See Also: Marie-Strumpell disease(medicine)
Strumpell-Marie disease(medicine)
neonatal screening(medicine)
Neonatal screening tests(health)
neonatal medicine(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Strumpell's phenomenon(medicine)
Strumpell's reflex(medicine)
Strumpell's disease(medicine)
Westphal-Strumpell pseudosclerosis(medicine)

Marie-Strumpell disease (medicine) and neonatal screening (medicine)


Marie-Strumpell disease (medicine)


Marie-Strumpell disease -->
ankylosing spondylitis
<rheumatology> A polyarthritis involving the spine, which is characterised by progressive, painful stiffening of the joints and ligaments. It almost exclusively affects young men.

Interestingly the disease seems to be associated with HLA B27, those with this histocompatability antigen are 300 times more likely to get the disease, 90% of sufferers have HLA B27


neonatal screening (medicine)


neonatal screening


The identification of selected parameters in newborn infants by various tests, examinations, or Other procedures. Screening may be performed by clinical or laboratory measures. A screening test is designed to sort out healthy neonates from those not well, but the screening test is not intended as a diagnostic device, rather instead as epidemiologic.