Juvenile Arthritis News

Johns Hopkins Hospital has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals Survey as the top-ranked hospital in the country for rheumatology for the 2018 to 2019 year.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Uveitis among young patients with oligoarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis is often asymptomatic, but comes with a very high morbidity, which means rheumatology providers and nurses have to “make a decision” about their vigilance in screening for the disease, according to Kristen Lee, MD, of the New York University School of Medicine.

FORT WORTH, Texas — When filling prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine for rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus or juvenile idiopathic arthritis, rheumatology nurses should coordinate with their patients’ ophthalmologists and be direct about the information they need regarding possible eye-related adverse effects, according to presenters at the Rheumatology Nurses Society Annual Conference.

An expert committee issued clinical recommendations pertaining to the use of methotrexate for juvenile idiopathic arthritis, including optimal dosing, route of administration, duration of treatment and use of vaccines, according to new review published in Pediatric Rheumatology.

MRI interrater reliability is superior to that of radiographs — which demonstrated a significant proportion of both false negative and false positive findings — for global sacroiliitis impression among juvenile patients, according to findings published in Arthritis Research & Therapy.

Approximately 72% of adolescent patients at Tanner stage 3 or below who were treated with tocilizumab for polyarticular-course juvenile idiopathic arthritis experienced increased height standard deviation scores at 2 years, according to findings published in the Journal of Rheumatology.

Physical activity should be an integral part of standard care in the treatment of inflammatory arthritis and knee and hip osteoarthritis, and all health care providers should take responsibility for promoting its use, according to recommendations released by EULAR.

Approximately 47% of female patients in the United Kingdom who are prescribed hydroxychloroquine are given excess doses, based on ideal-body-weight dosing, according to findings published in Arthritis Research & Therapy.

Healio Rheumatology is proud to announce the launch of Rheuminations, a podcast series hosted by Adam Brown, MD, focusing on medical mysteries and other ripping yarns of the immune system gone awry.

AMSTERDAM — Subcutaneous tocilizumab demonstrated comparable safety and efficacy to IV tocilizumab in patients with systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis, according to data presented at the EULAR Annual Congress.