"Women appear to have a different phenotype in AS [and] they are less likely to form syndesmophytes despite fused SI joints with at least 20 years of disease duration." --Ridley, et al., Journal of ...

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a form of arthritis that affects your spine and sacroiliac joints (where your spine connects to your pelvis). It usually develops in younger adults, typically between ...

The Dutch researchers tested interreader reliability of SI-joint MRI in 68 patients with inflammatory back pain. Patients had back pain for less than two years and met at least four of these five ...

Background Ankylosing spondylitis is a rheumatic disease in which spinal and sacroiliac joints are mainly affected. There is a gradual bone formation in the spinal ligaments and ankylosis of the ...

Background A 14-year-old boy with a 6-year history of recurrent arthritis and enthesitis, which had not responded to previous treatment with NSAIDs, sulfasalazine and methotrexate, presented with a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with ankylosing spondylitis and nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis share comparable disease burden ...

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A chronic inflammatory disease that can lead to hunched posture, ankylosing spondylitis (AS) often begins with back pain that fails to dissipate after three or more months — and tends to feel worse ...

The data reported below indicate that hyperventilation and abnormalities of alveolar ventilation-perfusion relations may also be present in patients with ankylosing spondylitis. Age and Physical ...

There is an unquestioned saying in medicine that our treatment success rate can be no better than our diagnostic success rate. This is especially true for symptoms that have a multitude of causes, ...