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Appendectomy history is associated with severe disease and colchicine resistance in adult familial Mediterranean fever patients
Turkish journal of medical sciences - 30 Aug 2021
Bodakçi Erdal, Yaşar Bilge Nazife Şule, Ataş Nuh, Armağan Berkan, Satış Hasan, Sarı Alper, Bilici Salman Reyhan, Kübra Yardımcı Gözde, Babaoğlu Hakan, Kılıç Levent, Öztürk Mehmet Akif, Göker Berna, Haznedaroğlu Şeminur, Kalyoncu Umut, Tufan Abdurrahman, Kaşifoğlu Timuçin
Abstract excerpt
Background/aim: Peritonitis attacks of Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) usually requires emergency medical admissions and it’s hard to distinguish a typical abdominal attack from surgical causes of acute abdomen. Therefore, history of abdominal surgery, particularly appendectomy, is very common in patients with FMF. However, history of appendectomy might also give some clues about the course of FMF in the...
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