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Clinically, a cachectic and stunted boy, weight and height SD scores were -5,05 and -3,65 respectively. He had fever, anaemia, splenomegaly and polyartrhitis. There was complete immobility and severe pain of his lumbar spine. Xrays revealed compression fractures of all lumbar vertebrae. Bone mass densitometry confirmed severe osteoporosis (Z-score -4.5 SD). ESR: 33, Hb: 7.4 g/dl, CRP 112 mg/dl.

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  • 15th Paediatric Rheumatology European Society (PreS) Congress Wietse Kuis, Patricia Woo, Angelo Ravelli, Hermann Girschick, Michaël Hofer, Johannes Roth, Rotraud K Saurenmann, Alberto Martini, Pavla Dolezova, Janjaap van der Net, Pierre Quartier, Lucy Wedderburn and Jan Scott Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here.

  • IL1 receptor antagonism was associated with an important change of body (page number not for citation purposes)

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A phenotypic shift after initiation of IL-1 receptor blockade in a boy with systemic juvenile arthritis. Address: University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium * Corresponding author from 15th Paediatric Rheumatology European Society (PreS) Congress London, UK. Published: 15 September 2008 Pediatric Rheumatology 2008, 6(Suppl 1):P31 doi:10.1186/1546-0096-6-S1-P31. 15th Paediatric Rheumatology European Society (PreS) Congress Wietse Kuis, Patricia Woo, Angelo Ravelli, Hermann Girschick, Michaël Hofer, Johannes Roth, Rotraud K Saurenmann, Alberto Martini, Pavla Dolezova, Janjaap van der Net, Pierre Quartier, Lucy Wedderburn and Jan Scott Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here.

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