OBJECTIVE: To determine the disease course and outcome in a multicenter cohort of
patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA). METHODS: All patients with JRA seen at 3 …

Objective: Children ultimately diagnosed with malignancy are referred to pediatric rheumatology
clinics with provisional rheumatic diagnoses. We aimed to distinguish the features in …

Objectives To report methodology and overall clinical, laboratory and radiographic
characteristics for Henoch–Schönlein purpura (HSP), childhood polyarteritis nodosa (c-PAN), c-…

Objective To describe clinical outcomes of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) in a prospective
inception cohort of children managed with contemporary treatments. Methods Children newly …

Objective To compare the criteria for Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) of the American
College of Rheumatology (ACR) with those of the European League Against Rheumatism/…

Objective To evaluate features during the first 6 months of disease that may be associated
with a poor outcome as measured principally by extension to a polyarticular disease course in …

… Cabral and Ms Canter contributed equally to this work. Address correspondence to David
A. Cabral, MBBS, Division of Rheumatology, British Columbia Children’s Hospital, 4480 Oak …

Background Rare chronic childhood vasculitides lack a reliable disease activity assessment
tool. With emerging new treatment modalities such a tool has become increasingly essential …

Purpose Vertebral fractures due to osteoporosis are a potential complication of childhood
acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). To date, the incidence of vertebral fractures during ALL …

Objective To determine the frequency of incident vertebral fractures (IVF) 12 months after
glucocorticoid (GC) initiation in children with rheumatic diseases and to identify children at …