To investigate the value of synovial fluid analysis in predicting the articular evolution of juvenile chronic arthritis, synovial fluid from 29 patients with oligoarticular onset juvenile chronic arthritis were examined prospectively. The patients were subsequently classified after a three year period of observation as having polyarticular (10 patients) or pauciarticular (19 patients) disease. ...

Material and Methods Urine.-This was collected from eight female patients with severe and active rheumatoid arthritis (meeting ARA criteria), one of whom had juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. The erythrocyte sedimentation rate ranged from 30 to 90 mm. in the first hour (Westergren). The WaalerRose test was positive in five and negative in three cases. Urine was collected for control purposes from ...

Introduction To determine the clinical significance of anti-CCP (anticitrullinated cyclic peptide) in Korean patients with JRA. Rheumatoid Factor (RF) is a non-specific serologic test in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) but the anti-perinuclear autoantibodies are found in adult rheumatoid arthritis (RA) recently. One of these autoantibodies can detect epitopes called citrulline. The authors ...

HLA antigens were examined in 27 patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. HLA-B27 was found in none. The result was different from most other previously reported studies. The most likely explanation for this difference is the possibility that some patients with juvenile ankylosing spondylitis may have been included among the patients in the other studies.

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is the most common chronic rheumatic disease of the childhood with the highest risk of disability. Active disease persists in the adulthood in a significant portion of children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis despite many developments in the diagnosis and treatment. Therefore, initiation of efficient treatment in the early period of the disease may provide...

Macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) is one of the serious complications of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) and recently, cyclosporine A has been found to be effective in patients with corticosteroid-resistant MAS. A 29-yr-old male was admitted with high fever and jaundice for one month. He was diagnosed as juvenile arthritis 16 yr ago. Physical and laboratory results showed hepatosplenomeg...

Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) has been associated with several autoantibodies, including antiperinuclear factor, anti-keratin antibodies, anti-filaggrin antibodies, and anti-Cyclic Citrullinated Peptide (anti-CCP) antibodies. Most studies found that anti-CCP antibodies are only detected in Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA) patients with positive Rheumatoid Factor (RF). In our center we experiment...

We herewith report the rare case of a patient with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis who developed on 2 occasions the clinical picture of an isolated unilateral palsy of the inferior oblique muscle—Brown’s syndrome, following pregnancies, each time in a different eye. Although the eye is frequently involved in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the Brown’s syndrome is seldom reported in literature with reg...

Family physicians commonly see children with musculoskeletal complaints, and often these complaints are related to sports injuries and physical activities that are a part of childhood.Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is important in the differential diagnosis of a child with prolonged musculoskeletal complaints. The following case highlights the importance of a complete history and physical examin...