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Idiopathic recurrent acute pericarditis: familial Mediterranean fever mutations and disease evolution in a large cohort of Caucasian patients.
Lupus - 1 Jan 2005
Brucato A, Shinar Y, Brambilla G, Robbiolo L, Ferrioli G, Patrosso M C, Zanni D, Penco S, Boiani E, Ghirardello A, Caforio A L P, Bergantin A, Tombini V, Moreo A, Ashtamkar L, Doria A, Shoenfeld Y, Livneh A
Abstract excerpt
Idiopathic recurrent acute pericarditis (IRAP) is suspected to be an autoimmune phenomenon. We studied 46 consecutive patients. We looked for: 1) the occurrence of new diagnoses of autoimmune diseases during our follow up; 2) HLA typing; and 3) the presence of the most frequent mutations linked to familial Mediterranean fever (FMF gene or MEFV). HLA typing was done in 21 patients at loci B, DRB1, DQA1 and DQB1....
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