Research Article

The Pattern of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in a Single Tertiary Center in Saudi Arabia

Table 5

Pharmacologic therapy used in JIA patients.

ā€‰Oligo.
JIA = 23
Poly. RF-neg. = 20Poly. RF-Pos. = 4SoJIA = 30ERA = 1Psoriatic = 4Total = 82 (%)

NSAIDs alone6200109 (10.97)
NSAIDs, AC 4200006 (7.31)
NSAIDs, IAC, MTX3010004 (4.87)
NSAIDs, steroids1005006 (7.31)
NSAIDs, MTX50130312 (14.63)
NSAIDs, MTX, steroids06070114 (17)
NSAIDs, MTX, biologics1511008 (9.75)
NSAIDs, MTX, biologics, steroids240130019 (23.17)
NSAIADs, MTX, biologics, IAC1111004 (4.87)
Joint surgery1110003 (3.65)

NSAIDs: Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, IAC: intra-articular corticosteroids, and MTX: methotrexate.