… The former group included 74 patients with S-JIA-associated MAS reported in the literature or
… by MAS complicating S-JIA, and the confusable condition was represented by active S-JIA. …

Objective To describe the clinical and laboratory features of macrophage activation syndrome
as a complication of juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods Cases of …

… Magni-Manzoni et al. found a high prevalence of subclinical synovitis in joints that were
recorded as normal on clinical examination. The inclusion of ultrasonographical findings would …

… Notably, of the 47 patients for whom the treating physician’s diagnosis of MAS was not
confirmed by the experts, 30 (63.8%) also did not meet the final classification criteria, 11 (23.4%) …

… s = 0.47 for the JADAS-71 and r s = 0.50 for the JADAS-10). Both correlations were highly
significant (P < 0.001), therefore demonstrating that the composite score predicts radiographic …

Objective We recently hypothesized that in the International League of Associations for
Rheumatology (ILAR) classification of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), the presumably …

… in each center were first asked to make a census of all of the patients seen between January
1980 and December 2004 and who had a diagnosis of juvenile DM by Bohan and Peter’s …

Objective To determine cutoff values for defining remission, minimal disease activity, and
parent and child acceptable symptom state in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) using the …

… DNA sequence analysis was performed with the ABI Prism dRhodamine Dye Terminator
Cycle Sequencing Ready Reaction Kit (Applied Biosystems) according to the manufacturer’s …

Objective We undertook this study to test the hypothesis that in the International League of
Associations for Rheumatology (ILAR) classification of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), …