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Association between vitiligo and spondyloarthritis
OBJECTIVE: To establish if spondyloarthritis (SpA) and vitiligo occur together more frequently than by chance. METHODS: All consecutive patients with SpA seen in a 6 month period were evaluated for vitiligo by an experienced dermatologist. The control group included the 2 consecutive patients withou...
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Published in: | Journal of rheumatology 2001-02, Vol.28 (2), p.313-314 |
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Summary: | OBJECTIVE: To establish if spondyloarthritis (SpA) and vitiligo occur together more frequently than by chance. METHODS: All
consecutive patients with SpA seen in a 6 month period were evaluated for vitiligo by an experienced dermatologist. The control
group included the 2 consecutive patients without SpA seen after each patient with SpA. RESULTS: Two hundred thirty-four patients
with SpA (131 men, 103 women; mean age 59 +/- 18.3 yrs) were seen in the study period. Of these, 43 had ankylosing spondylitis
(AS), 112 psoriatic arthritis (PsA), 14 SpA associated with inflammatory bowel disease, 64 undifferentiated SpA, and one reactive
arthritis. The 468 control patients (360 women, 108 men; mean age 68.5 +/- 2 yrs) had various degenerative and inflammatory
rheumatic diseases. Eight (3.4%) patients out of 234 with SpA had type A vitiligo. In the control group, 5 (1.06%) out of
468 had type A vitiligo. The difference was statistically significant (p < 0.05). Of the 8 patients with coexisting vitiligo
and SpA, 4 had PsA, 2 primary AS, one AS associated with Crohn's disease, and one undifferentiated SpA. Of the 5 patients
with vitiligo in the control group, one had rheumatoid arthritis, one S ogren's syndrome, one palindromic rheumatism, one
crystal arthropathy, and one osteoarthritis. CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that vitiligo and SpA do not coexist by chance
and that vitiligo should be included in the list of diseases associated with SpA. |
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ISSN: | 0315-162X 1499-2752 |