Familial Mediterranean fever
Familial Mediterranean fever: Introduction
Familial Mediterranean fever: A rare inherited condition characterized by recurrent fever and inflammation. The inflammation usually involves the stomach, lungs or joints.
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causes, and treatments of Familial Mediterranean fever is available below.
Symptoms of Familial Mediterranean fever
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Home Diagnostic Testing
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Familial Mediterranean fever: Related Patient Stories
Familial Mediterranean fever: Complications
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Causes of Familial Mediterranean fever
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Disease Topics Related To Familial Mediterranean fever
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Less Common Symptoms of Familial Mediterranean fever
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Familial Mediterranean fever: Undiagnosed Conditions
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Misdiagnosis and Familial Mediterranean fever
Chronic digestive conditions often misdiagnosed: When diagnosing chronic symptoms
of the digestive tract, there are a variety of conditions that may be misdiagnosed.
The best known, ...read more »
Intestinal bacteria disorder may be hidden cause: One of the lesser known causes of diarrhea
is an imbalance of bacterial in the gut, sometimes...read more »
Antibiotics often causes diarrhea: The use of antibiotics are very likely
to cause some level of diarrhea in patients.
The reason is that antibiotics kill off not only ...read more »
Sinusitis is overdiagnosed: There is a tendency to give a diagnosis of sinusitis,
when the condition is really a harmless complication of another infection,
such...read more »
Food poisoning may actually be an infectious disease: Many people who come down
with "stomach symptoms" like diarrhea assume that it's "something I ate" (i.e. food poisoning).
In fact, it's more likely to be an infectious...read more »
Whooping cough often undiagnosed: Although most children in the Western world have been
immunized against whooping cough (also called "pertussis"), this protection wears
off after...read more »
Mesenteric adenitis misdiagnosed as appendicitis in children: Because appendicitis is one of the
more feared conditions for a child with abdominal pain, it can be over-diagnosed
(it can, of course, also fail to be...read more »
Celiac disease often fails to be diagnosed cause of chronic digestive symptoms: One of the most common chronic digestive
conditions is celiac disease, a malabsorption disorder with a variety of symptoms (see ...read more »
Psoriatic arthritis often undiagnosed cause of joint conditions: Patients with the skin condition psoriasis
can also have the related arthritis subtype called "psoriatic arthritis".
This arthritic condition tends to be...read more »
Chronic digestive diseases hard to diagnose: There is an inherent
difficulty in diagnosing the various types of chronic digestive diseases.
Some of the better known possibilities are peptic ulcer...read more »
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Familial Mediterranean fever: Research Doctors & Specialists
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- Bone, Joint and Orthopedic Specialists:
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- Digestive Health Specialists (Gastroenterology):
- Arthritis & Joint Health Specialists (Rheumatology):
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Hospitals & Clinics: Familial Mediterranean fever
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Familial Mediterranean fever: Rare Types
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Evidence Based Medicine Research for Familial Mediterranean fever
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Prognosis for Familial Mediterranean fever
Prognosis for Familial Mediterranean fever:
usually benign condition other than possible complications, attacks may occur days or years apart
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Research about Familial Mediterranean fever
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Clinical Trials for Familial Mediterranean fever
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and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.
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Statistics for Familial Mediterranean fever
Familial Mediterranean fever: Broader Related Topics
Types of Familial Mediterranean fever
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Definitions of Familial Mediterranean fever:
An autosomal recessive inherited disease characterized by episodic FEVER; severe ABDOMINAL PAIN; PLEURISY; ARTHRITIS; and a characteristic ankle RASH. Disease flare-ups tend to last 3 days, and individuals are asymptomatic between attacks. ORCHITIS; benign recurrent MENINGITIS; HEADACHE; and AMYLOID nephropathy may also occur. (From Medicine (Baltimore) 1998 Jul;77(4):268-97)
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Familial Mediterranean fever is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Familial Mediterranean fever, or a subtype of Familial Mediterranean fever,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ophanet, a consortium of European partners,
currently defines a condition rare when it affects 1 person per 2,000.
They list Familial Mediterranean fever as a "rare disease".
Source - Orphanet
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