Familial Mediterranean fever echocardiography and ultrasound
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Sahar Memar Montazerin, M.D.[2]
Overview
There are no echocardiography/ultrasound findings associated with familial Mediterranean fever. However, echocardiography/ultrasound may be helpful in the diagnosis of complications, including pericardial effusion, pleural effusion, and hepatosplenomegaly.
Echocardiography/Ultrasound
There are no echocardiography/ultrasound findings associated with familial Mediterranean fever. However, echocardiography/ultrasound may be helpful in the diagnosis of complications of familial Mediterranean fever, which include:[1]
A recent study comparing the cardiac functions in FMF patients and healthy controls using tissue Doppler imaging has observed impaired left ventricular diastolic function indices in FMF patients.[2]
Other non-specific findings which have been found on the ultrasound imaging of patients with FMF include:[3]
- Peritoneal fluid
- Enlarged kidneys
- Hyperechoic kidneys
- Lymphadenopathy
- Peritoneal cysts
- Dilated bowel loops
- cholelithiasis
- Cholecystitis
- Cavernous malformation of the portal vein
- Terminal ileitis
- Segmental infarct of the kidney
- Bleeding from a ruptured renal cyst
- Incidental ovarian dermoid cyst.
References
- ↑ Ishak GE, Khoury NJ, Birjawi GA, El-Zein YR, Naffaa LN, Haddad MC (2006). "Imaging findings of familial Mediterranean fever". Clin Imaging. 30 (3): 153–9. doi:10.1016/j.clinimag.2005.07.002. PMID 16632148.
- ↑ Baysal, Tamer; Peru, Harun; Oran, Bulent; Sahin, Tahir Kemal; Koksal, Yavuz; Karaaslan, Sevim (2008). "Left ventricular diastolic function evaluated with tissue Doppler imaging in children with familial Mediterranean fever". Clinical Rheumatology. 28 (1): 23–28. doi:10.1007/s10067-008-0976-z. ISSN 0770-3198.
- ↑ Aharoni, D.; Hiller, N.; Hadas-Halpern, I. (2000). "Familial Mediterranean fever: abdominal imaging findings in 139 patients and review of the literature". Abdominal Imaging. 25 (3): 297–300. doi:10.1007/s002610000006. ISSN 0942-8925.