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01-11-2013 | Meeting abstract
PW01-018 – Circulating endothelial biomarkers in FMF
Authors:
I Sari, BO Pamuk, S Selcuk, G Gokce, DL Kozaci
Published in:
Pediatric Rheumatology
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Special Issue 1/2013
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Excerpt
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a hereditary autoinflammatory disease that affects the populations with certain ethnic backgrounds. It is characterized by self-limiting febrile attacks of polyserositis. In recent years, some studies reported that FMF patients had increased vascular wall alterations and damage which may be another clinical phenotype of the disease. …