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01-11-2013 | Meeting abstract
PW01-028 – Developing a new severity score for FMF
Authors:
E Demirkaya, C Acikel, A Gul, M Gattorno, E Ben-Chetrit, H Ozdogan, P Hashkes, A Polat, O Karadag, A Livneh, S Ozen, FMF Arthritis Vasculitis and Orphan disease Research in Pediatric Rheumatology (FAVOR)
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Pediatric Rheumatology
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Special Issue 1/2013
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Excerpt
Severity is a basic feature that defines the prognosis of a disease. FMF presents with a variety of clinic and laboratory manifestations affecting severity, and evaluation of prognosis is an elusive task. Different severity scores have been previously proposed for FMF, and commonly used ones include Mor, Pras and Tel Hashomer severity scores however recent studies showed that there is no consistency among them. …