Pediatric Rheumatology
Pediatric rheumatologists are physicians who have specialized training in the treatment of children and adolescents with autoinflammatory and autoimmune diseases that arise during childhood. These diseases, which can result in significant disability, often require ongoing management to preserve function and minimize medical issues. In collaboration with subspecialties in other relevant areas, we provide comprehensive care to these patients and their families.
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Our specialists evaluate, manage, and assist children and adolescents with:
General conditions
- Prolonged fever
- Musculoskeletal pain
- Undefined autoimmune disease
Various forms of childhood onset arthritis
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)
- Reactive arthritis
- Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) related arthritis
- Infection/postinfectious related arthritis
Various forms of autoimmune related vasculitis
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)
- ANCA associated vasculitis (AAV)
- Behcet’s syndrome
- Takayasu’s arteritis
- Hypocomplementemic vasculitis
- Hypersensitivity vasculitis
- Postinfectious vasculitis
- Central nervous system (CNS) vasculitis
Connective tissue diseases
- Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
- Juvenile dermatomyositis (JMD)
- Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD)
- Scleroderma
- Sjogren’s syndrome
- Antiphospholipid syndrome
Other inflammatory diseases of childhood
- Autoinflammatory and periodic fevers
- Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis
- Relapsing polychondritis
- Sarcoidosis
Other pediatric rheumatology concerns
- Acute rheumatic fever
- Complex autoimmune thrombocytopenia
- Complex regional pain syndrome
- Erythromelalgia
- Growing pains
- Henoch-Schonlein purpura
- Hypermobility
- Immune suppression
- Kawasaki disease
- Osteoarthritis
- Pain syndromes
- Raynaud phenomenon
- Secondary autoimmune hemolytic anemia
- Serum sickness
- Uveitis
