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The comparison analysis of clinical and radiological features in SAPHO syndrome

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Abstract

Objectives

The aim was to comparatively assess the clinical and imaging features in patients with SAPHO syndrome.

Methods

The clinical data, laboratory results, imaging data of forty-six SAPHO patients were reviewed and the SAPHO patients were divided into spinal involvement group and non-spinal involvement group. Fifty patients with ankylosing spondylitis were recruited as control group. The clinical and radiological features of them were analyzed and compared.

Results

Thirty-four of 46 (73.9%) of all the SAPHO patients had spinal involvement. The lesions exhibited as abnormal hyper-intensity signal in vertebral bodies, vertebral body erosion or collapse, bone marrow edema, endplate inflammation, spondyldiscitis, paravertebral ossification, and facet joint involvement. Compared with patients in non-spinal involvement group, the age at disease onset was older (P = 0.033), the disease duration was longer (P = 0.048), and CRP level was elevated (P = 0.047) in patients in spinal involvement group. Compared with patients with ankylosing spondylitis, SAPHO patients were more likely to have cervical vertebra involvement (P = 0.024), endplate inflammation (P = 0.019), and spondyldiscitis (P = 0.001), but less multiple vertebral body and facet joint involvement (P = 0.002). Patients regularly received DMARDS or biologics treatment had symptoms relieved and lesions turned into chronic stage or better than before.

Conclusions

A total of 73.9% of the SAPHO patients had spinal involvement and the involvement could affect any part of the spine. Cervical vertebral involvement, endplate inflammation, and sponlypodiscitis were more common in SAPHO than in patients with ankylosing spondylitis. In SAPHO patients with spinal involvement, the disease duration was longer and the inflammatory reaction was more intensive. DMARDs and biologics may help to prevent the disease progress.

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• To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first one to comparatively study the clinical and radiological features of SAPHO syndrome, especially the characteristics of spinal involvement.

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This study was supported by a Project of The National Natural Science Foundation of China (81501390).

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  1. Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China

    Shuang Gao & XiaoLi Deng

  2. Department of Radiology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China

    Lihua Zhang

  3. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China

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Gao, S., Deng, X., Zhang, L. et al. The comparison analysis of clinical and radiological features in SAPHO syndrome. Clin Rheumatol 40, 349–357 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-020-05187-0

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