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Familial Mediterranean Fever

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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Two cases of periodic fever syndrome with coexistent mevalonate kinase and Mediterranean fever gene mutations [PDF]

The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2017
The periodic fever syndromes are autoinflammatory diseases that present with recurrent fever, serositis and rash. Familial Mediterranean fever is the most common periodic fever syndrome and characterized by recurrent attacks of fever, arthritis ...
Mustafa Çakan, Nuray Aktay-Ayaz, Gonca Keskindemirci, Şerife Gül Karadağ   +3 more
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Familial Mediterranean Fever in Childhood

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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Canakinumab as rescue therapy in familial Mediterranean fever refractory to conventional treatment

Drug Design, Development and Therapy, 2015
Mirella Alpa, Dario Roccatello Centro di Ricerche di Immunopatologia e Documentazione su Malattie Rare (CMID), Struttura Complessa Direzione Universitaria di Immunologia Clinica, Università di Torino e Ospedale G Bosco, Torino, ItalyAbstract ...
Alpa M, Roccatello D
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Bases genètiques de la febre mediterrània familiar a la població espanyola, dinàmica genòmica i història natural de les mutacions al locus "MEFV" [PDF]

, 2004
[cat] La febre mediterrània familiar (FMF) afecta unes 10.000 i 100.000 persones d'origen principalment àrab, armeni, turc i jueu i és caracteritza per la recurrència d'episodis autolimitats de febre i inflamació de seroses, sense una causa infecciosa ...
Aldea Tomé, Anna
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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
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Atypical Familial Mediterranean Fever in a Japanese Boy with Heterozygous MEFV p.Ser503Cys Exon 5 Variant

Case Reports in Pediatrics, 2021
Periodic fever syndromes are heterogeneous diseases. Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is one of the hereditary periodic fever diseases caused by a Mediterranean fever (MEFV) gene abnormality.
Tomonobu Sato, Shunichiro Takezaki, Takeru Goto, Shinichi Ishikawa, Kazumi Oura, Asuka Takahata, Haruki Shiraishi, Yuji Maruo, Norio Sato, Takashi Suganuma, Makoto Mikawa   +10 more
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Familial Mediterranean Fever: Unraveling its Causes, Clinical presentation, and Innovative Treatment Strategies [PDF]

Archives of Pharmaceutical Sciences Ain Shams University
Auto-inflammatory disorders are recognized as significant in impacting the health of patients. The majority of auto-inflammatory disorders originate from hereditary abnormalities.
Abdelhamid, Ashraqat H., Ashraf, Nada, Ashraf, Nour, Hesham, Nouran, Yaseer, Nesreen, Ibrahim, Nagat, Mostafa, Noha, Maged, Nadein, Mohammed, Mernna, Ezzat, Nagham, George, Mina Y.   +10 more
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Vertebral artery dissection associated with familial Mediterranean fever and Behçet's disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, 2019
Vertebral artery dissection and recurrent meningitis are rare complications in Behçet's disease. Behçet's disease may be associated with familial Mediterranean fever.
Hidehiro Ishikawa, Akihiro Shindo, Yuichiro Ii, Shoko Sakano, Masaru Asahi, Keita Matsuura, Dai Kishida, Maki Umino, Masayuki Maeda, Hidekazu Tomimoto   +9 more
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Living kidney transplantation between brothers with unrecognized renal amyloidosis as the first manifestation of familial Mediterranean fever: a case report

BMC Medical Genetics, 2017
Background Familial Mediterranean fever is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by recurrent episodes of fever and polyserositis and by the onset of reactive amyloid-associated amyloidosis. Amyloidosis due to familial Mediterranean fever can lead
Ramón Peces, Sara Afonso, Carlos Peces, Julián Nevado, Rafael Selgas   +4 more
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