ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 585 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Sungsin Jo1, Eun-Ju Lee 2, Juyeon Kang 1, Seunghun Lee 3, Jeehee Youn 4, Yong-Gil Kim 5 and Tae-Hwan Kim 1, 1Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2Ulsan university, seoul, Republic of Korea, 3Dertment of Radiology, Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 4Hanyang University, seoul, Republic of Korea, 5Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Background/Purpose: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a predominantly male disease and spinal ankylosis more severely affect male AS1 suggesting role of testosterone on spinal ankylosis. In…