Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is a hereditary autoinflammatory disease with autosomal recessive inheritance pattern often seen around the Mediterranean Sea. It is characterized by recurrent episodes of fever and polyserositis and rash. Recently, MEFV gene analysis determines the definitive diagnosis of FMF. In this study, we analyzed 12 MEFV gene mutations in more than 200 FMF patients, pr...

OBJECTIVE A high prevalence of Behçet's disease (BD) among familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) patients has been described recently and a weak association of BD and certain MEFV gene mutations, originally linked to FMF, has been reported in an ethnically mixed population from France. We further investigated the presence of MEFV mutations in BD patients from Turkey, a country with a high prevalen...

Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is a hereditary autoinflammatory disease with autosomal recessive inheritance pattern often seen around the Mediterranean Sea. It is characterized by recurrent episodes of fever and polyserositis and rash. Recently, MEFV gene analysis determines the definitive diagnosis of FMF. In this study, we analyzed 12 MEFV gene mutations in more than 200 FMF patients, pr...

Neutrophilic Lobular Panniculitis as an Expression of aWidened Spectrumof Familial Mediterranean Fever Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is considered to be an autosomal recessive disease, though it is controversial.1-3 The marenostrin-encoding fever gene (MEFV) is responsible for FMF. The most frequent mutation is M694V, which represents a genetic risk factor for development of amyloidosis1 a...

Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive disease (MEFV gene) characterized by recurrent fever and inflammatory serositis. Although majority of patients have random pattern of attacks, some reports described precipitating factors. A literature review indicated that FMF attacks occurring only during menstruation are rarely seen. We report the cases of three patients with sever...