[A Dutch family with familial Mediterranean fever].

Familial mediterranean fever (or recurrent hereditary polyserositis) is a genetic disorder with an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance which occurs mostly in patients with eastern Mediterranean origin. Two Dutch patients are described, a 25-year-old women and her 58-year-old father, who suffered from recurring abdominal complaints, fever, and increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate, without evidence of Middle Eastern ancestry or hyperimmunoglobulinemia D.