The effect of gender on children and adolescents with familial mediterranean fever

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Aim: To demonstrate the demographic data, subgroup distributions, responses to treatment and outcomes of long-term follow-up in patients who were followed up and treated in our clinics with a diagnosis of juvenile idiopathic arthritis, and to compare these data with national and international data.Material and Methods: The files of 116 patients who had been diagnosed as having juvenile idiopathic arthritis, were initiated on treatment and presented for regular follow-up visits between January 2012 and January 2018, were examined. Their demographic findings, treatments, active/inactive disease states (on-medication and off-medication) and treatment response states were evaluated. Results: According to the International League of Associations for Rheumatology criteria, the subtypes were specified as enthesitis-related arthritis (n=38), oli go articular (n=37), rheumatoid factor (-) polyarticular (n=17), systemic (n=15), rheumatoid factor (+) polyarticular (n=5), and psoriatic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (n=4). In total, the female/male ratio was found to be 1.5. The mean delay time between the first complaint and the diagnosis was found to be 5.7 +/- 5.2 months. The patients with systemic type were diagnosed at the earliest, while the patients with polyarticular and enthesitis-related subtypes were diagnosed at the latest. Thirty-two percent of the patients were treated with methotrexate alone, and 38% were given additional biologic drugs. In both treatment groups, the time to achieve inactive disease was the shortest in the oligoarticular group and the longest in the enthesitis-related arthritis group. In the study period, 38 patients were in remission off-medication (the highest rate (53.3%) was observed in the systemic group) and 71 patients were in remission on-medication (the highest rate (70.2%) was observed in the oligoarticular group). Remission was obtained in 94% of the patients.Conclusion: Enthesitis which is the remarkable finding of enthesitis-related arthritis, should not be overlooked in routine physical examination. Awareness of enthesitis can contribute to the prevention of diagnostic delay in children with enthesitis-related arthritis.C1 [Yener, Gulcin Otar; Tekin, Zahide Ekici; Yuksel, Selcuk] Pamukkale Univ, Dept Pediat, Div Pediat Rheumatol, Fac Med, Denizli, Turkey.[Girisgen, Ilknur; Yuksel, Selcuk] Pamukkale Univ, Dept Pediat, Div Pediat Nephrol, Fac Med, Denizli, Turkey.[Cetin, Ebru Nevin] Pamukkale Univ, Dept Opthalmol, Fac Med, Denizli, Turkey.[Akdag, Beyza] Pamukkale Univ, Dept Biostat, Fac Med, Denizli, Turkey

Exploring the relation between pain and activity and participation based on icf in children and adolescents with juvenil idiopatik artrit: a pilot study

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