Abstracts tagged "Juvenile idiopathic arthritis-enthesitis (ERA) and treatment options"

Abstract Number: 2387 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018
Resurrecting Triamcinolone Hexacetonide (the Steroid Formerly Known as Aristospan®): Efficacy and Safety of a Compounded Preparation of Triamcinolone Hexacetonide for Intra-Articular Injection in Children with Arthritis
C. April Bingham¹, Lisabeth Scalzi¹, Diane Boomsma², Brandt Groh¹, Natalya Gaffney¹, Sarah Sertial¹, Timothy Hahn¹, Vincent Lacroce³ and Barbara Ostrov¹, ¹Pediatrics, Penn State Children's Hospital, Hershey, PA, ²Pharmacy, Custom Prescriptions of Lancaster, Lancaster, PA, ³Pharmacy, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA
Background/Purpose: Intra-articular triamcinolone hexacetonide (TH) historically provided longer-lasting control of chronic arthritis in children than comparator intra-articular glucocorticoid preparations such as triamcinolone acetonide (TA) (J…