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Response to ‘How to define disease severity accurately in patients with familial Mediterranean fever’

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  1. Department of Pediatric Rheumatology, Istanbul University Medical School, Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey

    Nuray Aktay Ayaz & Ayşe Tanatar

  2. Department of Pediatric Rheumatology, University of Health Sciences, Kanuni Sultan Süleyman Research and Training Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

    Şerife Gül Karadağ & Hafize Emine Sönmez

  3. Department of Pediatric Rheumatology, University of Health Sciences, Zeynep Kamil Research and Training Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

    Mustafa Çakan

  4. Department of Pediatrics, Istanbul University Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey

    Gonca Keskindemirci

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Aktay Ayaz, N., Tanatar, A., Karadağ, Ş.G. et al. Response to ‘How to define disease severity accurately in patients with familial Mediterranean fever’. Rheumatol Int 41, 239–240 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00296-020-04656-8

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