A Rare Presentation of Familial Mediterranean fever; Acute Scrotum and Hydrocele Amyloidosis

BACKGROUND: Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is a genetic disease characterized by recurrent febrile attacks and inflammation of serous membranes. Amyloidosis is frequent in untreated FMF patients and is also the most important complication of FMF. It is generally seen with renal, hepatic, gastroi...

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Autores principales: Yilmaz, Resul, Ozer, Samet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3446044/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23056732
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description BACKGROUND: Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is a genetic disease characterized by recurrent febrile attacks and inflammation of serous membranes. Amyloidosis is frequent in untreated FMF patients and is also the most important complication of FMF. It is generally seen with renal, hepatic, gastrointestinal, spleen, testicular and thyroidal involvement. CASE PRESENTATION: Herein, we report a case with acute scrotum and hydrocele amyloidosis as a presenting finding in a child with FMF. CONCLUSION: Although the acute scrotum and scrotal swelling are not characteristic clinical features of FMF, this genetic disease should not be forgotten in the differential diagnosis of acute scrotum in patients of Mediterranean origins.
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spelling pubmed-34460442012-10-09 A Rare Presentation of Familial Mediterranean fever; Acute Scrotum and Hydrocele Amyloidosis Yilmaz, Resul Ozer, Samet Iran J Pediatr Case Report BACKGROUND: Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is a genetic disease characterized by recurrent febrile attacks and inflammation of serous membranes. Amyloidosis is frequent in untreated FMF patients and is also the most important complication of FMF. It is generally seen with renal, hepatic, gastrointestinal, spleen, testicular and thyroidal involvement. CASE PRESENTATION: Herein, we report a case with acute scrotum and hydrocele amyloidosis as a presenting finding in a child with FMF. CONCLUSION: Although the acute scrotum and scrotal swelling are not characteristic clinical features of FMF, this genetic disease should not be forgotten in the differential diagnosis of acute scrotum in patients of Mediterranean origins. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2010-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3446044/ /pubmed/23056732 Text en © 2010 Iranian Journal of Pediatrics & Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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title_short A Rare Presentation of Familial Mediterranean fever; Acute Scrotum and Hydrocele Amyloidosis
title_sort rare presentation of familial mediterranean fever; acute scrotum and hydrocele amyloidosis
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