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A retrospective analysis of our patients with ankylosing spondylitis revealed a 17.8% incidence of recurrent hematuria. Two of the five patients with recurrent hematuria had previously undergone renal biopsies showing a focal proliferative glomerulonephritis. The only specimen examined by immunofluorescent staining showed the typical changes of IgA nephropathy. A control group of patients with rheumatoid arthritis did not show recurrent hematuria. Recurrent hematuria may be a frequent occurrence in ankylosing spondylitis and may signify the presence of one of the glomerulonephritides such as IgA nephropathy.
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Wall, B.A., Agudelo, C.A. & Pisko, E.J. Increased incidence of recurrent hematuria in ankylosing spondylitis: a possible association with IgA nephropathy. Rheumatol Int 4, 27–29 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00683881
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