Methods Twenty patients suffering from ankylosing spondylitis were operated due to a spinal fracture. The fracture was located at the cervical spine in 7 cases, at the thoracic spine in 9 ...

Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory arthritis that predominantly affects the axial skeleton in adolescent patients causing spinal pain and stiffness. There is a marked delay ...

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the spine and peripheral joints that can lead to significant disability if left untreated. Conventional treatments can be ...

In 18 cases, a low energy injury of the spine occurred and in only 2 cases the cause was a high-energy injury (table 2). The fractures occurred in the cervical spine were compression injuries.

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) does more than cause the telltale symptoms of lower back pain and stiffness — it can cause a range of symptoms and complications throughout your body, including an ...

Before the advent of biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs, treatment was often ineffective, and severe ankylosing spondylitis frequently led to progressive vertebral fusion, reducing spinal ...

Ankylosing spondylitis is a kind of arthritis that causes inflammation in the joints and ligaments of the spine. According to experts, this condition also affects peripheral joints like your knees ...

John Whyte, the chief medical officer at WebMD. Ankylosing spondylitis is a type of arthritis that causes pain and stiffness in your spine. It usually starts in your lower back but can also ...

‘Ankylosing’ refers to fused bones and ‘spondylitis’ is inflammation in the vertebrae in the spine. Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) is, therefore, an inflammatory disease that can cause the ...