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ReviewChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Periodic Fever, Aphthous Stomatitis, Pharyngitis and Adenitis Syndrome: An Update.

Maria Michailou, Chryssoula Perdikogianni

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Review in Children (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 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

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Allergic but not autoimmune comorbidities in children with PFAPA: A nationwide matched case-control cohort study.Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Maria MichailouDepartment of Pediatrics, Medical School University of Crete, 70013 Heraklion, Greece.
Chryssoula PerdikogianniDepartment of Pediatrics, Medical School University of Crete, 70013 Heraklion, Greece.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Periodic Fever, Aphthous Stomatitis, Pharyngitis and Adenitis (PFAPA) syndrome is an autoinflammatory disorder of unknown genetic etiology typically characterized by recurrent fever episodes, pharyngitis, aphthous stomatitis and cervical lymphadenitis. The syndrome runs a benign course with fever episodes recurring in regular intervals and usually resolves around adolescence, even though, for a subset of patients, it persists through adulthood. It is considered a condition of multifactorial etiology, a syndrome that is triggered by environmental factors in genetically predisposed individuals. Increasing evidence points towards a correlation between monogenic autoinflammatory syndromes and PFAPA syndrome both in pathogenesis and therapeutic approaches. In this review, we present an update of the current literature on PFAPA and focus on new data on genetics of PFAPA and the association of PFAPA with other autoinflammatory diseases.

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adolescentsautoinflammatory diseaseschildrengeneticsPFAPA syndrome

Identifiers

PMID40310068
PMCPMC12025467

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