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Familial Mediterranean fever and IgA nephropathy: case report and review of the literature.
Clinical nephrology - 1 Jul 2008
Gok F, Sari E, Erdogan O, Altun D, Babacan O
Abstract excerpt
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is the most common form of autoinflammatory syndromes and is characterized by recurrent inflammatory attacks of fever and serositis. Amyloidosis is the most common renal complication of FMF. In addition to amyloidosis, many renal lesions have been anecdotally reported in patients with FMF and other hereditary periodic fevers. We report a Turkish child with FMF presenting with...
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