Inflammation caused by the hyper-activation of innate immunity due to genetic factors occasionally leads to inflammatory keratinization diseases of the skin. Such inflammatory keratinization diseases with genetic autoinflammatory pathogeneses are called “autoinflammatory keratinization diseases” (AiKD). AiKD also includes diseases with mixed pathological mechanisms of autoinflammation and autoimmunity.
AiKD have primary genetic causative factors associated with autoinflammation mainly in the epidermis and the upper dermis. Autoinflammation in the epidermis and the upper dermis leads to hyperkeratosis in the skin, resulting in further skin inflammatory symptoms of AiKD.
Common clinical features of AiKD are hyperkeratotic skin lesions with inflammation, although clinical phenotypes of AiKD are inconsistent and some diseases have unique characteristic manifestations. Most AiKD patients have recurrent and persistent skin symptoms which are refractory to standard treatments for inflammatory keratinization diseases.
Initially, AiKD encompassed (i) IL-36 receptor antagonist (IL-36Ra)-related pustulosis, (ii) CARD14-mediated pustular psoriasis, pityriasis rubra pilaris (PRP), and (iii) familial keratosis lichenoides chronica. Patients with generalized pustular psoriasis (GPP), impetigo herpetiformis and acrodermatitis continua are thought to be part of IL-36Ra-related AiKD cases. CARD14-mediated pustular psoriasis includes a subset of GPP and palmoplantar pustular psoriasis patients. Most cases of PRP type V have CARD14 mutations and are included in AiKD, and a small number of patients with other types of PRP have CARD14 variants and are also classified as AiKD.

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