OBJECTIVE To estimate in a cross sectional analysis the degree of colinearity among the disease activity measures more commonly used in juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA). METHODS This study assessed in a single clinical evaluation three subjective variables, three measures of functional capacity, eight articular indices, and two laboratory indicators of systemic inflammation in 55 consecutive ...

Between 1971 and 1991 we performed Charnley low-friction arthroplasty (LFA) on 116 patients (186 hips) with juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA). We have now carried out a survival study, taking endpoints as revision, death or the end of the year 1993. Overall survival was 91.9% at ten years and 83.0% at 15 years. That of the femoral component was 95.6% at ten years and 91.9% at 15 years and of the...

Serum from patients with juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA) was shown to inhibit colony formation by normal erythropoietic progenitor cells cultured in vitro. The inhibition was proportional to the degree of anaemia and to certain indices of activity of the arthritis and systemic disease. It occurred in a dose dependent manner with increasing serum concentration and was independent of previous bl...

During active disease, patients with systemic-onset juvenile chronic arthritis (S-JCA) demonstrate a rise and fall in serum interleukin-6 (IL-6) that parallels the classic quotidian fever. To investigate the possibility that this cytokine profile results from a difference in the control of IL-6 expression, we examined the 5 9 flanking region of the IL-6 gene for polymorphisms. A G/C polymorphis...

In a population based epidemiological survey of juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA), performed in Western Sweden in 1983, an incidence of 12/100,000 was found. The estimated prevalence was 56/100,000. Subgroup distribution showed a preponderance of mono- and pauciarticular forms. The peak age of onset was between 0 and 4 years of age. Girls predominated over boys in a ratio of 3:2. Overall, 30% we...

Adenomyosis is a benign disease characterized by the presence of endometrial-like tissue (glands and stroma) in myometrium. Diffuse adenomyosis most common form, which usually affects women over 30 years age, while cystic very rare, typically younger women. Symptoms include chronic pelvic pain, dysmenorrhea menometrorrhagia.The first case juvenile (JCA) was published 1996 Tamura 16-year-old pat...

Abstract Numerous researchers in the field of noise control and acoustics have found success using biomaterials to create a porous sound absorber that is both effective environmentally friendly. This paper discusses utilization fibers extracted from waste coffee husk (CH) cotton (CO) spinning industry be an alternative synthetic-based acoustic materials. The study was conducted within range 50–...

Sir: Nesher et al recently described the first comprehensive series considering antiperinuclear factor in juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA). They found an overall positivity of 34%; in patients with the polyarticular type of the disease 16/28 patients were positive.' Our results are at variance with these data: in a group of 313 patients only three were positive, all of them children with polyar...