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Expanding spectrum of TNFRSF1A gene mutations among patients with idiopathic recurrent acute pericarditis.
Internal medicine journal - 1 Jun 2013
Cantarini L, Lucherini O M, Vitale A, Sabadini L, Brizi M G, Frediani B, Muscari I, Galeazzi M
Abstract excerpt
Although idiopathic recurrent acute pericarditis (IRAP) is generally presumed to derive from an autoimmune process, increasing interest is currently being devoted to autoinflammatory diseases, a group of disorders of the innate immune system caused by mutations of genes involved in the regulation or activation of the inflammatory response, without any apparent involvement of autoimmunity. The tumour necrosis...
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