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Trauma and seronegative spondyloarthropathy.
In a recent issue of the Annals our group reported the cases of two HLA-B27 positive patients who developed peripheral arthritis immediately after a significant traumatic episode.1 Unlike previously reported cases of HLA-B27 associated peripheral arthritis triggered by trauma24 they showed a rapid, severe destructive process. In the past few months both patients have had total hip replacement. ...
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Recent therapeutic advances, in particular the use of anti-tumour necrosis factor (anti-TNF) agents, have revived interest in the seronegative spondyloarthropathies (SpA), a group of arthritides characterised by axial skeletal involvement and the absence of rheumatoid factor. The purpose of this article is to review the studies that have been done in the Asia Pacific region, as a broad understa...
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Undifferentiated spondyloarthropathy (USpa) may either represent a forme fruste of other spondyloarthropathies like reactive arthritis or be a different disease entity. To study the link between USpa and reactive arthritis, we studied the presence of IgA antibodies to Yersinia enterocolitica, Salmonella typhimurium, Shigella flexneri, Campylobacter jejuni and Chlamydia trachomatis in sera from ...
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Background: Spondyloarthropathies are a group of closely related inflammatory arthritis which involve the axial skeleton and are negative for rheumatoid factor. Objective: This case-control study was conducted to examine HLA- B27 positivity in patients with seronegative spondyloarthritis (SSA) as per ESSG criteria and compare the frequency with healthy controls because a lower positivity is rep...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nihon Naika Gakkai Zasshi
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0021-5384,1883-2083
DOI: 10.2169/naika.99.2439