Description of Spondylarthritis and Validation of ASAS Criteria in West Indian Patients Seen in Consultation of Rheumatology. (SPACA)

Clinical Description of Spondylarthritis and Validation of Assessment of SpondyloArthritis International Society (ASAS) Criteria in West Indian Patients Seen in the Routine Consultation of Rheumatology.

In 2004 an ASAS for the Assessment of SpondyloArthritis International Society decided to work to improve the criteria for classification of spondyloarthropathies to allow for early diagnosis, Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This approach led to the publication in 2009 of the classification criteria for spondylarthritis, in particular axial spondyloarthritis, as well as a proposal to modify the classification of criteria defined by Mr. Amor (AMOR) and European Spondylarthropathy Study Group (ESSG) criteria, taking into account the potential abnormalities visible in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Nuclear (MRI).

The performance (specificity, sensitivity, positive and negative predictive values) of the ASAS criteria was then prospectively tested on a sample of the Metropolitan Caucasian population and this systematic study allowed to estimate the performance of the ASAS criteria in the usual framework Of the French Liberal Rheumatology Consultation.

Note that this approach is exposed to a criticism of "circular" approach, indeed the expert who is the gold standard for the diagnosis, uses more or less consciously "criteria" based on the presence of such and such sign, then checks in this selected population the diagnostic validity of these signs.

However, no data on the performance of ASAS criteria are available in populations of African descent.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Spondyloarthritis
• Intervention / Treatment: Diagnostic test: Evaluation of ASAS criteria

Detailed Description

Historically, spondyloarthritis is considered rare in these populations in the image of human Leukocyte Antigen B27 (HLA B27) which is observed only in 0.3% of individuals. Its presence determines the appearance of sacroiliitis - the cardinal sign of the disease - which is therefore rare. The recent contribution of MRI has changed investigators point of view and makes it possible to make the diagnosis in frequent situations but more atypical clinically.

In practice:

1. ASAS signs are not systematically found in the West Indies (sacroiliitis, uveitis, cervicitis, urethritis, inflammatory syndrome, HLAB27 ...)
2. Apart from cases associated with Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), clinical panels are atypical and the ASAS criteria for little help
3. MRI imaging is used to correct diagnosis. It is therefore necessary to describe these patients and to study the interest of the ASAS criteria in this population On the other hand, the validation of the ASAS criteria is part of the recommendations of treatment of the SPA (spondyloarthritis) by the French Society of Rheumatology in 2014. Clearly a patient who does not validate these criteria does not have access to anti- tumor necrosis factor (TNF) biotherapies, effective but Expensive. Thus, it is not known whether West Indian patients validate these criteria or not, but it is clear that despite the large number of local SPAs, few receive anti-TNF biotherapies.

The investigators propose to describe a population of Caribbean spondyloarthritis through a cross-sectional observational study carried out with a sample of rheumatologist doctors in three sites (Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guyana). The methodology of the cluster survey of physicians, with a systematic evaluation of the first patients seen in consultation (chronological selection) provides the best guarantee of representativeness.

The interest of this work is to reproduce exactly the methodology of a previous work carried out in a Caucasian population, validated and published, and thus be able to compare the value of the ASAS criteria between the Caucasian and Caribbean populations.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 104

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Martinique
  • Fort-de-France, Martinique, 97261
    • CHU de Martinique

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 16 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

Patient with presence or history of chronic low back pain (≥ 3 months) that started before the age of 45 with an onset of low back pain after 2005

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient over 18 years of age
• Patient seen in the usual framework of the consultation of rheumatology
• Patients consulting with:
• Presence or history of chronic low back pain (≥ 3 months) that started before the age of 45 with an onset of low back pain after 2005:
• Or with known sacroiliitis or asymmetric inflammatory rheumatism
• Or with chronic inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn, ulcerative colitis (RCH) ...) and associated inflammatory rheumatism
• Patients who received a lumbosacral MRI after 2005
• Patient not participating in a clinical trial

Exclusion criteria:

• Patient under 18 years of age
• Patient participating in another clinical trial

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Observational Models: Cohort
• Time Perspectives: Prospective

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of participants with treatment-related adverse events as assessed by CTCAE v4.0	Number of Participants With Treatment-Related Adverse Events as Assessed by CTCAE v4.0, Change From Baseline in Pain Scores on the Visual Analog Scale at 6 Weeks.	September 2018
ASAS criteria	Assess the performance of ASAS criteria (sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value) at the time of physician's diagnosis of chronic low back pain in rheumatological practice (Evaluation of the concept of "diagnostic criteria" and Classification criteria).	September 2018

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Assessment and comparison of ASAS performance against other classifications	Performance calculation of other classification systems (ESSG, Amor, New York modified): sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values.	September 2018

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University Hospital Center of Martinique
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Michel MD De Bandt, CHU de Martinique

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• van der Linden S, Valkenburg HA, Cats A. Evaluation of diagnostic criteria for ankylosing spondylitis. A proposal for modification of the New York criteria. Arthritis Rheum. 1984 Apr;27(4):361-8. doi: 10.1002/art.1780270401.
• Arnett FC, Edworthy SM, Bloch DA, McShane DJ, Fries JF, Cooper NS, Healey LA, Kaplan SR, Liang MH, Luthra HS, et al. The American Rheumatism Association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum. 1988 Mar;31(3):315-24. doi: 10.1002/art.1780310302.
• Dougados M, van der Linden S, Juhlin R, Huitfeldt B, Amor B, Calin A, Cats A, Dijkmans B, Olivieri I, Pasero G, et al. The European Spondylarthropathy Study Group preliminary criteria for the classification of spondylarthropathy. Arthritis Rheum. 1991 Oct;34(10):1218-27. doi: 10.1002/art.1780341003.
• Gran JT. An epidemiological survey of the signs and symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis. Clin Rheumatol. 1985 Jun;4(2):161-9. doi: 10.1007/BF02032287.
• Amor B, Dougados M, Mijiyawa M. [Criteria of the classification of spondylarthropathies]. Rev Rhum Mal Osteoartic. 1990 Feb;57(2):85-9. French.
• Sieper J, van der Heijde D, Landewe R, Brandt J, Burgos-Vagas R, Collantes-Estevez E, Dijkmans B, Dougados M, Khan MA, Leirisalo-Repo M, van der Linden S, Maksymowych WP, Mielants H, Olivieri I, Rudwaleit M. New criteria for inflammatory back pain in patients with chronic back pain: a real patient exercise by experts from the Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society (ASAS). Ann Rheum Dis. 2009 Jun;68(6):784-8. doi: 10.1136/ard.2008.101501. Epub 2009 Jan 15.
• Boy FN, Kayhan A, Karakas HM, Unlu-Ozkan F, Silte D, Aktas I. The role of multi-parametric MR imaging in the detection of early inflammatory sacroiliitis according to ASAS criteria. Eur J Radiol. 2014 Jun;83(6):989-996. doi: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2014.03.002. Epub 2014 Mar 22.
• Aletaha D, Neogi T, Silman AJ, Funovits J, Felson DT, Bingham CO 3rd, Birnbaum NS, Burmester GR, Bykerk VP, Cohen MD, Combe B, Costenbader KH, Dougados M, Emery P, Ferraccioli G, Hazes JM, Hobbs K, Huizinga TW, Kavanaugh A, Kay J, Kvien TK, Laing T, Mease P, Menard HA, Moreland LW, Naden RL, Pincus T, Smolen JS, Stanislawska-Biernat E, Symmons D, Tak PP, Upchurch KS, Vencovsky J, Wolfe F, Hawker G. 2010 Rheumatoid arthritis classification criteria: an American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism collaborative initiative. Arthritis Rheum. 2010 Sep;62(9):2569-81. doi: 10.1002/art.27584.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 1, 2015
• Primary Completion (Actual): November 1, 2020
• Study Completion (Actual): September 1, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 19, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 19, 2018
• First Posted (Actual): June 21, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 19, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 18, 2023
• Last Verified: July 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Spondyloarthritis; Classification criteria; ASAS criteria; Diagnosis criteria
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Infections; Joint Diseases; Musculoskeletal Diseases; Arthritis; Spinal Diseases; Bone Diseases; Bone Diseases, Infectious; Spondylitis; Spondylarthritis
• Other Study ID Numbers: 14/E/20

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No