Abstracts tagged "aphthous ulcers"

Abstract Number: 016 • 2020 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Genetic Susceptibility Loci for Periodic Fever, Aphthous Stomatitis, Pharyngitis and Cervical Adenitis (PFAPA) Syndrome
Kalpana Manthiram¹, Silvia Preite ², Fatma Dedeoglu ³, Selcan Demir ⁴, Seza Ozen ⁵, Kathryn Edwards ⁶, Sivia Lapidus ⁷, Alexander Katz ², Henry Feder ⁸, Maranda Lawton ³, Greg Licameli ³, Peter Wright ⁹, Karyl Barron ², Amanda Ombrello ², Beverly Barham ², Tina Romeo ¹⁰, Anne Jones ¹¹, Hemalatha Srinivasalu ¹², Pamela Mudd ¹², Roberta DeBiasi ¹², Ahmet Gul ¹³, Gary Marshall ¹⁴, Olcay Jones ¹⁵, Yuriy Stepanovskiy ¹⁶, Polly Ferguson ¹⁷, Pamela Schwartzberg ², Elaine Remmers ² and Daniel Kastner ¹⁸, ¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, ²National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, ³Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, ⁴Hacettepe University, Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey, ⁵Hacettepe University, Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, ⁶Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, ⁷The Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital, Hackensack Meridian Health, Maplewood, ⁸Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford, ⁹Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, ¹⁰NIH, Bethesda, ¹¹Bethesda, ¹²Children's National Medical Center, Washington, ¹³Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, ¹⁴University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, ¹⁵Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, ¹⁶Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Kiev, ¹⁷University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, ¹⁸National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda
Background/Purpose: Periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis, cervical adenitis (PFAPA) syndrome is the most common periodic fever syndrome of childhood. Although familial clustering of the disease…