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Reports from Haydarpasa Training Hospital describe recent advances in spondylitis

Published in Hospital Law Weekly, May 1st, 2008

Scientists discuss in 'Diagnosis delay in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: possible reasons and proposals for new diagnostic criteria' new findings in spondylitis. "Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic, progressive, and disabling disease. Among the rheumatological diseases, the longest diagnosis delay is still found for AS," researchers in Istanbul, Turkey report.

"The aim of this cross-sectional study is to evaluate the diagnosis delay and possible reasons in AS. A secondary aim is to assess the relation between diagnosis delay and some clinical and laboratory features. One hundred eleven AS patients, (103 male, 8 female) were recruited. A face-to-face...

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