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	Amyloidosis Support Network - What Is Amyloidosis?
		Amyloidosis is a group of diseases in which one or more organ systems in the body accumulate deposits of abnormal proteins.
		Localized types of amyloidosis are associated with hormone proteins, aging, or specific areas of the body, and have not been found to have systemic implications.
		The type of amyloidosis which is due to the b2 micro globulin protein may affect people who have been on dialysis for a significant length of time.
	www.amyloidosis.org /whatisit.asp (517 words)

	Arthritis Research Campaign \| AA Amyloidosis (Site not responding. Last check: )
		microglobulin amyloidosis which occurs as a result of renal dialysis using particular types of filters, where the length of dialysis is proportional to the percentage of patients developing amyloidosis.
		Amyloidosis associated with familial Mediterranean fever is the only form of systemic amyloidosis known to be inherited as a recessive trait (22).
		The amyloidosis tends to occur in patients from certain ethnic groups, eg North African and Sephardi Jews with a family history of familial Mediterranean fever, and Anatolian Turks and Armenians with origins in the Mediterranean area.
	www.arc.org.uk /about_arth/med_reports/series3/tr/6408/6408.htm (2947 words)

	Amyloidosis - Florida Department of Health
		Amyloidosis Support Network - The Network's primary function is to link those affected by amyloidosis, to further support resources, and to educate the public and professionals so that the disease can be recognized earlier and appropriately treated.
		Localized types of amyloidosis are associated with hormone proteins, aging, or specific areas of the body, and have not been found to have systemic implications.
		The type of amyloidosis that is due to the b2 micro globulin protein may affect people who have been on dialysis for a significant length of time.
	www.doh.state.fl.us /amyloidosis.html (517 words)

	Dr. Koop - Cardiac amyloidosis
		Cardiac amyloidosis is a disorder caused by deposits of an abnormal protein in the heart tissue, resulting in decreased heart function.
		Amyloidosis refers to buildup of a fibril called amyloid in tissues anywhere in the body.
		Different types of amyloidosis are caused by different types of proteins, such as "AL" and "AA." In cardiac amyloidosis there may be associated conduction disturbances (changes in the way the cardiac electrical impulse is transmitted through the heart).
	www.drkoop.com /ency/93/000193.html (347 words)

	eMedicine - Amyloidosis, Transthyretin-Related : Article by Seetha U Monrad, MD
		The role of TTR in amyloidosis was first established when TTR was found in the fibrils in several kindreds with autosomal dominant amyloidosis affecting the peripheral nerves, heart, and other organs.
		Also, even in patients with amyloidosis, the findings are not specific for ATTR; they are similar to findings in patients with cardiac amyloidosis of the AL (immunoglobulin-related) type (see Amyloidosis, Overview and Amyloidosis, Immunoglobulin-Related).
		Amyloidosis (of all types) is diagnosed definitively based on demonstration of Congo red binding material in a biopsy specimen.
	www.emedicine.com /med/topic3365.htm (4479 words)

	CIGNA - Amyloidosis
		The nephrotic (kidney) syndrome associated with amyloidosis is usually manifested by swellings of the legs and abdomen, and accompanied by increased levels of protein in the urine (proteinuria), which worsens as the disease progresses and may finally result in kidney failure.
		Hereditary amyloidosis is caused by an abnormality in the gene for one of several particular proteins.
		Hereditary amyloidosis caused by a transthyretin mutation occurs in approximately 1 in 100,000 Caucasians in the U.S. This condition is prevalent in Portugal, Sweden, Japan, Ireland, Spain, France, Finland, Germany and Greece.
	www.cigna.com /healthinfo/nord22.html (3123 words)

	Amyloidosis
		Amyloidosis is a condition in which too much of a particular protein (amyloid) collects in the organs, so that they are not able to work normally.
		Amyloidosis sometimes develops when a person has certain forms of cancer, such as multiple myeloma, Hodgkin's disease or familial Mediterranean fever (an intestinal disorder).
		In the case of amyloidosis of the kidney, kidney transplantation may be done.
	www.csmc.edu /8643.html (1123 words)

	Head and Neck Manifestations of Amyloidosis
		Amyloidosis is not a specific disease per se, but rather is the result of a number of unrelated disease processes leading to deposition of extracellular protein in tissues throughout the body.
		Amyloidosis constitutes approximately one percent of all benign lesions of the larynx.
		The gold standard for diagnosis of systemic amyloidosis in the past consisted of a rectal biopsy, which was felt to be positive in approximately 80 percent of patients.
	www.bcm.edu /oto/grand/4992.html (1540 words)

	Dr. Vidt's Website - Health Issues
		Amyloidosis is the deposition of an abnormal substance called amyloid in the tissues of the body.
		Amyloidosis is not a disease as much as it is a specific biochemical arrangement in which a precursor protein or protein fragment accumulates and forms filaments.
		It is not known whether the development of amyloidosis in the Shar-Pei is due to prolonged excessive SAA production by the liver which overwhelms the degradation mechanisms or a defect in the degradation process itself, or a combination of both.
	www.drjwv.com /article.php?view=0001.php (1582 words)

	Amyloidosis
		About two-thirds of patients with amyloidosis have primary (where no specific cause or disease is related to the abnormal protein deposits), less than 5% have secondary (associated with another chronic disease, often in multiple myeloma), less than 5% familial (inherited) and less than 5% have senile (occurring secondary to old age) amyloidosis.
		The clinical diagnosis is often delayed either because the initiating mechanism is unclear (as in primary amyloidosis) or the signs and symptoms of the primary disease mask or merge with those of the deposits of Amyloid itself.
		Amyloidosis should be suspected with the slow onset of unexplained protein in the urine or kidney failure, enlarged liver or spleen, enlarged tongue, unexplained cardiac damage, malabsorption of food, nerve damage, and skin lesions (especially around the eyes).
	www.clevelandclinic.org /myeloma/amyloidosis.htm (1370 words)

	Amyloidosis
		Amyloidosis is now known to be a group of diseases in which one or more organ systems in the body accumulates protein deposits.
		In secondary amyloidosis, symptoms caused by the underlying chronic infection or inflammatory disease are complicated by the development of amyloid deposits in the kidney.
		Localized types of amyloidosis are associated with hormones, proteins, aging, and specific areas of the body, and are not found with systemic involvment.
	www.medical-library.net /sites/_amyloidosis.html (469 words)

	Amyloidosis - New Treatments, January 2, 2007
		The most common form of systemic amyloidosis seen in current clinical practice is AL (primary idiopathic amyloidosis, or that associated with multiple myeloma) resulting from fibril formation by monoclonal antibody light chains in primary amyloidosis and in some cases of multiple myeloma.
		The clinical manifestations of amyloidosis are varied and depend entirely on the biochemical nature of the fibril protein and thus the area of the body that is involved.
		While hepatic involvement is common except in heredofamilial amyloidosis of the TTR type, liver function abnormalities are minimal and occur late in the disease.
	www.ccspublishing.com /journals2a/amyloidosis.htm (540 words)

	Amyloidosis: Special Subjects: Merck Manual Home Edition
		Amyloidosis is a rare disease in which a protein called amyloid accumulates in various tissues and organs, impairing normal function.
		Amyloidosis is twice as common in men as in women and is more common among older people.
		Many forms of amyloidosis exist, and the disease can be classified into four groups: primary amyloidosis, secondary amyloidosis, hereditary amyloidosis, and amyloidosis associated with normal aging.
	www.merck.com /mmhe/sec25/ch304/ch304a.html (623 words)

	Amyloidosis
		Amyloidosis is a group of diseases in which a protein, called amyloid, builds up in the organs and tissues.
		Primary amyloidosis (AL), the most common form, occurs when bone marrow produces too much of certain fragments of antibody proteins, which build up in the blood stream and may be deposited in body tissues.
		Familial (hereditary) amyloidosis is a genetic form passed down in families that often affects nerves and kidneys.
	www.umm.edu /altmed/articles/amyloidosis-000007.htm (2159 words)

	Amyloidosis Information on Healthline
		Amyloidosis is a progressive, incurable, metabolic disease characterized by abnormal deposits of protein in one or more organs or body systems.
		Hereditary amyloidosis is though to be autosomal dominant, which means that only one copy of the defective gene is necessary to cause the disease.
		Amyloidosis that affects nerves to the feet can cause burning or numbness in the toes and soles and eventually weaken the legs.
	www.healthline.com /galecontent/amyloidosis (778 words)

	Amyloidosis
		Although considerable overlap is seen in the organ distribution of various forms of amyloid, primary amyloidosis tends to involve mesodermal tissues, most frequently affecting peripheral nerves, skin, tongue, joints, heart, and liver while secondary amyloidosis mainly affects parenchymatous organs, such as spleen, kidneys, liver, and adrenals.
		AL type of amyloidosis is also associated with some other rare monoclonal gammopathies (plasma cell/B immunocyte dyscrasias), such as solitary myeloma (of bone or soft tissue), Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia, or heavy chain disease in which there are also sometimes an increased production of free light chains that become deposited as amyloid.
		Noteworthy, the majority of patients who develop AL type of amyloidosis apparently do so in the absence of clinically overt myeloma or other predisposing disease, and such cases are commonly referred to as primary or idiopathic amyloidosis.
	chemo.net /newpage1.htm (2180 words)

	Amyloidosis - Better Health Channel.
		Amyloidosis is an umbrella term that describes diseases caused by abnormal deposits in the body of the protein amyloid.
		Localised amyloidosis means that only one area or body part is affected, while systemic amyloidosis means that abnormal protein deposits are scattered throughout the body.
		Amyloidosis is an umbrella term that describes diseases caused by abnormal deposits of the protein amyloid.
	www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au /bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Amyloidosis?open (899 words)

	Amyloidosis -- eCureMe.com
		Amyloidosis is a condition in which amyloids, i.e., protein fibrils (minute fibers) not normally present in the body, become deposited in one or more sites, damaging the organs where they collect.
		In secondary amyloidosis (called AA) fibrils are derived from acute phase reactant apolipoprotein precursors (i.e., molecules that are signs of infection in the body).
		In this form of the disease, amyloidosis is secondary to another disease.
	www.ecureme.com /emyhealth/data/Amyloidosis.asp (471 words)

	Amyloidosis - Diagnosis and Treatment Options at Mayo Clinic
		Amyloidosis (pronounced am-i-loy-do'-sis) results when enough amyloid protein builds up in one or more organs to cause the organ to malfunction.
		While amyloidosis has many types, the most common is a disease of the bone marrow called primary systemic amyloidosis.
		In amyloidosis, cells in the bone marrow produce antibodies that cannot be broken down or recycled.
	www.mayoclinic.org /amyloidosis (651 words)

	Amyloidosis: Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders: Merck Manual Professional
		Amyloidosis is any of a group of disparate conditions characterized by extracellular deposition of various insoluble proteins.
		Amyloidosis can be primary or be secondary to various infectious, inflammatory, or malignant conditions.
		Primary amyloidosis (AL): AL is a monoclonal plasma cell disorder in which the abnormal protein is an immunoglobulin, usually a light chain fragment (Bence Jones protein) but occasionally a heavy chain fragment (AH amyloidosis).
	www.merck.com /mmpe/sec12/ch160/ch160a.html (1323 words)

	Amyloidosis
		Amyloidosis is a rare and potentially fatal disease that occurs when substances called amyloid proteins build up in your body's organs.
		When amyloidosis affects your kidneys, their filtering system is damaged, causing protein to leak from your blood into your urine.
		For hereditary amyloidosis, one possible therapy may be liver transplantation because the protein that causes this form of amyloidosis is made in the liver.
	www.cnn.com /HEALTH/library/DS/00431.html (1512 words)

	Amyloidosis - WrongDiagnosis.com
		Amyloidosis is a rare, chronic disease resulting in the accumulation of an abnormal fibrillar scleroprotein (amyloid), which infiltrates body organs and soft tissues.
		Primary amyloidosis, while the most common form of amyloidosis, is a sporadic disease and, therefore, can only be investigated on a case by case basis.
		Secondary (reactive) amyloidosis occurs in subjects with chronic inflammatory disease or cancer but factors which predict amyloid formation and which subject is going to be affected, are not readily apparent.
	www.wrongdiagnosis.com /a/amyloidosis/intro.htm (1085 words)

	amyloidosis
		Amyloidosis occurs when too much of a protein called amyloid builds up in an organ.
		Amyloidosis is not cancer, but is very serious.
		The symptoms of amyloidosis depend on the organs it affects.
	www.mamashealth.com /amdosis.asp (253 words)

	Amyloidosis
		Amyloidosis describes a heterogeneous group of diseases, all characterized by the extracellular deposition of fibrillar, proteinaceous material in organs and tissues, either locally or systemically.
		AL amyloidosis: The subunit or precursor protein derived from either the lambda (most commonly) or kappa light chain is formed from the immunoglobulin of a monoclonal plasma cell dyscrasia.
		Also supporting the idea that free radical formation contributes to the development of amyloidosis is the fact that amyloidosis is a disease of aging; age-related susceptibility to disease is typically associated with accumulated free radical damage.
	metagenics.com /resources/imc/OneMedicineProf/ProfConditions/Amyloidosispc.html (3558 words)

	Transthyretin Amyloidosis
		Transthyretin amyloidosis is a disease caused by the abnormal accumulation of protein molecules in body tissues.
		Transthyretin amyloidosis is caused by mutations in the protein.
		The fact that liver transplantation is not available to many individuals, especially those at older age when transthyretin amyloidosis very often occurs, and the fact that liver transplantation is not curative for some individuals, it is important that we continue medical research to discover new ways of treating or preventing this disease.
	www.iupui.edu /~amyloid/information.htm (1240 words)

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