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Chinese Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics ›› 2015, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (1): 101-105.

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Research progress of the relationship between bone bridge formation and inflammation in patients with ankylosing spondylitis

WANG Tian-ling, XU Liang   

  1. Department of Rheumatology, Yijishan Hospital of Wannan Medical College, Wuhu 241000, Anhui, China
  • Received:2014-03-22 Revised:2014-04-17 Published:2020-07-20

Abstract: Ankylosing spondylitis(AS)is a systemic inflammatory diseases. Inflammation and bone bridge formation are two stages of the AS typical pathological changes.Inflammation is the main character and bone bridge formation is the primary cause of joint deformity. It was considered that inflammation contributed to the formation of bone bridge,but clinical studies had found that ankylosis could not been stopped after the control of inflammation. The relationship between them seems be very vague. This article summarized the research of the development about bone bridge formation and the relationship between bone bridge formation and inflammation in recent decades.

Key words: ankylosing spondylitis, inflammation, bone bridge formation

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