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Table 1 Summary of monogenic autoinflammatory diseases [7]

From: Bridging autoinflammatory and autoimmune diseases

Monogenic auto inflammatory diseases

Mode of inheritance/gene (protein)

Main clinical features

Treatment

Familial Mediterranean fever

Recessive

MEFV (Pyrin)

Recurrent fever (12–72) h, arthritis, and serositis (abdominal pain and thoracic pain)

Colchicine (IL-1 blockade in refractory cases or colchicine side-effects)

TNF receptor-associated periodic syndrome

Dominant

TNFRSF1A (TNFR1)

Recurrent fever (1–3) weeks arthromyalgia, fasciitis, rash, conjunctivitis periorbital edema, and splenomegaly

IL-1 blockade Corticosteroids/Etanercept/NSAID/Colchicine

Hyperimmunoglobulinemia with periodic fever syndrome

Recessive

(Mevalonate Kinase gene)

Recurrent fever(3-7) days, abdominal pain, diarrhea, hepato-splenomegaly, and lymphadenopathy

IL-1 blockade/NSAID Corticosteroids/TNF blockade

Familial cold auto inflammatory syndrome

Dominant

NLRP3

(Cryopyrin)

Recurrent fever (12 h–2 days), and cold-induced urticaria-like rash, conjunctivitis, and arthralgia

IL-1 blockade

Muckle–Wells syndrome

Dominant

NLRP3

Recurrent fever (2–3) days if present, urticaria rash, and sensori-neuronal deafness

IL-1 blockade

Neonatal onset multi systemic inflammatory disorder

Dominant

NLRP3

Subcontinuous fever, rash, neurologic symptoms, and skeletal abnormalities

IL-1 blockade

Pyogenic arthritis pyoderma gangrenosum and acne syndrome

Dominant

(PSTPIP1)

Pyoderma gangrenosum, cystic acne, and sterile pyogenic oligoarthritis

Corticosteroids, anakinra, Infliximab, immunosuppressive agent

Deficit of IL-1 receptor antagonist

Recessive

IL1RN (IL1 receptor antagonist)

Neonatal onset-multifocal osteomyelitis, periostitis, neonatal onset-pustular rash

Anakinra

Majeed’s syndrome

Recessive

LPIN2 (LPIN2)

Recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis, dyserythropoietic anemia, and chronic dermatosis

Corticosteroids, Bisphosphonates

TNF-inhibitor IL-1 antagonist

(anakinra)

Blau’s syndrome

Dominant

NOD2/CARD15 (CARD15)

Intermittent fever, granulomatous dermatitis, polyarthritis, recurrent panuveitis

Corticosteroids/TNF-α inhibitor(infliximab), IL-1 antagonists

  1. TNFRSF1A tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 1A, NSAID non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, TNF tumor necrosis factor, NLRP3 nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain (NOD)-leucine-rich repeats LRR- and Pyrin domain-containing protein 3, PSTPIP1 proline-serine-threonine phosphatase interacting protein 1, IL1RN interleukin 1 receptor antagonist, NOD2 nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain containing 2, CARD15 caspase recruitment domain-containing protein 15