ALGORITHM OF DIAGNOSTICS AND TREATMENT OF JUVENILE ARTHRITIS

• Main Authors: E.I. Alexeeva, T.М. Bzarova
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: "Paediatrician" Publishers LLC 2010-01-01
• Series: Voprosy Sovremennoj Pediatrii
• Online Access: http://vsp.spr-journal.ru:80/jour/article/view/977

<em>The theme of the article is one of the most wide-spread rheumatologic diseases — juvenile arthritis (JA). It highlights main questions on epidemiology, classification, pathogenesis of the disease. Authors describe clinical symptoms of different types of JA, diagnostics and differential diagnosis. There is a part of an article with information on drugs used in patients with JA and the algorithm of differentiated treatment of a disease is presented. Authors paid special attention to approaches to biological therapy, conditions for the treatment and management of patients treated with genetically engineered biological drugs.</em><br /><strong><em>Key words: children, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile arthritis, treatment, infliximab, adalimumab, etanercept, rituximab, abatacept, tocilizumab.</em></strong><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>(<em><em><em>Voprosy sovremennoi pediatrii — </em></em></em>Current Pediatrics. 2010;9(6):<em>78-104</em>)</em></span>