spondylitis

Also known as vertebraitis, vertebra inflammation

Spondylitis is an inflammation of the vertebrae. It is a form of spondylopathy. In many cases, spondylitis involves one or more vertebral joints, as well, which itself is called spondylarthritis. __TOC__

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Medical condition (new).name: Spondylitis
Medical condition (new).image: Spondylitis Tropheryma whipplei.jpg
Medical condition (new).caption: Spondylitis due to Tropheryma whipplei: Contrast-enhanced, T1 weighted fat suppressed magnetic resonance imaging demonstrating contrast enhancing lesions of spondylitis in the first (L1) and second (L2), as well as fourth (L4) and fifth (L5) lumbar vertebra, sparing the intervertebral discs
Medical condition (new).field: Rheumatology
Medical condition (new).diagnosis: X-ray, MRI, Ultrasonography, blood tests

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Measures of symptoms and disease status in ankylosing spondylitis: Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Score (ASDAS), Ankylosing Spondylitis Quality of Life Scale (ASQoL), Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index (BASDAI), Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index (BASFI), Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Global Score (BAS-G), Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Metrology Index (BASMI), Dougados Functional Index (DFI), and Health Assessment Questionnaire for the Spondylarthropathies (HAQ-S).Arthritis care & research · 2011
Pyogenic spondylitis.International orthopaedics · 2012
Ankylosing spondylitis.The New England journal of medicine · 1970
Ankylosing spondylitis.Clinics in rheumatic diseases · 1985
Ankylosing spondylitis.Arthritis and rheumatism · 1970

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Instance of: arthropathy

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health specialty: rheumatology
exact match: purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0019171
Commons category: Spondylitis
ICD-9-CM: 720.8
NCI Thesaurus ID: C116779
drug or therapy used for treatment: infliximab
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==Types== Pott disease is a tuberculous disease of the vertebrae marked by stiffness of the vertebral column, pain on motion, tenderness on pressure, prominence of certain vertebral spines, and occasionally abdominal pain, abscess formation, and paralysis.

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