Clinical features of Familial Mediterranean Fever: An Italian overview

European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages 51-53

  Manna, Raffaele ^a   Cerquaglia, C ^a   Curigliano, V ^a   Fonnesu, C ^a   Giovinale, M ^a   Verrecchia, E ^a   Montalto, M ^a   De Socio, G ^a   Soriano, A ^a   La Regina, M ^a   Gasbarrini, G ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autoinflammatory disease; Colchicine; Familial Mediterranean Fever; Inflammasome; Trigger factors

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLD EXPOSURE; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; ITALY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER TOXICITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN FEVER GENE; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MICROALBUMINURIA; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; ONSET AGE; ORCHITIS; PHYSICAL STRESS; PLEURAL PAIN; SPLENOMEGALY; THORAX PAIN; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYLOIDOSIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLCHICINE; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 65349131805     PISSN: 11283602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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