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Phenotype 2 familial mediterranean fever: evaluation of 22 case series and review of the literature on phenotype 2 FMF.
Renal failure - 1 Jan 2013
Altunoğlu Alpaslan, Erten Şükran, Canoz Mujdat Batur, Yuksel Aydan, Ceylan Gulay Gulec, Balci Serdar, Dogan Hayriye Tatli
Abstract excerpt
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive autoimmune disorder characterized by recurrent bouts of fever and serosal inflammation. FMF may be complicated by AA-type amyloidosis, worsening the prognosis, with associated renal failure in some patients. Complication rate varies with race, being as high as 60% in Turks and as low as 2% in Armenians. In a few cases of patients with FMF (phenotype 2),...
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