Clinical patterns of psoriatic arthritis in Jordanian patients with psoriasis in a single Center from Jordan

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Objective: To investigate the clinical patterns of psoriatic arthritis in Jordanian patients presented to our Rheumatology clinic.

Methods: This is a descriptive study which included 50 well characterized patients with psoriatic arthritis, of both sexes and aged 18-75 years.

Patients with psoriatic arthritis were diagnosed according to (CASPAR) classification during six years time period from Aug 2008 to Aug 2013 at our rheumatology clinic in King Hussein medical center, Amman, Jordan.

Written informed consent from all participants and approval from the ethics board review committee were obtained.

Demographics and psoriatic arthritis frameworks were registered.

Results: 42 patients (42/50=84%) were newly diagnosed at our clinic and eight patients (8/50=16%) were diagnosed previously as psoriatic arthritis.

The most frequent significant type was polyarticular symmetrical arthritis (20/50=40%), then in decreasing order comes oligoarticular arthritis (10/50=20%) affecting mainly the knees, spondyloarthritis (9/50=18%), enthesitis and dactylitis (6/50=12%), distal interphalangeal arthritis (4/50=8%) and arthritis mutilans (1/50=2%).

Conclusions: Polyarticular pattern was the most significant frequent clinical pattern of psoriatic arthritis presentation in psoriatic Jordanian patients.