Long term functional outcome and quality of life of patients with refractory juvenile idiopathic arthritis treated with etanercept: results of the Dutch arthritis and biologicals in children register Janneke Anink, Femke HM Prince, Maryanne Dijkstra, Marieke H Otten, Marinka Twilt, Rebecca ten Cate, Simone L Gorter, Yvonne Koopman-Keemink, Marion AJ van Rossum, Esther PA Hoppenreijs, Lisette WA...

Methods Hospital records of patients with a diagnosis of chronic arthritis with onsen at the age of 16 years or less presenting to University Hospital Center, “Mother Teresa”, Tirana for the periods July 2010 – March 2014 were retrospectively reviewed and reclassified as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) based on the International League of Associations for Rheumatology (ILAR) diagnostic crit...

A rare case of childhood pulmonary haemosiderosis with juvenile idiopathic arthritis is discussed, with particular reference to treatment with hydroxychloroquine and sildenafil for pulmonary hypertension which occurs secondary to this disease.

Methods Serum samples were collected from patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis-associated uveitis (JIAU, n = 97), idiopathic anterior uveitis (IAU, n = 26), idiopathic intermediate uveitis (IIU, n = 36), anterior herpes uveitis (n = 3), and healthy controls (n = 10). In 29 patients, aqueous humor was available for analysis. S100 levels were measured by ELISA and were correlated with dise...

Introduction The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is frequently affected in juvenile idiopathic arthritis ( JIA). Depending on cohorts, up to 80 percent of JIA patients with peripheral arthritis have been shown to have synovitis of the TMJ on MRI [1]. It has also been found in pediatric Sjögren disease and sarcoidosis [2], and our report is focusing on TMJ arthritis in myositis-associated pediatri...

BACKGROUND There is not yet a commonly accepted, standardized approach in the treatment of juvenile idiopathic uveitis when initial steroid therapy is insufficient. We sought to assess current practice patterns within a large cohort of children with juvenile uveitis. METHODS This is a cross-sectional cohort study of patients with uveitis enrolled in the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Re...