Abstracts tagged "fever and innate immunity"

Abstract Number: 130 • Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium 2017
Validation of MRP8/14 serum levels as biomarker for the diagnosis of systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis in fever of unknown origin
Dirk Holzinger¹, Carolin Pretzer², Maria Miranda-Garcia^2,3, Hans Huppertz⁴, Gerd Horneff⁵, Johannes Peter Haas⁶, Gerd Ganser⁷, Jasmin B. Kuemmerle-Deschner⁸, Michael Frosch⁹, Johannes Roth¹⁰ and Dirk Foell², ¹Department of Pediatric Rheumatology and Immunology, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany, ²Pediatric Rheumatology and Immunology, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany, ³Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedicines, Paul-Ehrlich-Institute, Langen, Germany, ⁴Prof Hess Children’s Hospital Bremen, Bremen, Germany, ⁵Department of Pediatrics, Asklepios Clinics St. Augustin, Sankt Augustin, Germany, ⁶Centre for Pediatric Rheumatology Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, ⁷Pediatric Rheumatology, Sankt Josef Stift Sendenhorst, Sendenhorst, Germany, ⁸Pediatrics, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, ⁹Pediatric Pain Centre,, Children's and Adolescents' Hospital Datteln, Datteln, Germany, ¹⁰Institute of Immunology, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany
Background/Purpose: The differential diagnosis of fever of unknown origin (FUO) is a major challenge in pediatrics especially for differentiation of systemic-onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis (SJIA)…