Still’s Disease in the Constellation of Hyperinflammatory Syndromes: A Link with Kawasaki Disease?

Abstract

Still’s disease and Kawasaki disease (KD) today belong to the group of cytokine storm syndromes, a pathophysiological set related to excessive activation of the innate immune response. We present here a personal vision of what can link these two diseases, taking up their concepts at their beginning. By their many clinical and physiopathological similarities, we conclude that they constitute a common spectrum whose fate is modified by subtle differences in terms of adaptive response that could, in part, be driven by genetic factors.

Keywords

• Kawasaki disease
• Still’s disease
• disease overlap
• interleukin-1