Conquering Familial Mediterranean Fever A Patient's Victory

Learn about Familial Mediterranean Fever, including symptoms, causes, and treatments. If you or a loved one is affected by this condition, visit NORD to ... FMF, also known as recurrent polyserositis, is a hereditary autoinflammatory disorder characterized mainly by brief recurrent episodes of peritonitis, ... Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), the most frequent of the periodic fever syndromes, is an autosomal recessive disease, predominantly affecting people of ... It is a rare, inherited disorder, the most common disorder in a family of related “auto‐inflammatory” disorders, which are characterized by an ... Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a rare disorder that may be passed down through families (inherited). It involves repeated fevers and inflammation that ... Definition. Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a rare disorder that may be passed down through families (inherited). FMF is a genetic periodic fever syndrome that is often misdiagnosed; however, 90% of patients are diagnosed before age 20. FMF is an autoinflammatory disease caused by mutations in the Mediterranean fever (MEFV) gene, which encodes a 781–amino acid protein called pyrin. Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a condition caused by harmful genetic changes (mutations) in the MEFV gene. Mutations in the MEFV gene affect the ... Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a hereditary inflammatory condition. It mostly affects people of Mediterranean origin.