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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
What Is Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis?
Arthritis is a chronic condition that involves inflammation of the joints and the connective tissue around the joints.
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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.
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Still, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis can be complicated. The term "juvenile rheumatoid arthritis" is actually an umbrella term for a group of conditions.
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Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disorder. Many experts believe that this autoimmune response in children has two parts. They believe that some children have a genetic makeup that makes them vulnerable to the condition.
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Systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid arthritis: See: Arthritis, systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid.
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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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Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
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Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (in children)
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
Gout
Scleroderma
Psoriatic arthritis
Ankylosing spondylitis
Reiter's syndrome (reactive arthritis)
Adult Still's disease
Viral arthritis
Gonococcal arthritis ...
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Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (in children)
Gout
Scleroderma
Psoriasis (psoriatic arthritis)
Fungal infections such as blastomycosis
Ankylosing spondylitis
Reiter's syndrome/Reactive arthritis
Septic arthritis
Adult Still's disease ...
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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 ...
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Researchers asked30 boys and girls with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and their caregivers to draw pictures depicting the children's pain.
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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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Examples include gold sodium thiomalate, auranofin, and aurothioglucose. These medications are indicated in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, Felty's syndrome, and juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
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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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