ALLMedicine™ Ankylosing Spondylitis Center

Feb 5th, 2023 - One-level osteotomy and two-level osteotomy are used to treat thoracolumbar kyphosis in patients with ankylosing spondylitis. However, the effectiveness and safety of the two osteotomy methods have not systematically compared, and there are few re...

Feb 4th, 2023 - Frailty is an elderly people phenomenon; however, younger adults with comorbidities may show a higher trajectory of frailty toward older age. The frailty status of middle-aged patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) remains little researched...

Feb 3rd, 2023 - Ankylosing spondylitis-related cervical spine fracture with neurologic impairment (ASCF-NI) is a rare but often lethal injury. Factors independently associated with survival after treatment remain poorly defined, and identifying patients who are l...

Feb 3rd, 2023 - To report a case of posterior scleritis (PS) in an HLA-B*14 positive patient highlighting the crucial role of multimodal imaging and of autoimmune systemic disease screening for the diagnosis. Case Report. A 73-year-old woman, complaining of ocula...

Feb 3rd, 2023 - Evaluating the efficacy and refractoriness to treatment and determining factors associated with adverse outcomes in uveitis associated with spondylarthritis (SpA) are complicated by the lack of validated outcome measures. The aims of this study we...

Aug 23rd, 2019 - To update evidence-based recommendations for the treatment of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis (SpA). We conducted updated systematic literature reviews for 20 clinical questions on pharmacologi...

Feb 6th, 2019 - Interventional pain management involves diagnosis and treatment of chronic pain. This specialty utilizes minimally invasive procedures to target therapeutics to the central nervous system and the spinal column. A subset of patients encountered in ...

Mar 6th, 2018 - Therapeutic targets have been defined for axial and peripheral spondyloarthritis (SpA) in 2012, but the evidence for these recommendations was only of indirect nature. These recommendations were re-evaluated in light of new insights. Based on the ...

Jan 15th, 2017 - To update and integrate the recommendations for ankylosing spondylitis and the recommendations for the use of tumour necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) in axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) into one set applicable to the full spectrum of patients with...

Oct 5th, 2016 - Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other inflammatory joint disorders (IJD) have increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk compared with the general population. In 2009, the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) taskforce recommend...

Jan 31st, 2023 - Spinal fusion is the clinical, radiological, and pathological hallmark of ankylosing spondylitis (AS). However, spinal fusion occurs slowly in AS. Serial radiographs rarely show changes over 2 years, and often 5 or more years are needed to demonst...

Jan 31st, 2023 - It is known that psycho-physiological processes affect the results of medical treatment in chronic diseases [1]. In oncological rehabilitation, the psychological, social and functional problems of individuals with cancer are considered together, a...

Jan 31st, 2023 - The purpose of this protocol is to study the natural history of spondyloarthritis (SpA) in children and adults. Spondyloarthritis encompasses a spectrum of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases that exhibit overlapping features, but differ from ot...

Jan 31st, 2023 - The susceptibility to ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is largely genetically determined. Recent studies suggest that the severity of AS is also influenced by genetic factors. The goal of this study is to identify genes that influence the severity of A...

Jan 30th, 2023 - Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is an inflammatory disease of unknown etiology characterized by chronic inflammation of the sacroiliac joints, spine and paraspinal soft tissues. Extra-articular manifestations such as anterior uveitis, inflammatory bow...

Jan 26th, 2023 - Key clinical point: Uveitis related to psoriatic arthritis (PsA) had a prevalence of approximately 5%, presented as an acute and recurrent disease with anterior and unilateral involvement, and was associated with impaired quality of life and incre.

Jan 24th, 2023 - Key clinical point: Tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) increased the risk for septic arthritis in patients with seropositive rheumatoid arthritis (RA), with higher incidences within 1 year of initiating TNFi. Major finding: Patients with sero.

Jan 17th, 2023 - Bimekizumab, an investigational biologic drug targeting interleukin (IL)-17A/F, appeared highly effective in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), researchers said. With nearly 600 patients enrolled in two parallel phase III trials, 45% a...

Dec 14th, 2022 - Key clinical point: Axial psoriatic arthritis (PsA) can be categorized as a distinct subtype of PsA because it exhibits clinical and radiological symptoms that are different from those of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) with psoriasis. Major finding:.

Dec 7th, 2022 - The degree to which the oral rheumatology drug tofacitinib (Xeljanz) seems to promote new malignancies is now fleshed out in the latest, and at least somewhat reassuring, report from a landmark safety study. Tofacitinib at either 5 or 10 mg twice ...