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Treatment of Growth Failure in Juvenile Chronic Arthritis
1 Jan 2002
Abstract excerpt
We retrospectively assessed linear growth and final height in a group of 24 patients suffering from juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) during childhood, receiving steroid therapy. In these patients, a significant loss of height (-2.7 +/- 1.5 SDS) occurred in the first years of the disease which was positively correlated with prednisone therapy duration. After remission of the disease and prednisone...
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