Monitoring serum IL-18 levels is useful for treatment of a patient with systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis complicated by macrophage activation syndrome

Systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA) is a systemic inflammatory disease characterized by arthritis, spiking fever and a skin rash that is frequently complicated by macrophage activation syndrome (MAS), a life-threatening disorder. We report a 22-month-old girl with sJIA who developed severe...

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Autores principales: Shigemura, Tomonari, Yamazaki, Takashi, Hara, Yosuke, Ou, Jing-Ni, Stevens, Anne M, Ochs, Hans D, Koike, Kenichi, Agematsu, Kazunaga
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3155148/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21749729
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-9-15

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3155148/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21749729
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-9-15

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