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Vitamin C Deficiency: An Under-Recognized Cause for Pediatric Limb Pain
Background/Purpose: Vitamin C is essential in bone formation: it acts as a cofactor in forming and stabilizing the collagen triple helix. Exogenous intake of vitamin C is vital as humans cannot...
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Rheumatic Fever in a Tertiary Medical Center – 25 Years of Follow Up
Background/Purpose: Rheumatic Fever (RF) occurs after a pharyngeal infection caused by group A-B-hemolytic streptococci.Its principal clinical significance is causing carditis at the acute phase of the...
View ArticleAcceptability and Usability Testing of a Preliminary Version of the JIA...
Background/Purpose: Although juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is one of the most common causes of chronic musculoskeletal pain among youth, families’ decision-making for pain management is not...
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Improving Pneumococcal Vaccination Rates in Immunosuppressed Rheumatology...
Background/Purpose: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends pneumococcal vaccination of high-risk patients, including patients on iatrogenic immunosuppression. Many patients seen in...
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Myositis Autoantibodies in a Racially Diverse Population of Children with...
Background/Purpose: The presence of myositis specific autoantibodies (MSA) and myositis associated antibodies (MAA) has been associated with specific clinical phenotypes, various organ involvement and...
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Single Cell Sequencing of the Skin to Define Cell Populations of Interest in...
Background/Purpose: Scleroderma is an autoimmune disorder involving inflammatory driven fibrosis, which encompasses systemic sclerosis (SSc) and localized scleroderma (LS). LS and SSc share...
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Anti-Citrullinated Protein Antibodies (ACPA) and Bony Erosions in...
Background/Purpose: Despite being a well-established biomarker for classification of aggressive bony disease in adults with RA, ACPA have not yet been described in the ILAR criteria for polyarticular...
View ArticleReproductive Health Concerns in Young Adults with Pediatric Onset Rheumatic...
Background/Purpose: While patients and families of those with pediatric onset rheumatic diseases have keen interest and unaddressed worry about the impact of their rheumatic disease on their current...
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Evaluation of B-cell Depletion with Rituximab and IVIG Concurrent Treatment...
Background/Purpose: Rituximab is standard therapy in treating autoimmune brain disease (ABD) including refractory autoimmune encephalitis (AE) and Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disease (NMOSD)....
View ArticleA Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of the iCanCope Pain Self-management...
Background/Purpose: Pain is the most common symptom of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA), a chronic childhood illness that has potentially debilitating effects on health-related quality of life...
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Risk Score of Macrophage Activation Syndrome in Patients with Systemic...
Background/Purpose: Macrophage Activation Syndrome (MAS) is a severe, life-threatening, complication of rheumatic diseases in childhood, particularly of systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (sJIA),...
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Prosthetic Temporomandibular Joint Replacement in a Cohort of Adolescent...
Background/Purpose: Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) arthritis is present in 40-96% of children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) (1). TMJ arthritis can be difficult to identify, treat, and can...
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Levels of Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis...
Background/Purpose: Children with chronic diseases have higher rates of mental health issues and less favorable outcomes than the general pediatric population. Children with JIA experience pain and...
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Parental Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Exposure Is Predictive of Active...
Background/Purpose: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have been recognized for more than two decades as risk factors for poor health outcomes in adults. Nevertheless, the impact of patient exposure...
View ArticleMyD88 S209R-Mediated Immune Dysregulation in Mouse Models of Arthritis
Background/Purpose: MYD88 is a critical adaptor protein that connects Toll-like and IL-1 receptor signaling to activation of NF-kB. We previously reported a heterozygous de novo mutation in MYD88...
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Chondrocytes Influence Fibroblast-like Synoviocytes from Patients with...
Background/Purpose: Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) progression leads to growth disturbances in affected joints. Fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) play a key role in JIA pathogenesis; however, the...
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Cyclophosphamide Use in Treatment of Refractory Kawasaki Disease: A Single...
Background/Purpose: Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) effectively treats vasculitis of the coronary arteries in the large majority of Kawasaki Disease (KD) patients. However, approximately 25% of...
View ArticleFeasibility and Pilot Study of Mental Health Screening in Juvenile Myositis
Background/Purpose: Juvenile myositis (JM) negatively affects health-related quality of life due to chronic weakness, skin/muscle damage, multiorgan dysfunction, and side effects of immunosuppression....
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Incidence, Contributing Factors, and Impact of Diagnostic Delay in Juvenile...
Background/Purpose: While early treatment of patients with newly diagnosed juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is an area of active study, delayed diagnosis of JIA is poorly characterized, with no...
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