Abstract:
:Two hundred and thirty-three patients with renal amyloidosis were studied in an attempt to identify the incidence and pattern of the disease in northern India. The incidence of amyloidosis was 1.01% of 6431 post-mortems and 8.4% of 1980 renal biopsies from patients who presented with clinical evidence of glomerular disease. Two hundred and three patients (87.1%) had secondary amyloidosis, 22 (9.4%) had primary amyloid and 8 patients (3.5%) had amyloidosis associated with multiple myeloma. Tuberculosis of various organs was the commonest predisposing disease accounting for 59.1% of secondary amyloidosis, followed by chronic suppurative lung disease in 24.1%. Rheumatoid arthritis, chronic osteomyelitis and lepromatous leprosy were seen in a small percentage of patients (2 to 8%). Proteinuria of varying degree was present in all the 233 patients and 12.9% of them had a daily protein excretion of more than 10 g. Post-mortem examination of 65 patients with renal amyloidosis showed that 75.3% also had amyloid deposit in the spleen, 63% in the liver, and 50.8% in the adrenals. Clinical evidence of disappearance of proteinuria was observed in 3 patients with secondary amyloidosis; in 2 of them, the regression of amyloidosis was confirmed by serial renal biopsy performed 3 and 5 years after the initial diagnosis.
journal_name
Postgrad Med Jjournal_title
Postgraduate medical journalauthors
Chugh KS,Datta BN,Singhal PC,Jain SK,Sakhuja V,Dash SCdoi
10.1136/pgmj.57.663.31subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1981-01-01 00:00:00pages
31-5issue
663eissn
0032-5473issn
1469-0756journal_volume
57pub_type
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更新日期:1999-04-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1993-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Postgraduate medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2006-02-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2001-07-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:1983-01-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1986-09-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1988-11-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/pgmj.59.694.539
更新日期:1983-08-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/pmj.76.900.646
更新日期:2000-10-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
doi:
更新日期:1990-01-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1136/pgmj.2010.102475
更新日期:2011-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Postgraduate medical journal
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1979-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Postgraduate medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/pgmj.74.870.237
更新日期:1998-04-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2018-11-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2005-10-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1992-04-01 00:00:00
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doi:10.1136/postgradmedj-2013-305132rep
更新日期:2016-02-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1990-02-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2015-11-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1994-11-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2014-12-01 00:00:00
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