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Aoi Warashina1, Motoko Kanemoto1, Yasuhiro Hakamata1
1General Internal Medicine, Shizuoka General Hospital, Japan.
Abstract:
Tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS) is a rare autoinflammatory disorder, and adult-onset cases caused by somatic mosaic TNFRSF1A variants are exceptionally rare. A man in his 60s developed recurrent febrile episodes with rash and polyarthralgia and was initially misdiagnosed with a biliary infection and adult-onset Still's disease. Hybrid capture-based next-generation sequencing identified a somatic mosaic TNFRSF1A variant with a variant allele frequency of 19%, thus establishing the diagnosis of TRAPS. Treatment with canakinumab resulted in complete clinical remission and successful glucocorticoid tapering.
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