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- Title
BENIGN JOINT HYPERMOBILITY SYNDROME.
- Authors
Covaci, Sigrid; Farkas, Oana-Maria; Cochino, Alexis-Virgil
- Abstract
Musculoskeletal pain is the most common cause of presentation in rheumatology service. Most frequent causes of joint pain are noninflammatory conditions, with benign joint hypermobility syndrome (BJHS) being one of them. BJHS is not an actual disease but an inherited variation of normal. Some clinical features of this syndrome can lead to confusion with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) and therefore to unjustified treatment, which makes its recognition mandatory. A case of BJHS in a 11-year-old girl is presented; the patient was initially diagnosed as JIA and received immunosuppressive treatment for 2 years.
- Subjects
TREATMENT of musculoskeletal system diseases; RHEUMATOLOGY; JOINT hypermobility; JUVENILE idiopathic arthritis; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE agents
- Publication
Romanian Journal of Rheumatology / Revista Romana de Reumatologie, 2017, Vol 26, Issue 1, p38
- ISSN
1843-0791
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.37897/rjr.2017.1.7