Autoinflammatory diseases are comprehensively caused by aberrant production of proinflammatory cytokines and are revealed by cyclically and spontaneously occurring inflammatory events. Over the last decade, there has been a revolution in the understanding of periodic fever syndromes, cryopyrinopathies, and skin disorders with pyogenic, granulomatous, or dystrophic features, which have been recognized across different countries spanning from the Mediterranean basin to the Japanese archipelago. Many children and adults with autoinflammatory diseases continue to elude diagnosis, and the diagnostic delay of many years puts these patients at risk of long-term severe complications, such as amyloidosis. Any hint of suspicion of autoinflammatory disease thus needs to be highlighted in various medical specialties, and this review examines their frequencies around the world, trying to match them with geographic location, ethnic and genetic data, in an attempt to realize a geoepidemiologic map for most of these conditions.

Rigante, D., Frediani, B., Galeazzi, M., Cantarini, L. (2013). From the Mediterranean to the sea of Japan: the transcontinental odyssey of autoinflammatory diseases. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL, Art. n 485103 [10.1155/2013/485103].

From the Mediterranean to the sea of Japan: the transcontinental odyssey of autoinflammatory diseases.

FREDIANI, BRUNO;GALEAZZI, MAURO;CANTARINI, LUCA
2013-01-01

Abstract

Autoinflammatory diseases are comprehensively caused by aberrant production of proinflammatory cytokines and are revealed by cyclically and spontaneously occurring inflammatory events. Over the last decade, there has been a revolution in the understanding of periodic fever syndromes, cryopyrinopathies, and skin disorders with pyogenic, granulomatous, or dystrophic features, which have been recognized across different countries spanning from the Mediterranean basin to the Japanese archipelago. Many children and adults with autoinflammatory diseases continue to elude diagnosis, and the diagnostic delay of many years puts these patients at risk of long-term severe complications, such as amyloidosis. Any hint of suspicion of autoinflammatory disease thus needs to be highlighted in various medical specialties, and this review examines their frequencies around the world, trying to match them with geographic location, ethnic and genetic data, in an attempt to realize a geoepidemiologic map for most of these conditions.
2013
Rigante, D., Frediani, B., Galeazzi, M., Cantarini, L. (2013). From the Mediterranean to the sea of Japan: the transcontinental odyssey of autoinflammatory diseases. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL, Art. n 485103 [10.1155/2013/485103].
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