Authors: Kerem Polat İsmail Önder Uysal Soner Şenel Cemil Güler Kasım Durmuş Suphi Müderris
Publish Date: 2013/01/11
Volume: 270, Issue: 11, Pages: 2871-2874
Abstract
Familial Mediterranean fever FMF is a common and wellunderstood hereditary periodic fever syndrome Hereditary periodic fever syndromes include a group of multisystem diseases characterized by recurrent fever attacks with inflammation affecting skin joints and some other tissues These are FMF tumor necrosis factor receptor tumor necrosis factor receptor associated periodic syndrome hyperimmunglobulinemia D syndrome Muckle–Wells syndrome and familial cold urticaria In literature it is determined that some of these diseases cause hearing loss In light of the foregoing we thought that FMF patients may have the same type of subclinical hearing loss and therefore the hearing ability of these patients was evaluated with otoacoustic emission and high frequency audiometry tests
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