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Chest, Vol 81, 592-595, Copyright © 1982 by American College of Chest Physicians

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Pericardial disease in familial Mediterranean fever: an echocardiographic study

A Dabestani, LM Noble, JS Child, J Krivokapich and AD Schwabe

We studied 30 randomly selected patients with familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) by M mode echocardiography to determine the frequency of pericardial involvement. There was no evidence of congestive heart failure, uremia, or any other illness known to be associated with pericardial disease in the study population. Eight of the 30 patients (27 percent) had echocardiographic evidence of pericardial disease. Two had pericardial effusions, two had pericardial thickening, and four either or both. Patients with pericardial involvement had a mean duration of FMF of 28.9 +/- 12.2 (SD) years vs 18.5 +/- 10.6 (SD) years for those without pericardial disease (P less than .02). We concluded that pericardial involvement is common in FMF and that its occurrence as detected by echocardiography increases with duration of illness.


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