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See Latest ArticlesAcute adrenal crisis mimicking familial Mediterranean fever attack in a renal transplant FMF patient with amyloid goiter
Rheumatology International, 09/02/09
Emeksiz H et al. – The most devastating complication of familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is amyloidosis which is capable of resulting in chronic renal failure. Although amyloid deposits are frequent in adrenal glands based on the autopsies of FMF patients however; to our knowledge, symptomatic adrenal insufficiency has not been reported yet. The authors describe a 21–year–old–FMF amyloidosis case with a well–functioning allograft who presented to the emergency clinic with the complaints of abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea mimicking FMF attack.
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