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01-11-2013 | Meeting abstract
PW01-009 – Markers of inflammation in adult FMF patients
Authors:
A Giese, H Wittkowski, A Örnek, M Kurucay, E Lainka, BF Henning
Published in:
Pediatric Rheumatology
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Special Issue 1/2013
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Excerpt
The therapeutic goal in Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is to prevent attacks of clinically overt disease as well as to stop or reverse the development of amyloidosis and subsequent organ damage. The dosage of colchicine treatment is therefore generally adjusted according to clinical information and biochemical markers of subclinical inflammation. …