Serum cytokine profile in pediatric Sweet’s syndrome: a case report

Table 3 Serum cytokine levels in adult patients with Sweet’s syndrome

	IL-1β	IL-6	TNF	IFN-γ/neopterin	Other cytokines	Patients (underlying disease)
Reuss-Borst et al. [15]	→	↑	→ ~ ↑	→	G-CSF ↑	Adult female patient with SS (with MDS)
Loraas et al. [16]	---	↑	→	---	G-CSF →, TNF-β →	Adult male patient with SS (with MDS)
Giasuddin et al. [17]	↑	---	---	↑	IL-2 ↑, IL-4 →	8 adult female patients with SS
Hattori et al. [18]	→	↑	---	---	G-CSF ↑	Adult male patient with SS (with MDS)
Our case	→	↑	→ ~ ↑	→ ~ ↑	IL-18 →	34-month-old female with idiopathic SS

G-CSF granulocyte-colony stimulating factor, IFN interferon, IL interleukin, MDS myelodysplastic syndrome, SS Sweet’s syndrome, TNF tumor necrosis factor
The symbol → ~ ↑ means normal or slightly elevated value, The symbol → means normal elevated value, The symbol↑ means slightly elevated value

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