Ankylose This! Blogging about life with ankylosing spondylitis. About ankylosing spondylitis.It s a painful, debilitating autoimmune disease with a funny name. http://www.mcwetboy.net/ankylose_this/
Extractions: @import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?blogID=8338776"); A new Taiwanese study compares CT and MRI scans of spinal fractures in ankylosing spondylitis patients; it concludes that MRI "shows abnormalities in AS that may not be clear or even detectable by using other imaging methods" i.e., fractures, deformities and ligament tears. Posted by mcwetboy at 4:54 PM comments More on the COX-2 front. Once Vioxx was pulled from the market, the lawyers got busy. A plaintiff in Texas has won a $253-million (U.S.) judgment against Merck; her husband died of a heart attack while taking Vioxx in 2001. Her lawyer expects the final award to be reduced, and Merck is appealing. All told, Merck is facing $8 to $25 billion in potential liabilities from various lawsuits, which apparently number around 4,200. Posted by mcwetboy at 8:47 AM comments Thursday, August 18, 2005
MoonDragon's Health & Wellness: Arthritis ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is the most common of these. Systemic lupuserythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease that often manifests itself as http://www.moondragon.org/health/disorders/arthritis.html
Extractions: about options that may be available for your specific situation. BASIC INFORMATION DESCRIPTION Arthritis is the inflammation of one or more joints. It is characterized by pain, swelling, stiffness, deformity, and/or a diminished range of motion. More than 50 million Americans suffer from osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and related conditions, such as fibromyalgia, gout, lupus, Lyme disease, psoriatic arthritis. Reiter's syndrome, Sjogren's syndrome, and ankylosing spondylitis. These conditions affect the body's movable, or synovial , joints. Joints of the body are found at the knees, wrists, elbows, fingers, toes, hips, and shoulders. The neck and the back also have joints between the bones of the spine. There are six different types of synovial joints (hinge, ball-and-socket, and so on), but although the types of motion they allow are different, their underlying physiological structure is essentially the same. Two or more adjoining movable bones, whose adjacent surfaces are covered with a layer of cartilage, are surrounded by a fluid-filled capsule made up of ligaments (tough, fibrous tissue). The third is secreted by a thin membrane, the synovial membrane, that lines the inside of the joint capsule. This viscous fluid along with the smooth, rubbery, blue-white cartilage that covers the ends of the bones normally work together to allow the bones within the join to glide smoothly past one another.
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HSS - HSS - Newsroom: Celebrex Approved For Ankylosing Spondylitis ankylosing spondylitis can also cause inflammation, pain and stiffness in as a leader in the investigation of musculoskeletal and autoimmune diseases. http://www.hss.edu/Newsroom/Celebrex-Approved-for-Ankylosing-Spondylitis
Extractions: var pgName = 'Condition Article'; var pgType = 'newsroom'; Newsroom Home Newsroom / Celebrex Approved For Ankylosing Spondylitis New York, NY, Aug. 2, 2005 â The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Cox-2 inhibitor Celebrex for use in treating a form of arthritis in the spine called ankylosing spondylitis. The disease affects more than 400,000 Americans, typically between the ages of 17 and 35, Pfizer said in a statement. Ankylosing spondylitis can also cause inflammation, pain and stiffness in the shoulders, knees, hips, ribs and feet. Whether patients are recovering from joint replacement surgery or sports injuries, or suffering from arthritis, osteoarthritis or lupus, they are looking to their healthcare practitioners to help them put this data into perspective and help them make the right treatment decisions. The following Hospital for Special Surgery doctors are available to comment on ankylosing spondylitis and treatments, including options other than Celebrex:
AS - Ankylosing Spondylitis - Autoimmune Disease ankylosing spondylitis. AS. Appropriate Sustenance. gives. ANOTHER STORY. of.APPRECIABLE SUCCESS. UNDER CONSTRUCTION 6th April 2004. The culprit http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~tlamont/as/
Extractions: It took a while, but finally i decided there's no future in writing the same stuff each time to new contacts so better put it in a final form. I am glad wrote to so many people about AS, about the starch-free diet as discussed on the forum (LSD/NSD) and about my approach, problems, solutions and successes. Writing to people helped me learn and to clarify my thoughts and ideas so the interaction with new people was as cathartic as the interactions with the more knowledgable co-enquirers from the forums. Here's hoping it was of use to those newly diagnosed people i met. There's so much to know and learn about this stuff that one can only do it gradually. Luckily, much of it is just good natural health principles so it is universally useful, we may have been exposed to it before, and if not then we still acquire useful and real knowledge for life. Lucky for me that i was well resourced at my employment with internet, access to scientific papers and to various scientific disciplines. There is a lot of fellowship and support on the "main" forum and chemical info etc. on others. There is info on the diet - called the London Diet originally - and scientific papers.
Log In Problems Infliximab Therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis and ankylosing spondylitisInduced Without autoimmune Clinical Manifestations A Two-Year Prospective Study http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/490278
Entrez PubMed autoimmune clinical manifestations a twoyear prospective study. but alsoin patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) during a two-year followup. http://arthritis-research.com/pubmed/15535831
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Extractions: This Article Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in ISI Web of Science Similar articles in PubMed ... Download to citation manager PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Franquet, T. Articles by Flint, J.D. Eur Respir J 2004; 23:488-489 ERS Journals Ltd A patient with ankylosing spondylitis and recurrent haemoptysis T. Franquet and J.D. Flint Radiology, and Pathology, Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. CORRESPONDENCE: T. Franquet, Dept of Radiology, Hospital de Sant Pau, Avda Sant Antoni M. Claret 167, 08025, Barcelona, Spain. Fax: 34 932 919282. E-mail: 19429tfc@comb.es Case history A 54-yr-old male presented with a history of recurrent episodes ankylosing spondylitis. Over the previous 2 weeks, he had been complaining of progressively increasing dyspnoea, malaise and
Drug InfoNet - Ankylosing Spondylitis - [general] Answer The tendency to acquire ankylosing spondylitis is inherited, It isnot clear whether this is a type of autoimmune connective tissue disease or http://www.druginfonet.com/index.php?pageID=faq/new/DISEASE_FAQ/Ankylosing_Spond
Arthritis ankylosing spondylitis is a combination of an autoimmune condition and thecomplication of totalbody bracing . Fortunately, dealing with the bracing also http://askwaltstollmd.com/archives/arthritis/14848.html
Extractions: Match ANY Match ALL Posted by Ian on May 28, 1999 at 01:02:24: Hi all: I am preparing to start the e-diet for myself in a quest to cure myself of sever chronic fatigue, light-headedness and autonomic problems. However, since the impetus for these diets was arthritic conditions, I am curious to know if anyone actually knows someone personally who has been cured of ankylosing spondylitis? My sister-in-law has this terrbile condition, and is currently resigning herself to 'pain management' classes, where she is being told that she will suffer tremendously for the rest of her life. It is a terrible ordeal for her and her family. Is there hope? How much relief is possible? Thanks for any input. Ian
Extractions: Overlaps of these disorders may be seen. A strong genetic association with Class 1 HLA B27 gene (on chromosome 6) is described. Clinically they present with swelling of joints or an enthesopathy - inflammation of tendon insertions into bone. There is pain swelling and joint stiffness. The joint distribution depends on the subtype of the disease. Spinal involvement is characterised by sacroiliitis and inflammatory back pain. The latter consists of pain stiffness and progressive spinal restriction.
Understanding Genetics: Human Health And The Genome When ankylosing spondylitis (AS) runs in your family, the chances of you having AS With autoimmune diseases, the bodys immune system gets confused and http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=78
About - Frequently Asked Questions About Spondylitis ankylosing spondylitis information, ankylosing spondylitis treatment, ankylosing Rheumatologists treat arthritis, certain autoimmune diseases, http://www.spondylitis.org/about/faq.aspx
Extractions: Spondylitis (pronounced spon-d-lie-tiss) is the name given to a group of chronic or long lasting diseases also called Spondyloarthritis (spon-dyl-oh-arthritis) or Spondyloarthopathy (spon-d-low-are-throp-ah-thee). These diseases are forms of inflammatory arthritis that primarily affect the spine, although other joints and organs can become involved. The group of diseases in the spondylitis family includes: Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) - Ankylosing spondylitis is the primary disease in the spondylitis family of diseases and is a form of chronic arthritis that primarily affects the spine, although other joints can become involved. Occurring primarily in young adults, (age of onset normally before age 35), AS causes inflammation of the spinal joints (vertebrae) that can lead to severe, chronic pain and discomfort. Undifferentiated Spondyloarthropathy (USpA) - Undifferentiated Spondyloarthropathy (USpA) is a term used to describe symptoms and signs of spondylitis in someone who does not meet the criteria for a definitive diagnosis of AS or related disease. Over time, some people with USpA will develop a well-defined form of spondylitis such as ankylosing spondylitis.
InspiRING - Autoimmune Disease Passes checker test ankylosing spondylitis Page at Vince s Miscellany This is anew but growing page on the condition ankylosing spondylitis. http://l.webring.com/hub?ring=lvngwell
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Extractions: Vol Page [Advanced] This Article Submit a response Alert me when this article is cited Alert me when eLetters are posted Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this link to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Add article to my folders ... Cited by other online articles PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Lakomek, H. J. Articles by Schwochau, M. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 1991, Vol 50, 776-781 HJ Lakomek, M Plomann, C Specker and M Schwochau Department of Medicine, Endocrinology and Rheumatology, Heinrich-Heine- Universitat Dusseldorf, Germany. Identification of several autoantibodies in serum samples from patients with ankylosing spondylitis or suspected ankylosing spondylitis is reported. Five antibodies associated with ankylosing spondylitis were
