Familial Mediterranean Fever: a review for clinical management.

Claudia Fonnesu, Claudia Cerquaglia, Maria Giovinale, Valentina Curigliano, Elena Verrecchia, Giuliana De Socio, Micaela La Regina, Giovanni Battista Gasbarrini, Raffaele Manna

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Abstract

Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is a hereditary autosomal recessive, autoinflammatory disorder characterized by recurrent, self-limiting episodes of short duration (mean 24-72 h) of fever and serositis. FMF is the most frequent periodic febrile syndrome among the autoinflammatory syndromes (AS), a heterogeneous group of recently identified diseases clinically characterized by recurrent febrile attacks, in the absence of autoantibodies and antigen-specific T lymphocytes. In FMF, periodic attacks show inter- and intra-individual variability in terms of frequency and severity. Usually, they are triggered by apparently innocuous stimuli and may be preceded by a prodromal period. The Mediterranean FeVer gene (MEFV) responsible gene maps on chromosome 16 (16p13) encoding the pyrin-marenostrin protein. The precise pathologic mechanism is still to be definitively elucidated; however a new macromolecular complex, called inflammasome, seems to play a major role in the control of inflammation and it might be involved in the pathogenesis of FMF. The most severe long-term complication is type AA amyloidosis, principally affecting the kidney and the cause of chronic renal failure. Two types of risk factors, genetic and non-genetic, have been identified for this complication. Currently, the only effective treatment of Familial Mediterranean Fever is the colchicine. New drugs in a few colchicine resistant patients have been tried, but additional studies on larger series are necessary to draw definitive conclusions.
Lingua originaleEnglish
pagine (da-a)227-233
Numero di pagine7
RivistaJoint Bone Spine
Volume76
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2009

Keywords

  • autoinflammatory disease
  • geno-phenotypical correlations
  • inflammasome
  • therapy
  • trigger factors

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