Recently, a group of Canadian pediatric rheumatologists, pediatric ophthalmologists and patients and parents have been working together to develop standardized approaches for monitoring and treating children with uveitis associated with JIA.  It was felt important to develop standardized approaches because there is some variability in how children with JIA uveitis are managed. The specific [...]

This is an excellent question and one which has been addressed by the committees in Canada and the United States which are developing standardized guidelines for treatment. The answer about the duration of Pred Forte treatment, which is steroid drop treatment, depends somewhat on the severity of the uveitis, the dose of the Pred [...]

At the present time we can make decisions about treatments based on experiences from large groups of patients with similar conditions.  However, the conclusions we make about the diseases and the treatments from studying the group as a whole do not always precisely apply to individual patients within the group; there is considerable variable [...]