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- Title
Newly Diagnosed Crohn's Disease in Patient with Familial Mediterranean Fever.
- Authors
Akar, Tarık; Dindar, Gökhan; Malkoç, Dilek; Karagözoğlu, Kemal; Kılavuz, Beyza; Üstündağ, Yücel
- Abstract
Chronic abdominal pain sometimes constitute a major challenge, specially when a patient has two diseases with dominant features of abdominal pain in both. At this point, clinicians face a daunting task both in diagnosing and treating an individual's chronic abdominal pain. Similarly, familial Mediterranean fever disease and Crohn's disease have the same clinical features in terms of chronic abdominal pain, and inflammatory properties of these diseases. The association of familial Mediterranean fever disease and Crohn's disease is very rare and may lead to a remarkable challenge in both diagnosis and treatment. Here, we report a young man with FMF disease presented with extraordinary and intolerable abdominal pain relieved only by excessive narcotic analgesics. The presented case was diagnosed with CD and successfully treated with anti-TNF (tumor necrosis factor) due to steroid refractory.
- Subjects
CROHN'S disease diagnosis; ABDOMINAL pain; C-reactive protein; COMPUTED tomography; FENTANYL; GENETIC disorders; INFLAMMATION
- Publication
Archives of Iranian Medicine (AIM), 2016, Vol 19, Issue 3, p225
- ISSN
1029-2977
- Publication type
Article