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Find out if your symptoms indicate CAPS.
Although the genetic disease subtypes of Cryopyrin-Associated Periodic Syndromes (CAPS) share characteristics, they are each different. The subtypes of CAPS and their typical symptoms include
Familial Cold Autoinflammatory Syndrome is the most common CAPS subtype in the United States.
Muckle-Wells Syndrome is more severe than FCAS.
Neonatal-Onset Multisystem Inflammatory Disease is the most severe subtype of CAPS. Even fewer people have this disease than the 2 subtypes mentioned above.
However, the CAPS symptoms that bother one person most can change over time, and people diagnosed with one subtype of CAPS can have symptoms of the others. FCAS, MWS, and NOMID are all subtypes of CAPS.