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Late Diagnosis of E148Q Mutation-Positive Familial Mediterranean Fever in a Kidney Transplant Patient With Fever of Unknown Origin: A Case Report.
Experimental and clinical transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation - 1 Feb 2017
Tatar Erhan, Uslu Adam, Simsek Cenk, Aykas Ahmet, Bozkaya Giray, Imamoglu Cetin
Abstract excerpt
Fever of unknown origin is a rare condition after solid organ transplant and is generally associated with atypical infections (eg, tuberculosis, fungal infections) and/or lymphoproliferative disorders. Here, we present a kidney transplant patient with a late diagnosis of E148Q mutation-positive familial Mediterranean fever as the cause of fever of unknown origin. A 22-year-old female patient with a previous...
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