Objective: To describe a registry set up to monitor children treated with etanercept in
Germany and Austria. Methods: Giannini's criteria, duration of morning stiffness, number of …

The daily application of colchicine is the standard therapy for prophylaxis of attacks and
amyloid deposition in familial Mediterranean fever. However, because of many issues (eg …

Introduction Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a large vessel vasculitis involving the aorta and its
major branches. T cell-mediated autoimmunity is thought to play a major role in its …

Objective Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is characterised by recurrent periodic febrile
attacks and persistent subclinical inflammation. The damage-associated molecular pattern …

Objective: To investigate the distribution of peripheral B cell subpopulations of children with
active and inactive systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) compared with healthy controls …

Background: Interleukin‐18 (IL‐18) plays an important role in the regulation of TH1 as well
as TH2 immunologic responses and thus in the development of chronic inflammatory …

Betahemolytic strains of streptococcus A are able to induce a spectrum of immunologically
induced diseases, depending on the immunogenic M structure of the bacteria as well as on …

Results A group of 40 patients, 27 with autosomal dominant macular dystrophy and 13 with
autosomal dominant cone or cone-rod dystrophy, was screened for mutations in all exons of …

Low-dose glucocorticoids (GC) achieve their action completely by classical genomic effects,
mediated by the glucocorticoid receptor (GCR). In high doses of GC, nongenomic effects …

Background: Tumour necrosis factor (TNF) receptor associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS)
is caused by dominant mutations in the TNFRSF1A gene. In typical cases TRAPS begins …