-transparent.png){kind=logo}
Fifty-six children with JCA have attended the Rheumatology Clinic at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, over the past five years. Eleven have monoarthritis, 21 pauciarthritis and 24 polyarthritis. Seven children with pauciarthritis and one with monoarthritis developed ocular complications. Of these six were girls. In six children the arthritis preceded the uveitis. In one child arthritis and uveitis presented at the same time and in another the uveitis preceded the arthritis by one year. All were treated with steroids (7 topically, 1 systemically) and topical mydriatic agents. After an initial response the uveitis persisted as a low-grade inflammation gradually leading to secondary complications and increasing loss of vision. Only two patients enjoy normal vision at present. The importance of routine slit-lamp microscopy in all children with JCA is stressed, especially in those with pauciarthritis and antinuclear antibodies.
P Galea, and
B D'amato, and
K M Goel
January 1990,
Scandinavian journal of rheumatology,
P Galea, and
B D'amato, and
K M Goel
January 1996,
Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie,
P Galea, and
B D'amato, and
K M Goel
January 1991,
Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Medica,
P Galea, and
B D'amato, and
K M Goel
February 1996,
Anales espanoles de pediatria,
P Galea, and
B D'amato, and
K M Goel
September 1991,
Annals of the rheumatic diseases,
P Galea, and
B D'amato, and
K M Goel
March 1981,
Klinische Padiatrie,
P Galea, and
B D'amato, and
K M Goel
January 1994,
Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Medica,
P Galea, and
B D'amato, and
K M Goel
January 1982,
Klinische Padiatrie,
P Galea, and
B D'amato, and
K M Goel
March 1986,
Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde : Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Kinderheilkunde,
P Galea, and
B D'amato, and
K M Goel
January 2008,
Nigerian journal of medicine : journal of the National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria,
