Re: is Still's definitely autoimmune?

[Guest guest]

yes it's widely believed to be autoimmune by Dr. Cush and several other still's

researchers

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[Guest guest]

Oh, ok. Thanks ! Do you know if there are any tests

available to detect Still's autoantibodies at this time?

> yes it's widely believed to be autoimmune by Dr. Cush and several

other still's researchers

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[Guest guest]

Thanks Caroline! I have in fact read the info on

www.stillsdisease.org, but what it said is that it's still unknown, so

I was wondering if there was any new info on it.

-Sharon

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> I believe the correct answer to that question is that Stills Disease

is a rare form of arthritis first described in Children. There are

many theories, but in truth the cause of Stills is still unknown. It

is an auto immune disease because the body turns on itself. There is

a lot of information on the subject as www.stillsdisease.org as I am

sure you know. I have done lots of research online and it seems

everyone who has information on Stills got it from OUR web site. =)

> Hope this helps answer your question. Smiles, Caroline.

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[Guest guest]

No there are no tests yet because no antibodies for aosd have been discovered,

the closest to a test has been the detection of a genetic polymorphism on the

Interleuken 18 cytokine, If you have a diplotype configuration of S01/S01it is

thought to be a major genetic risk factor for susceptibility to AOSD. This is

from a recent study.

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[Guest guest]

Thanks for this info, .

But if there are no antibodies found yet, how is the medical community

determining that Still's is in fact autoimmune? Not that I doubt it,

but just wondering what the docs think about what Still's is. I'm

gonna ask my RD when I see him on the 15th too.

-Shari

> No there are no tests yet because no antibodies for aosd have been

discovered, the closest to a test has been the detection of a genetic

polymorphism on the Interleuken 18 cytokine, If you have a diplotype

configuration of S01/S01it is thought to be a major genetic risk

factor for susceptibility to AOSD. This is from a recent study.

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[Guest guest]

because aosd is the same disease as systemic juvenile ra which is considered

autoimmune, one reason the website doesnt say much about it being autoimmune is

because I could never really find a definite answer until recently which was

from Dr. Cush, one of our members is his patient and she asked him about it and

he said yes aosd is autoimmune until then we weren't really sure one way or the

other

GO DAWGS !!!!!

[Guest guest]

Oh wow, that's so great that one of our members is a patient of his!

Thanks again for the explanation!

-Shari

> because aosd is the same disease as systemic juvenile ra which is

considered autoimmune, one reason the website doesnt say much about

it being autoimmune is because I could never really find a definite

answer until recently which was from Dr. Cush, one of our members is

his patient and she asked him about it and he said yes aosd is

autoimmune until then we weren't really sure one way or the other

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