Practice and consensus-based strategies in diagnosing and managing systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis in Germany

• Main Authors: Claas H. Hinze (Author), Dirk Holzinger (Author), Elke Lainka (Author), Johannes-Peter Haas (Author), Fabian Speth (Author), Tilmann Kallinich (Author), Nikolaus Rieber (Author), Markus Hufnagel (Author), Annette F. Jansson (Author), Christian Hedrich (Author), Hanna Winowski (Author), Thomas Berger (Author), Ivan Foeldvari (Author), Gerd Ganser (Author), Anton Hospach (Author), Hans-Iko Huppertz (Author), Kirsten Mönkemöller (Author), Ulrich Neudorf (Author), Elisabeth Weißbarth-Riedel (Author), Helmut Wittkowski (Author), Gerd Horneff (Author), Dirk Foell (Author), PRO-KIND SJIA project collaborators (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (SJIA) is an autoinflammatory disease associated with chronic arthritis. Early diagnosis and effective therapy of SJIA is desirable, so that complications are avoided. The PRO-KIND initiative of the German Society for Pediatric Rheumatology...