…f enterocolitis and autoinflammation NIAMS Research brief September 2014:Gene Linked to Potentially Life-Threatening Autoinflammatory Disorder SickKids Toronto Newsroom: Genetic testing uncovers unknown autoinflammatory disorder in SickKids patient, leads to successful targeted therapy: new research. WTNH.com news 8: Death of an infant solves medical mystery * Macrophage photo by Eraxion/Bigstockphoto.com Related articles How to Use the Comparison…
…is more important than a particular diet.” Due to these diseases not being common or easily understood, often patients and parents have lived with judgments, blame, and misunderstandings from peers, friends, family, co-workers, and even medical professionals. This can cause a great deal of distress and stigma for patients to overcome, but nothing the patient or parent did or didn’t do caused the autoinflammatory disease. References Colchicine-indu…
…nd genetics is helping to find the cause for many conditions. When experts compare their complex unclassified cases, they can find common symptoms that lead to more refined genetic testing of these patients with similar symptoms, and then genetic mutations and disease classifications are determined. Such is the case with a few autoinflammatory diseases that have been classified in the past few years, such as CANDLE syndrome and NLRC4-Associated Ma…
