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01-11-2013 | Meeting abstract
P01-042 – Joint involvement in Armenian children with FMF
Authors:
G Amaryan, G Khloyan, R Davtyan, T Sarkissian, A Tadevosyan
Published in:
Pediatric Rheumatology
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Special Issue 1/2013
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Excerpt
Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) as an ethnic disease is wide-spread in Armenia. In most cases FMF manifests in childhood. Joint involvement is the third major FMF manifestation. It usually presents as acute recurrent arthritis (ARA), arthralgia, more rare - chronic arthritis (Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, JIA), which are important to better learn more about the overlap between the FMF and JIA. …