Pulmonary fibrosis and other clinical manifestations of small vessel vasculitis in a family with seropositive juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.

We report on a family (mother, daughter, and son) suffering from progressive pulmonary fibrosis associated with deforming arthritis, sinusitis, glomerulonephritis, and cutaneous vasculitis. We suggest that these clinical features display the variable expressions of small-vessel vasculitis in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Copyright 2002 Wiley-Liss, Inc.