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The impact of familial Mediterranean fever on reproductive system.

[familial mediterranean fever]

Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by recurrent attacks of fever, peritonitis, pleuritis, arthritis, or erysipelas-like skin lesion. FMF is the most common periodic febrile syndrome affecting more than 150,000 people worldwide. The majority of patients develop FMF before the age of 20. FMF may cause amyloidosis, which mainly affects the kidneys but may also be accumulated in other organs such as the heart, gastrointestinal tract, and reproductive organs. FMF being a systemic disorder with a risk for amyloidosis, affecting patients in their childbearing years, and with its lifelong colchicine therapy raises concern about its effect on the reproductive system. In this article, we review the impact of FMF and its treatment to the reproductive system of male and female patients, pregnancy, and lactation.

Diseases presenting "female patients" symptom

  • adrenomyeloneuropathy
  • aromatase deficiency
  • benign recurrent intrahepatic cholestasis
  • carcinoma of the gallbladder
  • classical phenylketonuria
  • congenital adrenal hyperplasia
  • cushing syndrome
  • erdheim-chester disease
  • esophageal adenocarcinoma
  • esophageal carcinoma
  • esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
  • fabry disease
  • familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia
  • familial mediterranean fever
  • heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
  • lymphangioleiomyomatosis
  • oligodontia
  • papillon-lefèvre syndrome
  • phenylketonuria
  • pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency
  • sneddon syndrome
  • trochlear dysplasia
  • von hippel-lindau disease
  • wolf-hirschhorn syndrome
  • x-linked adrenoleukodystrophy

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