Ankylosing spondylitisM45.9
Synonym(s)
ankylosing spondylarthritis; ankylosing spondylitis; peloispondylitis ossificans
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Inflammatory changes, sclerosis and ossification of the spinal apparatus (bamboo spine), ankylosis of the sacroiliac joints and intervertebral joints. Common association with HLA-B27, iritis or iridocyclitis, mesaortitis, cardiac conduction disorders; possibly amyloidosis.
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Autoimmune disease in which the HLA-B27 protein plays an essential role due to its particularly slow and complicated flattening mode.
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