Spondylitis

Spondylitis involves inflammation of one or more vertebrae. Ankylosing spondylitis is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects the joints between the vertebrae of the spine, and the joints between the spine and the pelvis.
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Ankylosing spondylitis is one of many forms of inflammatory arthritis, the most common of which is rheumatoid arthritis.
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Ankylosing spondylitis
Dr Rob Hicks
Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a condition where the spine becomes inflamed and stiff, causing it to lose its normal shape. Sometimes it affects other joints in the body, such as the hips, knees and ankles.
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Ankylosing Spondylitis
What is Arthritis?
The term 'arthritis' is actually used to describe a group of distinct diseases, primarily affecting joints of the body, all having related symptoms.
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Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) refers to inflammation of the joints in the spine. AS is also known as rheumatoid spondylitis or Marie-Strmpell disease (among other names).
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ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS - An inherited condition that results in the progressive calcification and hardening of the ligaments in the spinal column. Most commonly affects the neck and lower back.
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Arthritis, spondylitis: A form of arthritis causing chronic inflammation of the spine.
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Juvenile ankylosing spondylitis (JAS) is a type of arthritis that affects the spine and the sites where the muscles, tendons, and ligaments are attached to bone.
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Psoriatic spondylitis - One or both sacroiliac joints (the joints linking the spine and pelvis at the lower back), and sometimes other spine joints, are inflamed, causing morning stiffness in the back.
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Ankylosing spondylitis is a type of arthritis that affects the spine. It may cause pain and stiffness from the neck down to the lower back.
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Ankylosing spondylitis. Immune system induced degeneration of the joints and soft tissue of the spine.
Vasculitis. A group of autoimmune disorders in which the immune system attacks and destroys blood vessels.
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ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS (Rheumatoid Spondylitis, Marie-Strumpell Disease) ...
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- Ankylosing Spondylitis
- Autoimmune Disorders
- Reiter's Syndrome
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pelvis nana; pelvis obtecta; pelvis of gallbladder; pelvis plana; pelvis renalis; pelvis spuria; pelvis vera; pelvitherm; pelviureterography; pelvivertebral angle; pelvocephalography; pelvofemoral muscular dystrophy; pelvoscopy; pelvospondylitis ...
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Ankylosing spondylitis is the most prevalent of these, but Reiter's syndrome and psoratic arthritis are also fairly common. These conditions attack about 1.
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Ankylosing spondylitis
Reiter's syndrome (reactive arthritis)
Adult Still's disease
Viral arthritis
Gonococcal arthritis
Other bacterial infections (non-gonococcal bacterial arthritis)
Tertiary Lyme disease (the late stage)
Tuberculous arthritis ...
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Examples of other forms of arthritis include gout, ankylosing spondylitis, and arthritis that occurs after an injury or with certain infections such as gonorrhea.
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ankylosing spondylitis, diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis, rheumatoid arthritis, bursitis)
Sever's disease (relatively common condition in active growing children and adolescents)
Soft-tissue sarcoma of the foot (rare)
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Rarer conditions that cause aortic valve regurgitation include a disorder of the body's connective tissues (Marfan's syndrome), a type of arthritis (ankylosing spondylitis), some autoimmune diseases, and syphilis.
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When joints are inflamed they can develop stiffness, warmth, swelling, redness and pain. There are over 100 types of arthritis. (see osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, lupus, gout, pseudogout).
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Diseases such as spinal osteoarthritis, spondylitis and compression fractures can also cause pain. Some of these diseases are more prevalent in the elderly, consequently older people are at higher risk for back pain.
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