The effect of colchicine and disease severity on physical growth in children with familial Mediterranean fever.
Clin Rheumatol
; 35(6): 1603-7, 2016 Jun.
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| ID: mdl-26384820
This study aimed to investigate the effects of colchicine on growth parameters in familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) patients. Fifty-one (29 girls, 22 boys) FMF patients were enrolled in the study. All of the patients were in the prepubertal stage and had not received colchicine treatment before the study. Anthropometric measurements, demographic features, clinical findings at diagnosis and during periods of attacks of FMF, disease activity, frequency of exacerbations, colchicine dosage, and weight and height measurements were recorded at an interval of 6 months. Height, weight, and body mass index standard deviation scores and Z-scores were calculated. The mean height standard deviation score (HSDS) was significantly increased from -0.64 ± 1.20 to -0.26 ± 1.07 (p < 0.001), the mean weight standard deviation score (WSDS) was significantly increased from -0.60 ± 1.03 to -0.45 ± 0.98 (p = 0.008), and the mean body mass index standard deviation score was decreased from -0.33 ± 1.06 to -0.47 ± 0.98 (p = 0.128) at 1 year after colchicine treatment compared with before initiation of treatment. In patients who had no FMF attacks during colchicine treatment, height and weight were significantly increased at 1 year (HSDS: p < 0.001 WSDS: p = 0.002), but in patients who had recurrent attacks, height and weight did not change (HSDS: p = 0.051, WSDS: p = 0.816). Even when subclinical inflammation is present, preventing attacks of FMF with colchicine allows growth to continue. However, suppression of subclinical inflammation and control of attacks of FMF are required for weight gain.
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Colección:
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Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Fiebre Mediterránea Familiar
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Aumento de Peso
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Desarrollo Infantil
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Colchicina
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Inflamación
Tipo de estudio:
Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
País/Región como asunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Clin Rheumatol
Año:
2016
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Turquía
Pais de publicación:
Alemania