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Balu H. Athreya
Researcher at Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
Publications - 13
Citations - 1474
Balu H. Athreya is an academic researcher from Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children. The author has contributed to research in topics: Morphea & Prolactin. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 13 publications receiving 1371 citations. Previous affiliations of Balu H. Athreya include Dupont Hospital & Nemours Foundation.
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Juvenile localized scleroderma: clinical and epidemiological features in 750 children. An international study
Francesco Zulian,Balu H. Athreya,Ronald M. Laxer,A. M. Nelson,S. K. Feitosa de Oliveira,Marilynn Punaro,Ruben Cuttica,Gloria C. Higgins,L.W.A. van Suijlekom-Smit,Terry L. Moore,Carol B. Lindsley,Julia Garcia-Consuegra,M. O. Esteves Hilário,Loredana Lepore,Clovis A. Silva,Célia Machado,Stella Garay,Yosef Uziel,Giorgia Martini,Ivan Foeldvari,A. Peserico,P Woo,John I. Harper +22 more
TL;DR: The insidious onset of the disease, the delay in diagnosis, the recognition of mixed subtype and the better definition of the other subtypes should influence the efforts in educating trainees and practitioners and help in developing a comprehensive classification system for this syndrome.
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Localized scleroderma in childhood is not just a skin disease.
Francesco Zulian,Cristina Vallongo,Patricia Woo,Ricardo Russo,Nicolino Ruperto,John I. Harper,Graciela Espada,Fabrizia Corona,Mukamel M,Richard Vesely,Elzbieta Musiej-Nowakowska,Jeff Chaitow,Joan Ros,Maria Teresa Apaz,Valeria Gerloni,Henryka Mazur-Zielinska,Susan Nielsen,Susanne Ullman,Gerd Horneff,Carine Wouters,Giorgia Martini,Rolando Cimaz,Ronald M. Laxer,Balu H. Athreya +23 more
TL;DR: In patients with extracutaneous involvement, the prevalence of antinuclear antibodies and rheumatoid factor was significantly higher than that among patients with only skin involvement, however, Scl-70 and anticentromere, markers of SSc, were not significantly increased.
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Systemic sclerosis in childhood: clinical and immunologic features of 153 patients in an international database.
Giorgia Martini,Ivan Foeldvari,Ricardo Russo,Ruben Cuttica,Anne Eberhard,Angelo Ravelli,Thomas J. A. Lehman,Sheila Knupp Feitosa de Oliveira,Gordana Susic,Galina Lyskina,Dana Nemcova,Robert P. Sundel,Fernanda Falcini,HJ Girschick,Ana Paula Lotito,Antonella Buoncompagni,Flavio Sztajnbok,Sulaiman M. Al-Mayouf,Ilonka Orbán,Clodoveo Ferri,Balu H. Athreya,Patricia Woo,Francesco Zulian +22 more
TL;DR: Juvenile SSc appears to be less severe than in adults because children have less internal organ involvement, a less specific autoantibody profile, and a better long-term outcome.
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The Pediatric Rheumatology European Society/American College of Rheumatology/European League against Rheumatism provisional classification criteria for juvenile systemic sclerosis†‡
Francesco Zulian,Patricia Woo,Balu H. Athreya,Ronald M. Laxer,Thomas A. Medsger,Thomas J. A. Lehman,Marco Matucci Cerinic,Giorgia Martini,Angelo Ravelli,Ricardo Russo,Ruben Cuttica,Sheila Knupp Feitosa de Oliveira,Christopher P. Denton,Franco Cozzi,Ivan Foeldvari,Nicolino Ruperto +15 more
TL;DR: These provisional classification criteria for juvenile SSc will help standardize the conduct of clinical research, epidemiologic and outcome studies, and therapeutic trials.
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Subset-Specific Effects of Sex Hormones and Pituitary Gonadotropins on Human Lymphocyte Proliferation in Vitro
TL;DR: Sex steroids and adenohypophyseal hormones (PRL, FSH, and LH) have subset-specific effects on T-cell activation which may influence sex-related differences in immune response.