title: Coexisting Juvenile Dermatomyositis and Sickle Cell Disease: Maintaining a High Degree of Suspicion.
abstract: Juvenile dermatomyositis is an idiopathic inflammatory myopathy of childhood not previously described in a patient with sickle cell disease. We present a case of an 11-year-old girl with sickle cell disease who was diagnosed subsequently with juvenile dermatomyositis, and highlight the diagnostic and therapeutic challenges of these concurrent chronic diseases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Nemours/A.I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE. Electronic address: fraint@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Ellen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fraint
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Nemours/A.I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE; Division of Rheumatology, Nemours Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, Wilmington, DE.
authors.forename: Maureen
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Leffler
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Nemours/A.I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE; Nemours Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, Wilmington, DE.
authors.forename: Corinna L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Schultz
mesh_terms: D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D003882:Dermatomyositis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans
keywords: hematology; pain; rheumatology; weakness