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.

Arthralgia

Joint pain.


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PMID (PMCID)
29490685
(5831228)
 FEMALE Child
A novel single variant in the MEFV gene causing Mediterranean fever and Behcet's disease: acase report.
Zerkaoui M, Laarabi FZ, Ajhoun Y, Chkirate B, Sefiani A.
J Med Case Rep. 2018;12(1):53.
Familial Mediterranean fever is an autoinflammatory disease of unknown etiology, characterized clinically by recurrent attacks of sudden-onset fever with arthralgia and/or thoracoabdominal pain and pathogenetically by autosomal recessive inheritance due to a mutation in the MEFV gene.
23928237
 MALE Adult
Myositis in a patient with familial Mediterranean fever and spondyloarthritis successfully treated with anakinra.
Estublier C, Stankovic Stojanovic K, Bergerot JF, Broussolle C, Seve P.
Joint Bone Spine. 2013;80(6):645-9.
We here describe the case of a 39-year-old man, with a history of arthritis, arthralgias, and sacroiliitis in the course of a familial Mediterranean fever.