Familial Mediterranean fever: misdiagnosis and diagnostic delay in Turkey.

CONCLUSIONS: Misdiagnosis frequency is still significantly high and diagnostic delay is long even in a cohort of patients registered after year 2000 in Turkey. Atypical presentation with solo joint attacks, especially among patients with early onset, seems to play a significant role in misdiagnosis and delay in diagnosis. PMID: 31694753 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology - Category: Rheumatology Tags: Clin Exp Rheumatol Source Type: research