"Women appear to have a different phenotype in AS [and] they are less likely to form syndesmophytes despite fused SI joints with at least 20 years of disease duration." --Ridley, et al., Journal of ...

Patient physical function is probably the most relevant outcome parameter in ankylosing spondylitis and other chronic rheumatic diseases. Not unexpectedly, impairment of physical function, analysed by ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . MADRID — In patients with ankylosing spondylitis, low-dose CT of the whole spine delivered greater sensitivity ...

GHENT — Low-dose CT scan is more effective for the evaluation of new bone formation in progressive spondyloarthritis than x-ray, new data show. "You can see much more bone formation over a shorter ...

Incidence of syndesmophytes (bony growths in the spine), acute phase reactants (inflammation prompted proteins release into the blood), and smoking status can be predictors for the progression of ...