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Familial Mediterranean fever in the colchicine era: The fate of one family

✍ Scribed by Zemer, Deborah ;Livneh, Avi ;Pras, Mordechai ;Sohar, Ezra

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1993
Tongue
English
Weight
497 KB
Volume
45
Category
Article
ISSN
0148-7299

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✦ Synopsis

In order to demonstrate the effect of prophylactic colchicine treatment on the natural history of familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), a family is presented with 6 out of 9 siblings affected by FMF. Each patient represents a different stage of the amyloidotic kidney disease of FMF a n d the effect of continuous colchicine treatment on its course. Considered together, the members of this family present an almost complete clinical, genetic, and behavioral picture of the disease.

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