Alessandro Cafarotti, Maria Loredana Marcovecchio, Giuseppe Lapergola, Caterina Di Battista, Manuela Marsili, Raffaella Basilico, Giulia Di Donato, Daniela David, Piernicola Pelliccia, Francesco Chiarelli, Luciana Breda
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a common pediatric rheumatic disease. Renal manifestations have been rarely observed in JIA, although amyloidosis could be a renal complication in systemic JIA (sJIA). To investigate renal damage in JIA children and to establish the relationship with treatment. Blood urea nitrogen (BUN), creatinine, cystatin C (CysC), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), C-reactive protein (CRP), urinary albumin excretion (UAE), estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), and renal resistive index (RRI) were assessed in 49 JIA children (9 boys/40 girls, mean age 10...
September 21, 2022: Clinical and Experimental Medicine