Hip involvement in ankylosing spondylitis: epidemiology and risk factors associated with hip replacement surgery.

Although clinicians recognize hip involvement, which frequently leads to hip replacement surgery, as an important feature of AS, data on the epidemiology, nature of the disease and therapeutic strategies are scarce. We aimed to describe the epidemiology of clinical and radiological hip involvement and define the risk factors for the hip replacement surgery in AS patients. ; 0 ; Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; ASPECT-REGISPONSER-RESPONDIA working group ; info:eu-repo/semantics/published