Spondyloarthropathy (patient information)

Overview

Spondyloarthropathy or Spondyloarthrosis are entities refer to any kind of joint disease of vertebral column (spine), albeit it demonstrate a class or category of diseases more than a single entity. Another entity in disease of vertebra itself is spondylopathy, which is founded mostly with spondyloarthropathy. Th term of spondyloarthropathy in the broadest sense, includes any type of joint involvement of vertebral column such as rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, however, the term is often used for a certain group of disease with specific common features, which eventuate to call them as a seronegative spondyloarthropathies due to their negative serum rheumatoid factor and ANA, with an increased incidence of HLA-B27.