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An infant with severe refractory Crohn's disease and homozygous MEFV mutation who dramatically responded to colchicine.
Rheumatology international - 1 Mar 2012
Kuloğlu Zarife, Kansu Aydan, Ustündağ Gonca, Birsin Özçakar Z, Ensari Arzu, Ekim Mesiha
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Previous studies have suggested that inflammatory bowel disease is particulary frequent and severe in familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) families. An 8-month-old boy was admitted to our hospital with chronic bloody diarrhea, failure to thrive and high-grade fever. He was diagnosed as Crohn's dise...
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