Sacroiliitis in gout: Difficulties of diagnosis

Abstract

Gout is the most common chronic autoinflammatory disease, the development of which is associated with persistent hyperuricemia caused by both environmental and genetic factors, which leads to the deposition of sodium monourate crystals in various tissues and organs of the human body. Gout is more common in men than in women of childbearing age, due to the uricosuric effect of estrogen, however, after menopause, the incidence of gout in women increases significantly. At the onset of the disease, the first metatarsophalangeal joint, ankle and knee joints are most often involved in the pathological process. However, there are isolated reports in the literature about a rare gout lesion of the axial skeleton, for example, the sacroiliac joint, in which the nature of the pain syndrome, magnetic resonance imaging, and X-ray picture can mimic spondyloarthritis. The article presents a rare case of damage to the axial skeleton in a 57-year-old patient with gout, manifested by acute inflammatory back pain and arthritis of the lower extremities.

Keywords

• gout
• axial spondyloarthritis
• sacroiliitis