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JIA Patients Should Stay on Biologics 2 Years After Remission Those with inactive disease relapsed 6 months after stopping treatment medpagetoday.com Time spent in inactive disease before MTX withdrawal is…

Filling the Gap: Toward a Disease Activity Tool for Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA) accounts for 5%–15% of all children with chronic arthritis seen in… jrheum.org…

Juvenile Arthritis Treatment Guidelines Adopted by ACR Parents of children with juvenile forms of Rheumatoid Arthritis have tough decisions to make. They must consider possible risks of medical treatments like…

Examining the Role of Neutrophils in Systemic-Onset Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis High neutrophil counts decreased after initiation of recombinant interleukin-1 receptor agonist therapy in systemic-onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis. rheumatologyadvisor.com IL-1 and…

RF-positive polyarticular JIA looks like adult RA A genetic study reveals close ties between RF-positive polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis and adult rheumatoid arthritis. mdedge.com Longer poly-JIA inactivity not necessarily better…

Incidence and predictors of Uveitis in juvenile idiopathic arthritis in a Nordic long-term cohort study The incidence of uveitis associated with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) varies around the world. Our……

Enthesitis-Related Arthritis in Children Enthesitis-related arthritis (ERA) is an emerging subset of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) recognized for its distinctive clinical characteristics. ILAR has defined criteria… rheumnow.com Clinical features of…

Monogenic Autoinflammatory Diseases: Concept And Clinical Manifestations The objectives of this review are to describe the clinical manifestations of the growing spectrum of monogenic autoinflammatory diseases including recently… ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Treatment…

Environmental Factors in Pediatric Systemic Autoimmune Diseases Systemic autoimmune diseases are thought to result from immune dysregulation in genetically susceptible individuals who were exposed to environmental risk factors.… the-rheumatologist.org Pediatric…

APS: What Rheumatologists Should Know about Hughes Syndrome The problem that dogs the work of all of those treating patients with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is the apparent lack of knowledge…