Publications by authors named "Ai Rebollo Gimenez"
Background: Over the past two decades there has been a remarkable advance in the management of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), which has led to considerable improvement in prognosis. In 2018, the introduction of the treat-to-target (T2T) strategy in JIA has been advocated to further ameliorate disease outcome. To provide a benchmark for comparing future outcomes in the "T2T era", this study investigates the percentage of JIA patients who achieved clinical inactive disease (CID) in the decade that preceded the publication of the T2T recommendations in JIA.
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- - The study aimed to establish and validate specific cutoff values for the systemic Juvenile Arthritis Disease Activity Score 10 (sJADAS10) to differentiate between various disease activity levels in children with systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
- - Researchers used data from 400 patients across multiple countries, applying different methods to determine these cutoffs, ensuring robust validation through comparison of physician assessments.
- - The identified cutoffs were found to effectively separate inactive disease, minimal disease activity, moderate disease activity, and high disease activity, making them reliable for clinical use and research purposes.
Objectives: Limited information is available on the clinical features, treatment modalities and outcomes of the juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) categories of enthesitis-related arthritis (ERA) and juvenile psoriatic arthritis (JPsA). This study was aimed to describe the characteristics of Italian children with ERA and JPsA and to compare them with those of patients with the other categories of JIA.
Methods: Patients were part of a multinational sample included in a study aimed to investigate the prevalence of disease categories, treatment approaches, and disease status in patients from across different geographical areas (EPOCA Study).
Purpose Of Review: To summarize the current evidence on the adoption of the treat-to-target (T2T) strategy in pediatric rheumatic diseases (PRD).
Recent Findings: The recent advances in the management of PRD have markedly increased the ability to achieve disease remission. Complete disease quiescence is regarded as the ideal therapeutic goal because its attainment leads to lesser long-term damage and physical disability, and to optimization of quality of life.
Unlabelled: In this study, a relationship between low levels of vitamin D and other markers of inflammation is observed in patients with spondyloarthritis. Therefore, insufficient levels of vitamin D could be used as a marker of inflammation, so they would help to have a better follow-up of the patient.
Purpose: The aim of this study is to determine the association between 25-hydroxyvitamin D deficiency and level of disease activity in patients suffering from spondyloarthritis.
Organizing pneumonia is an inflammatory lung entity that presents with a huge variety of clinical, radiological and pathological patterns. Organizing pneumonia can be idiopathic or secondary to other diseases. Corticosteroid therapy is usually the first-line treatment showing clinical improvement in most cases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Our hospital is the nuclear medicine referral hospital for radioisotopic synoviorthesis for all of Castilla-La Mancha.
Objective: To describe the experience in the performance of radioisotopic synoviorthesis for arthritis refractory to other treatments in our hospital.
Methodology: Observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study protocolised through the review of the database of radioisotopic synoviorthesis performed between 2007 and 2017.
Objective: To describe the different clinical characteristics of patients admitted to the Rheumatology Department due to rheumatic manifestations as the first expression of an unknown malignant process.
Patients And Methods: Retrospective and descriptive observational study involving the review of the medical records of those admitted to rheumatology in the University Hospital of Ciudad Real between January 2007 and August 2017 for initial rheumatic manifestations with a suspicion at discharge of an unknown tumor.
Results: In all, 64 patients were identified from more than 500 admissions.