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01-11-2013 | Meeting abstract
P01-041 – Patient management and rare FMF symptoms
Authors:
MM Moradian, H Hayrapetyan, G Amaryan, A Yeghiazaryan, T Sarkisian
Published in:
Pediatric Rheumatology
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Special Issue 1/2013
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Excerpt
Analysis of various symptoms from 20000 FMF patients indicates that several issues, including the clinical manifestation in a variety of combinations and the genotype penetrance, make FMF diagnosis and management challenging. Severe phenotypes with development of serositis, ELE, splenomegaly, and vasculitis are associated with high penetrance mutations of exon 10, mainly M694V allele. …