Article
Evidence for genetic overlap between adult onset Still's disease and hereditary periodic fever syndromes.
Rheumatology international - 1 Jan 2018
Sighart R, Rech J, Hueber A, Blank N, Löhr S, Reis A, Sticht H, Hüffmeier U
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Adult onset Still's disease (AOSD) is a severe, autoimmune disease that can be challenging to treat with conventional therapeutics and biologicals in a considerable number of cases. Therefore, there is a high need to understand its pathogenesis better. As major clinical symptoms overlap between AOSD and hereditary periodic fever syndromes (HPFS), we analysed four known HPFS genes in AOSD. METHODS: We...
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