Article
Familial Mediterranean fever at the millennium. Clinical spectrum, ancient mutations, and a survey of 100 American referrals to the National Institutes of Health.
Medicine - 1 Jul 1998
Samuels J, Aksentijevich I, Torosyan Y, Centola M, Deng Z, Sood R, Kastner D L
Abstract excerpt
Regarded as the most common and best understood of the hereditary periodic fever syndromes, familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a recessively inherited disease of episodic fever with some combination of severe abdominal pain, pleurisy, arthritis, and a characteristic ankle rash. The flares typi...
Topics
- Adult
- Amino Acids
- Amyloidosis
- Child, Preschool
- Cloning, Molecular
- Colchicine
- DNA, Complementary
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Familial Mediterranean Fever
- Female
- Genotype
- Gout Suppressants
- Haplotypes
- Health Surveys
- Humans
- Kidney Diseases
- Male
- Middle Aged