Remission of progressive renal failure in familial Mediterranean fever during colchicine treatment.
- 1 May 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 60 (5) , 477-479
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.60.5.477
Abstract
Colchicine was administered to a 12 year old girl with familial Mediterranean fever and progressive renal insufficiency. There was immediate resolution of abdominal attacks together with a dramatic fall in the serum creatinine concentration and the degree of proteinuria. At the same time her severely impaired growth was stimulated.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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