Patent ID: 7459426

Claim:
A method of treating, inhibiting, or ameliorating an autoinflammatory disorder, disease, or condition in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering to the subject a therapeutic amount of an interleukin 1 (IL-1) fusion protein antagonist once a week, wherein the autoinflammatory disorder, disease, or condition is treated, inhibited, or ameliorated, wherein the IL-1 fusion protein antagonist comprises two IL-1 receptor components and a multimerizing component comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:10, wherein the subject is a human adult or child diagnosed with Neonatal Onset Multisystem Inflammatory Disorder (NOMID/CINCA), Muckle-Wells Syndrome (MWS), Familial Cold Autoinflammatory Syndrome (FCAS), familial mediterranean fever (FMF), tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated periodic fever syndrome (TRAPS), or systemic onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis (Still's Disease).