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Genetics of Age at Diagnosis in Childhood-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Background/Purpose: The genetic contribution to the development of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is estimated to be 66% in twin studies. Genome wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more...
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Cyclophosphamide as Rescue Therapy for Kawasaki Disease with Peripheral...
Background/Purpose: Kawasaki Disease (KD) is the most common systemic vasculitis affecting children 5 years and younger. With coronary vessel involvement, KD is now the most common cause of acquired...
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Consequences and Predictors of Persisting Pain in Children with Juvenile...
Background/Purpose: Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) is the most common rheumatic disease of childhood. Pain is a distressing and prevalent feature of JIA and can decrease children’s quality of...
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A Good Inter- and Intra-observer Reliability of Subtypes in Nailfold...
Background/Purpose: In previous studies, micro-haemorrhages have often been observed in nailfold capillaroscopy in SLE.1 The interpretation of this finding is still a topic of research. Recently, a new...
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Reliability and Validity of a New Skin Activity Measure for Localized...
Background/Purpose: Juvenile localized scleroderma (jLS) is a chronic inflammatory and fibrosing disease. Treatment is directed towards controlling disease activity to minimize risk for functional...
View ArticleIs Positron Emission Tomography/Magnetic Resonance Imaging (PET/MRI) a...
Background/Purpose: The improving therapeutic approach towards childhood-onset Takayasu’s arteritis (c-TA) has decreased the mortality rate over the years and increased concerns on how to improve...
View ArticleNear Infrared Indocyanine Green Imaging Reveals Altered Anatomy and...
Background/Purpose: Near infrared (NIR) imaging studies of subdermal indocyanine green (ICG) in murine models of inflammatory arthritis have established abnormal lymphatic vessel (LV) function during...
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The Efficacy and Safety of Intraarticular Injection of Triamcinolone...
Background/Purpose: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is the most common rheumatic disease of childhood. Intra-articular corticosteroids joint injection (IAJI) with Triamcinolone hexacetonide (TH) or...
View ArticleSuccessful Validation of a Rapid Point-of-care Test for Serum Calprotectin...
Background/Purpose: Treat-to-target strategies are established for the therapeutic approach to patients suffering from juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Another proposed therapeutic concept in...
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The Killer Immunoglobulin-like Receptor KIR3DL1 in Combination with HLA-Bw4...
Background/Purpose: Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS) is characterized by abrupt onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and/or food restriction with other specified...
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Evaluation of Self-report Screening Measures in the Detection of Depressive...
Background/Purpose: Screening for co-morbid psychiatric disorder is of high clinical importance in childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (cSLE). However, there are no validated screening...
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Long-Term Outcomes in Children Born to Anti-Ro and/or anti-La Positive Mothers
Background/Purpose: Neonatal Lupus Erythematosus (NLE) is an acquired autoimmune disorder associated with the transplacental passage of maternal anti-Ro and/or anti-La antibodies. NLE manifestations...
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Implications of Positive Tests for ANCA in a Pediatric Population
Background/Purpose: Testing for ANCA, particularly performed by ELISA (anti-MPO/PR3) is highly sensitive and specific for ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV). However ANCA testing may be used in clinical...
View ArticleAdvanced Multidisciplinary Care: A New Approach to Childhood Arthritis
Background/Purpose: Many patients are overwhelmed with the diagnosis of chronic childhood arthritis and require long-term treatments. Our objective was to develop a new, child and family centered,...
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The Importance of the Patient Global Health Assessment of Disease Activity in...
Background/Purpose: Polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis (pJIA) is a subtype of JIA wherein more than four joints are affected with arthritis; it is characterized by unpredictable flares and...
View ArticleClinical and Laboratory Characteristics in Juvenile-onset Systemic Lupus...
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) is a systemic autoimmune/inflammatory condition. Up to 20% of patients develop symptoms before their 18th birthday and are diagnosed with...
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Change in Treatments and Outcomes After Implementation of a National...
Background/Purpose: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is currently the most common childhood chronic rheumatic disease with high burden and socioeconomic costs for the patient’s family and the health...
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Association of Plasma Metabolomic Profiles with Methotrexate Response in...
Background/Purpose: Despite efforts to identify biomarkers to guide therapy in the treatment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), drug therapy remains a trial-and-error process. In the case of...
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Increasing Rates of Standardized Depression Screening in Youth with Systemic...
Background/Purpose: Depression is common among youth with SLE. Early identification and treatment of depression has the potential to improve health outcomes for youth with SLE. Pediatric...
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