[VEXAS syndrome : when do we have to consider it ?]

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VEXAS syndrome was recently discovered in patients who developed late in adulthood an inflammatory syndrome with fever, cytopenias, dysplastic bone marrow, cutaneous and pulmonary neutrophilic inflammation, arthritis, chondritis, or vasculitis. It is the result of an inactivating somatic mutation affecting methionine codon 41 of the UBA1 gene which encodes an ubiquitin activating enzyme (E1). Systemic...

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