Table 3.
Criteria for inactive disease and clinical remission in juvenile idiopathic arthritisa
| Criteria |
| No active synovitis |
| No fever, rash, serositis, splenomegaly, or generalized lymphadenopathy attributable to juvenile idiopathic arthritis |
| No active uveitis |
| Normal erythrocyte sedimentation rate and/or C-reactive protein |
| Physician's global assessment of disease activity indicates no active disease |
| Inactive disease |
| Requires that the patient satisfy all of the above criteria |
| Clinical remission on medication |
| Six continuous months of inactive disease on medication |
| Clinical remission off of medication |
| 12 continuous months of inactive disease off all anti-arthritis and anti-uveitis medications |
aApplies to oligoarticular, polyarticular (rheumatoid factor-negative, rheumatoid factor-positive) and systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis at this time.
Table reproduced with permission from Ringold S, Wallace CA: Measuring clinical response and remission in juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Curr Opin Rheumatol 2007, 19:471–476 [9]. Data from Wallace and collegues [52].