Pediatric Rheumatology

The UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital Pediatric Rheumatology team provides consultative care and advanced therapies for children and adolescents with a wide array of rheumatologic and musculoskeletal disorders.

Our expertise is in:

• Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
• Sjogren's syndrome
• Juvenile spondyloarthropathies
• Juvenile ankylosing spondylitis
• Arthritis associated with inflammatory bowel disease
• Psoriatic arthritis
• Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
• Mixed connective tissue disease
• Undifferentiated connective tissue disease
• Raynauds
• Positive autoantibodies
• Dermatomyositis
• Polymyositis
• Morphea
• Linear scleroderma
• Diffuse cutaneous and diffuse systemic scleroderma
• Autoimmune hearing loss
• Autoimmune lung disease
• Autoimmune eye disease such as uveitis, scleritis, retinitis
• Serum sickness
• Vasculitis
• Behcet's
• Henoch Schonlein Purpura
• Kawasaki disease
• Granulomatosis with polyarteritis (GPA, formerly Wegener's)
• Polyarteritis nodosa
• Takyasu vasculitis
• Autoinflammatory diseases such as chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO), synovitis acne pustulosis hyperostosis and osteitis (SAPHO) syndrome
• Familial mediterranean fever and periodic fever syndromes (CAPS, HIDS, TRAPS, PFAPA)
• Pain amplification
• Fibromyalgia