Healio Rheuminations

all CAPS: A Story of Ice and Fire - Part 2

Nov 27, 2019

28:37

Things get a little nerdy in this episode, which focuses on the basic science of what makes the inflammasome tick in CAPS, as well as data on the use of interleukin 1 inhibition. Hint: Listen to “The Inflammasome for Dunces” episode first, and this one will make more sense.

Intro :20
Recap of Part 1 :33
Overview of this episode 1:56
Familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome 3:04
Muckle-Wells syndrome 6:34
The two checkpoint problem 8:36
What do we know about the inhibition of the inflammasome? 11:13
Back to the trebuchet analogy 11:48

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A paper on CARD8 in the setting of CAPS 13:50
Let’s talk about prostaglandins 15:27
There are over 100 mutations in CAPS 18:15
Let’s talk about treatment 18:42
One caveat 25:41
That’s CAPS 26:45
Reach out to me via email and on Twitter 27:03
Episode recap 27:41

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