What is enteropathic arthritis?

What is enteropathic arthritis?

Enteropathic arthritis (EnA) is a type of arthritis that occurs with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The condition is also called enteropathic arthropathy.

Arthritis is a chronic condition involving swelling and pain in the joints. IBD is chronic inflammation of all or part of your digestive tract. If you have EnA, you have both chronic swelling in your joints and inflammation in part of your digestive tract.

EnA is one type of spondyloarthropathy, a long-term (chronic) disease of the joints.