title: A handicap in treatment and follow-up of ankylosing spondylitis: sports hematuria.
abstract: A 19-year-old male patient with a 7-year history of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) was admitted to our clinic. After completion of the laboratory and radiologic investigations, we prescribed an exercise program besides his medical therapy. After these exercises, he complained of painless dark urine sometimes with passage of clot that disappeared the following day. To investigate this hematuria related with exercise, further laboratory and radiologic studies were carried out. After exclusion of the other causes of hematuria, we concluded that the diagnosis was sports hematuria.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, 9 Sokak 27/6 Bahçelievler, Ankara, Turkey. ozdenozyemisci@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Ozden
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ozyemişci
authors.forename: Gülçin Kaymak
authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: Karataş
authors.forename: Sebnem
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Celikmez
authors.forename: Işil
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Babaoğlu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005081:Exercise Therapy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006417:Hematuria / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013167:Spondylitis, Ankylosing / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*