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m-Power® Rare Pediatric Disease Database
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Juvenile Ankylosing Spondylitis (JAS)
Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) is a disease of the immune system that causes arthritis in the spine. Because of the location of the arthritis in the spine, ankylosing spondylitis is considered under the group of diseases referred to as “spondyloarthropathies”. Ankylosing spondylitis is a disease in which inflammation occurs in the joints of the spine as well as the joints between the spine and the ...
Juvenile Dermatomyositis
Juvenile dermatomyositis is a disease that causes inflammation in the skin and muscles. (“Dermato-” refers to skin, “myo” means muscle, and “itis” indicates inflammation). The inflammation in the muscles leads to profound weakness, occasionally to the point where swallowing becomes difficult, and the inflammation in the skin leads to rash and, over time, the development of skin ulcers and calcium...
Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia (JMML)
Juvenile Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (JCML)
Leukemia, a cancer of blood cells, is subdivided into various classes including the myeloproliferative leukemias. Myeloproliferative leukemias are identified by the fact that they have an unusual amount of growth and development of the cells in the bone marrow. Monocytes are a type of blood cell that is found in bone marrow and in circulating blood where they will transform into other cell types...
Juvenile Parkinson's Disease
Autosomal Recessive Juvenile Parkinsonism
Juvenile Parkinson’s Disease is a neurological disorder that manifests as rigidity or stiffness, resting tremors, and slow movements during initiation. It is a neurodegenerative disorder, in which a specific population of neurons in the brain is progressively destroyed.
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Juvenile Polyposis Syndrome
Juvenile Polyposis Coli
Juvenile polyposis syndrome (JPS) is an inherited gastrointestinal disorder where children are predisposed to developing smooth muscle polyps (hamartomas) in the stomach, small intestine, colon, and rectum by age 20. If left untreated, the polyps can cause bleeding which leads to anemia and also the polyps may eventually transform to cancer.
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