[The current clinical and diagnostic aspects of juvenile ankylosing spondylarthritis]. / Sovremennye aspekty kliniki i diagnostiki iuvenil'nogo ankiloziruiushchego spondiloartrita.

ABSTRACT

The examination was performed of 700 children with juvenile arthritis diverse in nosology. Juvenile ankylosing spondylarthritis (JSA) was diagnosed in 60 patients. In 31 of them the diagnosis was accurate, 29 patients were suspected of having JSA by Garmisch-Partenkirchen criteria. 95% of the examinees were newly diagnosed. The study demonstrated polymorphism of clinical symptoms, variability of JSA course, articular syndrome characteristics, those of extraarticular manifestations, and the axial lesion.