Abstracts tagged "familial Mediterranean fever and treatment"

Abstract Number: 254 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Interleukin-1 Inhibitor Canakinumab for Familial Mediterranean Fever: Long-Term Beneficial Effect in a Cohort of 13 Patients
KATERINA LASKARI¹, PANAGIOTA BOURA², GEORGE N DALEKOS³, ALEXANDROS GARYFALLOS⁴, DIMITRIOS KAROKIS⁵, DIMITRIOS PIKAZIS⁶, LOUKAS SETTAS⁷, GRIGORIS SKARANTAVOS⁸, ELENA TSITSAMI⁹ and PETROS P SFIKAKIS¹⁰, ¹Rheumatology Unit, 1st Dept. of Propaedeutic Internal Medicine, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece, ²Clinical Immunology Unit, 2nd Dept. of Internal Medicine, Aristotle University Medical School, Thessaloniki, Greece, ³Thessaly University Medical School, Larissa, Greece, ⁴4th Department of Internal Medicine, Aristotle University Medical School, Thessaloniki, Greece, ⁵Private rheumatologist, Patras, Greece, ⁶Pathophysiology, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece, ⁷First Dept. of Internal Medicine, Rheumatology Section, Aristotle University Medical School, Thessaloniki, Greece, ⁸Bone Metabolic Unit, 1st Dept. of Orthopedics, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece, ⁹First Department of Pediatrics, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece, ¹⁰1st Dept. of Propaedeutic Internal Medicine, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece
Background/Purpose: Interleukin-1 (IL-1) is a major mediator of the inflammatory cascade in Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) and an established therapeutic target (1). To retrospectively assess…

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