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Familial Mediterranean Fever and COVID-19: Friends or Foes?

Frontiers in immunology - 1 Jan 2020

Stella Alessandro, Lamkanfi Mohamed, Portincasa Piero

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Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) and COVID-19 show a remarkable overlap of clinical symptoms and similar laboratory findings. Both are characterized by fever, abdominal/chest pain, elevation of C-reactive protein, and leukocytosis. In addition, colchicine and IL-1 inhibitors treatments that are effective in controlling inflammation in FMF patients have recently been proposed for off-label use in COVID-19...

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PMID: 33072117
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.574593
PMCID: PMC7530822

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