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Query: UNIPROT:P01889 (ankylosing spondylitis)
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A 19-year-old male patient with a 7-year history of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) was admitted to our clinic. After completion of the laboratory and radiologic investigations, we prescribed an exercise program besides his medical therapy. After these exercises, he complained of painless dark urine sometimes with passage of clot that disappeared the following day. To investigate this hematuria related with exercise, further laboratory and radiologic studies were carried out. After exclusion of the other causes of hematuria, we concluded that the diagnosis was sports hematuria.
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PMID:A handicap in treatment and follow-up of ankylosing spondylitis: sports hematuria. 1580 Oct 76

We, in this study, report a 72-year-old woman presenting with premature osteoarthritis of the spine, the hips, the knees and the shoulders symptomatic since the age of 50 years. The initial presentation of backache led to a mistaken diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis. Subsequent manifestation of characteristic discoloration of her sclera and overnight dark urine led to the correct diagnosis of ochronosis.
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PMID:Premature arthritis in an elderly woman. 1685 58