Familial Mediterranean fever

Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autoinflammatory disorder characterized by recurrent short episodes of fever and serositis resulting in pain in the abdomen, chest, joints and muscles.

Seizure

Seizures are an intermittent abnormality of the central nervous system due to a sudden, excessive, disorderly discharge of cerebral neurons and characterized clinically by some combination of disturbance of sensation, loss of consciousness, impairment of psychic function, or convulsive movements. The term epilepsy is used to describe chronic, recurrent seizures.


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20306050
 FEMALE Young Adult
Posterior reversible encephalopathy during an attack of familial Mediterranean fever.
Ulasl AM, Kutlu G, Kocaturk O, Ozcakar L.
Rheumatol Int. 2012;32(6):1779-81.
Reported here is a 19-year-old female patient with familial Mediterranean fever who was seen for altered mental status and seizures.