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Despite recent advances and increasing recognition, axial-PsA remains poorly defined; validated classification criteria and longitudinal cohorts are lacking.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objectives<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We aimed to characterise axial-PsA and delineate phenotypes in an imaging-confirmed cohort.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Design<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>GESPIC-axPsA, a dedicated arm of the German Spondyloarthritis Inception Cohort (GESPIC), is a prospective, monocentric, study including patients with psoriasis and clinically diagnosed axial-PsA confirmed by imaging. Baseline assessments included clinical phenotyping, laboratory testing, biosample-collection, radiographs of the axial skeleton, and MRI of the whole spine and sacroiliac joints (SIJs).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The analysis was primarily descriptive, characterizing baseline clinical and imaging features of patients with imaging-confirmed axial-PsA; categorical and continuous variables were summarized using appropriate measures based on their distribution, and subgroup comparisons were performed using chi-square or Fisher\u2019s exact tests for categorical variables and Mann\u2013Whitney U tests for continuous variables after assessing normality.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We enrolled 107 axial-PsA patients (55% female; mean age 44.8 years); 78.5% had active psoriasis, 78.6% had inflammatory back pain (IBP), and 48.6% were HLA-B27 positive. Radiographic sacroiliitis was present in 45.7%. On MRI, active\/structural SIJ lesions were seen in 53.3%\/73.3%; spinal active\/structural lesions in 60.0%\/53.3%. Both Classification criteria for axSpA (ASAS) and PsA (CASPAR) were simultaneously fulfilled in 60.7%. We identified 20 patients (18.7%) with spine-only involvement\u2014spinal MRI lesions without SIJ lesions on radiography or MRI. Compared with the remainder, the spine-only group was older, more often female, less frequently HLA-B27\u2013positive, and had back pain less consistent with IBP (all p&lt;0.05).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In our imaging-confirmed axial-PsA cohort using standardized whole-spine and SIJ MRI, we observed marked phenotypic heterogeneity. 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