Familial Mediterranean fever in small children in Turkey

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Fatos Yalcinkaya¹  Z.Birsin Ozcakar¹  Atilla H. Elhan¹  Murat Tanyildiz¹ 

关键词: Familial Mediterranean fever;    small children;    diagnostic delay;    Pediatric;    familial Mediterranean fever;   

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学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Pacini Editore SpA

【 摘 要 】

OBJECTIVES: Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive disease, characterised by recurrent, self limited attacks of fever with serositis. The aim of our study was to describe the demographic, clinical and genetic features of FMF patients who had early disease onset and to compare them with late onset patients. Our second aim was to investigate the factors associated with delay in diagnosis. METHODS: The study group consisted of recently diagnosed FMF patients who came to routine follow-up visits between January and July 2009. Patients were divided into two groups according to age of disease onset (Group I: ≤3 years of age; Group II: >3 years of age). In the second part, patients were analysed according to the duration of delay in diagnosis. RESULTS: There were 83 patients in group I and 73 patients in Group II. Median delay in diagnosis was 4 years in Group I and 2 years in Group II (p

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