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Cold Exposure Related Fever with an Mediterranean Fever (MEFV) Gene Mutation.
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 15 Aug 2017
Kumei Shima, Nozu Tsukasa, Ohira Masumi, Miyagishi Saori, Okumura Toshikatsu
Abstract excerpt
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a genetic autoinflammatory disease characterized by recurrent fever with serosal inflammation. We experienced a 53-year-old male who had been suffering from periodic attacks with slight fever and myalgia which were mainly triggered by cold exposure in winter. Although his clinical course did not satisfy the criteria for familial Mediterranean fever, heterozygous E148Q/M694I...
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