Research Article
Prevalence of Joint Hypermobility and Patterns of Articular Manifestations in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Table 2
Brighton’s diagnostic criteria for hypermobility syndrome.
| | Major Criteria | | Beighton score 4/9 or greater (either currently or historically) | | Arthralgia for longer than 3 months in 4 or more joints |
| | Minor criteria | | Beighton score of 1–3/9 (0–3 if aged ) | | Arthralgia in 1–3 joints or back pain or spondylosis, spondylolisthesis | | Dislocation in more than 1 joint, or in 1 joint or more on more than 1 occasion | | Three or more soft tissue lesions (e.g., epicondylitis, tenosynovitis, bursitis) | | Marfanoid habitus (tall, slim, spanheight, upper segment : lower segment ratio 0.89, Arachodactyly) | | Skin striae, hyperextensibility, thin skin or abnormal scarring | | Eye signs: drooping eyelids or myopia or antimongoloid slant | | Varicose veins or hernia or uterine/rectal prolapse | | Mitral valve prolapse (by echocardiography) |
| | HMS diagnosis requires | | Two major criteria or | | One major two minor criteria or | | Four minor criteria or | | Two minor criteria and unequivocally affected first-degree relative |
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HMS is excluded by the presence of marfan or Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes.
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