Publications by authors named "Francesca Robasto"
Article Synopsis
- - 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.
Clinical examination (CE) and musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) of ten joints (knee, ankle, wrist, elbow, II-MCP) and their extra-articular (EA) compartments (tendons and bursae) were performed on 35 consecutive patients with active juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) (active group) to test how the extension of MSUS examinations to EA changes the concordance between MSUS and CE. The overall concordance between CE and MSUS, measured with (), was moderate (k = 0.43); the addition of EA MSUS increased the concordance in all joints, with the exclusion of II-MCP (k = 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImmunophenotype Anomalies Predict the Development of Autoimmune Cytopenia in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome.
J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract
October 2020
Background: Patients with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11.2DS) may develop severe thrombocytopenic purpura and hemolytic anemia.
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