Corticoid-sensitive abscesses

The syndrome of corticoid-sensitive abscesses belongs to autoinflammatory diseases. Affected are mostly in early adulthood. The characteristic symptoms include recurrent fevers, accompanied by deep, abscess-like foci in the abdomen.

Patients have increased blood levels of inflammatory markers and neutrophils.

The abscesses are associated with an underlying disease or isolated.

Frequently some time after the abscesses the diagnosis of an inflammatory bowel disease followed, in some cases several years later.