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Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome: an update on diagnosis and treatment response.
Current allergy and asthma reports - 1 Feb 2011
Yu Justin R, Leslie Kieron S
Abstract excerpt
Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome (CAPS) is a rare hereditary inflammatory disorder encompassing a continuum of three phenotypes: familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome, Muckle-Wells syndrome, and neonatal-onset multisystem inflammatory disease. Distinguishing features include cutaneous, neurological, ophthalmologic, and rheumatologic manifestations. CAPS results from a gain-of-function mutation of the...
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