Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences. 2006; 22 (4): 401-404
in English
| IMEMR
| ID: emr-80135
ABSTRACT
To find out the prevalence of Human Leucocyte Antigen B27 [HLA-B27] in inflammatory bowel disease patients in Jordan. Over the last year [2005] all inflammatory bowel disease [IBD] patients attending the gastroenterology outpatient clinic at King Hussein Medical Center[KHMC], were given a questionnaire asking them to report back pain and the characteristics of this pain. The first 60 patients to complain of inflammatory-type back pain [according to the European Spondyloarthropathy Study Group Criteria]; underwent a blood test to check for the presence of HLA-B27 in their blood. At the same time a comparable number of patients not suffering from IBD or any rheumatological disease, were checked for the presence of HLA-B27. Only five patients of the IBD group [4 females and 1 male] showed HLA-B27 positivity. Three patients had ulcerative colitis [UC] and 2 patients had Crohn's disease [CD]. Three of the patients in IBD group had active disease and were on steroids the other two were in remission and were on aminosalicylic acid [5-ASA] only. Three patients of the controlled group [all females] showed HLA-B2 positivity. Two of the patients in the IBD group were of European origin. It is concluded that HLA-B27 is no more common in IBD patients than in the general population of Jordan
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Index:
IMEMR (Eastern Mediterranean)
Main subject:
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
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Colitis, Ulcerative
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HLA-B27 Antigen
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Prevalence
Type of study:
Prevalence study
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
English
Journal:
Pak. J. Med. Sci.
Year:
2006
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