Three family members with familial mediterranean fever carrying the M694V mutation showed different clinical presentations

Internal Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 1765-1768

  Erten, Sukran ^a   Erzurum, Cahide ^a   Altunoglu, Alpaslan ^a  

^a Ataturk Education and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Familial Mediterranean fever; MEFV gene mutation; Phenotype genotype relation

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANKYLOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DYSPNEA; ERYTHEMA; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FAMILY; FEMALE; FEVER; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; JOINT RADIOGRAPHY; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MEFV GENE; MICROALBUMINURIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SACROILIITIS; THORAX PAIN; UREA BLOOD LEVEL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; ERYSIPELAS; ERYTHEMA; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; SACROILIITIS; SIBLINGS;

EID: 84863526052     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.51.7537     Document Type: Article

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