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A variant Muckle-Wells syndrome with a novel mutation in CIAS1 gene responding to anakinra.
Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) - 1 Sept 2007
Dalgic Buket, Egritas Odul, Sari Sinan, Cuisset Laurence
Abstract excerpt
Muckle-Wells syndrome (MWS) is a subset of autoinflammatory diseases. It is characterized by recurrent inflammatory crises associated with fever, abdominal pain, persistent urticaria, arthralgia, sensorineural deafness, and possible development of multiorgan amyloid A protein (AA)-type amyloidosis. Mutations in the CIAS1 gene have been reported in MWS. Interleukin 1B (IL-1B) probably plays a major role in the...
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