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Autoinflammation in 2010

Expanding clinical spectrum and broadening therapeutic horizons

In 2010, important research into the systemic autoinflammatory diseases has confirmed and extended the role of IL-1 inhibition in hereditary autoinflammatory disorders, demonstrated a novel treatment for a dangerous complication, and expanded the spectrum of systemic autoinflammatory diseases while further implicating autoinflammation in the complications of the metabolic syndrome.

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Ombrello, M., Kastner, D. Expanding clinical spectrum and broadening therapeutic horizons. Nat Rev Rheumatol 7, 82–84 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrrheum.2010.229

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