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Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes: diagnosis and management.
Paediatric drugs - 1 Apr 2012
Miyamae Takako
Abstract excerpt
Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes (CAPS) are a group of rare autoinflammatory disorders; many cases of CAPS are caused by mutations in the NLRP3 gene. In these conditions, interleukin (IL)-1 is overproduced, and this overproduction plays a major role in disease onset and progression. CAPS include three variants, ranging in order of increasing severity from familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome, previously...
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