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Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by recurrent and self-limited attacks of fever usually accompanied by polyserositis. Amyloidosis is its most common renal complication. A number of reports have shown vasculitic diseases such as polyarteritis nodosa and Henoch-Schönlein purpura affecting the kidney in FMF. Here we present a patient with FMF and membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis and analyze the data published on these two entities.
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Akpolat, T., Akpolat, I., Karagoz, F. et al. Familial Mediterranean fever and glomerulonephritis and review of the literature. Rheumatol Int 24, 43–45 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00296-003-0329-9
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