The article Anakinra in familial Mediterranean fever: a profile of its use, written by Arnold Lee and Hannah A. Blair, was originally published electronically SpringerLink on 18 January 2021 without open access.

Introduction Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive disease, mainly affecting Jews, Armenians, Turks, Arabs and other groups living around Mediterranean basin. Major symptoms of disease are recurrent periodic fever accompanied by serositis. The disease is usually diagnosed at ages less than 20 years. Onset of the disease at older age can rarely occur. Symptoms related to F...

Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a systemic auto-inflammatory disorder characterized by seemingly unprovoked recurrent episodes of fever and localized inflammation usually involving the peritoneum, pleura and joints accompanied by a marked acute-phase response. The disease primarily affects populations living around the Mediterranean basin ( Jewish, Armenian, Arab, Turkish populations) but...

Introduction Familial Mediterranean Fever ( FMF ) is an autosomal recessive inherited disease mostly wide spread in the Mediterranean basin. It is manifested by a fever associated with paroxystic painful attacks. The prognosis is determined by the occurrence of renal amyloidosis. The purpose of our work is to establish a genotypephenotype correlation between the MEFV gene mutation and the expre...

Background/question Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is a hereditary inflammatory disorder characterised by self-resolving attacks of fever and serositis common in populations from Mediterranean ancestry [1]. Mutations affecting MEFV gene is believed to be responsible for the disease phenotype[1]. The correlation between the genotype and phenotype is not very strong, indicating the presence o...

Introduction Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF)(MIM 249100) is a hereditary autoinflammatory disorder characterized by episodes of inflammation in the absence of high-titer autoantibodies or antigen-specific T cells. The Mediterranean fever (MEFV) gene(OMIM 608107) located on chromosome 16p13.3, which encodes the 781-amino-acid protein pyrin, is the causative gene for this monogenic Mendelian d...

Introduction Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive disease, mainly affecting Jews, Armenians, Turks, Arabs and other groups living around Mediterranean basin. Major symptoms of disease are recurrent periodic fever accompained by serositis. The disease is usually diagnosed at ages less than 20 years. Onset of the disease atolder age can rarely occur. Symptoms related to FM...

A 38-year-old woman presented with 2 days history of left-flank pain. She had similar episodes of abdominal pain as well as chest pain several times, but symptoms disappeared spontaneously. Each time she developed pain, there was no fever. After ruling out common causes of recurrent abdominal pain, familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) was considered as a potential diagnosis. Genetic tests reveale...

Nephrogenic adenoma, also referred to nephrogenic metaplasia, is a benign proliferative lesion of urothelium, usually associated with chronic physical stimuli or inflammation. Familial Mediterranean fever is an inherited autosomal recessive disease characterized by recurrent short episodes of fever. The site of mutation is found in MEFV gene which controls inflammatory responses. We have experi...

Introduction PFAPA syndrome is the most common autoinflammatory fever disorder in childhood, characterized by recurrent fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis and adenitis. Mutations in the MEFV and NLRP3 genes are known to cause syndromes with PFAPA overlapping symptoms (Familial Mediterranean Fever and Cryopyrin-Associated Periodic Syndrome), which are rarely reported in patients from Slovenia.