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SUBMITTER: Zervou MI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10071292 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zervou Maria I MI Papageorgiou Louis L Vlachakis Dimitrios D Spandidos Demetrios A DA Eliopoulos Elias E Goulielmos George N GN
Molecular medicine reports 20230324 5
Previous research has revealed an association between endometriosis and various autoimmune diseases, while recent data suggest, for the first time, an association between endometriosis and the risk of developing ankylosing spondylitis (AS). AS, the prototype of spondyloarthritides diseases, is a systemic, chronic, immune‑mediated inflammatory arthritis, which primarily affects the spine and sacroiliac joints, as well as the axial skeleton with or without extraspinal manifestations. AS is of poly ...[more]