Abstracts tagged "amyloidosis and familial Mediterranean fever"

Abstract Number: 252 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Pyrin (MEFV) Mutations in New York: Revisiting the Mount Sinai Experience with Periodic Fever and Serositis
Daniel Bunker and Mark Matza, Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: In 1945, Dr. Sheppard Siegel, a Mount Sinai allergist, described 5 patients with “Benign Paroxysmal Peritonitis,” a disorder now recognized as Familial Mediterranean Fever…
Abstract Number: 255 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
What Acute Phase Reactants Accurately Identify Patients Who Will Develop Amyloidosis in Familial Mediterranean Fever? a Systematic Review
Burak Erer¹, Erkan Demirkaya², Seza Ozen^3,4, Tilmann Kallinich⁵ and Loreto Carmona⁶, ¹Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Gulhane Military Medical Faculty, Ankara, Turkey, ³Pediatric Nephrology and Rheumatology, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, Ankara, Turkey, ⁴Deptartment. of Pediatric Rheumatology, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, ⁵Charite, University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁶Instituto de Salud Musculoesqueletica, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is a prototype of autoinflammatory diseases. Inflammation is expressed by attacks of fever and serositis and elevation of acute phase…