Treatment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis with intra-articular triamcinolone hexacetonide: Evaluation of clinical effectiveness correlated with circulating ANA and T γ/δ + and B CD5 + lymphocyte populations of synovial fluid

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 719-722

  Lepore, Loredana ^a   Del Santo, Manuela ^a   Malorgio, Cristina ^a   Presani, Gianni ^a   Perticarari, Sandra ^a   Prodan, Mario ^a   Di Leo, Grazia ^a   Leone, Valentina ^a   Tommasini, Alberto ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IRCCS BURLO GAROFOLO   (Italy)

Author keywords

ANA; Juvenile idiopathic arthritis; Local treatment; Lymphocyte subsets; Triamcinolone hexacetonide

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; STEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE HEXACETONIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; LIPOLYSIS; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; REMISSION; SLOW RELEASE FORMULATION; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT DISORDER; SYNOVIAL FLUID; T LYMPHOCYTE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; ANTIGENS, CD5; ARTHRITIS, JUVENILE RHEUMATOID; B-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; KNEE JOINT; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYNOVIAL FLUID; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

EID: 0036709133     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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