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Abstract
INTRODUCTION
Fami 1 ia 1 .Mediterranean Fever IF. M. F) an inherited
systemic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology characterised
by odic acute attacks of fever and serositis
(Tovi et al., 1985).
F.M.F. can be considered uncommon disease in Egypt
(Hassan et al., 1972).
The disease is most frequently encountered in ethnic
groups of Mediterranean ancestry particularly Jews {Siegal,
19 4 5), Armenians, Arabs (Reimann et al. , 19 54) and Turks
(Ozer et al., 1971).
The name ”Mediterranean” has been coined to the
disease since 1955 by Sohar (Sohar et al., 19691 because
of the co~~on incidence of F.M.P. in the countries of
the Mediterranean basin.
Extensive work has been done to discover the etiology
of F.M.F. Such investigations included routine haematological,
bioichemical and bacteriological tests. Other
investigation related to lipidmetabolism, amino·acid studies
in blood and urine [(Hamed, 1972), (Manialawi et al.,
1974)] and porphyrin studies have been carried out. Certain
hormonal studies including etiocholanolone in blood and
urine were performed (Manialawi, 1973). Platelet function
and haemostatic mechanisms in cases of F. M.P. have been