Renal biopsy revealed amyloidosis, with λ monoclonality. A skeletal survey showed no lytic lesions. Seven years after diagnosis, he underwent a cadaveric renal transplantation.

A renal biopsy was then pursued, which confirmed amyloidosis on electron microscopy; however, no immune complex or light chain deposition was identified.

Kidney biopsy is an important diagnostic tool in amyloidosis; however, an increased risk of post-biopsy bleeding has been suggested to occur in patients with this condition. A more-careful biopsy ...

Patients who had end-stage renal disease secondary to amyloidosis had poorer survival rates compared with patients with kidney disease secondary to other causes.

Renal interstitial fibrosis is the final common pathway leading to end-stage renal disease in various nephropathies including renal amyloidosis.

For example, a patient may present with symptoms of kidney failure before amyloidosis in the kidneys is suspected and diagnosed. If amyloidosis is suspected, a biopsy may be taken form the ...

Biopsy of the Trachea in Case 1, Taken at Bronchoscopy, Showing Submucosal Infiltration of Amyloid.

Systemic amyloidosis is a major cause of renal injury, mostly due to direct kidney damage caused by deposits of abnormal protein called amyloid, in the kidney parenchyma.

Systemic amyloidosis is a major cause of renal injury, mostly due to direct kidney damage caused by deposits of abnormal protein called amyloid, in the kidney parenchyma. In patients with cardiac ...

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A gingiva biopsy was normal except for the deposition of an amyloid-like, methyl-violet-negative material in the walls of the arterioles.

A type of heart failure caused by a build-up of amyloid can be accurately diagnosed and prognosticated with an imaging technique, eliminating the need for a biopsy, according to a multicenter ...