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Immersive Virtual Reality for Management of Amplified Musculoskeletal Pain...
Background/Purpose: Amplified Musculoskeletal Pain Syndrome (AMPS), a chronic pain syndrome with excessive musculoskeletal pain without a primary organic etiology, has a high prevalence in adolescents....
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Anti-Ro/SSA Is Associated with Progression to End-Stage Renal Disease in...
Background/Purpose: Lupus nephritis (LN) is related to disease severity, morbidity, and mortality in juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus (jSLE). Cluster analysis emerged to identify autoantibody...
View ArticleMusculoskeletal Ultrasound Study in Childhood Arthritis: A Limited Examination
Background/Purpose: A challenge in the management of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) is most of the core set of assessment measurements are subjective by nature. A validated, accessible, objective...
View ArticleEarly Treatment with Anakinra in Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Background/Purpose: Systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA) should be considered as a polygenic autoinflammatory disease. Interleukin 1 (IL-1) has been shown to be a major mediator of the...
View ArticleAnti-Mitochondrial Autoantibodies Are Associated with Dysphagia in Juvenile...
Background/Purpose: We analyzed the prevalence of anti-mitochondrial autoantibodies (AMA) in both juvenile-(JM) and adult-onset myositis cohorts and investigated phenotype differences between juvenile...
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Baseline Kidney Biopsy in Lupus Patients Without Renal Manifestations....
Background/Purpose: Lupus nephritis (LN) is seen in 20–75% of patients with pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). LN may present with abnormal urinary findings and/or renal impairment (overt...
View ArticleLong Term Safety of Biologics and Biosimilars in Pediatric Rheumatic...
Background/Purpose: The use of biologic response modifiers(BRMs) is associated with an increased risk of infections. We also use biosimilars for two reasons:1. originator not available, like...
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Chest Computed Tomography Manifestations in Childhood-Onset Systemic Lupus...
Background/Purpose: Intrathoracic involvement in adults with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is relatively common, particularly pleural disease. The prevalence of intrathoracic involvement in...
View ArticleFunctional Characterization of PLCG2 Mutations Found in Subjects with...
Background/Purpose: PLCG2-associated antibody deficiency and immune dysregulation (PLAID) and autoinflammatory PLAID (APLAID) are autosomal dominant diseases caused by mutations of PLCG2. APLAID is...
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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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