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01-11-2013 | Meeting abstract
P01-030 – Proteinuria in FMF – prediction of nephropathy type
Authors:
OL Kukuy, A Livneh, A Ben-David, J Kopolovic, A Volkov, Y Shinar, E Holtzman, D Dinour, I Ben-Zvi
Published in:
Pediatric Rheumatology
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Special Issue 1/2013
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Excerpt
Reactive (AA) amyloidosis may complicate Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), the prototype of autoinflammatory diseases. Thus, proteinuria in FMF is commonly viewed as resulting from amyloidosis and kidney biopsy is deemed superfluous. However, nephropathy other than amyloidosis has been described in FMF, but its rate and distinctive characteristics are unknown. …