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Rheumatoid factor is not usually present. Also associated with chronic anterior uveitis and decreased growth rates, and 30%–50% of patients develop hemophagocytic syndrome, in which macrophages begin digesting RBCs (cause of this patient’s low hematocrit)TX: NSAID’s, corticosteroids, methotrexate, intravenous immune globulin, and newer biologic drugs such as etanercept, which acts as decoy receptor for tumor necrosis factor. In adults, systemic JIA is also known as Still disease.