- Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders Research
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment
- Coagulation, Bradykinin, Polyphosphates, and Angioedema
- Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments
- Pharmaceutical studies and practices
- Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders
- Vasculitis and related conditions
- Glycogen Storage Diseases and Myoclonus
- Otitis Media and Relapsing Polychondritis
Universidade Federal de São Paulo
2013-2019
OBJECTIVE:To describe demographic features, disease manifestations and therapy in patients with giant cell arteritis from referral centers Brazil.METHODS: A retrospective cohort study was performed on 45 three university hospitals Brazil.Diagnoses were based the American College of Rheumatology classification criteria for or temporal artery biopsy findings.RESULTS: Most Caucasian, females slightly more predominant.The frequencies as follows: headache 82.2%, neuro-ophthalmologic 68.9%, jaw...
OBJETIVO: Sao varios os fatores que contribuem para a ma adesao ao tratamento de criancas e adolescentes com doencas reumaticas cronicas, gerando piora da qualidade vida do prognostico. Nosso objetivo foi avaliar as taxas identificar socioeconomicos clinicos associados. METODOS: Foram incluidos 99 pacientes artrite idiopatica juvenil, lupus eritematoso sistemico, dermatomiosite ou esclerodermia juvenil. Todos eram acompanhados no ambulatorio reumatologia pediatrica por um periodo minimo 6...
ABSTRACT Objective: To develop a questionnaire that allows the early detection of patients at risk for poor adherence to medical and non-medical treatment in children adolescents with chronic rheumatic diseases. Methods: The Pediatric Rheumatology Adherence Questionnaire (PRAQ) was applied recently diagnosed within period one four months after confirmation disease. After six months, patients’ assessed. An internal consistency analysis conducted eliminate redundant questions PRAQ. Results: A...
A 21-year-old man presented with a 4-year history of seizures, visual hallucinations, cognitive decline, and gait impairment. Neurologic examination revealed myoclonic jerks, ataxia, retinitis pigmentosa. Axillary skin biopsy showed Lafora bodies (figure). disease, the most common progressive epilepsy adolescent onset, is characterized by myoclonus, generalized pathognomonic inclusion polyglucosan found in cells skeletal muscle, skin, brain.1,2 Retinitis pigmentosa hereditary pigmentary...