background :juvenile idiopathic arthritis (jia) is one of the most common chronic rheumatic diseases in children with unknown etiology and pathogenesis. it also has no diagnostic test and its clinical diagnosis is made through ruling out other types of arthritis. the aim of this study was to evaluate the level of ada (adenosine deaminase) in the serum of jia patients and to compare it with that...

we describe a 16 year old boy with acne fulminans associated with axial and peripheral polyarthritis. the patient's clinical course and therapy with isotretinoin, prednisolone and oxytetracycline are described. a possible association between the presence of hla -b 27 antigen and reactive arthritis with acne fulminans in this case is evaluated. a review of the literature is included.

four cases of polyarthritis concomitant with active tuberculosis is reported. in three patients pulmonary tuberculosis was confirmed by identification of mycobacterium tuberculosis in the sputum and bronchoalveolar lavage specimens, and in another one tuberculous lymphadenitis was confirmed by excisional biopsy. in all patients arthritis resolved by tuberculosis treatment and did not recur duri...

background and objectives rheumatoid arthritis (ra) is a chronic inflammatory disease which is characterized by joint swelling, and synovial inflammation. c reactive protein (crp) and ceruloplasmin (cp) are identified as important biomarkers of ra and various inflammatory diseases. curcumin, a widely used yellow color spice is the most active component of curcuma longa l (turmeric). curcumin co...

high levels of rheumatoid factors (rf) are detectable in serum of the majority of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (ra), but 5-10% of patients remain seronegative (sn). despite clinical and genetic similarities between these two subsets of ra, it has been proposed that they may be regarded as distinct clinical entities. methods: in the present study a panel of monoclonal antibodies (mab) reco...