Pediatric Rheumatology

Why choose UCLA Health for pediatric rheumatology?

皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校健康儿科风湿病学家提供全面的护理儿童和青少年的条件，影响骨骼, joints, muscles and connective tissues. When you come to us, you’ll find:

Child-focused expertise: 我们治疗患有许多不同类型的风湿病和肌肉骨骼疾病的孩子. 我们的儿科专家了解这些疾病如何影响儿童的生长发育. 我们的目标是通过提供治疗和治疗来优化他们的健康，这些治疗和治疗可以改变他们现在和成年后的生活.

Team approach: 我们的风湿病专家与皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校健康中心的专家协调您孩子的护理. We work closely with pediatric experts in other departments, including nephrology, 骨科和皮肤科，以确保您的孩子得到个性化的支持，他们应得的.

Convenient, accessible clinics: 除了照顾我们在韦斯特伍德和圣莫尼卡的病人, our doctors travel to several outreach clinics across the region. 我们坚信，让您尽可能轻松地获得皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校健康中心所期望的卓越护理.

Specialty care: 我们的团队为患有幼年关节炎的儿童提供高度专业化的护理, lupus and other autoimmune disorders. 儿科风湿病学家和其他专家共同努力，提供量身定制的治疗和支持，帮助孩子们感觉更好. Focused care allows us to deliver more effective treatments.

Our areas of care

At UCLA Health, 我们专门帮助有肌肉问题的孩子, bones, joints and connective tissues. Our areas of care include:

Juvenile arthritis

At the Pediatric Arthritis Clinic at UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, rheumatologists work with pediatric specialists from dermatology, ophthalmology and immunology. We are dedicated to meeting the individual needs of each child. Using a team approach, we evaluate, diagnose, manage and treat all types of childhood arthritis, including juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA).

我们的专家与您的家人和其他专家密切合作，为您的孩子制定一个专门的治疗计划. 我们现在专注于帮助您的孩子减轻疼痛，提高活动能力, while preventing joint damage as your child grows. 我们的全人方法考虑到每个孩子的生活方式和营养, appropriate physical activity and emotional well-being.

Systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) in children

As experts in treating lupus in children, 我们的多专业团队有资格解决由这种自身免疫性疾病引起的许多健康问题. 我们在皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校美泰儿童医院的儿童狼疮诊所的团队包括风湿病学和肾病学的儿科专家. Through this unique combination of specialties, we deliver compassionate care, groundbreaking treatments and support.

我们的专家与您和您的孩子密切合作，提供有效的临床治疗和预防性护理. 我们帮助您和您的孩子避免可能导致狼疮发作的诱因. 我们会制定一个切实可行的计划，降低您孩子未来器官受损的风险, joints and tissues in the body.

Rheumatologic conditions we treat

At UCLA Health, 我们的团队拥有诊断和治疗儿童最复杂的风湿病和肌肉骨骼疾病的经验. We treat chronic pain disorders such as fibromyalgia, which causes fatigue, depression, sleep problems and headaches. Our team also specializes in:

Autoimmune disorders

Several autoimmune disorders can cause pain, inflammation and a wide range of health problems in kids. 当身体错误地攻击自己的健康组织时，就会发生自身免疫性疾病, including the bones, joints, skin and organs. These disorders can appear in children and adolescents. We treat:

Connective tissue disorders, which cause problems with the tissues that connect all parts of the body, such as ligaments, tendons, skin, cartilage, blood vessels and some parts of the eye

Dermatomyositis, which causes a skin rash with red bumps and leads to muscle weakness

Juvenile ankylosing spondylitis, 一种影响儿童脊柱和软组织与骨骼连接部位的关节炎

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), also known as juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), which causes swelling in the joints and can lead to joint damage

Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD), a combination of scleroderma, lupus, dermatomyositis and arthritis

Psoriatic arthritis, which affects people who have psoriasis (a disorder that causes red, scaly patches of skin), causing joint pain and inflammation

Scleroderma, several diseases that cause the skin to become hard and tight, and can also cause problems in the organs and blood vessels

Sjogren's syndrome, which causes problems with tear and saliva production

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), 一种自身免疫性疾病，可以影响骨骼、皮肤、大脑和其他器官

Complications from autoimmune disease, 包括听力损失、肺病、炎症性肠病(IBD)和眼睛问题

Inflammatory disorders

炎症性疾病会导致身体几乎所有部位的肿胀. We have experience treating children with:

Autoinflammatory diseases, 例如慢性复发性多灶性骨髓炎(CRMO)，它会导致骨骼炎症和疼痛

Behcet’s disease (vasculitis), 哪一种会引起血管肿胀，影响血管壁和器官

Familial Mediterranean fever, 一种引起胸部和关节反复发烧和炎症的疾病

Henoch-Schönlein purpura, 引起皮肤小血管出血和发炎的一种状况, organs and joints

Kawasaki disease, 血管炎症，如果不治疗会导致严重的心脏问题

Treatments we offer

The disorders we treat affect children in different ways, 我们治疗了许多患有多种疾病或症状重叠的儿童. That’s why each treatment plan we create is based on your child’s age, symptoms, health, lifestyle and goals.

您的孩子接受个性化的，全面的护理，从整个团队的儿科专家. 我们的专家热衷于团队合作，以满足每个孩子的独特需求. Your care team may recommend:

Emotional health care: 我们富有同情心的团队会考虑您孩子的身心健康. 我们知道，身体上的挑战有时会导致情绪困扰. 我们采用全儿童的方法，提供咨询、治疗、支持和心理护理. We are here to guide you and your child on the path to better health.

Exercise and activity plans: With rheumatological and musculoskeletal disorders, physical activity is an essential part of staying as healthy as possible. 我们的团队会为您量身定制合适的锻炼和活动计划，帮助您的孩子最大限度地发挥他们的潜力.

Medications: Your child may benefit from medications that reduce inflammation and pain, suppress the immune system or manage depression and anxiety. 我们仔细推荐每种药物，并与您一起调整计划，如果您的孩子的需求发生变化.

Nutritional guidance: 注册营养师与你的孩子和你的整个家庭一起工作，推荐适合你生活的饮食计划. We may recommend vitamins, 补充剂或饮食改变可以帮助你的孩子获得他们需要的营养.

Physical therapy (PT) and occupational therapy (OT): UCLA Health pediatric PTs and OTs deliver customized therapies. We help your child move without pain, 提高肌肉力量和活动能力，或更有效地处理日常任务.

Meet our team

我们的团队包括在影响骨骼的各种疾病方面具有专业知识的儿科风湿病学家, joints, muscles and connective tissues. We work closely with experts in nephrology, dermatology, ophthalmology and other specialties to address the needs of each child.

Contact us

Call 310-825-0867 to connect with a UCLA Health expert in pediatric rheumatology.