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Lee, Kim, and Kim: A Case of Systemic Amyloidosis
Original Article

J Korean Rheum Assoc 2010;17(3):331-332.

Published online: 23 September 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4078/jkra.2010.17.3.331

A Case of Systemic Amyloidosis

Sunyoung Lee, Juyoun Kim, Sang-Hyon Kim

Department of Internal Medicine, Dongsan Medical Center, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea

Received 24 May 201010 September 2010       Accepted 10 September 2010

Copyright © 2010 The Korean Rheumatism Association

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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1). Glenner GG. Amyloid deposits and amyloidosis. The beta-fibrilloses (first of two parts). N Engl J Med. 1980. 302:1283–92.
2). Lee SW., Lee JH., Kim KH., Chung WT. Clinical manifestations of secondary amyloidosis associated with rheumatoid arthritis. J Korean Rheum Assoc. 2004. 11:326–32.
3). Kim TJ., Oh SI., Park JS., Kim TY., Park JH., Uhm WS, et al. The secondary amyloidosis in rheumatic diseases. J Korean Rheum Assoc. 2003. 10:39–44.

Fig. 1.
(A, B) Concentric hypertrophy, thickened septum and ventricular wall with characteristic granular sparkling and pericardial effusion.
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Fig. 2.
Polarizing illumination after Congored staining showed typical green birefringence amyloid fibril (Congored) sural nerve biopsy (A), abdominal fat biopsy (B).
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