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SUBMITTER: Wu B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6517233 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wu Bin B Xu Ting T Li Youping Y Yin Xi X
The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 20181019
<h4>Background</h4>Familial Mediterranean fever, a hereditary auto-inflammatory disease, mainly affects ethnic groups living in the Mediterranean region. Early studies reported colchicine as a potential drug for preventing attacks of familial Mediterranean fever. For those people who are colchicine-resistant or intolerant, drugs such as rilonacept, anakinra, canakinumab, etanercept, infliximab, thalidomide and interferon-alpha might be beneficial. This is an updated version of the review.<h4>Obj ...[more]