(Table 16–1). Oligoarthritis is a distinctly, if not uniquely, pediatric disease, and it is the most commonly diagnosed category of chronicarthritisamong children in North America and Europe. In these classifications, the wordsoligoarticularandpauciarticularhave the same meaning: few joints (<4)...
The term arthritis derives from childhood and is the diagnosis when the child’sthe Greek words “Arthron” meaning joint and “Itis” symptoms occur between birth and sixteen yearsmeaning inflammation. of age. Seven forms of JA have been identified;therefore children with JA may be furtherThe ...
Guidance regarding the meaning of compliance (adherence) and persistence has been proposed recently [4]. Accordingly, medication compliance (synonym adherence) is defined as 'the extent to which a patient acts according to the prescribe interval and dose of a dosing regimen' and medication ...
therapy of this complicated joint. Retrospective studies have suggested that the response to medical therapy of the TMJ may lag behind that of other joints, prompting use of intraarticular (IA) therapy. Although most studies have shown short-term effectiveness of corticosteroids, the long-term safet...
Meaning A greater proportion of patients who received filgotinib, compared with those who received placebo, achieved clinical response at 12 weeks, but further research is needed to assess longer-term efficacy and safety. Abstract Importance Patients with active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) despite treat...
5a–c). We noticed that acitretin, MTX, and TCS have similar effects on the changes of PASI given their similar gradients of GAM curves; IL-17 inhibitors have a better effect on reducing PASI values compared with other types of drugs in the moderate and severe subgroups, meaning that IL...
JIA, indicating that patients with both had a 100% likelihood of TMJ arthritis. However, in support of the previous work, the negative predictive value was only 46%, meaning that the majority of patients lacking one or both of these findings still had arthritis [19]. Kristensen et al. [...
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(yes: 50.9%), "do you know the meaning of REMISSION" (yes: 44.4%), "do you know how to measure your disease activity?" (yes: 56.2%) and "Are you aware of your medical condition?" (yes: 77.0%). A subjective sense of own remission measured with mean VAS became higher (44.8 to ...
[57], but its meaning is still debated in JIA, as some studies have shown that bone abnormalities on MRI resembling bone marrow edema can be seen in healthy subjects [58]. MRI identifies early changes in both sacroiliac joints and spine, especially in ERA and AS patients, as the most ...