Ocular inflammatory diseases in children with familial Mediterranean fever: a true association or a coincidence?

Pinar Ozge Avar-Aydin; Nilgün Çakar; Zeynep Birsin Özçakar; Nilüfer Yalçındağ; Fatoş Yalçınkaya

doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10792-021-02111-6

doi.org/10.1007/s10792-021-02111-6

Ocular inflammatory diseases in children with familial Mediterranean fever: a true association or a coincidence?

Pinar Ozge Avar-Aydin

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Nilgün Çakar

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..., Fatoş Yalçınkaya

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International Ophthalmology1.60

Volume: 42, Issue: 4, Pages: 1249 - 1257

Published: Nov 16, 2021

Abstract

To describe the characteristics of patients with familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) with concurrent ocular inflammatory disease (OID) and to analyze possible relations between them.Clinical data were extracted from electronic medical records. Additionally, the medical literature on OIDs reported in patients with FMF was reviewed.Among 512 pediatric patients with FMF, five cases were found to have OIDs: bilateral anterior chronic uveitis,...