About this trial
To identify the most common underlying causes of non-inflammatory arthropathy in children presenting to Assiut University Children Hospital for through clinical evaluation, laboratory testing, and imaging, in order to improve diagnostic precision, guide appropriate management, and distinguish these conditions from inflammatory joint diseases.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Infants and children up to 18 years at diagnosis.
Patients presents with picture of non inflammatory arthropathy as joint deformity, stiffness and skeletal abnormality (arthropathy) with normal inflammatory markers
Disqualifiers
Patients more than 18years.
Patients presents with painful,hot, tender or red joints (Arthritis) associated with elevated inflammatory markers .
Trial population
The study will include all pediatric patients presented with non inflammatory arthropathy based on clinical manifestations, laboratory investigations and imaging up to age of 18 years in the last 3 years (retrospective) and those who will present newly through a duration of one year (preospective). They will be recruited from the inpatient and outpatient clinic of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology department at Assuit University Children's hospital.
Trial design
Cohort
Cross-sectional
Treatments tested in this trial
Not listed
Trial groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
To diagnose most common causes of non inflammatory arthropathy
To identify the most common underlying causes of non-inflammatory arthropathy in children presenting to Assiut University Children Hospital for through clinical evaluation, laboratory testing, and imaging, in order to improve diagnostic precision, guide appropriate management, and distinguish these conditions from inflammatory joint diseases
Secondary outcomes
To avoid misdiagnosis as inflammatory arthropathy
To Avoid use of unnecessary treatment in patients with non inflammatory arthropathy who wrongly diagnosed as inflammatory arthropathy
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