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Abstracts tagged "Muckle-Wells syndrome"

  • Abstract Number: 256 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016

    Muckle-Wells Syndrome in Chinese Adult Patients

    Di Wu, Min Shen and Xiaofeng Zeng, Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China

    Background/Purpose: Muckle-Wells syndrome (MWS) is a rare autoinflammatory disease, which is categorized as one of the three cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes (CAPS). MWS is characterized by…
  • Abstract Number: 247 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015

    Severe Inflammation Following Vaccination Against Streptococcus Pneumoniae in Patients with Cryopyrin-Associated Periodic Syndromes

    Ulrich A. Walker1,2, Philip N. Hawkins3, Rene Williams4, Hal M. Hoffman5 and Jasmin B. Kuemmerle-Deschner6, 1Rheumatology, Unispital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 2Rheumatology, University Hospital, Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 3University College London Medical School, London, United Kingdom, 4University College, London, England, 5University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, 6Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, Klinik fuer Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, Tübingen, Germany

    Background/Purpose: Pneumococcal vaccination is recommended for patients requiring treatment with immunosuppressive drugs. The aim of this report is to describe unusually severe adverse reactions to…
  • Abstract Number: 2280 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014

    Evidence Based Recommendations for the Management of Cryopyrin Associated Periodic Syndromes (CAPS)

    Nienke ter Haar1, Marlen Oswald2, Luca Cantarini3, Marco Gattorno4, Michael Hofer5, Isabelle Kone-Paut6, Jordi Anton Lopez7, Karyl Barron8, Paul Brogan9, Joost Frenkel10, Caroline Galeotti11, Gilles Grateau12, Veronique Hentgen13, Tilmann Kallinich14, Helen Lachmann15, Huri Ozdogan16, Seza Ozen17, Ricardo Russo18, Anna Simon19, Yosef Uziel20, Carine Wouters21, Brian Feldman22, Bas Vastert10, Nico Wulffraat23, Susanne Benseler24 and Jasmin Kuemmerle-Deschner25, 1Laboratory for Translational Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, 3University of Siena, Siena, Italy, 4Pediatric Rheumatology, Instituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy, 5Centre Multisite Romand de Rhumatologie Pediatrique, Lausanne, Switzerland, 6Department of Pediatric Rheumatology, Reference Centre for Autoinflammatory Disorders CEREMAI, Bicêtre Hospital, University of Paris SUD, Paris, France, 7pediatric Rheumatology, University Childrenxs Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, 8NIH, Bethesda, MD, 9Rheumatology Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom, 10University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, 11Bicêtre Hospital, University of Paris SUD, Paris, France, 12Service De Médecine Interne, Hopital Tenon, Paris, France, 13Versailles Hospital, Le Chesnay Cedex, France, 14Charite, University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 15UK National Amyloidosis Centre, University College London Medical School, London, United Kingdom, 16Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, 17Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, 18Immunology & Rheumatology, Hospital De Pediatria, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 19Radboudumc, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 20Tel-Aviv University, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 21University of Leuven, Laboratory of Pediatric Immunology, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 22Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, 23Paediatric Immunology and Rheumatology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, 24The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, 25Pediatrics, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

    Background/Purpose Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes (CAPS) is a group of rare monogenetic autoinflammatory disorders. Evidence-based guidelines are lacking and management is mostly based on physician’s experience. Consequently,…
  • Abstract Number: 1227 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014

    Cryopyrinopathy with a Myeloid-Specific NLRP3 Mutation

    Patrycja Hoffmann1, Qing Zhou2, Amanda Ombrello3, Anne Jones3, Beverly Barham3, Ivona Aksentijevich1 and Daniel L. Kastner4, 1Inflammatory Diseases Section, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD, 210 Centre Dr., Rm. B3-4129, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 3Inflammatory Diseases Section, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 4Inflammatory Disease Section, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD

    Background/Purpose To identify the cause of disease in an adult patient who presented with recurrent fevers and urticaria which responded to IL-1 inhibition with anakinra.…
  • Abstract Number: 1206 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013

    Canakinumab Treatment Regimens In CAPS Patients

    Ferdinand Hofer1, Theresa Endres1, Birgit Kortus-Goetze2, Norbert Blank3, Elisabeth Weissbarth-Riedel4, Catharina Schuetz5, Tilmann Kallinich6, Karoline Krause7, Christoph Rietschel8, Gerd Horneff9 and Jasmin B. Kuemmerle-Deschner10, 1Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, 2Klinik für Innere Medizin, Klinikum der Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany, 3University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, 4Kinderrheumatologische Ambulanz, Universitätsklinikum Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, 5Klinik für Kinder und Jugendmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Ulm, Ulm, Germany, 6Charite, University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 7Dept. of Dermatology and Allergy, Allergie-Centrum-Charité, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany, Berlin, Germany, 8Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie, Clementine-Kinderhospital, Frankfurt, Germany, 9Department of Pediatrics, Asklepios Klinik Sankt Augustin, Sankt Augustin, Germany, 10University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

    Background/Purpose: Canakinumab is a recombinant monoclonal fully human antibody against Interleukin-1β and approved for the treatment of CAPS in many countries including Europe and the…
  • Abstract Number: 1213 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013

    Low-Penetrance NLRP3-Variants

    Theresa Endres1, Ferdinand Hofer1, Raphaela T. Goldbach-Mansky2, Hal M. Hoffman3, Norbert Blank4, Karoline Krause5, Christoph Rietschel6, Gerd Horneff7, Peter Lohse8 and Jasmin B. Kuemmerle-Deschner9, 1Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, 2Translational Autoinflammatory Diseases Section, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 3Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 4University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, 5Dept. of Dermatology and Allergy, Allergie-Centrum-Charité, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany, Berlin, Germany, 6Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie, Clementine-Kinderhospital, Frankfurt, Germany, 7Department of Pediatrics, Asklepios Klinik Sankt Augustin, Sankt Augustin, Germany, 8Institut für Laboratoriumsmedizin und Humangenetik, Singen, Germany, 9University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

    Background/Purpose: Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome (CAPS) presents as rare, autosomal dominant disease spectrum, due to mutations in the NLRP3-gene which lead to excessive interleukin-1 (IL-1) release.…
  • Abstract Number: 191 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012

    Analysis of Genes Involved in Autoinflammatory Diseases in Adult Onset Still’s Disease

    Emma Garcia-Melchor1, Dolors Grados2, Eva Gonzalez-Roca1, Elena Riera3, Manel Juan1, Jordi Yagüe1, Juan Ignacio Aróstegui1, Javier Narváez4 and Alejandro Olivé5, 1Immunology Department, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 2Rheumatology Department, Hospital Universitario Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, 3Rheumatology Department, Hospital Mutua de Terrassa, Terrassa, Spain, 4Rheumatology Department, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain, 5Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain

    Background/Purpose: Adult Onset Still’s Disease (AOSD) is a systemic inflammatory disease characterized by fever, skin rash, articular involvement, lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly and serositis. Due to the…
  • Abstract Number: 180 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012

    Safety of Canakinumab in a Large Cohort of Patients with Cryopyrin-Associated Periodic Syndrome: Results From the ß-Confident Registry

    H. Hoffman1, J. B. Kuemmerle-Deschner2, P. Hawkins3, T. van der Poll4, Ulrich A. Walker5, B. Rauer6, J. M. Nebesky6 and H. Tilson7, 1University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, 2Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, 3University College London Medical School, London, United Kingdom, 4Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 5Rheumatology, Universitäts-Poliklinik, Felix-Platter Spital, Basel, Switzerland, 6Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland, 7The University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

    Background/Purpose: Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome (CAPS) is an extremely rare autoinflammatory disorder associated with overproduction of interleukin-1β (IL-1β). Canakinumab, a fully human, selective, anti-IL-1β monoclonal antibody,…
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