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Inner Ear Involvement in Children with Familial Mediterranean Fever
Author(s) -
Abdülkadir Bucak,
Şahin Ulu,
Ayşegül Bükülmez,
Mustafa Tekin,
Abdullah Ayçiçek,
Reşit Köken,
Mustafa Solak
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the journal of international advanced otology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.518
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2148-3817
pISSN - 1308-7649
DOI - 10.5152/iao.2014.34
Subject(s) - medicine , familial mediterranean fever , inner ear , audiology , dermatology , pediatrics , anatomy , disease
OBJECTIVE: Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is the most common and best understood disease of hereditary periodic fever syndromes. Various degrees of sensorineural hearing loss can be seen in the progression of some hereditary periodic fever syndromes. There are very limited and controversial studies in the literature with regard to hearing loss in patients diagnosed with FMF. We aimed to evaluate cochlear function in children with FMF.

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