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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"ankylosing spondylitis"”.
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Exercise behaviour in Ankylosing Spondylitis
Background Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is an incurable, fluctuating, long-term condition for which prescribed exercise is central to management. However, many people with AS do not undertake prescribed exercises, the reasons for which are poorly-understood. Aims The project sought to develop a …
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Disease severity and psychological status in ankylosing spondylitis
… provide an original contribution to knowledge in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and have important implications for eiThancing clinical practice. The results demonstrate the existence and significance of associations between disease and psychological status in AS, and also demonstrate the value of …
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The unfolded protein response and HLA-B27 misfolding: implications for ankylosing spondylitis
… associated with the chronic inflammatory disease ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and has a tendency to misfold in the ER. Here, we show that overexpression of HLA-B27 and non-disease associated HLA-B7 in immortalised cell lines leads to heavy chain misoxidation, which is accompanied by upregulation of …
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Axial Spondyloarthropathies in the Western Cape
… particulars and patient questionnaires: Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index (BASDAI); Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index (BASFI); Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Global Score (BASG); Medical Short Form (SF)-36; and Work Productivity and Activity Impairment Questionnaire: …
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Fisioterapia basada en el método Pilates en pacientes con espondilitis anquilosante
… Un evaluador ha medido las escalas BASMI (Bath ankylosing spondylitis index), BASFI (Bath ankylosing spondylitis functional index) y BASDAI (Bath ankylosing spondylitis disease activity index) que valoran el grado de afectación de la movilidad espinal, la capacidad funcional y la fatiga …
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The conclusion of a biologic's lifecycle : manufacturing sourcing strategies on the eve of follow-on biologics
… immune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, and psoriasis. A productivity process improvement is currently being implemented that will change the manufacturing capacity of the production process at each of the three separately owned manufacturing …
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FOXP3, ICOS and ICOSL polymorphisms in an Italian population affected by systemic sclerosis
… type-1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and ankylosing spondylitis. Although analysis tests did not show any significant associations between the SNPs under study and SSc, the occurrence of FOXP3 rs2294020 in female patients was associated with an increased risk of progression from early to …
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Prevalence, physical activity and work in patients with spondyloarthritis
… rheumatic diseases with the sub-diagnoses ankylosing spondylitis (AS), psoriatic arthritis (PsA), arthritis-associated inflammatory bowel disease (Aa-IBD), undifferentiated SpA (USpA), where stiffness and pain are key symptoms. Insidious onset back pain, morning stiffness, waking up at …
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Wertigkeit der MR-Tomografie bei der Diagnostik der abakteriellen Sakroiliitis
… Another one is seronegative spondylarthopathy. Ankylosing spondylitis, reactive arthrits at Reiter disease, psoriatic arthritis, arthritis at chronic inflammatory intestinal disease and undifferentiated spondylarthopathy are amoung seronegative Spondylarthopathy. Diagnostic gold standard of …
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Statistical methods to improve understanding of the genetic basis of complex diseases
… resolution of fine-mapping studies for T1D and ankylosing spondylitis. This enables a more efficient allocation of resources in the expensive functional follow-up studies that are used to elucidate the true causal variants from the prioritised sets of variants. Whilst GWAS investigate …
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Team rehabilitation and health care utilization in chronic inflammatory arthritis patients
… arthritis (CIA); rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis and other spondyloarthritides, and to analyse health care utilization over the last decade in patients with RA. In Study I the outcome of an 18 days outpatient multidisciplinary team rehabilitation …
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Determinants of Quality of Life in Patients with Nonradiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis: Analysis Based on the Main Aspects of the Disease // Детерминанти на качеството на живот при пациенти с нерентгенографски аксиален спондилоартрит: анализ, базиран на основните аспекти на болестта
Областта на серонегативните спондилоартрити (SpA) постигна значителен прогрес през последните години. Това се дължи на възможността за ранно диагностициране, все по-разширения достъп до съвременно патогенетично лечение и възможностите на образната диагностика. Нерентгенографският аксиален …
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DRUMBEAT© for arthritis “ a shared purpose” rather than a “lonely struggle”
… followed by gout, psoriatic arthritis (PsA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS), juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus), among others. Classified as chronic autoimmune disorders, the symptoms of inflammatory arthritis (IA) are not localised to the damaged joint, …
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Μελέτη του ρόλου της σεροτονίνης και της σηματοδότησης μέσω Wnt και BMP μονοπατιών στον έλεγχο της οστεοβλαστικής δραστηριότητας σε ασθενείς με αγκυλοποιητική σπονδυλίτιδα
Υπάρχουν δεδομένα που εισηγούνται ότι η σεροτονίνη είναι αναστολέας του οστικού σχηματισμού. Στόχος μας ήταν να εκτιμήσουμε: i) τα επίπεδα σεροτονίνης ορού σε ασθενείς με αγκυλοποιητική σπονδυλίτιδα (AΣ), μια πρότυπη νόσο οστικού σχηματισμού, σε σύγκριση με ασθενείς με ρευματειδή αρθρίτιδα (ΡΑ) και …
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The Immunopathogenesis of HLA B27-associated Spondylarthritis and Acute Anterior Uveitis
HLA-B27 is a Class I Major Histocompatability Molecule that is highly prevalent in patients with Acute Anterior Uveitis (AAU) and Seronegative Arthritis (SNA). Despite over 40 years of research, the pathogenic mechanism of HLA-B27-related disease remains elusive. The bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis …