Atypical Familial Mediterranean Fever Complicated with Gastrointestinal Amyloidosis Diagnosed due to Paroxysmal Arthralgia and Intractable Diarrhea, Successfully Treated with Tocilizumab

A 53-year-old man with recurrent episodes of large joint pain and a low-grade fever at irregular intervals for 16 years developed right knee and ankle arthralgia, watery diarrhea, and abdominal pain. Following an ileum and colon biopsy, he was diagnosed with gastrointestinal amyloidosis. We suspecte...

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Pubblicato in:Intern Med
Autori principali: Aikawa, Erika, Shimizu, Toshimasa, Koga, Tomohiro, Endo, Yushiro, Umeda, Masataka, Hori, Tomoko, Irie, Junji, Kuroda, Kishio, Eguchi, Mizuna, Okamoto, Momoko, Tsuji, Sosuke, Takatani, Ayuko, Igawa, Takashi, Sumiyoshi, Remi, Kawashiri, Shin-ya, Iwamoto, Naoki, Ichinose, Kunihiro, Tamai, Mami, Nakamura, Hideki, Origuchi, Tomoki, Kawakami, Atsushi
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2019
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Case Report
Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6630114/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30713308
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.2277-18
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