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SAA prepares to seed a national patient registry on ankylosing spondylitis. By combining
three existing patient databases that have been used in research, the composite database looks at thousands and potentially tens of thousands of patients and tracks health trends, disease severity over time, age, gender, race, and many other factors to improve understanding of the disease.
The American College of Rheumatology (ACR), the Spondyloarthritis Research and Treatment Network (SPARTAN), and the Spondylitis Association of America (SAA) partner to develop new ankylosing spondylitis and axial spondyloarthritis treatment guidelines, published in the summer of 2014.
SAA establishes a CME training program called, “Training Program in MRI for Radiologists in the Early Detection of Spondyloarthritis.” This program educates radiologists to recognize early inflammatory changes in bone marrow and soft tissue at symptom onset, leading to earlier and more accurate diagnoses.
