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Juvenile Dermatomyositis Associated to Familial Mediterranean Fever

1Department of Internal Medicine, Military Hospital of Gabes, Gabes 6000, Tunisia

2Sfax Faculty of Medicine, University of Sfax, Sfax 3029, Tunisia

3Department of Orthopedics, Regional Hospital of Gabes, Gabes 6000, Tunisia


American Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2019, Vol. 7 No. 8, 170-172
DOI: 10.12691/ajmcr-7-8-5
Copyright © 2019 Science and Education Publishing

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Salem Bouomrani, Rim Mesfar, Moez BenAyed, Mouna Guermazi, Hassène Baïli, Souad Yahyaoui. Juvenile Dermatomyositis Associated to Familial Mediterranean Fever. American Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2019; 7(8):170-172. doi: 10.12691/ajmcr-7-8-5.

Correspondence to: Salem  Bouomrani, Department of Internal Medicine, Military Hospital of Gabes, Gabes 6000, Tunisia. Email: salembouomrani@yahoo.fr

Abstract

Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is a rare hereditary auto-inflammatory disease that can be exceptionally associated with many other dys-immune disorders; the most reported associations were with systemic vasculitis, spondyloarthropathies, inflammatory bowel diseases, systemic lupus erythematous, multiple sclerosis, and juvenile chronic arthritis. The association of FMF with primary inflammatory myopathy remains exceptional and unusual; it has only been noted once before with adult polymyositis. We report an original observation of FMF associated with juvenile dermatomyositis in an eight-year-old boy, which, to our knowledge, has not been reported previously.

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