Article
Cardiac disease in familial Mediterranean fever.
Rheumatology international - 1 Jan 2018
Erken Eren, Erken Ertugrul
Abstract excerpt
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autoinflammatory disease manifested by inflammatory attacks of peritonitis, pleuritis, pericarditis accompanied by fever and arthritis. Mutations of MEFV gene results in pyrin dysfunction, which causes uncontrolled interleukin-1 beta production and triggers the inflammatory attacks. Inflammation persists even during attack-free periods in one-third of the FMF patients....
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