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Kawasaki disease and familial mediterranean fever gene mutations, is there any link? [PDF]

Open Access Rheumatol, 2019
Background and aim: Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute febrile, self-limiting, and systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology. MEFV gene has a major role in autoinflammatory disorders and innate immune reactions.
Salehzadeh F, Mirzarahimi M, Hosseini Asl S, Nematdoust Haghi R.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Mediterranean Fever gene analysis in the azeri turk population with familial mediterranean Fever: evidence for new mutations associated with disease.

Cell journal, 2013
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by recurrent febrile attacks accompanied by serosal and synovial membrane inflammation. FMF is caused by mutations in the MEFV gene and are found usually among Mediterranean populations, Armenians, Turks, Arabs and Jews.
Safar Farajnia, Leila Mohammadnejad
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Pediatric COPA Syndrome Overlapping With Heterozygous Familial Mediterranean Fever: A Dual Inflammatory Disorder

Case Reports in Pediatrics
We present the case of a 6-year-old Palestinian girl who suffered from recurrent attacks of arthralgia, abdominal pain, fever, and mesenteric lymphadenopathy over the past 3 years.
Laith Khalaf, Meera Lahlouh, Kareem Abdul-Haleem, Mohammad Hamdan   +3 more
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Diagnostic dilemma in autoinflammatory disease in two patients: does the name matter?

The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2013
The systemic autoinflammatory diseases are inflammatory disorders characterized by uncontrolled inflammation of the innate immune system. A common monogenic autoinflammatory disease is familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), associated with mutations ...
Bora Gülhan, Ayşe Büyükcam, Isabelle Touitou, Seza Özen   +3 more
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Complex MEFV and MVK Variations in a Syrian Child: Implications for Clinical Phenotypes and Treatment Response—A Case Report

Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports
This case report presents a 10-year-old Syrian boy with concurrent mutations in the Mediterranean fever ( MEFV ) and mevalonate kinase ( MVK ) genes, resulting in overlapping symptoms of Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) and Hyperimmunoglobulinemia D ...
Alyamama Kousa MD, Reem Ahmed MD, Mohammad Baraa Abu Bakr MD, Alaa Nouri Aldosh MD, Basheer Khalil MD, PhD   +4 more
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Familial Mediterranean Fever (MEFV) Gene-related Enteritis

Nippon Daicho Komonbyo Gakkai Zasshi, 2021
Noriyuki Horiki, Misaki Nakamura, Masaki Katsurahara, Yasuhiko Hamada, Kyosuke Tanaka, Hayato Nakagawa   +5 more
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The Frequency of MEFV Gene Mutations for Familial Mediterranean Fever

, 2019
Amaç: Ailesel Akdeniz ateşi otozomal resesifgeçen ve MEFV genindeki mutasyonların yol açtığı genetik bir hastalıktır.Bölgemizde sık görülen genetik bir hastalık olması ve mutasyonlarla ilgiliepidemiyolojik verilerin az olması nedeniyle ailesel Akdeniz ateşi vakalarında,MEFV mutasyonlarının tiplerinin ve sıklığının belirlenmesi amaçlandı.Gereç ve ...
BAYRAK, Muharrem, ÇADIRCI, Kenan, YARALI, Oğuzhan   +2 more
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MEFV Gene Profile in Northwest of Iran, Twelve Common MEFV Gene Mutations Analysis in 216 Patients with Familial Mediterranean Fever

Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2015
Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is a hereditary autoinflammatory disease with autosomal recessive inheritance pattern often seen around the Mediterranean Sea. It is characterized by recurrent episodes of fever and polyserositis and rash.
Farhad Salehzadeh, Mehdi Jafari Asl, Saeid Hosseini Asl, Sepideh Jahangiri, Shahram Habibzadeh   +4 more
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Familial Mediterranean Fever Gene Mutations and Gout as an Auto-Inflammatory Arthropathy. [PDF]

Med Arch, 2019
Salehzadeh F, Mohammadikebar Y, Haghi RN, Asl SH, Enteshary A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A variant allele of the Mediterranean-fever gene increases the severity

, 2018
BackgroundGout is a clinical syndrome that occurs as an inflammatory response to increased concentration of uric acid and monosodium urate crystals. Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a hereditary autoinflammatory disease with autosomal recessive inheritance.
Balkarli, A, Tepeli, E, Balkarli, H, Kaya, A, Cobankara, V   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source