BACKGROUND Familial Mediterranean Fever and celiac disease are both related to auto-inflammation and/or auto-immunity and they share some common clinical features such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, bloating and flatulence. Objectives We aimed to determine the association of these two diseases, if present. METHODS Totally 112 patients diagnosed with Familial Mediterranean Fever and 32 cases as ...

came to be applied to the diagnosis of this disease, Bruce and others had long surmised that the geographical distribution of Mediterranean fever was much wider than is indicated by its name. Cases which clinically resembled Malta fever have been for long described by observers in America under such names as typho-malarial fever, and malarial continued fever. And in India anomalous forms of con...

Introduction Mediterranean fever is an autosomal recessive disease. Its features are intermittent attacks of painful inflammation, abdominal pain, fever, and arthritis. Full identification of the disease has been possible in the last 50 years. It is seen in Turkish, Armenian, Jewish (Arabs, Ashkenazi) and Mediterranean region ethnics. Its attacks take from a few hours to a few days of symptoms ...

Introduction Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an inherited autosomal recessive disorder, ethnically restricted and commonly found among individuals of Mediterranean descent, caused by MEditerranean FeVer gene (MEFV) mutations on the chromosome 16. It is the most frequent periodic febrile syndrome among autoinflammatory syndromes. Eighty % of patients with FMF have MEFV mutations, while aro...

Introduction Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomalrecessive disorder characterized by recurrent attacks of fever and serositis common in eastern Mediterranean population. Over 160 mutations have been identified in MEFV gene responsible for FMF. The most common mutations in MEFV gene are E148Q, M694I, M694V, V726A and M680I. The distribution pattern of MEFV mutation along the Medite...

BACKGROUND 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. Behçet's disease is an inflammatory disease characterized by recurrent oral and genital aphthous ulc...

background: blood neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (nlr) and mean platelet volume (mpv) both have been used as a simple marker of inflammation in many disorders. here, we aimed to investigate the relationship between nlr, mpv, and familial mediterranean fever (fmf). materials and methods: in this retrospective study, the fi les of fmf patients in pediatric rheumatology outpatient clinic were revi...