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A study published in the journal, Rheumatology, looks at the disease manifestations that can cause people with ankylosing spondylitis to get hip replacement surgery.
The researchers write, "Hip involvement is commonly recognized by rheumatologists in AS patients, and involves about one out of the three to four patients with AS." About 5% of those in the study needed hip surgery.
Those who needed surgery tended to have an earlier onset of disease, spinal involvement and "enthesial disease" or enthesitis - inflammation of site of attachment of ligament or tendon to bone.
To read the abstract click here.
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