Ankylosing Spondylitis Diagnosis and Management leads readers through the pathogenic, genetic, clinical, and biomechanical aspects of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and addresses issues related to outcomes assessment, medical treatment, surgical complications, disease management, and genetics.

Features:

• Clinical aspects of Ankylosing Spondylitis Options including physiotherapy, spa-exercise therapy, drug therapy and biologicals
• Biomechanical aspects considering posture and balance in Ankylosing Spondylitis
• Anaesthetic considerations for the Ankylosing Spondylitis patient
• Image-based planning and computer-assisted surgery in Ankylosing Spondylitis
• Spinal osteotomy and joint replacement in Ankylosing Spondylitis
• Research avenues that many impact the future care of Ankylosing Spondylitis patients

Contents

Clinical Essentials

1. The history of Ankylosing Spondylitis
2. Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, and Genetics of Ankylosing Spondylitis
3. Clinical Aspects of Ankylosing Spondylitis
4. Imaging in Ankylosing Spondylitis
5. Criteria and outcome assessment of Ankylosing Spondylitis
6. Patient's perspective

Biomechanical Considerations

7. Bone mineral density and osteoporosis in Ankylosing Spondylitis
8. Analysis of posture in patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis
9. Sagittal balance of the spine in Ankylosing Spondylitis
10. Planning the restoration of view and balance in Ankylosing Spondylitis

Therapeutic Considerations

11. Medical treatment for Ankylosing Spondylitis: An overview
12. Biologic therapies in Spondyloarthritides—the current state
13. Physiotherapy interventions for Ankylosing Spondylitis

Surgery for Spinal Deformities in Ankylosing Spondylitis

14. Anesthesiological considerations for the Ankylosing Spondylitis Patient
15. Lumbar osteotomy in Ankylosing Spondylitis: A structured review of three methods of treatment
16. Image-based planning and computer assisted surgery in Ankylosing Spondylitis
17. Polysegmental wedge osteotomy for thoracolumbar kyphosis in Ankylosing Spondylitis
18. The closing wedge osteotomy for thoracolumbar deformity in Ankylosing Spondylitis
19. Osteotomy of the cervical spine in Ankylosing Spondylitis
20. Ankylosing Spondylitis: Complications related to spine surgery

Acute Spinal Syndromes/Injuries in Ankylosing Spondylitis

21. Atlantoaxial subluxation in Ankylosing Spondylitis
22. Mangement of cervical spinal frctures in Ankylosing Spondylitis
23. Management of thoracolumbar spinal fractures in Ankylosing Spondylitis

Joint Replacement in Ankylosing Spondylitis

24. Total hip replacement in Ankylosing Spondylitis
25. Total knee arthroplasty for patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis

Future Directions

26. Ankylosing Spondylitis in 2015

Index

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