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Familial Mediterranean Fever in Childhood [PDF]

Turkish Archives of Pediatrics
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is the most prevalent monogenic autoinflammatory disorder, characterized by recurrent fever and serositis. It primarily affects individuals of Mediterranean descent, including Arabs, Armenians, Turks, and Jews.
Rabia Miray Kisla Ekinci, Elif Kilic Konte, Nergis Akay, Umit Gul   +3 more
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Familial Mediterranean Fever [PDF]

Acta Medica, 2014
Familial Mediterranean Fever is an autosomal recessive inherited disease with a course of autoinflammation, which is characterized by the episodes of fever and serositis. It affects the populations from Mediterranean basin.
Adem Kucuk, Ilknur Albayrak Gezer, Ramazan Ucar, Ali Yavuz Karahan   +3 more
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Increased levels of circulating Annexin A5 in Familial Mediterranean fever [PDF]

Journal of Inflammation, 2010
Background Familial Mediterranean fever is a genetic autoinflammatory disease most commonly affecting the ethnic groups originating from around the Mediterranean Sea.
Hovhannisyan Lilit P, Mkrtchyan Gohar M, Boyajyan Anna S, Hovsepyan Tigran J   +3 more
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FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER AND HYPERCOAGULABILITY

Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases, 2011
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive hereditary disease which is characterized by recurrent attacks of fever and peritonitis, pleuritis, arthritis, or erysipelas-like skin disease.
Oshrat E. Tayer-Shifman, Eldad Ben-Chetrit   +1 more
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Familial Mediterranean fever: current perspectives

Journal of Inflammation Research, 2016
Hafize Emine Sönmez,* Ezgi Deniz Batu,* Seza ÖzenDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Rheumatology, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey *These authors contributed equally to this workAbstract: Familial Mediterranean fever (
Sönmez HE, Batu ED, Özen S
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Familial Mediterranean fever [PDF]

The Lancet, 1998
The international consortium detected a full-length transcript of 3·7 kb encoding a protein consisting of 781 aminoacids. This protein product was termed “pyrin”, indicating its relation to fever, the hallmark of FMF. The French consortium isolated a 1·9 kb complementary DNA sequence coding partly a protein they named “marenostrin” (“our sea”), in ...
E, Ben-Chetrit, M, Levy
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A private hospital’s approach to treating acute familial Mediterranean fever in Dar es Salaam

SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2023
Familial Mediterranean fever is a rare autosomal recessive autoinflammatory disorder prevalent in Middle Eastern populations, characterized by episodic abdominal pain. This case report presents a 34-year-old Egyptian man with severe lower abdominal pain,
Willbroad Kyejo, Musa Machibya, Faisal Hooda, Waziri Gahhu, Shivangi Mandania, Neelam Ismail, Nancy Matillya, Kilalo Mjema, Kamran Hameed   +8 more
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Familial Mediterranean fever: issues of diagnosis and treatment

Лечащий Врач, 2023
Familial Mediterranean fever is an autoinflammatory genetically determined autosomal recessive disease caused by a mutation of the MEFV gene. Familial Mediterranean fever is recorded mainly in populations of Middle Eastern origin, historically inhabiting
G. R. Bikbavova, V. A. Akhmedov, T. V. Tretyakova, T. Yu. Panova   +3 more
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A case report of a boy suffering from type 1 diabetes mellitus and familial Mediterranean fever

Italian Journal of Pediatrics, 2021
Background Type 1 diabetes mellitus could be associated with other autoimmune diseases, such as autoimmune thyroid disease, celiac disease, but the association with Familial Mediterranean Fever is rare, we describe a case of a boy with type 1 Diabetes ...
Maria Francesca Gicchino, Dario Iafusco, Angela Zanfardino, Emanuele Miraglia del Giudice, Alma Nunzia Olivieri   +4 more
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Concurrence of familial Mediterranean fever and Behçet’s disease: a case report and review of the literature

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2023
Background Familial Mediterranean fever and Behçet’s disease are distinct disorders that are prevalent in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern populations.
Adhora Mir, Catherine Ivory, Juthaporn Cowan   +2 more
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