Are there any successful disease modifying therapy for diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH)?
The patient has severe flowing ossification of the anterior and posterior longitudinal ligaments causing nerve compression. HLA B27 negative and SI joints are spared.
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Therapy for DISH is largely supportive: PT, NSAIDs/pain relievers, and control of contributing metabolic conditions, nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle changes; when necessary surgical interventions such as surgical resection of osteophytes and spinal fusion are required.Clinical research in DISH is...
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at Austin Regional Clinic Thank you for the information. What is your first ...
There are no disease modifying agents for DISH and there is no available evidence that controlling the associated metabolic diseases has a disease modifying effect.
Most patients with DISH, in spite of the sometimes exuberant changes on imaging, are asymptomatic. Many patients are diagnosed on the ...
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at University of California (San Francisco) School of Medicine My apologies, I did not read the brief clinical in...
at Tidalhealth Please also recall, as a side note to this, DISH p...
Options for disease-modifying therapy are few in this condition, due to the absence of approved or confirmed gene modification techniques, and the presumed absence of inflammatory processes found in other parallel conditions, in this instance. Among the disease-modifying methods available, one focus...
Thank you for the information. What is your first ...