Rheumatoid Arthritis and Familial Mediterranean Fever or Sacroiliitis Accompanied by FMF

The coexistence of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) has been rarely seen in case reports in the literature. Herein, we wanted to present a patient who had been followed up and treated as RA, but on investigation we concluded that he really had FMF and its joint compla...

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Autores principales: Şahin, Ali, Yetişgin, Alparslan, Şahin, Mehtap
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3881508/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24455383
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/636713
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description The coexistence of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) has been rarely seen in case reports in the literature. Herein, we wanted to present a patient who had been followed up and treated as RA, but on investigation we concluded that he really had FMF and its joint complaints associated with sacroiliitis. Recovery was achieved by etanercept administered as if he was an RA patient.
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spelling pubmed-38815082014-01-20 Rheumatoid Arthritis and Familial Mediterranean Fever or Sacroiliitis Accompanied by FMF Şahin, Ali Yetişgin, Alparslan Şahin, Mehtap Case Rep Rheumatol Case Report The coexistence of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) has been rarely seen in case reports in the literature. Herein, we wanted to present a patient who had been followed up and treated as RA, but on investigation we concluded that he really had FMF and its joint complaints associated with sacroiliitis. Recovery was achieved by etanercept administered as if he was an RA patient. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3881508/ /pubmed/24455383 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/636713 Text en Copyright © 2013 Ali Şahin et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Rheumatoid Arthritis and Familial Mediterranean Fever or Sacroiliitis Accompanied by FMF
title Rheumatoid Arthritis and Familial Mediterranean Fever or Sacroiliitis Accompanied by FMF
title_full Rheumatoid Arthritis and Familial Mediterranean Fever or Sacroiliitis Accompanied by FMF
title_fullStr Rheumatoid Arthritis and Familial Mediterranean Fever or Sacroiliitis Accompanied by FMF
title_full_unstemmed Rheumatoid Arthritis and Familial Mediterranean Fever or Sacroiliitis Accompanied by FMF
title_short Rheumatoid Arthritis and Familial Mediterranean Fever or Sacroiliitis Accompanied by FMF
title_sort rheumatoid arthritis and familial mediterranean fever or sacroiliitis accompanied by fmf
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3881508/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24455383
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/636713
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