
Cardiac Involvement in Ankylosing Spondylitis
Author(s) -
Yasemin Özkan
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of clinical medicine research
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1918-3011
pISSN - 1918-3003
DOI - 10.14740/jocmr2488w
Subject(s) - medicine , ankylosing spondylitis , spondyloarthropathy , pericarditis , aortitis , cardiology , spondylitis , aorta
Ankylosing spondylitis is one of the subgroup of diseases called "seronegative spondyloarthropathy". Frequently, it affects the vertebral colon and sacroiliac joint primarily and affects the peripheral joints less often. This chronic, inflammatory and rheumatic disease can also affect the extraarticular regions of the body. The extraarticular affections can be ophthalmologic, cardiac, pulmonary or neurologic. The cardiac affection can be 2-10% in all patients. Cardiac complications such as left ventricular dysfunction, aortitis, aortic regurgitation, pericarditis and cardiomegaly are reviewed.