Behçet Disease (BD) in two siblings affected with Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF)
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Their medical history of recurrent fever attacks started at the age of 14 and 6 months respectively. Fever was accompanied by cervical adenopathy, severe exudative pharyngitis, oral aphtosis, abdominal pain and diarrhoea, sometimes with bloody stools. At the age of 10 and 9 years, screening for autoinflammatory disorders was performed revealing a single mutated FMF gene (E148Q). Since they fulfilled Tel Hashomer criteria, colchicine was started.
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