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Association of Anti-Saccharomyces cerevisiae antibodies with clinical phenotype in spondyloarthritis patients.
Reumatologia clinica - 1 Jan 2000
Ferreira Raquel Miriam, Pimenta Sofia, Bernardes Miguel, Costa Lúcia
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INTRODUCTION: The association between spondyloarthritis (SpA) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has been shown in many studies. More recently, with the hypothesis that increased gut inflammation is of etiopathogenic importance in the development of SpA, evaluation of anti-Saccharomyces cerevisiae antibodies (ASCA) has gained increasing relevance. OBJECTIVE: To study the status and frequency of ASCA in SpA...
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