PW01-028 – Developing a new severity score for FMF
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Introduction Severity is a basic feature that defines the prognosis of a disease. FMF presents with a variety of clinic and laboratory manifestations affecting severity, and evaluation of prognosis is an elusive task. Different severity scores have been previously proposed for FMF, and commonly used ones include Mor, Pras and Tel Hashomer severity scores however recent studies showed that there is no consistency among them.
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