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Clinical and subclinical inflammation in patients with familial Mediterranean fever and in heterozygous carriers of MEFV mutations.
Rheumatology (Oxford, England) - 1 Jun 2006
Lachmann H J, Sengül B, Yavuzşen T U, Booth D R, Booth S E, Bybee A, Gallimore J R, Soytürk M, Akar S, Tunca M, Hawkins P N
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OBJECTIVE: To prospectively monitor inflammatory activity over a prolonged period in a cohort of Turkish patients with FMF, their healthy relatives and healthy controls and to relate this to their MEFV genotypes. METHODS: 43 patients with FMF and 75 of their asymptomatic relatives underwent fortnightly assessments and venesection for measurement of CRP and SAA over 5 months. 50 unrelated healthy population...
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