Autoinflammatory diseases are a group of rare and complex disorders that have puzzled scientists and medical professionals for decades. These conditions are characterized by dysregulation
Trying to differentiate between the many (and ever-growing in number) autoinflammatory diseases is difficult. They share many clinical features, such as fever, abdominal pain, and elevation in inflammatory markers.
For the next five days,14,000 rheumatologists will be visiting Boston for the Annual Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology. With talks scheduled from 7am to 6pm, you may have little time to visit the city
When I was little, I used to get a lot of fevers. With my fevers, I would develop pain in one or both of my ears, and I felt so drained that I just wanted to be left alone to watch TV (or play Atari).
. The latest autoinflammatory disease is called STING-associated vasculopathy with onset in infancy, or SAVI.
Measuring disease activity–how active the disease is and how severely the patient is affected–has been quite difficult to do in autoinflammatory diseases.
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.
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.
Autoinflammatory diseases have a variety of causes. Some are clearly genetic–they are caused by single mutations in specific genes.
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
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Jonathan S. Hausmann, MD
