Methods Twenty-eight consecutive patients (22 girls) who presented to our outpatient pediatric rheumatology clinic and fulfilled the ACR criteria of fibromyalgia were included in this study. All patients underwent a rheumatologic examination performed by a pediatric rheumatologist, and an orofacial examination performed by a single dentist at the same data. The patients were interviewed accordi...

conclusions this study revealed the noticeable popularity of cam in patients suffering from chronic rheumatologic diseases, mostly due to their dissatisfaction with conventional treatments. patients and methods in this cross-sectional study, 100 randomly selected patients, with different diseases, were questioned about demographic data, disease duration, the type of cam used, reasons, visit int...

this cross-sectional study is conducted to determine the prevalence of asymptomatic cervical spine subluxation in rheumatoid arthritis patients by plain radiographs and its relation to demographic and clinical characteristics, disease activity measures and medications. 100 rheumatoid arthritis patients (18 male and 82 female) were selected randomly, according to the american college of rheumato...

the purpose of this study was to investigate any association between iga deficiency (igad) and juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (jra) among iranian children. this case-control study was carried out on 83 children who were diagnosed as jra according to american college of rheumatology (acr) criteria; patients were admitted at the rheumatology clinic of children's medical center, (tehran). serum imm...

Methods 42 caregivers of patients followed in our outpatient pediatric rheumatology clinic participated in this study, classified according to good or bad adhesion to treatment, according to the Morisky Green drug adhesion test. The sample was selected consecutively. We used a standard questionnaire to verify the socioeconomic level, the Family Apgar scale to verify family functioning, The Wech...

Maria Maślińska1, Fabrizio de Luca2, Kassem Sharif3,4,5 1Early Arthritis Clinic National Institute of Geriatrics, Rheumatology, and Rehabilitation, Warsaw, Poland 2School of Medicine, Milan University, Department of Allergy and Immunology, Niguarda Ca’ Granda Metropolitan Hospital, Milan, Italy 3Internal Medicine B, Sheba Medical Centre, Tel-Hashomer, Israel 4Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune D...

The scleroderma group of diseases is characterized by the presence of hard skin. The pathogenesis of scleroderma include excessive production of collagen and extracellular matrix by fibroblasts, not only in the skin but also in vital organs and around blood vessels with endothelial cell injury. Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) usually constitutes less than 1% of most pediatric rheumatology clinic popul...

In arthritis patients, diagnosis can be delayed further because symptoms of the underlying disease might mimic complaints caused by the fracture. In this report, we present two JIA patients with stress fractures. A 10-yr-old girl with polyarticular JIA and a 14-yr-old boy with systemic onset of JIA presented with complaints of pain, the boy in the left extremity and the girl in both lower extre...

1Department of Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Centers, Ein Kerem and 2Department of Medicine, Mount Scopus Campuses, Jerusalem, Israel. Eldad Ben-Chetrit, MD Suhail Aamar, MD Please address correspondence to: Eldad Ben-Chetrit, MD FMF Clinic, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, POB 12000, Jerusalem, Israel. E-mail: [email protected] Received on August 4, 2009. Clin Exp ...

1Department of Prosthetic Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine, Dresden University of Technology, 01307 Dresden, Germany 2Department of Prosthetic Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Wroclaw Medical University, 50425 Wroclaw, Poland 3Department of Maxillofacial Orthopedics and Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Wroclaw Medical University, 50425 Wroclaw, Poland 4Department and Clinic of Rheumatology and...