Department of Immunology and Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, McAllen, USA
Case Report
A Case Study on a Spondyloarthritic Patient: Unresponsive to Steroidal Treatments, Disease Modifying Anti-rheumatic Drugs and Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs
Author(s): Aar Rafi Mahmud*, Nova Rahman, Faijanur-Rob-Siddiquee, Anwarul Haque, Hossain Ahmed and Asif Shahriar
Spondyloarthritis is a disease that creates a serious burden to the
medical sector. This condition is defined by inflammatory spinal
stiffness that affects the cartilaginous spinal joints and the
sacroiliac joints. An 18 years old male patient was hospitalized
because of spondyloarthritis, though no known family history of
spondyloarthritis and uveitis were manifested. Diagnoses of
HLA-B27 positive spondyloarthritis with mostly peripheral
involvement were proposed in laboratory testing. X-ray report of
pelvis and both S.I. joint were normal, so it confirmed this patient
is affected by non-radiographic spondyloarthritis. Antiinflammatory
medications and steroids had little impact
on the complaints, which were quite severe. Non-steroidal antiinflammatory
drugs, corticosteroids, and DMARDs are the
medicines of preference but cannot give a comprehens.. View More»