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A Case Presenting with the Clinical Characteristics of Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) Receptor-associated Periodic Syndrome (TRAPS) without TNFRSF1A Mutations Successfully Treated with Tocilizumab.
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Jan 2015
Hosoya Tadashi, Mizoguchi Fumitaka, Hasegawa Hisanori, Miura Keiko, Koike Ryuji, Kubota Tetsuo, Miyasaka Nobuyuki, Kohsaka Hitoshi
Abstract excerpt
A 30-year-old woman had suffered from recurrent and self-limiting fevers since childhood. Although she had no mutations in the exons or introns of the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) receptor superfamily member 1A gene, her clinical characteristics were consistent with those of TNF receptor-associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS). She did not respond to treatment with etanercept, although tocilizumab therapy was...
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