Spine Fractures of Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis and Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis: Fracture Severity and Injury-Related Mortality at a Level I Trauma Center [PDF]
Study Design Retrospective review of prospectively collected cohort. Purpose To identify differences in treatment and mortality of spine fractures in patients with ankylosing conditions of the spine. Overview of Literature Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and
Stephen Ryan Chen +9 more
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Effect of Prehospital Pause on the Outcomes of Emergency Decompression and Stabilization Procedures in Patients with Tumor and Infectious Spine Diseases [PDF]
Purpose to assess the relationship between duration of pathological symptoms developed due to tumor or infectious destruction of the spine, and the medium-term outcomes of urgent surgeries.
Mikhail A. Mushkin +3 more
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Editorial Comment on the Article by Mushkin M.A. et al. “Effect of Prehospital Pause on the Outcomes of Emergency Decompression and Stabilization Procedures in Patients with Tumor and Infectious Spine Diseases” [PDF]
The editorial comment evaluates the current state of issue of medical care at urgent states caused by pathological vertebral fractures and spinal cord compression in patients with spine destructive diseases.
Dmitry A. Ptashnikov
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Chronic esophageal fistula as a rare cause of secondary osteomyelitis of the thoracic spine [PDF]
Infectious diseases affecting the spine are inflammatory destructive diseases that involved the organ and its structural elements as a result of infection by hematogenic, lymphogenic, or contact pathways, including may be a complication of surgical ...
Valeriya A. Zarya +4 more
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Axial spondyloarthritis (AxSpA) is a chronic, inflammatory, autoimmune disease that predominantly affects the joints of the spine, causes chronic pain, and, in advanced stages, may result in spinal fusion.
Fataneh Tavasolian, Robert D. Inman
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HLA-B27 is associated with reduced disease activity in axial spondyloarthritis
HLA-B27 is associated with increased susceptibility and disease activity of ankylosing spondylitis, but the effect of HLA-B27 on the activity of the broader category now called axial spondyloarthritis (AxSpA) is apparently the opposite.
James T. Rosenbaum +9 more
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During the period 1972-1974 10 patients suffering from pyogenic spondylitis have been treated at the Central Hospital of Middle Finland. Three of the patients had become acutely ill with septic fever and back pain. In the remaining cases the onset of the disease was insidious. Fever, weight loss and fatigue were the general symptoms.
E, Partio, S, Hatanpää, P, Rokkanen
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A case of back pain caused by Salmonella spondylitis -A case report- [PDF]
Salmonella spondylitis is a rare illness, and it generally occurs in patients who have already had sickle cell anemia, and it is even rarer in patients who are without sickle cell anemia.
Yun Suk Choi +7 more
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The Relationship of Body Mass Index with Disease Activity in Ankylosing Spondylitis
Find out the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and W.C with disease activity score in AS patients and its association with clinical characteristics of AS.
Raouf R. Merza +3 more
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A Case of Infective Endocarditis Occurred during Treatment for Infectious Spondylitis Accompanied by Peptostreptococcus Anaerobius Bacteremia [PDF]
It is necessary to distinguish between pyogenic and tuberculous spondylitis of infectious spondylitis, if it is pyogenic spondylitis, antimicrobial therapy should be directed against an identified microorganism and clinical assessment should be done at 4
Byung Hee Lee +5 more
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