Evaluation of serum paraoxonase and arylesterase activities in ankylosing spondylitis patients
Clinics, 2010 OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to investigate the activities of serum paraoxonase and arylesterase in patients with ankylosing spondylitis with respect to those of healthy controls, to assess whether these enzyme levels are related to disease ...
Fazile Hatipoglu Erdem +3 more
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Ankylosing spondylitis and sarcoidosis — Coincidence or association? [PDF]
, 1992 We report a 25-year-old woman presenting with sarcoidosis and bilateral sacroiliitis. Her sarcoidosis related symptoms (malaise, cough and dyspnoea) improved dramatically under treatment with steroids but severe back pain persisted.
Stucki, Gerold +3 more
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Interrater Reliability of the Ankylosing Spondylitis Performance Index in Patients With Axial Spondyloarthritis. [PDF]
Musculoskeletal CareABSTRACT Introduction In recent years, the Ankylosing Spondylitis Performance Index (ASPI) has emerged as a new objective measure of physical function in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA). So far, only the relative interrater reliability of the ASPI test has been reported, but the absolute interrater reliability remains to be investigated ...
Rasmussen CA +3 more
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BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2007 Background Ankylosing spondylitis is a chronic inflammatory rheumatic disorder which usually begins in early adulthood. The diagnosis is often delayed by many years.
Hodler Juerg +4 more
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Elevated serum interleukin-23 levels in ankylosing spondylitis patients and the relationship with disease activity [PDF]
, 2015 2015-11This study was aimed to evaluate the relationship between serum interleukin-23 (IL-23) levels and ankylosing spondylitis (AS).Twenty male patients diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis according to the 1984 modified New York criteria for AS and ...
Baygutalp, Nurcan Kilic +5 more
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Quantitative metagenomics reveals unique gut microbiome biomarkers in ankylosing spondylitis
Genome Biology, 2017 Background The assessment and characterization of the gut microbiome has become a focus of research in the area of human autoimmune diseases. Ankylosing spondylitis is an inflammatory autoimmune disease and evidence showed that ankylosing spondylitis may
Chengping Wen +20 more
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Common MIR146A Polymorphisms in Chinese Ankylosing Spondylitis Subjects and Controls. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Common polymorphisms of microRNA gene MIR146A were reported as associated with different autoimmune diseases, include systemic lupus erythematosus, psoriatic arthritis, asthma and ankylosing spondylitis.
Zhenmin Niu +5 more
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HMG-Coenzyme A Reductase as a Drug Target for the Prevention of Ankylosing Spondylitis
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2021 Statins are an inhibitor of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase (HMGCR). Growing evidence indicates that statins may have an anti-inflammatory effect.
Zhenyu Zhong +8 more
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Bilateral Avascular Necrosis of the Femoral Heads in Ankylosing Spondylitis Requiring Staged Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Case Report of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges. [PDF]
Clin Case RepABSTRACT Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic immune‐mediated inflammatory arthropathy primarily affecting the axial skeleton but may involve peripheral joints, particularly the hips. Avascular necrosis (AVN) of the femoral head represents a severe, underrecognized complication whose pathogenesis in AS is multifactorial—encompassing disease ...
Shah SS +5 more
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