Colchicine – an effective treatment for children with a clinical diagnosis of autoinflammatory diseases without pathogenic gene variants

Table 3 Treatment of children with a clinical AID diagnosis without pathogenic gene variants before colchicine start

	FMF N = 9	CAPS N = 8	PFAPA N = 14	Unclassified AID N = 2	Total cohort N = 33
Antibiotics, N (%)	1 (11)	3 (38)	3 (21)	0	7 (21)
Antihistamines N (%)	0	1 (13)	0	0	1 (3)
Corticosteroids, N (%)	0	3 (38)	7 (50)	1 (50)	11 (33)
NSAIDs, N (%)	9 (100)	8 (100)	14 (100)	2 (100)	33 (100)
Intravenous Ig’s N (%)	0	0	1 (7)	0	1 (3)
Tonsillectomy, N (%)	0	1 (13)	1 (7)	0	2 (6)

Abbreviations: AID autoinflammatory disease, FMF Familial Mediterranean Fever, CAPS Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes, PFAPA periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis and adenitis, NSAIDs non-steroidal anti-rheumatic drugs, Ig’s Immunoglobulins

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