Division of Rheumatology & Immunology
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Autoinflammatory Diseases
Treatment for complex conditions affecting the immune system
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Specialized Care for Autoinflammatory Diseases
The Autoinflammatory Disease Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) helps diagnose and treat adults with known or suspected autoinflammatory diseases. Our clinic is one of the few centers in the country that specializes in autoinflammatory disease care.
What Are Autoinflammatory Diseases?
Your immune system protects you from bacteria, infection and viruses. Autoinflammatory diseases affect the immune system by causing it to mistakenly attack itself. These conditions are also known as periodic fever syndromes. During a fever episode, you may develop rashes or pain in your abdomen, chest, joints or muscles.
Most autoinflammatory diseases are inherited and start in childhood. Multiple family members may have the same disease. Other autoinflammatory diseases may be caused by environmental and genetic factors and appear later in life.
Conditions We Treat
The clinic specializes in diagnosing and treating the following disorders:
- Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD)
- Behcet’s disease
- Blau syndrome
- Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes (CAPS):
- Familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome (FCAS), also known as familial cold uticaria
- Muckle-Wells syndrome (MWS)
- Neonatal onset multisystem inflammatory disease (NOMID), also known as CINCA
- DADA2 (Deficiency of ADA2)
- Deficiency of the interleukin-1-receptor antagonist (DIRA)
- Deficiency of the nterleukin-36-receptor antagonist (DITRA)
- Familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome 2 (FCAS2)
- Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF)
- Macrophage activation syndrome (MAS)
- Mevalonate kinase deficiency (MKD), also known as Hyper-IgD syndrome (HIDS)
- Periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis and adenitis (PFAPA)
- Pyogenic sterile arthritis, Pyoderma gangrenosum, Acne (PAPA)
- Recurrent fevers of unknown cause
- Synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis, and osteitis syndrome
- Systemic-onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis (SoJIA)
- TNF receptor associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS)
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We provide expert care and treatment for complex conditions affecting the immune system.
