A young woman with fever and polyserositis caused by familial Mediterranean fever

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A young woman with fever and polyserositis caused by familial Mediterranean fever

9 Mar 2023

She has identified on blood cultures twice, and were attributed to the returned to her baseline strength and nutritional status, and has impact of her EDS on the integrity of the bowel wall leading to stopped all other medications. [...] Discussion infertility was common and was thought to be caused by obstruction of fallopian tubes in females and testicular amyl- Familial Mediterranean fever is the most common monogenic oidosis in males.2,3 autoinflammatory disorder; it is characterized by self-limited Familial Mediterranean fever is common in people of Ashkenazi episodes of fever, polyserositis and elevated inflammatory Jewish d. [...] Known risk factors include family The disease manifests as recurrent bouts of fever, abdominal history of FMF, present in 30%–50% of people with the condition, pain and chest pain that start abruptly and peak soon after and belonging to an at-risk ethnic group.6 More than 95% of onset, last for 1–4 days and then resolve spontaneously. [...] diagnosis, unnecessary surgeries and prolonged hospital admis- Contributors: All of the authors contributed to the conception and sions.4,6,10 Delays in diagnosis likely occur because of the lack of design of the article. [...] All of the specificity in symptoms, and the relapsing and remitting pattern authors revised the manuscript critically for important intellectual of disease.
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