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Familial cold urticaria (also properly known as familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome, FCAS) is an autosomal dominant condition characterized by rash, conjunctivitis, fever/chills and arthralgias [4] elicited by exposure to cold – sometimes temperatures below 22 °C (72 °F).
It encompasses a spectrum of three clinically overlapping autoinflammatory syndromes including familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome (FCAS, formerly termed familial cold-induced urticaria), the Muckle–Wells syndrome (MWS), and neonatal-onset multisystem inflammatory disease (NOMID, also called chronic infantile neurologic cutaneous and ...
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Many of the diseases known to be associated with NLRPs are due to NLRP3. For example, Muckle-Wells syndrome (MWS), Familial Cold Autoinflammatory syndrome (FCAS), and Chronic Infantile Neurological Cutaneous Articular syndrome (CINCA) are all consequences of mutations in the NLRP3 gene.
This includes familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome (FCAS), Muckle–Wells syndrome (MWS), chronic infantile neurological cutaneous and articular syndrome, neonatal onset multisystem inflammatory disease (NOMID), and keratoendotheliitis fugax hereditaria. [5] [20] Defects in this gene have also been linked to familial Mediterranean fever. [21]
FCAS may refer to: Familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome, a genetic disease; Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society, a U.S. professional society; The Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, a philanthropic effort by Robert Kraft; Frequency Control Ancillary Services for electric power grids
In the European Union, canakinumab is indicated for autoinflammatory periodic fever syndromes, cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes (CAPS), tumour necrosis factor receptor associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS), hyperimmunoglobulin D syndrome (HIDS)/mevalonate kinase deficiency (MKD), familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), Still's disease, and ...
Periodic fever syndromes are a set of disorders characterized by recurrent episodes of systemic and organ-specific inflammation.Unlike autoimmune disorders such as systemic lupus erythematosus, in which the disease is caused by abnormalities of the adaptive immune system, people with autoinflammatory diseases do not produce autoantibodies or antigen-specific T or B cells.