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Table 1 Current European Medicines Agency and US Food-and-Drug Administration drug approval status for autoinflammatory diseases

From: Consensus protocols for the diagnosis and management of the hereditary autoinflammatory syndromes CAPS, TRAPS and MKD/HIDS: a German PRO-KIND initiative

Treatment

L

European Medicines Agency (EMA)

Food-and-Drug Administration (FDA)

CAPS

 Canakinumab

1B

CINCA/NOMID, MWS and severe FCAS ≥2 years and ≥ 7.5 kg

FCAS and MWS ≥ 4 years

 Rilonacept

1B

none

FCAS and MWS ≥ 12 years

 Anakinra

2A

all CAPS patients ≥8 months and ≥ 10 kg

NOMID/CINCA only

TRAPS

 Canakinumab

1B

TRAPS ≥2 years and ≥ 7.5 kg

TRAPS in all adults and children

 Anakinra

2B

none

none

 Etanercept

2B

none

none

HIDS (MKD)

 Canakinumab

1B

MKD ≥2 years and ≥ 7.5 kg

MKD in all adults and children

 Anakinra

2B

none

none

 Etanercept

3B

none

none

 Adalimumab

3B

none

none

 Tocilizumab

4

none

none

  1. The table summarizes indications and specifications for autoinflammatory drug approval as of July 2019. Evidence levels were adapted from the Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine levels of evidence and grades of recommendation [24]: 1B individual randomised controlled trial; 2A systematic review of cohort studies; 2B individual cohort study; 3B, individual case-control study, non-consecutive cohort study; 4 case series