Mediterranean fever gene mutations in patients with possible neuro-Sweet disease: a case series

Introduction

Neuro-Sweet disease (NSD) is defined as Sweet disease with central nervous system (CNS) involvement. Also known as acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis, NSD is characterised by painful erythematous plaques and multisystem neutrophilic infiltration.1

Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), characterised by recurrent fever and serositis, is caused by mutations of the Mediterranean fever (MEFV) gene. FMF is rarely reported in patients with Sweet's syndrome.2 In this report, we discuss three cases of possible NSD. Our findings indicate that some mutations in the MEFV gene may act as additional susceptibility factors in autoimmune inflammatory neurological diseases, including NSD.

Patients and methods

We conducted MEFV mutation analyses on genomic DNA samples from three patients diagnosed with possible NSD between 1 April 2014 and 31 October 2016. Patients were diagnosed with NSD in accordance with previously described criteria.1 In all patients, infection, malignancy and other autoimmune diseases were clinically excluded. All patients provided...

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