A CASE OF FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER WITH AREA-RELATED COLITIS RESEMBLING ULCERATIVE COLITIS

Abstract

A 28-years-old woman presented at our hospital with repeated abdominal pain and fever. Colonoscopy revealed erosions around appendix. Though we started therapy as atypical ulcerative colitis, the symptom was not improved. As a result of genetic analysis, we diagnosed FMF. And the symptom disappeared by internal use of colchicine. FMF also complicated with area-related colitis resembling inflammatory bowel disease. This case showed the importance of genetic analysis in indeterminate colitis with repeated abdominal pain and fever.