Familial Mediterranean Fever
"Familial Mediterranean Fever" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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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.
Concept/Terms
Familial Mediterranean Fever- Familial Mediterranean Fever
- Periodic Disease
- Disease, Periodic
- Diseases, Periodic
- Periodic Diseases
- Periodic Disease, Wolff's
- Disease, Wolff's Periodic
- Periodic Disease, Wolff
- Periodic Disease, Wolffs
- Wolff's Periodic Disease
- Wolffs Periodic Disease
- Recurrent Polyserositis
- Polyserositides, Recurrent
- Polyserositis, 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
- Familial Paroxysmal Polyserositis
- Familial Paroxysmal Polyserositides
- Paroxysmal Polyserositides, Familial
- Paroxysmal Polyserositis, Familial
- Polyserositides, Familial Paroxysmal
- Polyserositis, Familial Paroxysmal
- Mediterranean Fever, Familial
- Periodic Peritonitis
- Periodic Peritonitides
- Peritonitides, Periodic
- Peritonitis, Periodic
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Familial Mediterranean Fever" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Familial Mediterranean Fever" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1996 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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| 2006 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Familial Mediterranean Fever" by people in Profiles.
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Familial Mediterranean Fever and multiple sclerosis treated with ocrelizumab: Case report. J Neuroimmunol. 2023 06 15; 379:578099.
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Features predicting colchicine efficacy in treatment of children with undefined systemic autoinflammatory disease: A retrospective cohort study. Eur J Rheumatol. 2022 07; 9(3):116-121.
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Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor and tumor necrosis factor-a in combination is a useful diagnostic biomarker to distinguish familial Mediterranean fever from sepsis. Arthritis Res Ther. 2021 10 15; 23(1):260.
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Shear wave elastography evaluation of liver, pancreas, spleen and kidneys in patients with familial mediterranean fever and amyloidosis. Br J Radiol. 2021 Dec; 94(1128):20210237.
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Microbiome is not linked to clinical disease severity of familial Mediterranean fever in an international cohort of children. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2021 Sep-Oct; 39 Suppl 132(5):102-108.
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Neonatal-Onset Familial Mediterranean Fever in an Infant with Human Parainfluenza Virus-4 Infection. Neonatology. 2021; 118(3):359-363.
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Next-generation sequencing of the whole MEFV gene in Japanese patients with familial Mediterranean fever: a case-control association study. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2020 Sep-Oct; 38 Suppl 127(5):35-41.
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Successful hydroxychloroquine treatment for familial Mediterranean fever in a Japanese patient with concurrent systemic lupus erythematosus. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2020 04 01; 59(4):903-905.
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Classification criteria for autoinflammatory recurrent fevers. Ann Rheum Dis. 2019 08; 78(8):1025-1032.
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Vertebral artery dissection associated with familial Mediterranean fever and Behçet's disease. Ann Clin Transl Neurol. 2019 May; 6(5):974-978.