Familial Mediterranean Fever in children and adolescents in Georgia
Pagava, K.i.; Sarkisian, T.F.; Shonvadze, D.N.; Korniteli, I.A.; Airapetian, A.S.; Egiazarian, A.R.
Georgian Medical News 237: 99-102
2014
ISSN/ISBN: 1512-0112 PMID: 25617110 Document Number: 673718
There are presented preliminary results of the analysis of the materials of the register of children and adolescents suffering from Familial Mediterranean Fever in Georgia. The register was created by the "snow ball" method. For today it contains data on 138 patients, 56 (40.6%) males, 82 (59.4%) females, 86 (62.3%) less than 10 year old, 52 (37.7%) 10-18 year old. Almost in all patients the Armenian roots were revealed, both from maternal and paternal sides. Among the MEFV gene mutations M694V (mainly) and also V726A and M680I were the most common ones.