Publications by authors named "M Zajc Avramovic"
Purpose: Significant improvements in the prognosis for young patients with Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases (PID) and Autoinflammatory Disorders (AID), which together make up the majority of Inborn Errors of Immunity (IEI), have resulted in the need for optimisation of transition and transfer of care to adult services. Effective transition is crucial to improve health outcomes and treatment compliance among patients. Evaluations of existing transition programmes in European health centres identified the absence of disease-specific transition guidelines for PID and AID, as a challenge to the transition process.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: (1) characterizing a group of spondyloarthritis (SpA) patients with systemic auto-inflammatory symptoms (S-SpA); (2) comparing SpA features with and without auto-inflammatory symptoms; (3) comparing the auto-inflammatory features of S-SpA and Still's disease (SD).
Methods: Retrospective observational study. Clinical data of adult and pediatric patients with S-SpA, SD or SpA were collected retrospectively and analyzed.
Objectives: The aim of the study was to establish an international multicenter registry to collect data on patients with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), in order to highlight a relationship between clinical presentation, age of onset and geographical distribution on the clinical outcome.
Study Design: Multicenter retrospective study involving different international societies for rare immunological disorders.1009 patients diagnosed with MIS-C between March and September 2022, from 48 centers and 22 countries were collected.
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to analyze the serum levels of TNF-α in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) treated with anti-TNF-α drugs and their link to disease activity.
- It involved 98 patients monitored over 2.5 years, revealing that serum TNF-α levels were higher in patients on etanercept with low disease activity and adalimumab with inactive disease.
- The findings suggest that serum TNF-α is not a reliable indicator of disease activity or remission in JIA patients undergoing these treatments, indicating limited clinical utility for ongoing monitoring.
Introduction: Although children seem to be less susceptible to COVID-19, some of them develop a rare but serious hyperinflammatory condition called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). While several studies describe the clinical conditions of acute MIS-C, the status of convalescent patients in the months after acute MIS-C is still unclear, especially the question of persistence of changes in the specific subpopulations of immune cells in the convalescent phase of the disease.
Methods: We therefore analyzed peripheral blood of 14 children with MIS-C at the onset of the disease (acute phase) and 2 to 6 months after disease onset (post-acute convalescent phase) for lymphocyte subsets and antigen-presenting cell (APC) phenotype.