Elena Bolletta - research works

The principal location of ERD in the 165 enrolled eyes was in the posterior pole.

In VKH, ERD was located at the posterior pole in 45 eyes, with 85.71% of subfoveal neuroepithelial detachment and choroidal granulomas in 87.76% of eyes.

In PS a posterior pole location of ERD was found in 66.67% of eyes, with 83.33% of subfoveal neuroepithelial detachment and no choroidal granulomas.

HLA-B27 positivity was more frequent in ax-SpA than in non-SpA patients (56% vs 33%).

All ax-SpA patients reported prior episodes of back pain, although inflammatory back pain was present in only 56.3% at the time of evaluation.

Mean Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index (BASDAI) scores and symptom duration were significantly higher in ax-SpA patients ( p = 0.005 and p = 0.041, respectively).

MRI revealed active sacroiliitis in 62.5% and erosions in 75% of newly diagnosed ax-SpA patients.