Familial Mediterranean Fever Presenting with Recurrent Aseptic Meningitis: A Case Report

Cerebral aneurysm presenting with aseptic meningitis: a case report

INTRODUCTION This case highlights the potential importance of new-onset headache, even in the absence of other worrisome features, in a patient with a cerebral aneurysm. CASE PRESENTATION A 61-year-old Caucasian woman presented with nonspecific insidious onset of headache, a superior cerebellar artery aneurysm and cerebrospinal fluid lymphocytosis. She had a subarachnoid hemorrhage 21 days la...

Patient with Recurrent Polyserositis (Familial Mediterranean Fever).

Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a hereditary autosomal recessive ,systemic, auto-inflammatory disorder characterized by sporadic, unpredictable attacks of fever and serosal inflammation. FMF is caused by mutations in MEFV, a gene located on the short arm of chromosome 16 (16p13) which encodes a protein 'Pyrin'. The disorder has been given various names including familial paroxysmal polyse...

Genetic Analysis of Southwestern Iranian Patients with Familial Mediterranean Fever

Background: Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of self-limited fever and serosal tissues inflammation. Methods: To evaluate clinical symptoms and common genetic mutations in southwestern Iranian patients with FMF, 20 unrelated patients were enrolled in this study based on clinical criteria. A panel of 12 common ME...

Subtalar arthritis as a presenting symptom of Familial Mediterranean fever: case report and literature review.

Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal, recessive disease affecting mainly people of Mediterranean origin. The primary pattern of FMF is acute, self-resolving periodic attacks of high-grade fever, accompanied by either peritonitis, pleuritis, or arthritis and sometimes typical ankle rash that simulates erysipelas. Rare manifestations, such as pericarditis or massive knee effusion, h...

[Report of a case of familial Mediterranean fever].