Familial Mediterranean fever: diagnosis and treatment
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Familial Mediterranean fever; diagnosis, treatment, and complications
Introduction Mediterranean fever is an autosomal recessive disease. Its features are intermittent attacks of painful inflammation, abdominal pain, fever, and arthritis. Full identification of the disease has been possible in the last 50 years. It is seen in Turkish, Armenian, Jewish (Arabs, Ashkenazi) and Mediterranean region ethnics. Its attacks take from a few hours to a few days of symptoms ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical pharmacology and therapy
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0869-5490
DOI: 10.32756/0869-5490-2020-2-56-67