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juvenile chronic polyarthritis, jra, still's disease, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, jra, chronic disease resulting in joint pain, inflammation, joint damage, occurs, age 16, jra, chronic inflammatory arthritis in children, occurs in 50-100 per 100,000 children, jra, general term, the most common types of arthritis in children, divided into several categories, systemic jra, form, occurs in, 10% of cases, involves joint pain, swelling, fevers, rash, similar to adult still's disease, form of jra, polyarticular jra, form occurs in, 40% of cases, involves multiple joints, painful, swollen, form of jra, children, positive rheumatoid factor, evolve into rheumatoid arthritis, pauciarticular jra, form occurs in, 50% of cases, involves only a few joints, of these children, in particular boys, hla-b27 positive, families, hla-b27, at increased risk, arthritis, arthritis symptoms, joint stiffness on arising, limited range of motion, slow rate of growth, unarm, leg growth, hot, swollen, painful joints, a child my stop using an affected limb, back pain, systemic jra symptoms, fever, high fevers every day, rash that comes, goes, the fever, swollen lymph nodes, glands, jra, cause eye inflammation, red eyes, eye pain, photophobia, increased pain, looking at a light, visual changes, physical examination shows swollen, warm, tender joints that hurt to move, child, rash, signs include an enlarged liver, enlarged spleen, swollen lymph nodes, blood tests, cbc, esr, sedimentation rate, ana, ra factor, hla antigens, hla b27, tap a joint, that they, put a small needle into a joint that is swollen, help to find the cause, the arthritis, by removing fluid, joint, feel better, too, inject steroids, joint to help decrease the swelling, tests, x-ray of a joint, x-ray, the chest, ecg, eye exam, ophthomologist, goal, preserve mobility, joint function, support the patient, family, a long chronic illness, therapeutic medications, nonsteroidal antiinflammatory agents, nsaids, corticosteroids, topical ophthalmic corticosteroids, hydroxychloroquine, immune suppressing agents, methotrexate, new biologic medications, infliximab, etanercept, talk to health care provider, giving aspirin, nsaids to children, physical therapy, exercise programs recommended, surgical procedures indicated, joint replacement, jra is seldom life-threatening, long periods of spontaneous remission, typical, jra improves, goes into remission at puberty, 75% of jra patients eventually enter remission, minimal functional loss, deformity, arthritis support group, total joint destruction, the major weight-bearing joints, loss of vision, decreased vision, chronic spondyloarthropathy, back stiffness, symptoms of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, symptoms worsen, not improve, new symptoms develop, no known prevention, jra.