Systemic amyloidosis
D25V apolipoprotein C III variant causes dominant hereditary systemic amyloidosis and confers cardiovascular protective lipoprotein profile
... developing systemic amyloidosis and had died aged 74 and 80 years, ...cardiac amyloidosis proven by biopsy 10 years earlier, associated with CKD and mild ...
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Multiple myeloma with primary systemic amyloidosis affecting cutaneous, gastro intestinal and cardio-vascular system
... Primary systemic amyloidosis is commonly due to an underlying plasma cell ...cardiac amyloidosis and results from the replacement of normal myocardial contractile elements by infiltration and ...
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Systemic Amyloidosis and Testicular Interstitial Tumor in a Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata): a Case Report in Iran
... Systemic amyloidosis and testicular interstitial tumor are rare conditions in birds and this is the first report in Iran. A male zebra finch was presented because of white diarrhea, anorexia, loss of weight ...
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Characterisation and treatment of hereditary and acquired systemic amyloidosis
... AL amyloidosis is frequently a diagnosis of exclusion, based on the clinical presentation and negative immunohistochemical stains for AA and other known amyloid ...AL amyloidosis, subtle plasma cell ...
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Characterisation, monitoring and treatment of systemic amyloidosis
... Twenty six cases o f systemic amyloidosis associated with Castleman’s disease have been reported previously. Seventeen o f these had confirmed reactive systemic, AA, amyloidosis (Table ...
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Metabolic studies of radioiodinated serum amyloid P component in normal subjects and patients with systemic amyloidosis
... without amyloidosis, 125I-SAP metabolism was ...biopsy-proven systemic amyloidosis (25, amyloid A type; 20, amyloid L type), 125I-SAP was cleared from the plasma more rapidly, accumulated in the ...
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Three cases of systemic amyloidosis successfully diagnosed by subcutaneous fat tissue biopsy of the hip
... of systemic amyloidosis with ...diagnosing systemic amyloidosis in elderly patients, particularly when a fat tissue biopsy of the abdomen is associated with a high risk of complications ...
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Hereditary hepatic and systemic amyloidosis caused by a new deletion/insertion mutation in the apolipoprotein AI gene
... transthyretin amyloidosis, elimi- nating the source of the variant amyloidogenic protein from the plasma and leading to clinical benefit in most patients and regression of amyloid deposits ...
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Cerebral amyloid angiopathy presenting as a brain mass
... Histology revealed focal deposits within vessels walls of a Congo red staining substance that produced apple green birefringence when viewed under polarized light. This find- ing was consistent with amyloid deposition ...
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18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography might be useful for diagnosis of hepatic amyloidosis
... primary systemic (immunoglobulin light chain, AL) ...hepatic amyloidosis are generally mild at its first stage, with most frequent findings being hepatomegaly and alkaline phosphatase ...of systemic ...
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Systemic senile amyloidosis Identification of a new prealbumin (transthyretin) variant in cardiac tissue: immunologic and biochemical similarity to one form of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy
... of systemic senile amyloidosis (SSA) contained subunit proteins with molecular masses of 14 (10-20%), 10-12 (60-80%), and 5-6 kD (5- 10%) when fractionated under reducing and dissociating ...of ...
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A Case Report of Cardiac Amyloidosis Presenting with Chest Discomfort
... Cardiac amyloidosis is one of the several systemic manifesta- tions of ...cardiac amyloidosis clinically present with rapidly progressive heart ...suspect amyloidosis with cardiac ...mary ...
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Amyloidosis cutis dyschromica
... Observations: We described 10 cases of amyloidosis cutis dyschromica. Six of them were female. Five patients were from the same family, and the other 5 were sporadic. The distinguishing features of the clinical ...
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Primary localized laryngeal amyloidosis presenting with hoarseness and dysphagia: a case report
... laryngeal amyloidosis in two sisters and primary localized amyloidosis in various human organs, familial primary localized amyloidosis of the larynx has not yet been reported ...of systemic ...
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Misdiagnosis of hereditary amyloidosis as AL (Primary) amyloidosis
... Of the 350 patients with systemic amyloidosis in this study, 18 (5.1 percent) were heterozygous for a point mutation that encoded the Glu526Val substitution in fibrinogen A a -chain. This mutation was not ...
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Amyloidosis and Spontaneous Liver Bleeding: A Case Report and Literature Review
... liver transplantation was carried out for two younger patients with hereditary lysozyme systemic amyloidosis and both of them recovered postoperatively. We only found one case in which the patient was ...
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Exceptional mucocutaneous manifestations with amyloid nephropathy: a case report
... Case presentation: We present the case of a 52-year-old Korean woman complaining of dry mouth and nail dystrophy for 4 months as an initial symptom. A slit lamp examination revealed superficial keratoconjunctival erosion ...
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Acquired A amyloidosis from injection drug use presenting with atraumatic splenic rupture in a hospitalized patient: a case report
... of amyloidosis is a rare systemic condition that can occur in the context of chronic inflammation in which there is protracted breakdown of ...reactive systemic amyloidosis, as in our ...
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Systemic AL Amyloidosis of the Tracheobronchial Tract and Lungs: a Rare Finding
... light. Amyloidosis can be classified either based on the type of the deposited protein or its location in the ...of amyloidosis are: AL amyloidosis due to the deposition of light chain ...
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AL Amyloidosis
... of amyloidosis, related to different protein precursors bearing an unstable tertiary structure enabling the formation of ...in systemic amyloidosis: increased serum levels of serum amyloid A protein ...
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