Ultrasonography in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

University of Aarhus

Status: Completed

Conditions: Polyarticular Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis; Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, Oligoarthritis; Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Treatments: Device: Ultrasonography

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01304420

10439

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to analyse the usability of ultrasonography together with biomarkers in the investigation of patients diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. The investigators hypothesize that serum and urine markers of cartilage and bone synthesis and degradation, together with ultrasound measurements of joint cartilage thickness, are useful tools in the early evaluation of JIA patients, - as diagnostic, prognostic and monitoring methods.

Enrollment: 95 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 15 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Juvenile idiopathic arthritis: Oligoarticular, polyarticular or systemic onset type.
• Informed consent from parents
• between 5-15 years of age

Exclusion criteria

• Other diagnoses that involves bones or cartilage
• Intraarticular steroid injections within 1 month of the trial investigation