Nasopharyngeal Pneumococcus Colonization in Patients with Childhood Onset...
Background/Purpose: Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae) may lead to severe life-threatening infections in both the general and immunocompromised population. Patients diagnosed with Systemic Lupus...
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Medication Related Decision-Making in Parents of Children with Juvenile...
Background/Purpose: Outcomes for juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) have improved with use of disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and biologics. Despite this, the decision by a parent to...
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Double Negative T Cells in Juvenile Dermatomyositis
Background/Purpose: Double Negative (DN) T cells was initially described in the context of autoimmune lymphoproliferative disease, which is caused by defective T cells apoptosis due to mutation of the...
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Measuring Decision Conflict in Parents of Children with Juvenile Idiopathic...
Background/Purpose: Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and biologic agents are routinely used in the treatment of JIA and JIA-associated uveitis (JIA-AU). Parents are often fearful,...
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Evaluating the Relationship Between Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Disease...
Background/Purpose: JIA – associated uveitis (JIA-U) accounts for 20-40% of childhood noninfectious uveitis and affects 10-20% of patients with JIA. Its chronic course is often painless and insidious,...
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Discovering the Implications of Adiposity in Juvenile Dermatomyositis
Background/Purpose: Obesity and pro-inflammatory cytokines produced by adipocytes have been linked to many outcomes including disease severity, treatment response, and disease progression in several...
View ArticleAssociations Among Pain, Mood, and Sleep in Children with Rheumatic Conditions
Background/Purpose: Chronic pain in school-aged children and adolescents is highly prevalent and can be debilitating. Literature suggests that children with musculoskeletal pain are at risk for poor...
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Differences in Clinical Presentation Between Israeli and United States...
Background/Purpose: Observations among Israeli pediatric rheumatologists reveal pediatric Juvenile Spondyloarthritis (JSpA) may present differently compared to patients from the United States (US)....
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Transition from Pediatric to Adult Rheumatology: The Clinician as a...
Background/Purpose: The transition from pediatric to adult rheumatology is linked to poor outcomes in the absence of comprehensive transition programs. Several tools are available to measure transition...
View ArticleAncestry, Demographic and Clinical Features of Israeli Periodic Fever...
Background/Purpose: Periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis and adenitis (PFAPA) syndrome is an autoinflammatory disease of unknown etiology. Recently, we showed that there may be a...
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HLA Genetic Signatures Associated with Inflammatory Sub-type in Juvenile...
Background/Purpose: Juvenile localized scleroderma (jLS) is an autoimmune disease of the skin and underlying tissue that is characterized by an earlier inflammatory infiltrate, followed by fibrosis and...
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Emapalumab (Anti-Interferon-Gamma Monoclonal Antibody) in Patients with...
Background/Purpose: MAS is a severe complication of rheumatic diseases and occurs most frequently in patients with sJIA. Data from animal models and from observational studies in patients suggest that...
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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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