Familial Mediterranean fever: An association with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 987-991

  Rimar, Doron ^a,b,c   Rosner, Itzhak ^b,c   Rozenbaum, Michael ^b,c   Zuckerman, Eli ^a,c  

^a CARMEL MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Familial Mediterranean fever; FMF; Metabolic syndrome; NAFLD; NASH; Non alcoholic fatty liver disease; Non alcoholic steatohepatitis

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CIRRHOTIC COAGULOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LIVER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEATOSIS; TREATMENT DURATION;

AGE OF ONSET; BIOPSY; COHORT STUDIES; COLCHICINE; COMORBIDITY; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959592241     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: 14349949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-011-1718-1     Document Type: Article

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