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Table 4 Extent of disease exposure of less common pediatric rheumatic diseases and musculoskeletal syndromes during entire fellowship

From: Current pediatric rheumatology fellowship training in the United States: what fellows actually do

Diseases/Syndromes (Column A)

 

Number of patients with the corresponding disease (Column B)

 

0-5 patients

6-10 patients

11-20 patients

>20 patients

Sjogren’s syndrome

Percentage of fellows who saw the patients in each group of column -B with diseases listed in column –A

72%

23%

5%

0%

New WG (GPA)

93%

7%

0%

0%

Existing WG Diagnosis

73%

22%

5%

0%

PAN

98%

2%

0%

0%

MPA

93%

7%

0%

0%

CNS vasculitis

82%

18%

0%

0%

Behcet’s syndrome

84%

14%

2%

0%

Churg-Strauss syndrome

100%

0%

0%

0%

Other ANCA-related syndromes

84%

8%

8%

0%

APLS

69%

21%

8%

2%

Periodic Fever syndromes

85%

14%

1%

0%

CRMO

72%

26%

2%

0%

MAS

 

91%

7%

2%

0%

  1. (44 responded).
  2. Abbreviations: WG Wegener’s Granulomatosis (GPA granulomatosis with polyangiitis), PAN polyarteritis nodosa, MPA microscopic polyangiitis, CNS central nervous system, ANCA anti-neutrophilic cytoplasmic antibody, APLS antiphospholipid syndrome, CRMO chronic recurrent multicentric osteomyelitis, MAS macrophage activation syndrome.