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Mediterranean fever gene-associated enterocolitis in an elderly Japanese woman.
Clinical journal of gastroenterology - 1 Dec 2021
Shibata Yasuhiro, Ishigami Keisuke, Kazama Tomoe, Kubo Toshiyuki, Yamano Hiro-O, Sugita Shintaro, Murata Masaki, Nakase Hiroshi
Abstract excerpt
An 86-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with anemia. She had never experienced symptoms of serositis. Colonoscopy revealed colitis with erosions and a friable mucosa. First, she was diagnosed with unclassified inflammatory bowel disease (IBD-U). We suspected familial Mediterranean fever as a differential diagnosis of IBD-U, and MEFV gene analysis showed heterozygosity for Exon2 R202Q. The patient was...
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