Etanercept treatment improves longitudinal growth in prepubertal children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. - Concepedia

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Etanercept treatment improves longitudinal growth in prepubertal children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

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2007

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Paola Fernández Vojvodich, Jes B. Hansen, Lars Sävendahl, Stefan Hagelberg

Abstract

TNF inhibition with etanercept improved growth in a majority of patients with JIA. Our data demonstrate that growth improvement with etanercept was independent of the pubertal growth spurt.