Like
JIA, ALL may present with joint pain and swelling, fever, fatigue, weight loss, arthritis, anemia, and hepatomegaly.
The
JIA group was comprised of children diagnosed with
JIA at the Capital Institute of Pediatrics between February 2009 and December 2009.
of the Erasmus MC Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and colleagues conducted a study to evaluate
JIA disease activity after beginning treatment with etanercept and to identify characteristics associated with treatment response.
The incidence of
JIA is estimated at 2 to 20 cases per 100,000 children, with a prevalence of 16 to 150 cases per 100,000 children worldwide.
In this study, we aimed to determine the serum levels of IL-17A in children with
JIA and analyze the correlation between IL-17A values and disease activity, certain clinical features, and laboratory markers of inflammation.
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The 102 teens with
JIA underwent follow-up assessment 1-3 years later, after they had received ongoing treatment for their
JIA.
Taking into consideration the above-mentioned relations, the present quantitative evaluation of both CS, as an early marker of aggrecan degradation, and chondroitin sulfate 846 epitope (CS846), as a biomarker of aggrecan synthesis, is an attempt at answering the question whether the therapy used in
JIA patients, whose purpose is to reduce the inflammatory and immunological parameters of the disease activity, simultaneously contributes to the normalization of biochemical changes in aggrecan and thus inhibits the dysfunction of articular cartilage.
This brief review summarises the available and relevant evidence on the diagnosis and management of
JIA in the South African (SA) context and is intended to assist the non-specialist in the identification, management and referral of these patients.
FMF and
JIA often involve the same population of children and may be confused at times.
Eventually doctors at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary diagnosed
JIA and Jordy was put on special medication, leaving his immune system more vulnerable than most children his age.
During the event, German specialist at the Children's Medical Centre, Dr Betina Rogalski, presented a session on the impact of
JIA on families.
