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The expanded clinical profile and the efficacy of colchicine therapy in Egyptian children suffering from familial Mediterranean fever: a descriptive study.
Italian journal of pediatrics - 4 Dec 2012
Talaat Hala Salah El-Din, Mohamed Mohamed Farouk, El Rifai Nihal Mohamed, Gomaa Mohamed Ali
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by self-limiting recurrent attacks of fever and serosal inflammation, leading to abdominal, thoracic or articular pain. OBJECTIVE: To detect variable clinical presentations and genotypic distribution of different groups of FMF patients and the efficacy of colchicine therapy in treatment of these groups of FMF after one...
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