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Arch Dis Child. 1985 May;60(5):477-9. doi: 10.1136/adc.60.5.477.

Remission of progressive renal failure in familial Mediterranean fever during colchicine treatment.

Archives of disease in childhood

T Herlin, K Storm, B Hamborg-Petersen

PMID: 4015155 PMCID: PMC1777329 DOI: 10.1136/adc.60.5.477
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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.

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