Successful treatment with anti-tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF)-alpha of proteinuria in a patient with familial mediterranean fever (FMF) resistant to colchicine: Anti-TNF drugs and FMF

Rheumatology International

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1095-1097

  Erten, S ^a   Erten, S F ^b   Altunoglu, A ^a  

^a ATATURK TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b Ankara Onkoloji Education and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Anti TNF (tumor necrosis factor) alpha treatment; Familial mediterranean fever (FMF); Proteinuria

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; ETANERCEPT; INDOMETACIN; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG EFFICACY; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; SACROILIITIS;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; COLCHICINE; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; PROTEINURIA; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84863532328     PISSN: 01728172     EISSN: 1437160X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00296-011-1855-5     Document Type: Article

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