1. Behçet Disease (BD) in two siblings affected with Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF)
- Author
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F La Torre, C Fede, Fernanda Falcini, N Decembrino, G Calcagno, and Antonio Vitale
- Subjects
Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Abdominal pain ,lcsh:Diseases of the musculoskeletal system ,Exudative pharyngitis ,Familial Mediterranean fever ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Rheumatology ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Colchicine ,Immunology and Allergy ,Medical history ,Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health ,Behcet disease ,business.industry ,lcsh:RJ1-570 ,lcsh:Pediatrics ,medicine.disease ,chemistry ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Poster Presentation ,medicine.symptom ,lcsh:RC925-935 ,business ,Autoinflammatory Disorders - Abstract
Their medical history of recurrent fever attacks started at the age of 14 and 6 months respectively. Fever was accompanied by cervical adenopathy, severe exudative pharyngitis, oral aphtosis, abdominal pain and diarrhoea, sometimes with bloody stools. At the age of 10 and 9 years, screening for autoinflammatory disorders was performed revealing a single mutated FMF gene (E148Q). Since they fulfilled Tel Hashomer criteria, colchicine was started.
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- 2008