| Autor: |
Altraif I; Department of Hepatobiliary and Liver Transplantation, King Abdulaziz Medical City, P.O. Box 22490, Riyadh 11426, Saudi Arabia., Handoo FA, Alsaad KO, Gublan A |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Pathology research international [Patholog Res Int] 2010 May 16; Vol. 2010, pp. 648089. Date of Electronic Publication: 2010 May 16. |
| DOI: |
10.4061/2010/648089 |
| Abstrakt: |
Although systemic amyloidosis of amyloid-associated protein (AA) type (secondary or reactive amyloidosis) frequently involves the liver, it rarely causes clinically apparent liver disease. Mild elevation of alkaline phosphatase and hepatomegaly are the most common biochemical and clinical findings, respectively. We report a case of systemic amyloidosis of AA type, which clinically presented as subacute hepatic failure and resulted in a fatal clinical course in a 69-year-old man. To the best of our knowledge, this is the fifth case of hepatic amyloidosis of AA type that clinically presented as fatal subacute hepatic failure, an unusual clinical presentation for hepatic involvement by systemic AA-type amyloid. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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