Piano Prince VKK overcame bamboo disease with his stiff back.

Ankylosing spondylitis, also known as "bamboo pole disease", is a chronic inflammatory disease caused by immune abnormality. Doctors pointed out that there are about 40,000 patients in Taiwan Province Province, including artist Yu Tian and his son Jay Chou. They are suffering from diseases. However, if we ignore them without early diagnosis and treatment, we must not ignore them, which will cause joint injury and hyperosteogeny, and the vertebrae will stick together like bamboo poles, making them stiff and inflexible, and even severely disabled and disabled. (Audiovisual/Photojournalist Huang Zhiwen)

The little piano prince "VKK" (left) thanked Dr. Lin Xiaoyi (right) for his careful treatment and kept his quality of life. (Photography/Zhang Shijie) Vanros Kloud, a piano composer known as the "Little Piano Prince of Asia", inexplicably felt backache at the age of 14, thinking that it was a sports injury caused by playing basketball. Six or seven years later, he tried acupuncture, massage, chiropractic and other therapies, and embarked on the wrong path in vain. By the time I was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis at the age of 20, my whole body was hard.

After careful nursing by doctors, combined with exercise and physical therapy, and using biological agents to inhibit inflammatory reactions in the body, he successfully controlled his illness and found his own blue ocean in an imperfect life. "VKK" said regretfully that ankylosing spondylitis is not terrible, but if we had known earlier, we could have a wonderful life like Jay Chou now, with songs, dances and balls.

Dr. Lin Xiao Yi, director of the Department of Internal Medicine Allergy and Immunorheumatology, Taipei Rong General Hospital, said that ankylosing spondylitis often occurs in young men aged 20 to 40, and the cause is unknown. Many patients were diagnosed after injury and infection. Clinical observation shows that about 95% patients have HLA-B27 immune antigen gene. At present, about 6.5438+0.3 million people in Taiwan Province Province belong to HLA-B27 immune antigen gene, accounting for 5.5% of the total population.

Fortunately, only 2- 10% of them will get sick because of family inheritance or injury-aggravating genes. So many men are injured when they are soldiers and sick when they leave the army. Juvenile ankylosing spondylitis accounts for about 1/4, all of which occurred before 16 years old. If the treatment is delayed, the patient will be afraid of growing taller, hunchback, deformation of the joints of hands and feet, serious cervical fracture and total paralysis.

Different from the general adult patients around the age of 20, more than half of the patients will take low back pain as the main manifestation. 16-year-old adolescent patients mostly show inflammation of heels, tendons and joints, and only about 4% patients have low back pain, which is more likely to be mistaken for growth pain and neglected to seek medical treatment.

It is worth noting that the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis can effectively delay the deterioration of the disease and maintain the quality of life through biological agents targeting tumor necrosis factor, but if there is a history of tuberculosis, chronic hepatitis B and liver disease C at the same time, it should be carefully monitored to avoid the outbreak of drug-activated virus.

Small files of ankylosing spondylitis

1. Pathogenic factors: autoimmune diseases, patients with pathogenic genes, complicated trauma, smoking and other factors.

2. Incidence rate: 2 to 4 per thousand. There are about 40,000 to 50,000 patients in Taiwan Province.

3. Epidemic age: 20 to 40 years old, with a male-female ratio of 3: 1.

4. Clinical symptoms: Low back pain lasts for more than 3 months, and the pain time often occurs in the middle of the night. When the disease occurs, the arm cannot be raised, and it may be impossible to bend over, squat down, and have difficulty walking. The joints of the whole body are sore, and the pain is like knife cutting or acupuncture.

5. Treatment type: analgesia, anti-inflammatory, immunomodulation, biological agents and other drugs, or surgical treatment.