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How do you treat MAS in patients with systemic JIA or AOSD with HLA-DRB1*15 alleles given risk for DRESS hypersensitivity to IL1 or IL6 inhibitor therapy?

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Rheumatology · University of Alabama Birmingham
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Tough question. HLA-DRB1*15 is pretty common, and it may be a risk allele for lung disease. I, and many others, are not convinced, however, the lung disease represents DRESS, nor that a range of biologics are the etiology of the lung disease. One of my most recent sJIA patients presented with high e...

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