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Nephrol Dial Transplant (1999) 14: 2478-2481
© 1999 European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association

Case Reports

AA amyloidosis in Takayasu's arteritis—long-term survival on maintenance haemodialysis

Yoshifumi Wada, Hidemi Nishida, Keisuke Kohno, Osamu Tamai, Masahisa Fujisawa, Seiya Katoh, Minoru Morimatsu and Seiya Okuda

Department of Internal Medicine III, Department of Pathology Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan

Correspondence and offprint requests to: Yoshifumi Wada, MD, Department of Internal Medicine III, Kurume University School of Medicine 67 Asahimachi, Kurume, Fukuoka 830-0011, Japan.

Keywords: AA amyloidosis; long-term survival; Takayasu's arteritis; haemodialysis; regression



   Introduction
 
AA amyloidosis occurs in association with chronic inflammatory disorders, chronic infection and, occasionally, neoplastic diseases. The median survival time from diagnosis of AA amyloidosis varies from 30 to 60 months [1,2]. We observed a patient with renal AA amyloidosis secondary to Takayasu's arteritis. There was no progression of, and potential recovery from, systemic amyloidosis after the induction of maintenance haemodialysis. The patient survived for 16 years on maintenance haemodialysis.



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A 23-year-old woman was admitted for proteinuria and hypertension. She had suffered from toxaemia of pregnancy during her first pregnancy a few months before . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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