The clinical significance of the Mediterranean fever gene MEFV variants in Castleman disease. [PDF]
Idiopathic Multicentric Castleman Disease, Thrombocytopenia, Anasarca, Fever, Reticulin Fibrosis, Organomegaly (iMCD-TAFRO) is a rare cytokine storm syndrome with high mortality. Pathogenesis of Castleman disease (CD) remain largely unknown. We aim to unravel the role of Mediterranean fever gene MEFV variants, the key gene variants implicated in ...
Du Y +18 more
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Vertebral artery dissection associated with familial Mediterranean fever and Behçet's disease [PDF]
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 +9 more
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Canakinumab as rescue therapy in familial Mediterranean fever refractory to conventional treatment
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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The aim of the current study was to determine the frequency of the Mediterranean fever (MEFV) gene pathogenic variants in 60 children diagnosed with familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) and to compare the phenotype-genotype correlation.
Battal F +8 more
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Reply to: "Hidradenitis suppurativa and Mediterranean fever gene mutations". [PDF]
Iannone M, Dini V, Oranges T.
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Familial Mediterranean Fever: Current Approaches to Diagnosis and Treatment
Familial Mediterranean fever is a typical monogenic disease with an autosomal recessive inheritance pattern; caused by mutations in the MEFV gene, which encodes the pyrin protein.
Mikhail M. Kostik +5 more
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Involvement of Mediterranean fever gene mutations in colchicine-responsive enterocolitis: a retrospective cohort study. [PDF]
Nakase H +21 more
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Autoinflammatory disease: clinical perspectives and therapeutic strategies
The molecular platforms of the innate immune system are essential to recognize pathologic external factors that are crucial to differentiate these danger signals from host motifs.
Atsushi Kawakami +4 more
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Familial Mediterranean fever: issues of diagnosis and treatment
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 +3 more
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A case report of a boy suffering from type 1 diabetes mellitus and familial Mediterranean fever
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 +4 more
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