[Recurrent bilateral pleurisy in an 80-year-old man].

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An 80-year-old man was admitted with recurrent asphyxiating pleurisy, first attributed to heart failure. During the recurrent episodes, the patient presented fever, signs of inflammation, no signs of heart failure, and subnormal cardiac function, prompting further investigations which disclosed that the patient was a homozygous carrier of the severe type of periodic disease mutation. The patient's age at symptom...

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