Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a chronic, inflammatory disease of unknown etiology. The enthesitis-related arthritis (ERA) JIA category describes a clinically heterogeneous group of children including some who have predominately enthesitis, enthesitis and arthritis, juvenile ankylosing spondylitis, or inflammatory bowel disease-associated arthropathy. ERA accounts for 10%-20% of JIA. Co...

Background Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIG) is widely used in paediatric inflammatory disease. The Department of Health, UK recently produced guidelines for IVIG use and a demand management plan in response to global IVIG shortages, recommending use in "selected" patients with juvenile dermatomyositis (JDMS), as a "last resort" in systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA), and use not supp...

Open Access Oral presentation 3.5 Comparison of functional ability in juvenile idiopathic arthritis, juvenile dermatomyositis, juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus and healthy controls. An analysis of the PRINTO database G Filocamo*, S Meiorin*, C Saad-Magalhães, A Pistorio, A Ravelli, E Cortis, D Mihaylova, M Alessio, O Arguedas, S Garay, A Martini, N Ruperto and for the Paediatric Rheumatolo...

Background Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is one of the most common rheumatic diseases in childhood and is frequently associated with growth retardation. Vitamin D is critical to bone mineral metabolism and to the growth and development of the skeleton. We aimed to...

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is an umbrella term for seven or more clinical patterns of arthritis of unknown cause in children. Until the mid-1980s, therapy for children, with what was then called juvenile rheumatoid arthritis in the United States and juvenile chronic arthritis (JRA) elsewhere, consisted primarily of a small repertoire of antiinflammatory drugs and corticosteroids. Howev...

OBJECTIVE To determine the outcome, following the onset of juvenile idiopathic inflammatory arthritis, in terms of remission of disease activity, loss of function and structural damage based on a review of the available published data. METHODS Electronic databases were searched for major studies publishing outcome data in the past 10 yr in juvenile idiopathic arthritis, juvenile rheumatoid ar...

We present the case of a teenage patient with progressive pseudorheumatoid dysplasia, an autosomal recessive disorder that may be initially misdiagnosed as juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

Osteonecrosis of the femoral heads in patients with systemic onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis: comparison of the results of radiological and morphological methods

Objective Examining for gastrointestinal involvement in juvenile idiopathic arthritis is an important part of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Only few scientific data are available.