PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Larrimore, Christopher
TI  - Chronic Familial Mediterranean Fever with Development of Secondary Amyloidosis
AID  - 10.29074/ascls.24.1.2
DP  - 2011 Jan 01
TA  - American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science
PG  - 2--7
VI  - 24
IP  - 1
4099  - http://hwmaint.clsjournal.ascls.org/content/24/1/2.short
4100  - http://hwmaint.clsjournal.ascls.org/content/24/1/2.full
SO  - Clin Lab Sci2011 Jan 01; 24
AB  - A 20-year-old Turkish male presented with fever, abdominal pain, and systemic lethargy. His clinical history revealed symptoms to be self-limiting but reoccurring over the past six months. Blood and urine specimens collected indicated renal amyloidosis. A kidney CT image indicated kidney inflammation. He was diagnosed with Familial Mediterranean Fever with the development of secondary amyloidosis and treated with colchicine.ABBREVIATIONS: CT = computerized tomography; FMF = Familial Mediterranean Fever; WBC = white blood cell count; RBC = red blood cell count; BUN = blood urea nitrogen; eGFR = estimated glomerular filtration rate; MEFV = Mediterranean Fever Gene; PCR = polymerase chain reaction