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Clinical characteristics of immunoglobulin A vasculitis associated with the Mediterranean fever gene mutation in Japanese patients: a case-based literature review
2022-04-14
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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background.</bold> Immunoglobulin A vasculitis (IgAV) is the most common vasculitis of childhood. However, its etiology remains unknown. In the Mediterranean region, 10% of patients with IgAV harbor homozygous and compound heterozygous mutations in the Mediterranean fever (<italic>MEFV</italic>) gene. Thus, such mutations may be involved in the development of IgAV. <bold>Objective...
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- Literature Corpus work
- c8866cb8-85a7-5c54-a827-10611aeb7d72
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1485384/v1
