Table 1.
Characteristics of patients with IBD according to sacroiliac joint involvement, disease location and medications
| Disease type and number of patients |
All | UC | CD | IC |
| (27) | (14) | (11) | (2) | |
| Low back pain n (13) | 5 | 7 | 1 | |
| Sacroiliitis n (8) | 3 | 5 | 0 | |
| Disease location, n | ||||
| Rectosigmoid | 3 | 1 | ||
| Left sided disease | 2 | 1 | ||
| Pancolitis | 9 | |||
| Large intestine only | 2 | |||
| Small and large intestine | 9 | |||
| Medications, (%) | ||||
| 5-Acetylsalicylic acid | 100 | 52 | 41 | 7 |
| Azathioprine | 85 | 44 | 41 | 0 |
| Methylprednisolone | 19 | 4 | 15 | 0 |
IBD: Inflammatory bowel disease; CD: Crohn’s disease; UC: Ulcerative colitis; IC: Indeterminate colitis.