Amyloidosis in the rheumatic diseases.

Amyloidosis in rheumatic diseases.

[Amyloidosis in rheumatic diseases].

Amyloidoses represent an inhomogeneous group of diseases characterized by extracellular deposition of amyloid fibrils. AA amyloidosis is a serious life-threatening complication of chronic rheumatic diseases responsible for increased mortality due to organ failure or infection. The main component of amyloid is the serum amyloid A precursor protein (SAA) produced by the liver as an acute phase pr...

Amyloidosis Associated with Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases in Finland

Objective. To determine the outcome of amyloidosis associated with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)in a hospital-based series.Methods. Patient registers and amyloidosis biopsy files of the Department of Pediatrics of RheumatismFoundation Hospital, the main tertiary center for inflammatory joint disorders in children in Finland,were scrutinized from 1976 to the end of 2003 to ...

Fasting and rheumatic diseases

Fasting is one of the important religious practices of Muslims, in which the individuals abstain from eating and drinking from dawn to sunset. Fasting is not obligatory or even not allowed, in case it causes health problems to the fasting individual. Rheumatic diseases are a major group of chronic diseases which can bring about numerous problems while fasting. The aim of this article is to revi...

The kidney in rheumatic diseases.

Certain rheumatic diseases are associated with unequivocal renal involvement. Examples are the immune complex mediated glomerular nephritis of systemic lupus erythematosus, the renal involvement in other connected tissue disorders such as polyarteritis nodosa, and the renal amyloid that can complicate rheumatoid arthritis or ankylosing spondylitis. Patients with these complications of rheumatic...