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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Veröffentlicht in:	Internal Medicine 2019/06/15, Vol.58(12), pp.1781-1785
Hauptverfasser:	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
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Amyloidosis Ankle Arthralgia Biopsy Case Report Colchicine Colon Diarrhea Familial Mediterranean fever Fever Ileum Internal medicine Knee Medical personnel tocilizumab
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