Clinical disease among patients heterozygous for familial mediterranean fever
✍ Scribed by Dina Marek-Yagel; Yackov Berkun; Shai Padeh; Almogit Abu; Haike Reznik-Wolf; Avi Livneh; Mordechai Pras; Elon Pras
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 65 KB
- Volume
- 60
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3591
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Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessively inherited disease affecting patients of the Mediterranean basin. FMF is characterized by recurrent episodes of fever accompanied with topical signs of inflammation. Some patients can develop a renal amyloidosis associated (AA) amyloidosi
## Abstract ## Objective Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal‐recessive disorder that is common in Armenian, Turkish, Arab, and Sephardic Jewish populations. Its clinical diagnosis is one of exclusion, with the patients displaying nonspecific symptoms related to serosal inflammation.