Abstracts tagged "CAPS"

Abstract Number: 0191 • ACR Convergence 2021
Influence of Canakinumab Dosing on Long-term Efficacy and Safety in Patients with Cryopyrin-associated Periodic Syndromes (CAPS) – 30-months Interim Analysis of the RELIANCE Registry
Jasmin Kuemmerle-Deschner¹, Birgit Kortus-Goetze², Prasad T. Oommen³, Aleš Janda⁴, Juergen Rech⁵, Tilmann Kallinich⁶, Frank Weller-Heinemann⁷, Gerd Horneff⁸, Ivan Foeldvari⁹, Catharina Schuetz¹⁰, Michael Borte¹¹, Axel Braner¹², Julia Weber-Arden¹³ and Norbert Blank¹⁴, ¹Pediatric Rheumatology and Autoinflammatory Reference Center, University Children's Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, ²Division of Nephrology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany, ³Clinic of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Clinical Immunology, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany, ⁴Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany, ⁵Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nuernberg and Universitaetsklinikum Erlangen, Department of Internal Medicine 3 - Rheumatology and Immunology, Germany, Erlangen, Germany, ⁶Charité University Medicine, Nuremberg, Germany, ⁷Klinikum Bremen-Mitte, Prof. Hess Kinderklinik, Bremen, Germany, ⁸Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO), Sankt Augustin, Germany, ⁹Hamburger Zentrum fuer Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie, Hamburg, Germany, ¹⁰Pediatrics, Medizinische Fakultaet Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Dresden, Germany, ¹¹ImmunoDeficiencyCenter Leipzig (IDCL), Hospital St. Georg gGmbH Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, ¹²Department of Medicine II, Rheumatology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany, Frankfurt a.M., Germany, ¹³Novartis Pharma GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany, ¹⁴Rheumatology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Eppelheim, Germany
Background/Purpose: The IL-1 inhibitor canakinumab (CAN) induces rapid remission of symptoms of CAPS (Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes), a monogenic autoinflammatory disease with severe systemic inflammation, both…