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| Year : 2022 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 104-106 |
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A patient with recurrent fever – TRAPped for diagnosis!
Hari Kishan Boorugu1, Rajendra Vara Prasad Irlapati2, Pankaj Vinod Jariwala3, Kartik Pandurang Jadhav3
1 Departments of General Medicine, Yashoda Hospital, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
2 Departments of Rheumatology, Yashoda Hospital, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
3 Departments of Cardiology, Yashoda Hospital, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Hari Kishan Boorugu
Department of General Medicine, Yashoda Hospital, Somajiguda, Hyderabad - 500 082, Telangana
India
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DOI: 10.4103/cmi.cmi_8_22
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Hereditary recurrent fever syndromes are rarely diagnosed in India, and the age at diagnosis is usually childhood or early adulthood. We present an adult male patient with recurrent fever since childhood who presented to us at 59 years of age and was subsequently diagnosed to have TNFR1-associated periodic fever syndrome that responded well to colchicine.
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