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Periodic fever: the first Portuguese case-report of hyper-IgD syndrome (HIDS).

Periodic fever can have one of multiple causes. Among the hereditary periodic fever syndromes, hyper-IgD syndrome (HIDS) is a possible diagnosis, although, until now, no cases had been described in Portugal.We report a 25-year-old woman, with periodic fever since she was 8 months old. She had high serum IgD levels, and a molecular study of the mevalonate kinase gene was performed. A compound heterozygote was fo...