A cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome with joint destruction

Open Access

13 October 2006

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Rheumatology

Vol. 46 (4) , 709-714
https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/kel399

Abstract

Objective. Describe four generations (11 members) of a family with a cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome (CAPS), including joint destruction, associated with a CIAS1-gene mutation and good responses to anakinra.

Keywords

CRYOPYRIN ASSOCIATED
ASSOCIATED PERIODIC
GOOD
CIAS1
CAPS
MEMBERS
ANAKINRA
PERIODIC SYNDROME
SYNDROME WITH JOINT