Re: can x-rays detect PsA..

[Guest guest]

All I can say in response to this is that my rheumatologist at a major teaching

hospital here in the Chicago area says you can tell. And I know that when she

first saw me, she took x-rays of several parts of my body but it was the

sacroilliac x-rays that got my insurance company to approve my going on Enbrel.

They are also the only ones that have shown what I assume to be signs of PsA

because the radiologist said they showed sacroillitis - which, when you look it

up, says inflammation of the sacroilliac and is treated in exactly the same way

as PA. Everything else she's x-rayed has been diagnosed as osteoarthritis.

Joanna Hoelscher

[Guest guest]

I think what you're saying is it is all about location of arthritic damage. I

have lots of friends with osteoarthritis who complain about their knees, hips,

back, and shoulders but none ever has sacroiliitis.  Sacroiliac joint

involvement is considered unique to the spondyloarthropathies and doctors use it

for diagnosis.

Janette <janettemorgan@...>