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Saturday, November 21, 2009
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Ankylosing Spondylitis |
Can you tell me what are the symptoms and how is ankylosing spondylitis diagnosed? NetWellness may also have some general information available that you can access through our
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Arthritis and Rheumatism Overview |
| One possible reason is that many of the rheumatic diseases are associated with joint pain, even if the primary disease is not an arthritis. Whereas clinically, arthritis and rheumatic disease are not necessarily the same entity, throughout this fact sheet the terms "arthritis" and "rheumatic diseases" are sometimes used interchangeably. Treatments for rheumatic diseases vary depending on the disease, the severity of disease manifestations, and the patient. | |
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What can cause cervical pain, leg weakness?? |
| What conditions could cause cervical pain, profound (on a scale of 0-10) unpainful tingling in lumbar region/right butt cheek), and bilateral thigh weakness? If lab tests ruled out Ankylosing spondylitis and MRI revealed mil |
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Lung scarring |
| After having an x-ray of my lungs and diagnosed with bilateral upper lung zone scar ith upper retraction of the hila. When the lung scars, the lung tissue contracts which is what causes the hilar retraction-as the scarrin |
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Positive hla-b27 |
| he recently took blood tests which revealed a positive hla-b27. Just being HLA B27 positive does not automatically imply that you will get a rheumatic disease, you might never get it; first degree relatives of patients with |
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What is spinal enthesopathy? |
| Would you please tell me what spinal enthesopathy is and what it is caused by? The word enthesopathy means inflammation of a tendon, ligament, or cartilage at its insertion into bone. Spinal enthesopathies occur in a group |
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Normal for Rheumatoid? |
| I have rhuematoid arthritis, I have chronic pain and swelling. It is possible for rheumatoid arthritis to cause problems in the neck and low back, but several other causes are also possible. These other causes could include |
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OPLL |
| What causes the condition Ossification of the Posterior Ligitudinal Ligament [OPLL]? If extensive through the entire spine this can be seen with ankylosing spondylitis. OPLL 2000-05-12 16:17:40.0 |
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Tendonitus |
| In general, mechanical damage, degeneration, or inflammation cause tendinitis at various sites. Achilles tendinitis, for example, results from trauma, athletic overactivity, improperly fitting shoes, rheumatoid arthritis, an |
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Spondylitis |
| It is part of a disease called `Ankylosing Spondylitis` or part of similar conditions of the spine which accompany Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Psoriasis and Reactive Arthritis (arthritis reactive to previous infections in uri |
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