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Siegal-Cattan-Mamou syndrome
Also known as:
Reimann's periodic disease
Reimann's syndrome
Associated persons:
Roger Raphaele Cattan
Henry Mamou
Hobart Ansteth Reimann
Shepard Siegal
Description:
Historic term for familial Mediterranean fever. A familial syndrome characterised by recurrent, acute attacks of intense pain, lasting two to three days, usually in the abdomen, chest, or joints, and often accompanied by fever and sometimes a rash.
It is most prevalent in people of Armenian, Sephardic Jewish, Levantine Arabic, and Turkish ancestry. Inheritance is autosomal recessive.
Bibliography:
- S. Siegal:
Benign paroxysmal peritonitis.
Annals of Internal Medicine, Philadelphia, 1945, 22: 1-9.
- H. A. Reimann:
Periodic disease. Periodic fever,periodic abdominalgia, cyclic neutropenia,intermittent arthralgia, angioneurotic edema,anaphylactoid purpura and periodic paralysis.
The Journal of the American Medical Association, Chicago, 1949, 141: 175-182.
- R. Cattan, H. Mamou:
14 cas de maladie periodique dont 8 compliqués de neuropathie.
Bulletins et mémoires de la Société médicale des hôpitaux de Paris, 1951, 67: 1104-1107.
- H. Mamou, R. Cattan:
La maladie périodique (sur 14 cas personnels dont 8 compliqués de néphropathies).
Semaine des hôpitaux de Paris, 1952, 28: 1062-1070.
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