Behcets Disease: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

Behcet’s disease or Turkish. Behcet’s disease is a relapsing progressive immune disorder that primarily affects Southeast Asian and Turkish men 30 years of age and older. The main symptoms are frequently recurring aphthae and disorders of the eyes, especially inflammation and pus accumulation. Several options are available for therapy, the most important being the administration … Behcets Disease: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

Symptoms | Sacroiliitis

Symptoms The leading symptom of sacroiliitis is inflammatory pain in the back or buttocks, which classically occurs either only at night or in the morning or at least becomes less severe during the day. Typically, there is a knocking pain or a pain of displacement over the altered sacroiliac joints. In some patients, the pain … Symptoms | Sacroiliitis

Therapy | Sacroiliitis

Therapy The therapy of sacroiliitis is mainly based on two components: Consistent physiotherapy and pain relief. The physiotherapy should be carried out under professional supervision, whereby it is important that a patient also receives instructions to be able to carry out gymnastics independently and regularly at home. For the treatment of pain, drugs from the … Therapy | Sacroiliitis

Trigger | Sacroiliitis

Trigger The triggers of sacroiliitis have not been clearly clarified and are still the subject of current research. In most cases, the inflammation of the joint between sacrum and ilium occurs in the context of a rheumatic disease such as ankylosing spondylitis or a chronic inflammatory bowel disease such as Crohn’s disease. There is an … Trigger | Sacroiliitis

Sacroiliitis

Sacroiliitis is the name given to inflammatory changes affecting the sacroiliac joint, i.e. the joint between the sacrum and ilium at the lower part of the spine. This inflammation is chronically progressive and extremely painful. Causes Sacroiliitis occurs very rarely as a single disease. As a rule it is a secondary disease or complication of … Sacroiliitis

Procedure for HLA determination | HLA – Human Leukocyte Antigen

Procedure for HLA determination HLA can be determined in four different ways. In each case, tissue from both donor and recipient is required. The exact determination of the structure of the HLA is done with the so-called antigen determination. The process of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is used for this. In this process cells … Procedure for HLA determination | HLA – Human Leukocyte Antigen

Evaluation of the HLA values | HLA – Human Leukocyte Antigen

Evaluation of the HLA values The costs of a typing are about 50€. If the typing has to be very detailed, the costs can be higher. In the last years the effort and therefore the costs could be reduced strongly by the mechanical evaluation. All articles in this series: HLA – Human Leukocyte Antigen Procedure … Evaluation of the HLA values | HLA – Human Leukocyte Antigen