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SUBMITTER: El Hasbani G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6794843 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
El Hasbani Georges G Jawad Ali A Uthman Imad I
Orphanet journal of rare diseases 20191015 1
<h4>Background</h4>Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF), an autoinflammatory disease, is characterized by self-limited inflammatory attacks of fever and polyserositis along with high acute phase response. Although colchicine remains the mainstay in treatment, intolerance and resistance in a certain portion of patients have been posing a problem for physicians.<h4>Main body</h4>Like many autoimmune and autoinflammatory diseases, many colchicine-resistant or intolerant FMF cases have been successful ...[more]