Familial Mediterranean Fever: Current Approaches to Diagnosis and Treatment

• Main Authors: Mikhail M. Kostik (Author), Olga V. Zhogova (Author), Natalia V. Lagunova (Author), Sergey V. Ivanovskiy (Author), Oksana L. Kolobova (Author), Larisa N. Melnikova (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: "Paediatrician" Publishers LLC, 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Familial Mediterranean fever is a typical monogenic disease with an autosomal recessive inheritance pattern; caused by mutations in the MEFV gene, which encodes the pyrin protein. It is a relatively rare pathology in the practice of paediatricians and rheumatologists of the Russian Federation. The a...