Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis Overview
Rheumatoid arthritis, often called RA, is a
chronic (long-standing)
disease that damages and eventually destroys the
joints of the body.
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Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis?
Arthritis is a
chronic condition that involves
inflammation of the
joints and the
connective tissue around the
joints.
Full article >>>Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) is a form of
arthritis in children ages 16 or younger that causes
inflammation and stiffness of
joints for more than six weeks.
Full article >>>Still,
juvenile rheumatoid arthritis can be complicated. The term "
juvenile rheumatoid arthritis" is actually an umbrella term for a group of conditions.
Full article >>>Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is an auto
immune disorder. Many experts believe that this auto
immune response in children has two parts. They believe that some children have a
genetic makeup that makes them vulnerable to the condition.
Full article >>>Systemic-onset
juvenile rheumatoid arthritis: See:
Arthritis,
systemic-onset juvenile
rheumatoid.
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Full article >>>Giannini EH, Petty RE (2001).
Treatment of
juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. In WJ Koopman, ed.,
Arthritis and Allied Conditions, 14th ed., vol. 1, pp. 1294-1310. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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Full article >>>Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (in children)
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
GoutSclerodermaPsoriatic arthritisAnkylosing spondylitisReiter's
syndrome (reactive
arthritis)
Adult Still's
diseaseViral arthritisGonococcal arthritis ...
Full article >>>Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (in children)
Gout Scleroderma Psoriasis (
psoriatic arthritis)
Fungal infections such as blasto
mycosis Ankylosing spondylitis Reiter's
syndrome/Reactive
arthritis Septic
arthritis Adult Still's
disease ...
Full article >>>and symptoms of moderately to severely active
rheumatoid arthritis in adult patients who have had an inadequate response to one or more DMARDs [11/98]; (3)
treatment of moderately to severely active polyarticular-course
juvenile rheumatoid arthritis ...
Full article >>>Researchers asked30 boys and girls with
juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and their caregivers to draw pictures depicting the children's
pain.
Full article >>>Juvenile: Between
infantile and adult as, for example, in
juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (onset before age 16 years) and
juvenile diabetes (type 1
diabetes).
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Full article >>>Examples include gold
sodium thiomalate, auranofin, and aurothio
glucose. These medications are indicated in the
treatment of
rheumatoid arthritis,
psoriatic arthritis, Felty's
syndrome, and
juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
Full article >>>or absent, resulting in a
deficiency of an important type of
immune cell known as the T
lymphocyte.
Infections (seldom life threatening) and
autoimmune disease (such as haemolytic anaemia, inflammatory
bowel disease and
juvenile rheumatoid arthritis) ...
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