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Familial Mediterranean fever
Definition
Familial Mediterranean fever is a disorder passed down through families (inherited), which involves repeated fevers and inflammation that often affects the lining of the abdomen, chest, or joints.
Familial Mediterranean fever
Alternate Names : Familial paroxysmal polyserositis, Periodic peritonitis, Recurrent polyserositis, Benign paroxysmal peritonitis, Periodic disease, Periodic fever
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Familial Mediterranean fever
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What is familial Mediterranean fever?
Familial Mediterranean fever is an inherited condition characterized by recurrent episodes of painful inflammation in the abdomen, chest, or joints.
Familial Mediterranean fever is caused by a mutation in the MEFV gene. The condition usually affects people of Mediterranean ancestry, especially non-Ashkenazi (Sephardic) Jews, Armenians, and Arabs, ...
Symptoms of FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER
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Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF)An inherited disorder featuring short recurring crises of severe abdominal pain and bouts of fever. Other symptoms include arthritis, chest pain from inflammation of the lung cavity, and skin rashes.
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Familial Mediterranean Fever
Definition Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an inherited disorder of the inflammatory response characterized by recurring attacks of fever, accompanied by intense pain in the abdomen, chest, or joints.
Familial Mediterranean fever
Introduction
Familial Mediterranean fever is an inherited inflammatory disorder usually occurring in people of Mediterranean origin — including Sephardic Jews, Arabs, Armenians and Turks — ...
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a rare, inherited, inflammatory disease characterized by recurrent attacks of fever and acute inflammation of the membranes that line the abdominal cavity (peritonitis) and/or the lungs (pleuritis); ...
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Familial Mediterranean fever, an inherited condition that often causes fever and swelling in the abdomen or lung
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Familial Mediterranean fever
Family history, fever and peritonitis often accompany bouts of pain
Starts in childhood or adolescence ...
Patients with familial Mediterranean fever sometimes can be treated with a medicine called Colchicine (which is often used in patients with gout) to help reduce the frequency and severity of symptoms.
Familial Mediterranean fever ... hives
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Familial paroxysmal polyserositis
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Familial Mediterranean fever
Symptoms TOP
If you experience one or more of these, contact your doctor.
Diseases in this category include familial mediterranean fever and the familial amyloidotic neuropathies, which are a rare group of autosomal dominant neuropathies of autonomic and peripheral nerves. The precursor proteins are; ...
An obsolete term introduced to describe the intermittent febrile episodes seen in disease later recognized and named familial Mediterranean fever. [CancerWEB]
Perforation of Stomach or Intestines ...
Secondary amyloidosis (also called AA) occurs in association with another disease such as rheumatoid arthritis, familial Mediterranean fever or other chronic infection or inflammatory disease.
Mediterraneans: thalassemia and familial Mediterranean fever
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Actinomycosis
Esophageal stricture - benign
Familial Mediterranean fever
Aging changes in the male reproductive system
Allergies and genetics
ABO incompatibility
Keratosis pilaris
Movement - unpredictable or jerky ...
Mediterranean fever may be caused by bites from dog ticks, or may be inherited. While the type caused by bites tends to respond to choline, inherited or familial Mediterranean fever is very difficult to treat, and peritonitis may recur.
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Tuberculosis
Connective tissue disease (for example, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus)
Rarely: heart attack, acute pancreatitis, mesothelioma, sarcoidosis, yellow-nail syndrome, familial Mediterranean fever.
Lung diseases, such as LAM (lymphangioleiomyomatosis) or asbestosis (as-bes-TO-sis)
Inflammatory bowel disease
Familial Mediterranean fever, an inherited condition that often causes fever and swelling in the abdomen or lungs ...
Secondary amyloidosis occurs as a result of another illness. Familial Mediterranean Fever is a form of familial (inherited) amyloidosis. Amyloidosis treatment involves treating the underlying illness and correcting organ failure.
Other possible causes include systemic vasculitides and autoinflammatory diseases (ie, Familial Mediterranean Fever).
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