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PW01-016 – Are different disease subtypes present in FMF

Authors: S Akar, T Kasifoglu, D Solmaz, S Bilge, I Sari, M Tunca

Published in: Pediatric Rheumatology | Special Issue 1/2013

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Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an auto-inflammatory disorder characterized by self limited attacks of fever and serositis. The disease expression may be different in different ethnic groups and patients with certain MEFV mutations may be prone to have more severe disease and a greater probability of developing amyloidosis (1). Recently we showed that amyloidosis is the only predictor of mortality in Turkish FMF patients (2), however clinical subtypes with different clinical and genetic characteristics have been never identified previously. …

Title: PW01-016 – Are different disease subtypes present in FMF
Authors: S Akar
T Kasifoglu
D Solmaz
S Bilge
I Sari
M Tunca
Publication date: 01-11-2013
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Pediatric Rheumatology / Issue Special Issue 1/2013
Electronic ISSN: 1546-0096
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-11-S1-A69

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