ArticleRheumatology advances in practice2018
The colon and terminal ileum in patients with ankylosing spondylitis and controls in Bangladesh: a macroscopic and microscopic study.
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objectiveLittle is known about gut lesions in AS patients in a developing country, such as Bangladesh.
methodsFull colonoscopy, including the terminal ileum, was performed in 60 AS patients and 20 controls, without diarrhoea, to study macroscopic and microscopic lesions.
resultsIn the colon, in 60 AS patients 17 macroscopic lesions were found, of which 11 were in the rectum; only one lesion was found in 20 controls. The prevalence of microscopic lesions in the ascending colon, sigmoid colon and rectum was 51, 44 and 50 in patients, respectively, and 13, 9 and 8 in controls. In the terminal ileum, macroscopic and microscopic lesions were seen in 21/56 and 43/56 AS patients, respectively, and in 1/20 and 9/20 controls. In the AS group, macroscopic (38.5
conclusionThere was an equal percentage of microscopic lesions in the whole gut in AS cases and healthy controls. Previous helminth invasions might have played a role. Lesions differ significantly between AS and controls only in the ileum; therefore, the ileal lesions might be more disease related than the colonic ones.
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