Study: Female patients with ankylosing spondylitis can still have children – News-Medical.Net

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a complex chronic inflammatory disease of the spine with involvement of the sacroiliac joints.
Over the course of the disease, the joints and adjacent tissues ossify, which results in a partial or complete stiffening of the spine. Many patients complain of pain in the spine, lower back, buttocks and hips, which can be particularly severe in the morning.
Pain in the second half of the night often wakes up AS patients and they need to do some exercise to relieve it…

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