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Ankylosing Spondylitis

Background

Ankylosing Spondylitis is a rheumatic disease which affects the spine. It can also affect the joints of limbs and tissues in other parts of the body.The condition is characterised by inflammation in the spinal joints followed by healing which results in additional bone growing from both sides of the joint eventually encircling it. This means that the joint is immobilised (ankylosed). 

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Medical text written November 1991 by Contact a Family. Approved November 1991 by Professor M Patton, Professor of Medical Genetics, St Georges Hospital Medical School, London, UK and Dr J E Wraith, Consultant Paediatrician, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester, UK. Last updated April 2000 by Dr A Calin (retired - formerly Consultant Rheumatologist, Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic diseases, Bath, UK. Last reviewed October 2004 by Dr R Jacoby, Consultant Rheumatologist, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK.

 

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