Nuh Atas, Berkan Armagan, Erdal Bodakci, Hasan Satis, Alper Sari, Nazife Sule Yasar Bilge, Reyhan Bilici Salman, Gozde Kubra Yardımcı, Hakan Babaoglu, Aslihan Avanoglu Guler, Hazan Karadeniz, Levent Kilic, Mehmet Akif Ozturk, Berna Goker, Seminur Haznedaroglu, Umut Kalyoncu, Timucin Kasifoglu, Abdurrahman Tufan
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is characterized by recurrent short-lived/self-limiting inflammatory attacks. Besides these, a substantial number of patients with FMF present with a variety of other inflammatory diseases; however, this issue has not been systematically studied previously. Hence, we aimed to investigate the frequency of inflammatory comorbid diseases in a large FMF cohort. All patients were recruited from "FMF in Central Anatolia (FiCA) Cohort", comprising 971 (mean age 35.3 ± 12 years, 61...
January 2020: Rheumatology International