Screening patients with psoriasis, uveitis or inflammatory bowel disease for spondyloarthritis could improve early diagnosis, but no existing screening tools are generalizable to all who are at risk, according to a scoping review.
“The extra-articular manifestations of SpA may precede the development of articular features by several years and are sometimes the first reason for seeking medical care,” Vartika Kesarwani, MBBS, of the University of Connecticut, and colleagues wrote in Arthritis Care & Research. “Several studies have compared the different PsA screening tools;