Collagen Vascular Flashcards
Criteria for Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
- onset at less than 16 years
- arthritis in at least one joint
- symptoms at least 6 weeks
- paicuarticular, polyarticular or systemic disease in first 6 months
- exclusion of other disease
Pauciartciular JRA
- less than 4 joints of the lower extremities; no hip
- positive ANA, chronic anterior uveitis
Polyarticular JRA
- 5+ joints
- usually hand and wrist involvement
- rheum nodules
- cervical and hip
Systemic JRA
- daily spiking fevers
- salmon polymorphous rash
- serosistis
- will have pauci or polyarticular disease
- may have negative sserology
Best Screening Test SLE
ANA
Most specific SLE test
Anti-smith
How to measure disease activity in SLE
anti-ds-DNA
Marker for lupus cerebritis
anti-ribsomal P
Antibodies found in neonatal SLE
anti-ro SSA or anti-La SSB due to maternal IgG crossing placenta
What is a lupus anticoagulant reflective of? What may it give a false positive for?
- assd wtih APL antibodies and DVT
- false positive for syphilis
- can icnrease PTT
Complement SLE
-decreased CH50, C3, and C4
What finding in neonatal SLE typically doesnt resolve?
heart block (prologned PR to third degree)
Presentation Junveile Ankylosing Spondylitis
- males
- arhtitis usually in leg joints plus enthesitis (tendons, ligaments, fascia)
- lateral skeletal joint like sacroiliac
- anteriori uveitis, aortic regurge, atlanto axial subluxation
Labs Juvenile ankylosing spony
- negative ANA and RF
- positive HLA B27
Positive ANA with speckled pattern means…
dermatomyositis (female, age 7)