BACKGROUND There is limited outcome measure support for chiropractic manipulative therapy in the management of ankylosing spondylitis. An improvement in specific indices for both function and disease activity during chiropractic therapy for ankylosing spondylitis has not previously been reported. OBJECTIVE To measure changes in function and disease activity in a patient with ankylosing spondy...

Pyogenic spondylitis and tuberculous spondylitis are common causes of spinal infection. It is difficult to differentiate tuberculous spondylitis and pyogenic spondylitis clinically and radiologically. Recently magnetic resonance imaging has been reported to be beneficial for early diagnosis and differential diagnosis of the spondylitis, and is being used extensively for diagnosis. However, the ...

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We report a case of HLA B27 negative Crohn's spondylitis with a detailed study of the proband's family, including tissue types of all living relatives. The family included cases of psoriasis, psoriatic spondylitis, and idiopathic ankylosing spondylitis. We believe this to be the first report of these associated diseases occurring in one family. All relatives were B27 negative, including one wit...

One hundred and twenty-eight of 145 patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) were found to be HLA B27 positive. Five patients had evidence of a sero-negative peripheral arthritis resembling peripheral psoriatic arthritis and 3 of these were B27 negative. One further B27 negative patients had a sister with ankylosing spondylitis and ulcerative colitis and a mother with ulcerative colitis. There...

A review of the roentgen films and hospital charts in 100 examples of chronic ulcerative colitis showed a 6 per cent prevalence of ankylosing spondylitis. There were no differences in the course or severity of the colitis that distinguished the patients with spondylitis from the entire group. The radiologic features of the spinal involvement were identical to those seen in ankylosing spondyliti...

Gram negative bacteria precipitate reactive arthritis and may be concerned in the pathogenesis of ankylosing spondylitis and other spondyloarthropathies. Susceptibility to many infectious agents is associated with ABO blood group or secretor state, or both. The distribution of the ABO blood group or secretor state, or both, was therefore determined in 87 patients with ankylosing spondylitis and...

conclusion prompt diagnosis and treatment of skeletal tb are important to prevent serious bone and joint destruction and severe neurologic sequels. patients and methods in this study, epidemiologic aspects, clinical manifestations, laboratory tests and radiologic studies of cases with documented tuberculosis spondylitis in loghman hospital were evaluated. results of our patients, 25 (62.5%) wer...

background brucellosis is a systemic bacterial disease transmitted from animals to humans and involves many organs and tissues. symptoms of brucellosis are protean and can be similar to many other infectious diseases. none of the symptoms are specific enough to support the clinical diagnosis. the musculoskeletal system is one of the most commonly affected organs. disease can be present with bur...

UNLABELLED In the present study, we analysed the association between the incidence of tuberculous spondylitis with the Natural Resistance Associated Macrophage Protein 1 (NRAMP1, also known as Solute Carrier Family 11a member1) polymorphism by studying the genetic segregation of this polymorphism and the incidence of the disease among members of the West Javanese population undergoing surgery f...