Abstracts tagged "Puberty"

Abstract Number: 1846 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Menarchal Status at Diagnosis and Final Height in Females with Childhood-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Watchareewan Sontichai¹, Daniela Dominguez¹, Lawrence Ng¹, Deborah M. Levy¹, Jonathan Wasserman², Earl Silverman¹ and Linda Hiraki¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Division of Endocrinology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: The diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in childhood affects growth due to disease and therapy. To date, there are few studies of final…
Abstract Number: 1278 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Growth and Puberty in Juvenile Dermatomyositis a Longitudinal Multinatinal Cohort Study
Ellen Nordal^1,2, Angela Pistorio³, Marite Rygg³, Gabriella Giancane⁴, Michaël Hofer³, Jose Antonio Melo-Gomes⁴, Blanca Bica⁴, Ximean Norambuena⁴, Valda Stanevicha³, Rebecca ten Cate⁵, Olga Vougiouka⁴, Jurgen Brunner⁴, Guenther Dannecker⁴, Polyxeni Pratsidou-Gertsi⁴, Gabriele Simonini⁴, Helen Venning⁴, Serena Pastore⁴, Angelo Ravelli⁶, Alberto Martini⁷ and Nicolino Ruperto⁷, ¹Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital of Northern Norway, Tromsø, Norway, ²Department of Clinical medicine, UIT, the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, ³Istituto Giannina Gaslini - Pediatria II, Reumatologia - PRINTO, Genoa, Italy, ⁴Istituto Giannina Gaslini - Pediatria II, Reumatologia - PRINTO, Genova, Italy, ⁵Pediatric Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁶University of Genova, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genova, Italy, ⁷Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy
Background/Purpose: Children with juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) are at risk of growth failure and delayed puberty because of inflammatory disease activity and side effects of corticosteroid…
Abstract Number: 5 • 2017 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Effects of Puberty on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Results of a multi-center prospective longitudinal observational study in children entering puberty with SLE
Kathleen O'Neil¹, Hermine Brunner², Andrew Zeft³, Anne Stevens⁴, Suzanne Li⁵, Tracey Wright⁶, Emily von Scheven⁷, B. Anne Eberhard⁸, C. Egla Rabinovich⁹ and Deborah M. Levy¹⁰, ¹Pediatrics, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, ²Rheumatology, PRCSG, Cincinnati, OH, ³Pediatrics Rheumatology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ⁴University of Washington, Department of Pediatrics, Seattle, WA, ⁵Pediatrics, Joseph M Sanzari Children’s Hospital, Hackensack Meridian Health, Hackensack, NJ, ⁶Pediatrics/Rheumatology, University of TX Southwestern, Dallas, TX, ⁷Division of Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁸Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York, New Hyde Park, NY, ⁹Pediatric Rheumatology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ¹⁰Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Lupus often presents during puberty, and when it affects pre-pubertal children, disease activity is thought to increase at puberty. Sex hormones play some role…
Abstract Number: 1254 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Prevalence Of Antinuclear Antibodies In Schoolchildren Across Puberty and Possible Relationship With Musculoskeletal Pain. A Longitudinal Study
Francesca Sperotto¹, Sara Brachi², Mara Seguso³, Fabio Vittadello¹ and Francesco Zulian⁴, ¹Department of Pediatrics, University of Padua, Padua, Italy, ²Department of Pediatrics, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, ³Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy, ⁴PRINTO, Genoa, Italy
Background/Purpose: Antinuclear antibodies (ANA) are frequently found in children with connective tissue diseases but can also be found in healthy individuals even in absence of…