©2017 Turkish League Against Rheumatism. All rights reserved. ABSTRACT Objectives: This study aims to evaluate muscle performance by using isokinetic dynamometer before and at third month of anti-tumor necrosis factor-alpha treatment in ankylosing spondylitis patients. Patients and methods: Thirty ankylosing spondylitis patients (23 males, 7 females; mean age 39.3±8.6 years; range 18 to 45 year...

A patient with previously diagnosed ankylosing spondylitis developed a first episode of peripheral synovitis following enteritis with Salmonella group D. Ankylosing spondylitis and reactive arthritis are HLA-1B27-related conditions and flare-ups have been linked to alterations in bowel flora. This case report supports recent suggestions that peripheral synovitis in ankylosing spondylitis is a f...

Ankylosing spondylitis is a chronic inflammatory multisystem disease that primarily affects the axial joints. Pleuropulmonary involvement is an uncommon extra-articular manifestation of ankylosing spondylitis. There is a wide spectrum of pulmonary parenchymal changes in ankylosing spondylitis, beginning in the early stages of the disease and increasing over time. The lesions are usually asympto...

background and aims: ankylosing spondylitis (as) is an idiopathic chronic inflammatory disease mainly involves sacroiliac and axial joints; but it may also have extra-articular involvement. accordingly, this study was designed to determine the frequency of cardiac involvement among patients with ankylosing spondylitis. methods: this study was performed as a descriptive-analytical cross-section...

the human leukocyte antigen-b27 is one of the class i molecules of the major histocompatibility complex which is strongly associated with ankylosing spondylitis (as) . the strength of the disease association with b27 varies markedly among racial and ethnic populations. it is an allele family, which constitutes about 31 subtypes, with a considerable geographic and ethnic difference in distributi...

background: hla-b*27 is strongly associated with ankylosing spondylitis (as). it represents a family of alleles that differ among ethnic groups. objective: the aim of this study was to determine the distribution of hla-b*27 alleles in as patients and healthy controls in isfahan (iran). methods: sixty as patients and 430 healthy blood donors were selected. all subjects were hla-b*27 positive by ...

[Purpose] This study aimed to compare the most common dominant affective temperaments in Ankylosing Spondylitis patients and investigate the relationship between the dominant affective temperaments and pain levels, disease activity, quality of life, current depression, and anxiety level in Ankylosing Spondylitis patients. [Subjects and Methods] Fifty-one patients diagnosed with axial spondiloar...

INTRODUCTION Disease progression of ankylosing spondylitis has been considered irreversible. However, we report a case of spontaneous regression of syndesmophyte development following allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia, who was also diagnosed as having ankylosing spondylitis. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case report ...

This editorial refers to ‘Looking Ahead: Best Practice for the Care of People with Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS)’, published by the National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society. The conclusions are underlined by the accompanying paper, ‘Services for people with ankylosing spondylitis in the UK—a survey of rheumatologists and patients’, by Louise Hamilton et al., doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ker013, on pag...

OBJECTIVE To assess basal function and responsiveness of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in patients with ankylosing spondylitis during dynamic testing. METHODS Insulin induced hypoglycaemia (IIH) (Actrapid HM 0.1 IU/kg, as intravenous bolus) was induced in 17 patients and 11 healthy controls matched for age, sex, and body mass index. Concentrations of glucose, adrenocorticotrop...