Does breast-feeding affect severity of familial Mediterranean fever?
✍ Scribed by Balahan Makay; Erbil Ünsal
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 99 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0770-3198
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## 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.
In their recent article, Cazeneuve et al investigated the diagnostic value of MEFV gene analysis in populations classically affected with familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) (1). They concluded that a search for very few mutations is highly sensitive in the molecular diagnosis of MEFV-related FMF.