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Successful treatment of Erdheim-Chester disease by interleukin-1 receptor antagonist protein.

[erdheim-chester disease]

Erdheim-Chester disease is a rare non-langerhans systemic histiocytosis of unknown origin, associated with bone diseases and severe visceral complications. Therapies have been disappointing. A recombinant form of interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (anakinra) has been used in a few cases when usual treatment fails. We report a new case of successfully interleukin-1 receptor antagonist treatment in Erdheim-Chester disease.

Diseases presenting "histiocytosis" symptom

  • child syndrome
  • cutaneous mastocytosis
  • dentin dysplasia
  • dentinogenesis imperfecta
  • erdheim-chester disease
  • kallmann syndrome
  • lymphangioleiomyomatosis
  • omenn syndrome
  • papillon-lefèvre syndrome

This symptom has already been validated