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Late-onset familial mediterranean fever: single-center experience and literature review.
Internal and emergency medicine - 1 Aug 2022
Aydin Okan, Egeli Bugra Han, Ozdogan Huri, Ugurlu Serdal
Abstract excerpt
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a hereditary, autoinflammatory disease characterized by recurrent fever and serositis attacks. The disease onset occurs before 20 years of age in 90% of patients and rarely after the 4th decade. The aim of this study is to screen our FMF patient pool for patients with disease onset after age of 40 and to compare them to patients with early onset with regard to clinical and...
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