Review Article

From the Mediterranean to the Sea of Japan: The Transcontinental Odyssey of Autoinflammatory Diseases

Table 4

The clinical features of NLRP-related diseases.

Familial cold autoinflammatory syndromeMuckle-Wells syndromeNeonatal onset multisystem inflammatory disorder
NLRP12-associated autoinflammatory disorder (or familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome 2)

GeneNLRP3 (1q44)NLRP12 (19q13.42)
InheritanceAutosomal dominant
Protein encodedCryopyrinMonarch 1
OMIM120100191900607115609648
Onset ageInfancyInfancy-adolescencePrenatal period Infancy
Duration of clinical signsLess than 24 hoursSubcontinuousContinuous Periodic
FeverShort duration RecurrentRecurrent Periodic
Rash featuresCold-induced, urticaria-likeCold-induced, urticaria-like, and evanescentMigratory, polymorphous, and urticaria-like Cold-induced, urticaria-like
Ocular signsConjunctivitisConjunctivitisChronic papilledema, optic nerve atrophy, and visual loss
Muscular-skeletal symptomsArthralgia, transient joint stiffnessLifelong arthralgias, nonerosive arthritides, and chronic fatigueDeforming osteoarthropathy of large joints (with abnormal ossification of patellae)Arthralgia
Neurologic signsRisk of sensorineural deafnessChronic aseptic meningitis, sensorineural deafness Headache, sensorineural deafness
Major complicationAmyloidosis of AA type
TreatmentInterleukin-1 antagonists (canakinumab)Interleukin-1 antagonists