a 6.5 yr old girl was admitted with a category of clinical signs and symptoms including recurrent gross hematuria, ab-dominal pain, and fever. after different examinations including genetic analysis, the disease was diagnosed as familial mediterranean fever (fmf). it is suggested to consider fmf as a rare cause of recurrent gross hematuria, which is re-sponsive to colchicine treatment.

familialmediterranean fever (fmf) is a hereditary syndrome characterized by recurrent attacks of fever and serositis. liver involvement in fmf has been reported in association with amyloidosis or rarely with vasculitis.in this report, a 32 year-old man with recurrent attacks of fever, abdominal pain and arthralgia is described who had moderate increase in liver transaminases only during disease...

Familial Mediterranean fever, an autosomal recessive disorder, is a member of the periodic fever syndromes, and considered to be the most common cause of recurrent febrile episodes in children. It is important to understand the disorder as familial Mediterranean fever falls on a spectrum of various presentations; the recurrent episodes of familial Mediterranean fever may be so severe that the q...

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objective(s):familial mediterranean fever (fmf), an inherited autosomal recessive disorder, is frequently present among individuals of mediterranean origin. differences in the clinical manifestations of fmf between different ethnic groups have been documented. the aim of the present study was to determine the most common characteristics of fmf and the relationship between clinical findings and ...

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 mefv ...

case presentation a ten-year-old iranian boy was referred to our department with history of recurrent abdominal pain followed by fever, chills, arthralgia and scrotal edema. he suffered from hematuria and gastrointestinal bleeding. his physical exam revealed fever (axillary temperature: 38.7°c), hypertension (150/90 mmhg), hepatomegaly (liver span: 13 cm), orchitis and subcutaneous painful nodu...

background: systemic-onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sojia) is an autoinflammatory disease with complex genetic trait starts in children less than 16 years of age with fever and cutaneous rash. despite, the main genetic factors that may play a role in sojia have not yet been identified. high level of interleukin-1beta in the blood of sojia patients has been reported. the production and sec...

objective(s):familial mediterranean fever (fmf) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of fever accompanied by peritonitis, pleurisy, and arthritis. fmf affects mainly mediterranean populations and is caused by mutations in the familial mediterranean fever (mefv) gene. the aim of this study was to identify the frequency and distribution of mefv mutations in irani...

Familial Mediterranean fever is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by sporadic, paroxysmal attacks of fever and serosal inflammation. In Familial Mediterranean fever, peritoneal effusion during abdominal attacks is usually mild, is not detected by clinical evaluation, and disappears during clinical remission. Chronic ascites has rarely been described in patients with Familial Mediter...