The clinical presentation in adulthood of juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Minerva Med. 2019 Oct;110(5):450-454. doi: 10.23736/S0026-4806.19.06095-6. Epub 2019 May 27.

Abstract

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease, which affects children and adolescents, characterized by significant differences when compared to inflammatory rheumatisms in adulthood. Today, in a panorama enriched in the last decades with great improvements in the diagnostic and therapeutic field, a far from negligible portion and an increasing number of patients with JIA require the continuation of treatments in adulthood. This specific population of patients, given the high incidence of extra-articular manifestations, residual irreversible disabilities, comorbidities related to an inflammatory process and extended immunosuppressive treatments during the age of development, requires precise attentions in the follow-up and a multidisciplinary approach characterized by different clinical, psychological and social aspects.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Amyloidosis / etiology
  • Arthritis, Juvenile / complications
  • Arthritis, Juvenile / diagnosis*
  • Arthritis, Juvenile / therapy
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Disease Progression
  • Dwarfism / etiology
  • Eye Diseases / etiology
  • Humans
  • Osteoporosis / etiology
  • Severity of Illness Index
  • Transition to Adult Care