Childhood Lupus cohort study
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Autoimmunitysystemic lupus erythematosus10003816
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 250
Inclusion Criteria
All children from 0-18 years old, with the diagnosis of SLE, fulfilling
Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) criteria
Exclusion Criteria
- Refusal to participate in the study
- Insufficient knowledge of the Dutch language
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational non invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>This is a non-interventional, observational cohort study, in which we aim to<br /><br>standardize the assessment of disease activity in all cSLE patients at baseline<br /><br>visit, during regular outpatient visits and disease flares.<br /><br>For the NP-SLE part of the study: clinical phenotype, MRI abnormalities, EEG<br /><br>patterns, autoantibodies in serum and CSF.</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>- To determine response to treatment<br /><br>- To register adverse events during treatment<br /><br>- To develop prognostic factors by RNA-, DNA-, protein profiling and nailfold<br /><br>videocapillaroscopy for monitoring and predicting disease activity, response to<br /><br>treatment and disease flares</p><br>