joint destruction and juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) Archives

Abstract Number: 1163 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012
Risk Factors for Radiologic Progression in Polyarticular Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Patients Treated with Biologic Agents
Tomohiro Kubota¹, Tsuyoshi Yamatou², Yukiko Nonaka², Harumi Akaike², Tomokazu Nagakura³, Yuichi Yamasaki¹, Tomoko Takezaki², Yasuhito Nerome², Hiroyuki Imanaka² and Syuji Takei⁴, ¹Dept of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan, ²Department of Pediatrics, Kagoshima University Hospital, Kagoshima, Japan, ³Department of Pediatrics, House of Meguminoseibo, Usuki, Japan, ⁴School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan
Background/Purpose: Progression of joint damage is sometimes observed in JIA patients during the biologic therapy. However, it is difficult to evaluate the radiographic progression by…

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