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Abdominal pain, arthritis, and nephrotic syndrome in a Syrian patient
Bruno Eduardo P BalboI, André Albuquerque SilvaI, Andressa Godoy AmaralI, Denise M. A.C. MalheirosII, Luiz Fernando OnuchicI,
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, Rui Toledo BarrosI
I Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, São Paulo/SP, Brazil
II Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Department of Pathology, São Paulo/SP, Brazil
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emerged as an essential approach for diagnosis in atypical cases &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib5">5</a>&#41;&#46;</p></span><span id="cesec20" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="cestitle20">CASE DESCRIPTION</span><p id="para40" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A 31-year-old female who emigrated from Syria to Brazil was admitted due to recurrent episodes of abdominal pain and fever during the prior four months&#46; Initially ascribed to pyelonephritis&#44; she received several cycles of antibiotics without a clinical response&#46; One month prior to admission&#44; she developed frothy urine and anasarca&#46;</p><p id="para50" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The patient reported a history of episodes of large-joint arthritis and fever beginning in childhood and acute abdominal pain that prompted a negative exploratory laparotomy at age 14&#46; At 16 years old&#44; she entered partial remission&#44; 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granular casts and no hematuria&#46;</p><p id="para70" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A CT scan revealed enlarged kidneys and hepatosplenomegaly&#46; A kidney biopsy was performed and showed secondary amyloidosis as the main finding&#44; which was associated with signs of acute tubular necrosis and interstitial nephritis &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#fig1">Figures 1 and 2</a>&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig1"></elsevierMultimedia><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig2"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="para80" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In this case&#44; chronic inflammation with abdominal and joint symptoms and nephrotic syndrome due to secondary amyloidosis in an Arab patient raised the hypothesis of FMF&#44; even in the setting of quick renal function decline&#46; Acute kidney injury may have occurred due to marked proteinuria&#44; hypoalbuminemia and severe renal hypoperfusion&#44; although in this case&#44; antibiotic toxicity and acute interstitial nephritis may also have contributed&#46;</p><p id="para90" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The diagnosis of FMF was based on clinical criteria &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib3">3</a>&#41; 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but it is rare in the rest of the world&#46; Its presentation includes crises of self-limiting fever bouts and elevated acute phase reactants accompanied by arthritis&#44; sterile peritonitis&#44; pleurisy&#44; and&#47;or skin rash&#46; The frequency of episodes varies from once a week to several times a year&#44; with attacks subsiding spontaneously within one to three days&#46;</p><p id="para110" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">MEFV</span> maps to chromosome 16p13&#46;3&#44; comprises 10 exons and encodes pyrin&#47;marenostrin&#44; a protein expressed in granulocytes&#44; monocytes&#44; dendritic cells&#44; and synovial fibroblasts &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib6">6</a>&#41;&#46; Pyrin regulates the innate inflammatory response through its cleavage by caspase-1 followed by NF-&#954;B activation &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib7">7</a>&#41; and interleukin-1&#946; production &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib8">8</a>&#41;&#46;</p><p id="para120" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Amyloidosis and chronic kidney disease&#44; as detected in our patient&#44; are less common in FMF and are associated with a prolonged untreated disease course &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib5">5</a>&#41;&#46; Continuous and early treatment with colchicine tends to improve the attack frequency&#44; duration and intensity and prevents the development of secondary amyloidosis&#46; Colchicine is so effective that unresponsiveness prompts evaluation for compliance or for an alternative diagnosis&#46; Noncompliant patients represent &#8764;50&#37; of patients who apparently do not respond to therapy &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib9">9</a>&#41;&#46; When compliance is assured&#44; other hereditary autoinflammatory diseases that mimic FMF should be considered&#44; such as TRAPS &#40;TNF-associated periodic fever syndrome&#41; and hyperimmunoglobulin D syndrome&#44; neither of which respond to colchicine &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib10">10</a>&#41;&#46; There is no consensus on the treatment of patients who are true colchicine nonresponders&#59; small series and case reports have described the potential role of interferon-alpha &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib11">11</a>&#41;&#44; thalidomide &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib12">12</a>&#41;&#44; etanercept &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib12">12</a>&#41;&#44; infliximab &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib13">13</a>&#41; and interleukin-1 receptor antagonists &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib14">14</a>&#41;&#46;</p><p id="para130" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">FMF manifestations are associated with the nature of <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">MEFV</span> mutations in different ethnic groups&#46; Five main mutations &#40;M680I&#44; M694V&#44; M694I and V726A in exon 10 and E148Q in exon 2&#41; are responsible for more than 85&#37; of FMF cases in the Mediterranean &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib1">1</a>&#41;&#44;&#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib15">15</a>&#41;&#46; 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therefore&#44; underscores the importance of considering the diagnosis of FMF in regions of the world where this disease is uncommon&#44; such as Latin America&#44; the importance of family history for diagnosis&#44; the risks of missing the diagnosis because of non-renal manifestations&#44; the potential correlation between genotype and the development of end-stage renal disease&#44; the potential consequences of the long-term absence of appropriate therapy&#44; and the key role that molecular diagnosis may play&#44; particularly in equivocal and atypical cases&#46;</p></span><span id="cesec40" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="cestitle40">AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS</span><p id="para150" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Balbo BE worked on the case&#44; analyzed the data and wrote the manuscript&#46; Silva AA and Amaral AG worked on the case&#46; Malheiros DM performed the pathological analysis&#46; Onuchic LF analyzed the data and wrote the manuscript&#46; 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