Article
"Periodic fever" without fever: two cases of non-febrile TRAPS with mutations in the TNFRSF1A gene presenting with episodes of inflammation or monosymptomatic amyloidosis.
Annals of the rheumatic diseases - 1 Jul 2006
Kallinich T, Haffner D, Rudolph B, Schindler R, Canaan-Kühl S, Keitzer R, Burmester G R, Roesen-Wolff A, Roesler J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Tumour necrosis factor (TNF) receptor associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS) is caused by dominant mutations in the TNFRSF1A gene. In typical cases TRAPS begins early in childhood and is characterised by high and remittent fever over a period of 1-4 weeks or longer, accompanied by syste...
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