Prevalence and significance of serum 14-3-3η in juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

Background: Prompt diagnosis of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is important to avoid long term complications. Elevated serum 14-3-3η levels improve the diagnostic sensitivity of rheumatoid factor (RF) and cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP) antibody in adult rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and have been associated with more severe phenotype. We investigated the prevalence and clinical significance of serum 14-3-3η in different types of JIA.

Prevalence and documentation of overweight and obesity in hospitalized children and adolescents.

Objective: Overweight and obesity (OAO) are major problems among children and adolescents. Hospitalization of pediatric patients provides an opportunity for physicians to initiate point-of-care services related to weight status. Our goal was to determine the prevalence of OAO among hospitalized pediatric patients and to assess the extent of documentation of OAO in their medical records.

Common presentations of pediatric rheumatologic diseases: a generalist's guide.

Purpose Of Review: To present a case-based approach of three common scenarios which often present to the primary care physician. The approach to these cases and the differential diagnosis are discussed for these common rheumatologic diseases.

Recent Findings: Numerous healthy children and adolescents are referred to pediatric rheumatologists for the evaluation of suspected rheumatologic diseases.

Recently diagnosed axial spondyloarthritis: gender differences and factors related to delay in diagnosis.

A cohort of patients with recently diagnosed axial spondyloarthritis (SpA) was characterized with emphasis on gender differences and factors leading to delay in diagnosis. Clinical, laboratory, and imaging data of 151 consecutive patients diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis or undifferentiated SpA in 2004-2009 and satisfying the new ASAS classification criteria for axial SpA, was collected and analyzed. Seventy-nine men and 72 women were enrolled.