Dermatology

Amyloidosis

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How extensive of a workup do you do for systemic AL amyloidosis for a patient with a resected amyloidoma, localized AL amyloid deposition in their airway or lungs, who has no other symptoms?

Would you do a 24-hour urine and echocardiogram in all of these patients? Cardiac biomarkers, PT/PTT, or any other such blood tests?

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How do you approach the workup and initial treatment of systemic AL amyloidosis?

Once a tissue biopsy has confirmed light chain amyloid, what additional tests do you perform as part of a standard workup? In whom should treatment b...

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Haematologica, 2013-01

Amyloidosis of the gastrointestinal tract: a 13-year, single-center, referral experience.

The Lancet. Haematology, 2015 May 06

Natural history and outcomes in localised immunoglobulin light-chain amyloidosis: a long-term observational study.

European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society, 2017 Sep 06

The lung in amyloidosis.

Mayo Clinic proceedings, 2017-06

Presentation and Outcomes of Localized Immunoglobulin Light Chain Amyloidosis: The Mayo Clinic Experience.

Blood Cancer J, 2022 Sep 14

Defining new reference intervals for serum free light chains in individuals with chronic kidney disease: Results of the iStopMM study.

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