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ArticleClinical case reports2024

VEXAS syndrome as a cause for multifocal, relapsing head and neck inflammation.

Aoife Heeney, Rachael Wu, Conall Fitzgerald, Nina Orfali, Nadim Akasheh, Conor Magee

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Article in Clinical case reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Clinical features in VEXAS syndrome: a systematic review.Rheumatology (Oxford, England) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Aoife HeeneyDepartment of General Internal Medicine St James's Hospital Dublin Ireland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3623-9916
Rachael WuDepartment of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery St James's Hospital Dublin Ireland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7988-0146
Conall FitzgeraldDepartment of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery St James's Hospital Dublin Ireland.
Nina OrfaliDepartment of Haematology St James's Hospital Dublin Ireland.
Nadim AkashehDepartment of General Internal Medicine St James's Hospital Dublin Ireland.
Conor MageeDepartment of General Internal Medicine St James's Hospital Dublin Ireland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

VEXAS syndrome (vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X-linked, autoinflammatory, somatic) is a novel autoinflammatory syndrome. We describe a case of VEXAS syndrome with upper airway and oral cavity involvement which are not well described in the literature.

Indexed as

autoinflammationLudwigs anginaperiorbital cellulitisUBA1 mutationvenous thromboembolismVEXAS syndrome

Identifiers

PMID38947541
PMCPMC11213686

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