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Late-onset disease is associated with a mild phenotype in children with familial Mediterranean fever.
Clinical rheumatology - 1 Jul 2016
Özdel Semanur, Özçakar Z Birsin, Kunt Seda Şahin, Elhan Atilla H, Yalçınkaya Fatoş
Abstract excerpt
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive disease, characterised by recurrent, self-limited attacks of fever with serositis. Recently, it was shown that patients with early disease onset during childhood period had more severe disease. The aim of this study was to describe the demographic, clinical and genetic features of FMF patients who had late-onset disease during childhood period and to...
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