The cervical spine is the third most common site of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), after the metatarsophalangeal joints and the metacarpophalangeal joints. Rheumatoid spondylitis primarily affects the cervical spine; involvement of the thoracic or lumbar spine is rare. (In contrast, ankylosing spondylitis...
sacroiliac joint. When irritated, it causes pain in the buttock. The piriformis muscle happens to overlap the sciatic nerve and can also cause sciatic pain down the leg all the way to the foot. This is often mistaken for sciatica, which is caused by a pinched nerve root in the spine. ...
Two patients with rheumatoid arthritis affecting the lumbar spine showed the clinical, roentgenological, and operative characteristics of lumbar spinal stenosis, which is a neurological complication of rheumatoid arthritis that can be treated by surgery. The clinical history is a prerequisite for ...
The technical feasibility of percutaneous microendoscopic bilateral decompression of lumbar stenosis via a unilateral approach was evaluated in a human cad... Bernard H,Guiot,Larry T,Khoo,Richard G,Fessler - 《Spine》 被引量: 39发表: 2019年 The association of spinal osteoarthritis with lumbar lordo...
When Spine Osteoarthritis Is Serious Severe spinal osteoarthritis is typically accompanied by degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis, or both. These conditions can lead to the compression of the spinal cord or its nerve roots, causing one or more of these symptoms: ...
PAN is usually characterized by vascularnephropathy, without glomerulonephritis, in about 35% of patients.11Multiplerenal infarcts, the consequence of vascular nephropathy, produce renal failure. Renalangiographywill frequently show several aneurysms and infarcts.Ureteral stenosisand perinephric hematomas (micr...
SeeHow Osteoarthritis Can Lead to Spinal Stenosis Certain Facet Joints Are More Prone to Osteoarthritis advertisement Doctors have found that certain segments of the back are more prone to osteoarthritis: In the lower back, osteoarthritis is most common between the L4-L5 vertebrae, followed by L5-...
Preparing for my wedding in 2002, I suffered terrible pain in my hips and sciatica. I was told that it was spinal stenosis and it faded with time and lots of NSAIDS. My shoulders went next. First my left and then my right. Overuse, I was told. This made sense. I’d been walking...
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In severe cases, functional impairment may be severe, and a chronic and prolonged clinical course is followed by sequelae (eg, urethral stenosis, chronic arthritis, or ocular impairment). References Approach Considerations The diagnosis of reactive arthritis (ReA) is clinical, based on the history ...