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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Hip involvement in patients with familial Mediterranean fever. A review of ten cases
Joint Bone Spine, Volume 69, No. 6, Year 2002
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Hip involvement is uncommon in familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) and can result eitherfrom a process specific to this disease or from a coexisting chronic inflammatory joint disease, usually suggestive of ankylosing spondylitis (AS). We report ten cases of FMF with radiologically-documented inflammatory hip disease. Five patients had AS and one had juvenile idiopathic arthritis. There were six men and four women, with a mean age of 34.4 years ± 17,6 (range, 15-70 years). Onset of the inflammatory hip disease occurred after bouts of acute hip symptoms in one of the patients with isolated FMF and after protracted hip arthritis in another; the two other patients had no history of hip symptoms. The HLA-B27 antigen was looked for in two of the five patients with FMF and AS, with negative results in both; another patient in this subgroup had severe ulcerative colitis. Total hip replacement or replacement of the acetabulum was required in six patients, including two with isolated FMF. Chronic joint disease has been estimated to contribute fewer than 5% of the joint manifestations in FMF. In previous studies, the hips and knees were affected in 75% of patients with chronic joint disease related to FMF. The association of FMF and AS (usually without the HLA-B27 antigen) has been well documented, although the pathogenic mechanisms that link these two conditions remain unknown. Joint Bone Spine 2002; 69: 560-5. © 2002 Éditions scientifiques et médicales Elsevier SAS.
Authors & Co-Authors
Younes, Mohamed K.
Unknown Affiliation
Kahn, Marcel Francis
Unknown Affiliation
Meyer, Oliver C.
France, Paris
Hôpital Bichat-claude-bernard Ap-hp
Statistics
Citations: 55
Authors: 3
Affiliations: 1
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/S1297-319X(02)00452-9
ISSN:
1297319X
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Participants Gender
Male
Female