Catalog

Peritonitis in familial Mediterranean fever

No MMS code

Link to WHO Definition

Peritonitis in familial Mediterranean fever – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/229025659

This is an inflammation of the peritoneum, the thin tissue that lines the inner wall of the abdomen and covers most of the abdominal organs, in an autoinflammatory disease caused by mutations in MEFV, a gene which encodes a 781–amino acid protein denoted pyrin..