Erschienen in:
01.07.2005 | Letters to the Editor
Familial Mediterranean fever protracted febrile myalgia in children: report of two cases
verfasst von:
Vildan Ertekin, Mukadder Ayşe Selimoğlu, Handan Alp, Nebahat Yılmaz
Erschienen in:
Rheumatology International
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Ausgabe 5/2005
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Excerpt
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is characterised by recurring, acute, self-limiting episodes of fever accompanied by serosal, synovial or cutaneous inflammation [
1,
2]. One of the most common complications of FMF results from the deposition of amyloid A [
3]. The clinical picture of FMF has been expanded appreciably in the last 10 years when additional features have been described, including severe myalgia [
4], the protracted febrile myalgia syndrome [
5], scrotal swelling [
6] and cardiac involvement [
7]. In this letter, we described protracted febrile myalgia with FMF in two children and draw attention to the protracted febrile myalgia as an entity that requires corticosteroid treatment. …