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© 1988 All rights reserved

The Association between Ankylosing Spondylitis, Acute Anterior Uveitis and HLA-B27: The Results of a Swiss Family Study

S. M. van der Linden*, H. U. Rentsch, N. Gerber, A. Cats and H. A. Valkenburg

Correspondence to Dr. S. M. van der Linden


  Abstract

Patients with HLA-B27 positive ankylosing spondylitis (AS) in a Swiss family study developed non-granulomatous acute anterior uveitis (AAU) 11 times more often than their healthy relatives sharing the same HLA-B27 positive haplotype (4.4% versus 0.4% p>0.01) during a period of 6 months

KEY WORDS: Postal questionnaire, Back pain, Eye inflammation, Incidence

* Present address: Department of Clinical Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University Hospital, PO Box 1918, 6201 Bx Maastricht. The Netherlands


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