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Archivos argentinos de pediatría

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Abstract

AKMAN, Sezin; YAZICI, Selcuk  and  OZTURK, Can. Gastrointestinal evaluation in colchicine-treated familial Mediterranean fever patients with chronic abdominal pain: Cases series. Arch. argent. pediatr. [online]. 2018, vol.116, n.5, pp.e649-e654. ISSN 0325-0075.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5546/aap.2018.e649.

The aim of the study to evaluate familial mediterranean fever (FMF) patients with chronic abdominal pain unresponsive to colchicine treatment. Forty-eight patients who diagnosed in our Pediatric Rheumatology clinics and suffering from abdominal pain despite colchicine treatment were include. All patients were referred to a pediatric gastroenterologist. The pain characteristics such as onset, duration and frequency were recorded; gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy was planned for differential diagnosis. MEFV mutation was determined in 46 patients. The median duration of treatment was 2.8 years. Approximately 60% of the patients suffered from abdominal pain every day or 2-3 times a week, in 73% of the cases it lasted less than three hours. Forty-one patients underwent upper GI endoscopy. Gastroduodenitis is a common finding in persisting abdominal pain despite therapy of FMF patients. The patients with the highest disease severity scores had severe inflammation within the entire GI system.

Keywords : Adominal pain; Gastroenterology; Diagnostic-familial mediterranean fever.

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