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Key Laboratory of Agro-Ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ScientificObserving andExperimental Station ofAnimalNutrition andFeed Science in South-Central,Ministry ofAgriculture,Hunan Provincial Engineering Research Center for Healthy Livestock and Poultry Production, Changsha, Hunan 410125, China University of Chinese Ac...

Inflammatory myopathies are the largest group of potentially treatable myopathies in children and adults. They constitute a heterogeneous group of disorders that are best classified, on the basis of distinct clinicopathologic features, in four subtypes: dermatomyositis, polymyositis, necrotizing autoimmune myositis, and inclusion-body myositis (throughout this review, I use this term to refer s...

Auto-inflammatory diseases are a rapidly moving field, where the description of new entities, the understanding of the pathogenesis and the treatment has shown important progress in the past years. This group of conditions include monogenic auto-inflammatory diseases, like FMF, CAPS, TRAPS and MKD, and non-monogenic autoinflammatory diseases, like PFAPA, SoJIA, CRMO, and Behçet. The most common...

1Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, The First Hospital of Xiamen University, Xiamen 361003, China 2Buffalo General Medical Center, State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA 3Department of Rheumatology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200001, China 4Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatolog...