Synonyms
Intestinal arthropathy; enteropathic spondyloarthritis; enteropathic spondylitis; CED- arthritis; CED-associated arthritis; enteropathic arthritis; enteroarthritis;
First described by
Smith first described the relationship between the intestine and joints in 1922. This involved a patient with rheumatoid arthritis who experienced improvement in joint symptoms following colectomy surgery (Peluso 2013).
In the late 1950s, Bywaters et al. and Mc Bride et al. wrote about the occurrence of enteropathic arthritis (EA) in patients with ulcerative colitis and inflammatory bowel disease, respectively (Peluso 2013).
In 1964, the American Rheumatism Association classified arthritis associated with inflammatory bowel disease as a distinct clinical form.
Later, Wright and Moll classified enteroarthritis in the group of spondyloarthritides (Peluso 2013).
A first classification of EA, the so-called ESSG- criteria, dates back to 1991 and was developed by the European Spondyloarthritides Study Group (Puchner 2012).
In 1998, in Oxford, Orchard et al. described the so-called "Oxford criteria" (Sturm 2021). In 2001, Smale et al. added a 3rd type to these, including axial involvement (Zimmermann 2019).
The ASAS- classification system was first presented by Rudwaleit et al. in 2009 (Zimmermann 2019).