Does bone marrow edema induced by mechanical stress progress to structural lesions?

Immediately after childbirth, a large number of women have sacroiliac bone marrow edema (BMO) visible on MRI. Although generally attributed to mechanical stress, these transient postpartum lesions bear a striking resemblance to the inflammatory lesions seen in axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA).

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