Adult-onset Still’s disease is a complex autoinflammatory disease with a multifactorial etiology. Its presentation is less stereotypical than that of a monogenic autoinflammatory disease and is actually relatively common with few specific signs...
Adult-onset Still’s disease (AoSD) is a rare systemic autoinflammatory disease characterized by arthritis, spiking fever, skin rash and elevated ferritin levels. The reason behind the nomenclature of this condition is that AoSD shares certain symptom...
Background and Objectives: Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) is a rheumatic disease characterized by systemic inflammatory symptoms, including intermittent spiking fever, polyarthritis and a distinctive salmon-colored rash. Corticosteroids are...
Glycosylated ferritin (GF) has been reported as a good diagnostic biomarker for adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD), but only a few studies have validated its performance. We performed a retrospective study of all adult patients with at least one GF m...
Introduction: Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) is a rare chronic autoinflammatory condition characterized by a spiking fever, arthritis, a rash, hepatosplenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, leucocytosis, and hyperferritinemia. It is sometimes accompa...
Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) is a rare systemic inflammatory disorder. Diagnosis can take a long time, especially in the presence of confounding factors, and it is, to some extent, a process of exclusion. AOSD has life-threating complicat...
Exudative pericarditis is a disease of varied aetiology requiring inclusion of both infectious and non-infectious causes in its differential diagnosis. The possible diagnoses include adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD), a rare systemic inflammatory di...
Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) is an autoimmune inflammatory disorder. Glucocorticoids are often used for AOSD, which may induce complicating glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis (GIO). An anti-resorption drug, denosumab, has recently been approve...
Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) is a non-familial, polygenic systemic autoinflammatory disorder. It is traditionally characterized by four cardinal manifestations—spiking fever, an evanescent salmon-pink maculopapular rash, arthralgia or arthritis...
Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) is a rare autoinflammatory disease, which has elevated autophagosome levels regulated by autophagy-related gene (ATG) expression. We investigated the associations of ATG polymorphisms with AOSD susceptibility, clini...
In recent years, during the ravages of COVID-19, a variety of vaccines have been developed and are now on the market. However, although these new vaccines have undergone various trials, there are still many unknown side effects. We report a case of a...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of serum interleukin (IL)-37 and IL-18 as disease activity markers of adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) and to compare their related clinical features. Forty-five patients with a set of high and s...
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Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) is a complex systemic inflammatory disorder, categorized as an ‘IL-1 driven’ inflammasomapathy. Despite this, the interaction between T and B cells remains poorly understood. We conducted a study,...
S100A8/A9 has been suggested as a marker of disease activity in patients with adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD). We evaluated the clinical significance of S100A8/A9 as a biomarker and its pathogenic role in AOSD. Blood samples were collected prospec...
Neutrophils are innate immune phagocytes that play a key role in immune defense against invading pathogens. The main offensive mechanisms of neutrophils are the phagocytosis of pathogens, release of granules, and production of cytokines. The formatio...
Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD), an autoinflammatory disorder, is related to the dysregulation of NLR3-containing a pyrin domain (NLRP3)-inflammasome signaling. We aimed to investigate the associations of genetic polymorphisms of NLRP3-inflammasom...
Background: Ferritin is a hallmark biomarker of systemic inflammation in adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD), but its potential role in guiding escalation to advanced therapy has not been established. This study aimed to evaluate whether ferriti...
Interleukin 18 (IL-18) is a pro-inflammatory cytokine of the IL-1 family, whose activity is tightly controlled at the level of production, as well as signalization. Notably, it is buffered by its natural inhibitor, IL-18 binding protein (IL-18BP), wh...
Background: We investigated the potential role of several pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs; CD11b, CD11c, CD32, CD206, CD209, and dectin-1) in adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD). Methods: The study included 13 untreated AOSD patients, 19 rheumatoi...
Background: Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) is a rare rheumatic inflammatory condition with an extremely heterogeneous clinical presentation and systemic impairment. Uncommon manifestations may be challenging to manage, especially in patient...
Background/Objectives: Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) is an autoinflammatory disorder that can be challenging to diagnose and manage. The aim of this study was to analyze retrospective data to provide insights into the clinical presentation...
While the diagnosis of adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) involves the exclusion of differential diagnoses, the characteristics and value of 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) Positron Emission Tomography coupled with CT (PET/CT) in the management of A...
Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD)-like syndrome has rarely been reported as a complication of COVID-19 vaccination. This study reports a 31-year-old female patient who presented with fever, myalgia, arthralgia, pleuropericarditis, leukocytosis...
Background/Objectives: This study aims to report and compare data from the PRO-AOSD (patient-reported outcomes adult-onset Still’s disease) survey in patients with AOSD from the perspective of patients and their treating physicians. Methods: PR...
We use this study to analyze the trends in in-hospital length of stay, total hospital charges, and mortality among adult patients with a primary diagnosis of adult-onset still’s disease (AOSD). We used the 2016–2019 National Inpatient Sam...
Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) is a systemic inflammatory disorder of unknown aetiology affecting young adults, which is burdened by life-threatening complications, mostly macrophage activation syndrome (MAS). Interferons (IFNs) are signalling mo...
Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) is a systemic auto-inflammatory disease characterized by the presence of immunologically mediated inflammation and deficient resolution of inflammation. Canakinumab is an approved IL-1β inhibitor in the treatment of...
Background/Objectives: The objective of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of the lactate dehydrogenase-to-albumin ratio (LAR) in adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) and compare it with other inflammatory indices, using patients...
Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) is a systemic inflammatory disorder with an unknown cause characterized by high-spiking fever, lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, hyperferritinemia, and leukocytosis. The clinical course can be divided into...
Objective: To investigate the prevalence and clinical spectrum of atypical or non-classical complications in adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) beyond macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) and to identify factors linked to their occurrence. Meth...
Background: Patients with solid cancers and hematopoietic malignancy can experience systemic symptoms compatible with adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD). The newly described VEXAS, associated with somatic UBA1 mutations, exhibits an overlap of...
Lipid peroxidation (LPO) and hyper-ferritinemia are involved in inflammatory responses. Although hyper-ferritinemia is a characteristic of AOSD, its link to LPO remains unclear. We investigated the association between LPO and ferritin expression, and...
Interleukin-18 (IL-18) is a potent pro-inflammatory cytokine that is involved in various innate and adaptive immune processes related to infection, inflammation, and autoimmunity. Therefore, it is described as a key mediator of autoinflammatory disea...
Still’s disease (SD) is a heterogeneous autoinflammatory disorder for which several phenotypes have been described. We conducted a retrospective study to re-evaluate the dichotomous view of the disease, to compare the juvenile and adult forms, and to...
Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) is a systemic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology. Recent studies have demonstrated that the hallmark of AOSD is a cytokine storm, which is characterized by the excessive production of interleukin (IL)-1,...
Background/Objectives: To report patients’ perspectives on the impact of adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) on their health-related quality of life (HRQoL), work productivity and the effect of coronavirus (COVID)-19, using data from the P...
Cholesterol pneumonia or endogenous lipid pneumonia (ELP) is a rare disease that can occur in the context of a systemic disease or following a bronchial obstruction. It is characterized by a wide range of diverse symptoms and various disease course....
Distinguishing between macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) and a simple flare of Still’s disease (SD) may be challenging. We sought to clarify the clinical features and outcome of MAS in SD and to explore predictive factors of MAS development....
Still’s disease (SD) is often considered a benign disease, with low mortality rates. However, few studies have investigated SD mortality and its causes and most of these have been single-center cohort studies. We sought to examine mortality rates and...
Patients with systemic autoinflammatory diseases (sAIDs) are a section of the population at high risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes, but evidence on the efficacy of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in this group of patients is scarce. To investigate the efficacy...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine has effectively suppressed the spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and alleviated its symptoms, but there are also many adverse events. Joint diseases caused by COVID-...
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a life-threatening cytokine storm syndrome. There are no definitive guidelines for the management of secondary HLH (sHLH). A recent report by a National Health Service (NHS) clinical panel has recommended a...
There is growing evidence that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can lead to a dysregulation of the immune system with the development of autoimmune phenomena. The consequence of this immune dysregulation ranges from the production of autoantibodie...
Autoinflammatory disorders are commonly characterized by seemingly unprovoked systemic inflammation mainly driven by cells and cytokines of the innate immune system. In many disorders on this spectrum, joint and bone involvement may be observed and i...
Adult-onset primary autoimmune neutropenia (AIN) is an extremely rare but sometimes life-threatening disease. Its pathophysiology is still to be clarified. We describe a case with adult-onset primary AIN with phagocytosis of mature granulocytes by ma...
Atopic dermatitis and psoriasis are prevalent inflammatory skin conditions that significantly impact the quality of life of patients, with diverse treatment options available. Despite advances in understanding their underlying mechanisms, recent rese...
The “developmental origins of health and disease” theory indicates that many adult-onset diseases can originate in the earliest stages of life. The developing kidney has emerged as being particularly vulnerable to adverse in utero conditi...
Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) is a rare mitochondrial disorder primarily presenting in pediatric patients, with onset after 40 years being exceptionally rare (1–6%). Here, we report a complex...
The spectrum of syndromes associated with chronic urticaria (CU) is broad, ranging from monogenic autoinflammatory diseases (a single gene defect drives disease through dysregulated innate immunity) to multifactorial and acquired conditions (urticari...
The occurrence and course of immune-mediated diseases (IMDs) following COVID-19 vaccination has been little explored so far. We retrieved, among adult patients hospitalized at the Internal Department of a French university hospital up to May 2022, al...
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