Familial Mediterranean Fever
"Familial Mediterranean Fever" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A group of HEREDITARY AUTOINFLAMMATION DISEASES, characterized by recurrent fever, abdominal pain, headache, rash, PLEURISY; and ARTHRITIS. ORCHITIS; benign MENINGITIS; and AMYLOIDOSIS may also occur. Homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations in marenostrin gene result in autosomal recessive transmission; simple heterozygous, autosomal dominant form of the disease.
| Descriptor ID |
D010505
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C16.320.382.625
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| Concept/Terms |
Familial Mediterranean Fever- Familial Mediterranean Fever
- Familial Mediterranean Fever, Autosomal Recessive
- Familial Paroxysmal Polyserositis
- Familial Paroxysmal Polyserositides
- Paroxysmal Polyserositides, Familial
- Paroxysmal Polyserositis, Familial
- Polyserositides, Familial Paroxysmal
- Mediterranean Fever, Familial
- Periodic Disease
- Disease, Periodic
- Diseases, Periodic
- Periodic Diseases
- Wolff's Periodic Disease
- Wolffs Periodic Disease
- Periodic Peritonitis
- Periodic Peritonitides
- Peritonitides, Periodic
- Peritonitis, Periodic
- Polyserositis, Familial Paroxysmal
- Polyserositis, Recurrent
- Recurrent Polyserositis
- Polyserositides, Recurrent
- Recurrent Polyserositides
- Wolff Periodic Disease
- Disease, Wolff Periodic
- Benign Paroxysmal Peritonitis
- Benign Paroxysmal Peritonitides
- Paroxysmal Peritonitides, Benign
- Paroxysmal Peritonitis, Benign
- Peritonitides, Benign Paroxysmal
- Peritonitis, Benign Paroxysmal
- Periodic Disease, Wolff's
- Disease, Wolff's Periodic
- Periodic Disease, Wolff
- Periodic Disease, Wolffs
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Gomez LR, Mellado RH. Late presentation of familial mediterranean fever: a case report. Bol Asoc Med P R. 2010 Jul-Sep; 102(3):69-71.