Early diagnosis of pediatric rheumatic diseases with focus on noninvasive markers

2

Early diagnosis and treatment are avenues to better outcomes in routine pediatric rheumatology clinical practice. Criteria for early diagnosis of systemic sclerosis or systemic lupus erythematosus have been recently approved for routine clinical practice in adult rheumatology. They represent useful tools also for pediatric patients. Students will work with pediatric rheumatology patients (i.e. systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis, vasculitides), and will be involved in clinical assessment and laboratory data analysis, looking for clinical findings/laboratory biomarkers of early diseases, analysing potential predictors of severe disease course, including non-invasive biomarkers.