Ankylosing spondylitis can cause painful joint deformities, muscle atrophy, paralysis, and extra-articular lesions, among other consequences. Therefore, early treatment is needed to minimize the adverse effects of the disease.
Ankylosing spondylitis is generally due to infection, heredity and other factors caused by the sacroiliac joints and spinal attachment points of inflammation as the main symptom of the disease, treatment of this disease is more difficult to cure, mainly to alleviate the symptoms and control the progression of the disease, often leaving more lesions, as follows.
1. Joint pain and deformity: often involving large joints such as spine, sacroiliac joints, hip joints, etc., patients can experience pain, stiffness, deformity and limitation of spine and sacroiliac joints, which can cause necrosis of the femoral head when involving the hip joint.
2. Paralysis: If the disease has a long course, poor control, and involves the whole vertebrae, the patient’s spine may appear bamboo-like, and the patient may be paralyzed when the spine is ankylosed or when the spinal cord is involved.
3. Extra-articular lesions: in the middle and late stages of the disease, the disease may invade many systems of the whole body, such as heart disease, lung disease, kidney disease and so on.
Patients with ankylosing spondylitis are advised to go to the hospital in time for early treatment to minimize the adverse effects of the disease.