Mesalamine, olsalazine, and balsalazide do not contain sulfa. So they may be used to treat mild to moderate ulcerative colitis if you cannot take sulfasalazine. Mesalamine enemas are effective in treating symptoms of mild to moderate distal (left-sided) ulcerative colitis and in maintaining remission.
Medical Definition of ankylosis. plural. ankyloses. \-ËsÄz\play. : stiffness or fixation of a joint by disease or surgery.
Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a systemic and chronic inflammatory rheumatic disease of the axial skeleton mainly affecting young male subjects. The clinical manifestations of AS include inflammatory back pain, unilateral or alternative buttock pain, peripheral arthritis and enthesitis and/or dactylitis.