Validation of the new paediatric criteria for the diagnosis of familial Mediterranean fever: data from a mixed population of 100 children from the French reference centre for auto-inflammatory disorders

Abstract

The new paediatric Turkish criteria did not make a better contribution to FMF diagnosis than the Tel Hashomer criteria in our mixed population of French children while using an appropriate control group. However, if needed, they can be applied using at least three criteria, which slightly decreases their sensitivity but markedly increases their specificity.