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Familial Mediterranean fever and systemic amyloidosis in untreated Turkish patients.
QJM : monthly journal of the Association of Physicians - 1 Oct 2000
Yalçinkaya F, Tekin M, Cakar N, Akar E, Akar N, Tümer N
Abstract excerpt
We compared the frequencies of seven MEFV mutations (M694V, M680I, V726A, M694I, K695R, R761H, E148Q) and the clinical findings in 20 Turkish FMF patients who had not developed amyloidosis by the age of 40 years in the absence of colchicine therapy, with those in 27 Turkish amyloidosis patients. No mutation frequency, including that of M694V, was different between the two groups. Family history of amyloidosis and...
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