familial mediterranean fever…

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temperature measurement, familial paroxysmal polyserositis, periodic peritonitis, recurrent polyserositis, benign paroxysmal peritonitis, periodic disease, periodic fever, familial mediterranean fever, inherited disorder characterized by recurrent fever, inflammation, involving the abdomen, lung, familial mediterranean fever, affects people of mediterranean ancestry, non-ashkenazi, sephardic, jews, armenians, arabs, people from other ethnic groups, begin between age 5, inflammation, in the lining, the abdominal cavity, chest cavity, skin, joints occurs, high fevers that, peak in 12 to 24 hours, attacks, vary in severity of symptoms, symptom free between attacks, disease is very rare, risk factors, family history of familial mediterranean fever, having mediterranean ancestry, fever, alternating chills, fever, relapsing, abdominal pain, chest pain that occurs repeatedly, recurrent, recurrent abdominal pain, recurrent, recurrent joint pain, pain in hip, knee, ankle, shoulder elbow, wrist, pain over the small joints, the foot, hand, pain in other joints, skin lesions, red, swollen, range from 5-20 cm in diameter, no specific test to diagnose this disease, analysis, the chromosomes, elimination of other possible diseases by laboratory tests, x-rays, help determine the diagnosis, patients, familial mediterranean fever, have any, an attack, elevated white blood cell count, elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate, esr, elevated plasma fibrinogen, elevated serum haptoglobin, elevated ceruloplasmin, elevated c-reactive protein, familial mediterranean fever is treatment of symptoms, colchicine, a medicine that reduces inflammation, an attack, prevent further attacks, no known cure, familial mediterranean fever, most people continue to have attacks, the number, severity of attacks is different from person to person, discomfort, primary complication, narcotic addiction, occur, addiction rates, not higher than, the general population pain associated, the condition is recognized, treated appropriately, gallbladder disease, amyloidosis, deposits of protein in different organs, more common in patients, familial mediterranean fever, symptoms develop to rule out other possible causes, get appropriate treatment, a pain specialist, chronic pain.