Thalidomide therapy for recalcitrant systemic onset juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Systemic onset juvenile rheumatoid arthritis unresponsive to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may be controlled with corticosteroids, but these drugs have significant side effects. We report 2 steroid-dependent children with systemic onset juvenile rheumatoid arthritis who did not respond to multiple nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, methotrexate, azathioprine, cyclosporine, and etanercept. Both children had significant improvement with thalidomide therapy.

publication date

  • January 1, 2002

Research

keywords

  • Arthritis, Juvenile
  • Thalidomide

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0036161691

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1067/mpd.2002.120835

PubMed ID

  • 11815776

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 140

issue

  • 1