Amyloid arthropathy.

Amyloid arthropathy in haemodialysed patients.

Amyloid arthropathy in a dialysis patient.

The patient was a 66-year-old man who had undergone hemodialysis for 20 years. He had suffered from right hip pain for several months. He could stand, but his walking endurance was poor. Plain radiograph of the right hip showed osteoporotic change. T1-weighted (Fig. A) and TI inversion recovery MRI images (Fig. B) of bilateral hips showed low-signal-intensity thickened synovium (long arrows) ca...

Dialysis Related Amyloid Arthropathy on 18FDG PET-CT

A 60 year-old male patient with end stage kidney disease secondary to Alport syndrome presented with worsening swelling and pain in both shoulders. He had been on regular haemodialysis for 20 years, having had two failed renal transplants previously and had renal amyloidosis confirmed on renal biopsy. Radiographs of the shoulders showed evidence of an erosive arthropathy affecting the glenohume...

Amyloid, advanced glycation end products, and dialysis related arthropathy.

Dialysis associated arthropathy (DRA) is a syndrome peculiar to long term dialysis patients. It includes large and small joint symptoms, pathological fractures through bony cysts and an axial spondyloarthropathy, and is closely associated with carpal tunnel syndrome. It is characterised by deposition of â2 microglobulin (â2M) as an amyloid protein. This was first linked to the osteoarticular sy...

Amyloid arthropathy associated with multiple myeloma: polyarthritis without synovial infiltration of CD20+ or CD38+ cells

OBJECTIVES To describe histological, immunohistochemical and ultrastructural features of synovial biopsies of amyloid arthropathy associated with multiple myeloma (MM). METHODS Synovial biopsies from affected joints of two patients with MM and amyloid arthropathy were examined with light and electron microscopy, and immunohistochemically for expression of CD3, CD8, CD20, CD38, CD68, Ki-67 and...