Diseases

Familial Mediterranean Fever

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 encoding PYRIN result in autosomal recessive transmission; simple heterozygous, autosomal dominant form of the disease also exists with mutations in the same gene.

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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 encoding PYRIN result in autosomal recessive transmission; simple heterozygous, autosomal dominant form of the disease also exists with mutations in the same gene.

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Synonyms

35 entry terms
  • Benign Paroxysmal Peritonitis
  • Familial Paroxysmal Polyserositis
  • Mediterranean Fever, Familial
  • Periodic Disease
  • Periodic Disease, Wolff's
  • Periodic Peritonitis
  • Polyserositis, Familial Paroxysmal
  • Polyserositis, Recurrent
  • Recurrent Polyserositis
  • Wolff Periodic Disease
  • Wolff's Periodic Disease
  • Benign Paroxysmal Peritonitides
  • Disease, Periodic
  • Disease, Wolff Periodic
  • Disease, Wolff's Periodic
  • Diseases, Periodic
  • Familial Paroxysmal Polyserositides
  • Paroxysmal Peritonitides, Benign
  • Paroxysmal Peritonitis, Benign
  • Paroxysmal Polyserositides, Familial
  • Paroxysmal Polyserositis, Familial
  • Periodic Disease, Wolff
  • Periodic Disease, Wolffs
  • Periodic Diseases
  • Periodic Peritonitides
  • Peritonitides, Benign Paroxysmal
  • Peritonitides, Periodic
  • Peritonitis, Benign Paroxysmal
  • Peritonitis, Periodic
  • Polyserositides, Familial Paroxysmal
  • Polyserositides, Recurrent
  • Recurrent Polyserositides
  • Wolffs Periodic Disease
  • Familial Mediterranean Fever, Autosomal Dominant
  • Familial Mediterranean Fever, Autosomal Recessive

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34 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

a specific disease entity: do not use entry term PERIODIC DISEASE for periodically occurring disease (= PERIODICITY (IM) + disease (IM))

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History Note

2000 (1966)

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  1. C16w.320w.382w.625w

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QZ 50

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Familial Mediterranean Fever. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D010505. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D010505
  2. Familial Mediterranean Fever. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familial_Mediterranean_fever
  3. Familial Mediterranean Fever. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1144618