CORRELATIONS OF HAQ LIFE QUALITY INDEX WITH AIMS SCORE, AT PATIENTS WITH COXITIS FROM ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS
Abstract:
The life quality in relation to health is the net consequence of disease and treatment on patient’s perception, concerning his capacity of having a complete and fruitful life. Ankylosing spondylitis is a progressive inflamatory disease that affects the spine joints and the adjacent soft tissues. There are always affected the sacroiliac joints. The injury of coxofemoral joint, coxitis is an active lesion. The study objective: to make evident the way HAQ and AIMS correlate, for a period of 6 months in patients with coxitis from ankylosing spondilitis. The study group is made of 46 patients with ankylosing spondilitis who had coxitis. I have determined HAQ and AIMS values on admission, on dismissal and after 6 months and one year. We have found a strong correlation between HAQ and AIMS indexes on the occasion of the three determinations.
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