- 1 On being a patient
- 2 Modern medicine: foundations, achievements, and limitations
- 3 Global patterns of disease and medical practice
- 4 Cell biology
- 5 Immunological mechanisms
- 6 Principles of clinical oncology
- 7 Infection
- 8 Sexually transmitted diseases and sexual health
- 9 Chemical and physical injuries and environmental factors and disease
- 10 Clinical pharmacology
- 11 Nutrition
- 12 Metabolic disorders
- 13 Endocrine disorders
- 14 Medical disorders in pregnancy
- 15 Gastroenterological disorders
- 16 Cardiovascular disorders
- 17 Critical care medicine
- 18 Respiratory disorders
- 19 Rheumatological disorders
- 19.1 Structure and function: joints and connective tissue
- 19.2 Clinical presentation and diagnosis of rheumatic disease
- 19.3 Clinical investigation
- 19.4 Back pain and regional disorders
- 19.5 Rheumatoid arthritis
- 19.6 Ankylosing spondylitis, other spondyloarthritides, and related conditions
- 19.7 Pyogenic arthritis
- 19.8 Reactive arthritis
- 19.9 Osteoarthritis
- 19.10 Crystal-related arthropathies
- 19.11 Autoimmune rheumatic disorders and vasculitides
- 19.12 Miscellaneous conditions presenting to the rheumatologist
- 20 Disorders of the skeleton
- 21 Disorders of the kidney and urinary tract
- 22 Disorders of the blood
- 23 Disorders of the skin
- 24 Neurological disorders
- 25 The eye
- 26 Psychiatry and drug related problems
- 27 Forensic medicine
- 28 Sports medicine
- 29 Geratology
- 30 Pain
- 31 Palliative medicine
- 32 Biochemistry in medicine
- 33 Acute medicine
(p. 3603) Ankylosing spondylitis, other spondyloarthritides, and related conditions
- Chapter:
- (p. 3603) Ankylosing spondylitis, other spondyloarthritides, and related conditions
- Author(s):
J. Braun
and J. Sieper
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780199204854.003.1906
The spondyloarthritides are a group of inflammatory rheumatic diseases with predominant involvement of axial and peripheral joints and entheses, together with other characteristic clinical features, including inflammatory back pain, sacroiliitis, peripheral arthritis (mainly in the legs), enthesitis, dactylitis, preceding infection of the urogenital/gastrointestinal tract, psoriatic skin lesions, Crohn-like gut lesions, anterior uveitis, and a family history of Spondyloarthritis. They are the second most frequent inflammatory rheumatic diseases after rheumatoid arthritis....
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- 1 On being a patient
- 2 Modern medicine: foundations, achievements, and limitations
- 3 Global patterns of disease and medical practice
- 4 Cell biology
- 5 Immunological mechanisms
- 6 Principles of clinical oncology
- 7 Infection
- 8 Sexually transmitted diseases and sexual health
- 9 Chemical and physical injuries and environmental factors and disease
- 10 Clinical pharmacology
- 11 Nutrition
- 12 Metabolic disorders
- 13 Endocrine disorders
- 14 Medical disorders in pregnancy
- 15 Gastroenterological disorders
- 16 Cardiovascular disorders
- 17 Critical care medicine
- 18 Respiratory disorders
- 19 Rheumatological disorders
- 19.1 Structure and function: joints and connective tissue
- 19.2 Clinical presentation and diagnosis of rheumatic disease
- 19.3 Clinical investigation
- 19.4 Back pain and regional disorders
- 19.5 Rheumatoid arthritis
- 19.6 Ankylosing spondylitis, other spondyloarthritides, and related conditions
- 19.7 Pyogenic arthritis
- 19.8 Reactive arthritis
- 19.9 Osteoarthritis
- 19.10 Crystal-related arthropathies
- 19.11 Autoimmune rheumatic disorders and vasculitides
- 19.12 Miscellaneous conditions presenting to the rheumatologist
- 20 Disorders of the skeleton
- 21 Disorders of the kidney and urinary tract
- 22 Disorders of the blood
- 23 Disorders of the skin
- 24 Neurological disorders
- 25 The eye
- 26 Psychiatry and drug related problems
- 27 Forensic medicine
- 28 Sports medicine
- 29 Geratology
- 30 Pain
- 31 Palliative medicine
- 32 Biochemistry in medicine
- 33 Acute medicine