Michael J Holland, Michael W Beresford, Brian M Feldman, Jennifer Huggins, Ximena Norambuena, Clovis A Silva, Gordana Susic, Flavio Sztajnbok, Yosef Uziel, Simone Appenzeller, Stacy P Ardoin, Tadej Avcin, Francisco Flores, Beatrice Goilav, Raju Khubchandani, Marissa Klein-Gitelman, Deborah Levy, Angelo Ravelli, Scott E Wenderfer, Jun Ying, Nicolino Ruperto, Hermine I Brunner
OBJECTIVES: To describe the frequency and types of disease damage occurring with childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (cSLE) as measured by the 41-item Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics/American College of Rheumatology Damage Index (SDI), and to assess the SDI's ability to reflect damage severity. METHODS: Information for the SDI was prospectively collected from 1,048 cSLE patients. For a subset of 559 patients physician-rated damage severity measured by visual analog scale (MD-VASdamage ) was also available...
February 6, 2018: Arthritis Care & Research