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ArticleInternal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)2023

Two Cases of Familial Mediterranean Fever Involving MEFV Variants: The Importance of Differentiating the Diagnosis from COVID-19.

Tomohiro Nakayama, Yutaka Kozu

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Article in Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tomohiro NakayamaDivision of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Japan.
Yutaka KozuDivision of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Japan.
Nihon University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an inherited autoinflammatory disease associated with the MEFV gene. FMF is common in Mediterranean peoples but not highly recognized in Japan. We herein report two cases of Japanese FMF patients who were diagnosed by genetic testing for the MEFV gene during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Both patients presented with symptoms similar to COVID-19, which delayed the definitive diagnosis. Patients with a confirmed diagnosis of FMF may be eligible for physical, emotional, and financial benefits. Therefore, the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the importance of differentiating the diagnosis by genetic testing.

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COVID-19Familial Mediterranean FeverCOVID-19 TestingHumansMutationPandemicsPyrinMEFV protein, humanPyrinCOVID-19familial Mediterranean feverMEFV geneSARS-CoV-2

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PMID36450463
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