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The treatment of ankylosing spondylitis

Clinical and Experimental Medicine volume 2, pages 159–165 (2003)Cite this article

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Ankylosing spondylitis is an inflammatory disorder affecting the axial skeleton and periphery. Symptoms can often be debilitating. Current therapy for the disease include physical therapy, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS, anti-rheumatic disease modifying drugs (DMARDS), and the newly developed biologic agents targeting tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α). This paper will provide a comprehensive review of these treatments which focusing on evidence based medicine for the daily clinical practice of rheumatology.

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  1. Division of Rheumatology, The University of California San Francisco, 533 Parnassus Avenue, Box 0633, Room U383, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. jdavis@medicine.ucsf.edu, , , , , , US

    K.J. Scalapino & J.C. Davis Jr.

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Received: 31 December 2002 / Accepted: 15 January 2003

Correspondence to J.C. Davis Jr.

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Scalapino, K., Davis Jr., J. The treatment of ankylosing spondylitis. Clin Exp Med 2, 159–165 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s102380300000

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