TY - JOUR T1 - Lesson of the month 1: Autoinflammatory syndromes – an unusual cause of pyrexia of unknown origin JF - Clinical Medicine JO - Clin Med SP - 488 LP - 490 DO - 10.7861/clinmedicine.16-5-488 VL - 16 IS - 5 AU - Ravi Varma AU - Gary Campbell AU - Helen Baxendale Y1 - 2016/10/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/16/5/488.abstract N2 - Autoinflammatory diseases are disorders of innate immunity and are characterised by recurring and unprovoked episodes of inflammation. We present a case of episodic pyrexia, associated with a significant inflammatory response, in a young man in whom the cause had remained unexplained since infancy. He was eventually diagnosed with hyperimmunoglobulinaemia D syndrome (HIDS); one of the autoinflammatory syndromes. ER -