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Evaluation of hearing in patients with familial Mediterranean fever

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Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a common and well-understood 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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  1. Department of Otolaryngology, Cumhuriyet University Medical School, Sivas, Turkey

    Kerem Polat, İsmail Önder Uysal & Suphi Müderris

  2. Department of Internal Medicine, Erciyes University Medical School, Kayseri, Turkey

    Soner Şenel

  3. Department of Otolaryngology, Erzincan Mengücek Gazi Training and Research Hospital, Erzincan, Turkey

    Cemil Güler

  4. Department of Otolaryngology, Sivas State Hospital, Sivas, Turkey

    Kasım Durmuş

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Polat, K., Uysal, İ.Ö., Şenel, S. et al. Evaluation of hearing in patients with familial Mediterranean fever. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 270, 2871–2874 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-013-2347-x

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