IN outpatient axial spondyloarthritis care, radiographic hip involvement affected 13.90% and aligned with greater severity overall.
Hip Involvement in Axial Spondyloarthritis
Hip involvement is a recognized extraspinal manifestation of axial spondyloarthritis and can be associated with poorer functional outcomes. In this retrospective, single center analysis from a rheumatology outpatient clinic in Rabat, Morocco, researchers evaluated confirmed ankylosing spondylitis patients followed between 2019 and 2023 to better define how often hip disease appears in routine outpatient care and how it relates to symptomatic and structural severity.
Hip involvement was defined as hip pain attributed to inflammatory disease activity and supported by radiographic findings, using a Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Radiology Hip Index…