Amyloid Accumulation in the Toxic Nodule of the Thyroid Gland in a Patient with End Stage Renal Failure by Umut Mousa, Sema Aktas, Halit Uner

“…Amyloidosis is characterized by accumulation of amorphous, proteinaceous material in various organs and tissues of the body. …”
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Rotation errors in path integration are associated with Alzheimer’s disease tau pathology: a cross-sectional study by Lise Colmant, Lisa Quenon, Lara Huyghe, Adrian Ivanoiu, Thomas Gérard, Renaud Lhommel, Pauline Coppens, Yasmine Salman, Vincent Malotaux, Laurence Dricot, Lukas Kunz, Nikolai Axmacher, Philippe Lefèvre, Bernard Hanseeuw

“…We included 75 clinically normal individuals (19 with brain amyloidosis, 56 without) and 27 individuals with mild cognitive impairment (18 with brain amyloidosis, 9 without). …”
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Higher detectability of amyloid with phenol Congo red compared with alkaline Congo red by Marta Legatowicz-Koprowska, Justyna Szczygieł, Małgorzata Mańczak, Ewa Walczak

“…Introduction Amyloidosis is a heterogeneous group of conditions associated with tissue deposition of insoluble abnormal proteins that damage vital organs. …”
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Colonic Angiosarcoma Arising in Association with Amyloid Deposits by Samar Said, Rondell P. Graham, Tsung-Teh Wu, Saba Yasir, Lizhi Zhang, Andrew L. Folpe

“…Angiosarcoma of the colon is rare, as is colonic amyloidosis. To our knowledge, there have been no reported cases of angiosarcoma arising in association with amyloid deposition. …”
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Peculiar Presentation of Ulcerative Colitis by Hamdy M. A. Ahmed, Amany Diab, Ayman Ahmed, Samar Abohamad, Hala Elgendy

“…However, renal affection with amyloidosis does not precede the UC diagnosis. Herein, we report a case of 26-year-old male diagnosed with UC after having peripheral arthritis for long time in addition to spondylitis and kidney amyloidosis.…”
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Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance with Amyloid Deposition in the Lung and Non-Amyloid Eosinophilic Deposition in the Brain: A Case Report by Francois Abi-Fadel, Nisarg R. Desai, Gita Vatandoust, Rabih Said, Aaron Gottesman, Terenig Terjanian

“…Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) is rarely complicated by amyloidosis. Case. A 66-year-old white male presented to the emergency room (ER) after an unwitnessed fall and change in mental status. …”
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Suspected Pericardial Tuberculosis Revealed as an Amyloid Pericardial Mass by Sebastiano Cicco, Antonio G. Solimando, Patrizia Leone, Stefano Battaglia, Roberto Ria, Angelo Vacca, Vito Racanelli

“…Primary systemic amyloidosis is not easily diagnosed. The immunoglobulin deposits are usually localized in the kidney, heart, and liver. …”
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Hepatitis B Associated Monoclonal Gammopathy That Resolved after Successful Liver Transplant by P. Sreenivasan, S. Nair

“…Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) has been most commonly associated with diseases like multiple myeloma, Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia, primary systemic amyloidosis, HIV, and other lymphoproliferative disorders. …”
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Recurrent Syncope, a Clue in Amyloid Cardiomyopathy by Julian A. Marin-Acevedo, Catalina Sanchez-Alvarez, Ali A. Alsaad, Ricardo J. Pagán

“…We also highlight the role of early, shared decision-making between patient, family, and medical team in the management of cardiac amyloidosis.…”
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A Rare Cause of Acquired Factor X Deficiency in an 87-Year-Old Female by Ayrton Bangolo, Trupti Waykole, Bilal Niazi, Chandini Sajja, Mahabuba Akhter, Bhavna Gupta, Sameh Elias

“…Of plasma cell dyscrasias, most cases in the literature have been associated with multiple myeloma with or without concomitant AL amyloidosis. Here, we present a rare case of acquired isolated factor X deficiency in an elderly patient with immunoglobulin A (Ig A) monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS). …”
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Clinical Features at Onset and Genetic Characterization of Pediatric and Adult Patients with TNF-α Receptor—Associated Periodic Syndrome (TRAPS): A Series of 80 Cases from the AIDA... by Carla Gaggiano, Antonio Vitale, Laura Obici, Giampaolo Merlini, Alessandra Soriano, Ombretta Viapiana, Marco Cattalini, Maria Cristina Maggio, Giuseppe Lopalco, Davide Montin, Masen Abdel Jaber, Lorenzo Dagna, Raffaele Manna, Antonella Insalaco, Matteo Piga, Francesco La Torre, Virginia Berlengiero, Viviana Gelardi, Luisa Ciarcia, Giacomo Emmi, Piero Ruscitti, Francesco Caso, Rolando Cimaz, José Hernández-Rodríguez, Paola Parronchi, Ludovico Luca Sicignano, Elena Verrecchia, Florenzo Iannone, Jurgen Sota, Salvatore Grosso, Carlo Salvarani, Bruno Frediani, Roberto Giacomelli, Maria Antonietta Mencarelli, Alessandra Renieri, Donato Rigante, Luca Cantarini

“…Abdominal pain was significantly associated also to the presence of HP mutations (p<0.01), while oral aphthosis was more frequently found in the LP variant group (p<0.05). Systemic amyloidosis occurred in 25% of subjects carrying HP variants. …”
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Evaluation of cannabinoid type 2 receptor expression and pyridine-based radiotracers in brains from a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease by Vasil Kecheliev, Francesco Spinelli, Adrienne Herde, Achi Haider, Linjing Mu, Linjing Mu, Jan Klohs, Simon M. Ametamey, Ruiqing Ni, Ruiqing Ni

“…In conclusion, we demonstrated pronounced specific increases in microglial and astroglial CB2R expression levels in a mouse model of AD-related cerebral amyloidosis, emphasizing CB2R as a suitable target for imaging neuroinflammation.…”
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Relationship Between Myocardial Strain and Extracellular Volume: Exploratory Study in Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis Undergoing Photon-Counting Detector CT by Costanza Lisi, Victor Mergen, Lukas J. Moser, Konstantin Klambauer, Jonathan Michel, Albert M. Kasel, Hatem Alkadhi, Matthias Eberhard

“…<b>Conclusions</b>: In patients undergoing PCD-CT for TAVR planning, ECV and GLS may enable us to detect patients with cardiac amyloidosis and reduced myocardial contractility…”
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Fatal Toxoplasma gondii Dissemination in a Heart Transplant Recipient: Description of a Case by S. Mastrobuoni, A. M. Dell'Aquila, J. Herreros

“…She had received heart transplantation only 5 weeks earlier for primary systemic amyloidosis with severe cardiac involvement. Serum sodium was low, and tacrolimus through level was high. …”
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Blood Cancer and the Heart: Light Chain Cardiomyopathy in Refractory Multiple Myeloma by Abdulbaril Olagunju, Chandana Shekar, Michael Morris, Anantharam Kalya, Farouk Mookadam, Samuel Unzek

“…We report a case of a 57-year-old woman with a history of multiple myeloma (MM) and light chain (AL) amyloidosis who presented due to worsening dyspnea on exertion. …”
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Diffuse Hepatic and Spleen Uptake of Tc-99m MDP on Bone Scintigraphy Resembling Liver-Spleen Scintigraphy in a Patient of Plasma Cell Tumor by Mohammad Reza Ravanbod, Reza Nemati, Hamid Javadi, Iraj Nabipour, Majid Assadi

“…The bone scintigraphy of the present case of an anaplastic plasma cell tumor suggests the possible presence of amyloidosis.…”
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Development of Bullous Disease during Treatment of Pulmonary Marginal Zone B-Cell Lymphoma by S. Ansari, H. Dubaybo, E. Levi, B. A. Dubaybo

“…This complication is rare, has been reported only once before in a patient with concomitant amyloidosis, and may be related to activation of proteolytic enzymes by lymphoma cells or chemotherapeutic agents.…”
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Ultrasonography of the Kidneys in Healthy and Diseased Camels (Camelus dromedarius) by Mohamed Tharwat

“…Congestion, hemorrhage, hydronephrosis, acute glomerulonephritis, subacute glomerulonephritis, chronic glomerulonephritis, diffuse interstitial nephritis, focal interstitial nephritis, renal cyst, hyaline degeneration, renal amyloidosis, tubular nephrosis, pyelonephritis, hemosiderosis, and renal toxicity. …”
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Pathological investigations on renal lesions in sheep by Fatih Hatipoğlu, Hüdaverdi Erer

“…These kidneys generally had more than one pathological changes. Amyloidosis was found in ten sheep (3.16 %) out of 316. …”
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Validation of Colchicine Assay Method for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Human Plasma by Fadime Canbolat

“…Colchicine (COL) reduces the frequency of attacks in Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) patients and is effective in preventing and arresting renal amyloidosis in most patients. COL has a narrow therapeutic window. …”
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