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Pregnancy and complicated familial Mediterranean fever
Author(s) -
Shimoni Y.,
Shalev E.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
international journal of gynecology and obstetrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.895
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1879-3479
pISSN - 0020-7292
DOI - 10.1016/0020-7292(90)90591-8
Subject(s) - familial mediterranean fever , medicine , pregnancy , amyloidosis , complication , disease , ascites , pediatrics , obstetrics , surgery , genetics , biology
Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is an inherited disease, closely following the pattern of autosomal recessive inheritance. Amyloidosis is the most severe complication of the disease. The prevalence of pregnancy loss in women with FMF is considered to be high. There is no information to support the possibility of increase risk of late pregnancy complications or change in the natural course of the disease. Two cases are presented with complicated FMF. One case with proved amyloidosis and the second patient with ascites. Pregnancy and neonatal outcome were uneventful in both. No further deterioration in the systemic disease occurred.