of [axial SpA (axSpA)] for the large number of [first-degree relatives (FDR)] who developed the disease during these 35 years,” Sjef M. van der Linden, MD, of the University of Bern, in Switzerland, and colleagues wrote. “We evaluated whether presence at early age of chronic inflammatory low back