SAVI, The New Autoinflammatory Kid on The Block
. The latest autoinflammatory disease is called STING-associated vasculopathy with onset in infancy, or SAVI.
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Measuring Autoinflammatory Disease Activity
Measuring disease activity–how active the disease is and how severely the patient is affected–has been quite difficult to do in autoinflammatory diseases.
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The Microbiome in Autoinflammatory Disease: A Missing Link?
We are not alone. Right now, there are over 500 species of bacteria living in your mouth. Each part of your gut (stomach, small intestine, large intestine) provides a home to 1000 unique bacterial species.
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Autoinflammatory vs. Autoimmune….What’s The Difference?
Autoinflammatory diseases are a newly described set of illnesses that cause systemic inflammation due to problems in the innate immune system. The innate immune system includes several types of white blood cells, such as neutrophils, macrophages, and natural killer cells.
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It’s In Your Genes, Or Is It? The Genetics Of Autoinflammatory Diseases
Autoinflammatory diseases have a variety of causes. Some are clearly genetic–they are caused by single mutations in specific genes.
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301 Patients With PFAPA–What Do They Look Like?
This month, an interesting article about PFAPA appeared in the journal Rheumatology. PFAPA (periodic fevers, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis, and adenitis) is an autoinflammatory disease that affects children. It is manifested by episodes of fevers lasting a few days, in addition to the features that make up the name of the disease. Unlike other autoinflammatory diseases, episodes
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What The Heck Is Rheumatology?
When I meet someone for the first time and tell them that I’m a rheumatologist, I usually get blank stares, as if I had spoken to them in a foreign language.
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Today Is Rare Disease Day!
On this significant occasion of Rare Disease Day, we turn our attention to autoinflammatory diseases, a group of rare and often misunderstood medical conditions. Autoinflammatory diseases are a subset of rare diseases that involve the malfunctioning of the innate immune system, leading to chronic inflammation throughout the body. They are characterized by recurrent episodes of
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What The Heck Is A Connective Tissue Disease?
This week, I was called to evaluate a young man with several aneurysms (ballooning of his blood vessels) and a dilated (widened) aorta.
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What The Heck Are Autoinflammatory Diseases?
Autoinflammatory diseases are a relatively new category of illnesses caused by disorders of one arm of the immune system. Many of these diseases are characterized by recurrent fevers,
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