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SUBMITTER: Wang L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9996308 | biostudies-literature | 2023
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Lei L Wei Zhimin Z Pan Fei F Song Chuan C Peng Lihua L Yang Yunsheng Y Huang Feng F
Frontiers in immunology 20230223
Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is the prototype of a group of systemic inflammatory diseases referred to as spondyloarthritis. Comorbid inflammatory bowel disease and changed gut microbiota in AS have attracted attention to the influence of gut-joint axis and encouraged treating AS by targeting gut microbiota. Here we first reported a patient with refractory AS and comorbid ulcerative colitis (UC) who underwent three fecal microbiota transplantations (FMTs). Inadequate response to conventional trea ...[more]