Fingerhutová ŠH

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PFAPA Syndrome Publications

Decision Tree Analysis as a Preliminary Evidence-Based Tool for Identifying the Syndrome of Undifferentiated Recurrent Fever in Children Compared With Hereditary Recurrent Fevers and Periodic Fever, Aphthosis, Pharyngitis, and Adenitis Syndrome.

Papa R, Bovis F, Federici S, Palmeri S, Bustaffa M , et al.
Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) •

To develop evidence-based criteria to classify patients with syndrome of undifferentiated recurrent fevers (SURF). One hundred twelve patients with SURF observed in a single tertiary referral center were analyzed. Patients with genetically confirmed hereditary recurrent fever (HRF) or with periodic fever, aphthosis, pharyngitis, and adenitis (PFAPA) syndrome already analyzed for the Eurofever classification criteria were used as disease controls. A decision tree approach was tested by randomly splitting the available data in a training set and in an internal test set. An alternative model using a classical regression model was also analyzed. An external validation for both approaches was performed on 123 patients recruited from four other centers. The decision tree model integrating clinical and genetic data identified 91% of patients with SURF. A decision tree model based solely on clinical variables identified up to 88% of patients with SURF. The logistic regression model including genetic tests exhibited an overall accuracy of 89.2% (95% confidence interval [CI] 81.1-94.7). In contrast, the logistic regression model exclusively based on clinical manifestations displayed an overall accuracy of 66.7% (95% CI 56.1-76.1). When the classification criteria including genetic tests were applied to the external validation cohort, the model demonstrated a strong discriminative power, with areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 96.3% using the decision tree model and 88.0% with the logistic regression model. The study shows the possibility of achieving evidence-based criteria that can classify SURF at least with respect to the main HRF and PFAPA syndrome and may be considered as a preliminary tool for the enrollment of more homogeneous cohorts of patients in future studies.

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Periodic fevers and other autoinflammatory diseases.

Fingerhutová Š, Jančová E, Tesařová M, Dvořáková L, Doležalová P
Casopis lekaru ceskych •

Autoinflammatory diseases represent a relatively new and rapidly evolving group of rare disorders associated with mutations of genes encoding proteins with a key regulatory role in inflammatory response. Gradual discovery of mechanisms that link genetic disorder with its biochemical and immunological consequences leading to continuous or episodic inflammatory stimulation has enabled introduction of directed immunotherapies. Periodic fever syndromes belong to the so far best-known entities: familial Mediterranean fever, mevalonate kinase deficiency, cryopyrinopathies and TNF-receptor associated periodic syndrome. These inherited disorders usually manifest in childhood with variably long febrile episodes accompanied with the spectrum of other skin and organ inflammatory features and elevation of laboratory markers of inflammation. Uncontrolled disease may lead to secondary amyloidosis. Directed anti-inflammatory therapy can prevent evolution of organ damage. In children benign syndrome of periodic fever with aphtae, pharyngitis and cervical adenitis is the most common self-limited disorder without clear genetic disposition. Following other autoinflammatory disease groups are described - pyogenic syndromes, disorders with skin and bone manifestations, granulomatous diseases, monogenic vasculopathies and diseases associated with proteasome disorder. Diagnosis of autoinflammatory diseases is often delayed due to their extreme rarity. Increasing efficacy and availability of molecular-genetic testing and centralization of diagnostics and clinical care in a specialized center for children as well as adults can in the future improve quality of care for patients with these rare conditions. Keywords: autoinflammatory diseases (AID), periodic fever syndromes, FMF, CAPS, MKD, TRAPS, PFAPA, NGS.

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