Primary Systematized Amyloidosis

Acquired Factor X Deficiency Associated with Systematized Amyloidosis - A Report

C OAGULATION DEFECTS due to the lack of a single blood clotting factor are almost exclusively congenital and symptoms appear in early life. Acquired defects other than iatrogenic are usually the result of liver dysfunction and in such cases more than one clotting factor is depressed. A case of selective factor X deficiency developing in middle life and associated with extensive amyloidosis has ...

Primary amyloidosis.

Acase report of primary amyloidosis with prominent hepatic involvement

primary amyloidosis is a rare disrder wihich is diagnosed by extracellular deposition of proteinaceous material in different organs.in this report,a case of this disease with prominent hepatic involvement is presented.the case is a 63 years old male refered with abdominal enlargement,weight loss,generalized pruritus,anorexia and vague abdominal pain started from six months ago.on physical exami...

A case of primary systemic amyloidosis with nail dystrophy

We hereby report a 79-year-old Iranian man presenting with nail dystrophy and subsequent development of purpuric and ecchymotic plaques, hemorrhagic bullae, and infiltrated papules on the head, neck and trunk. Histological examination of the gingiva, bone marrow aspiration, and biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of primary systemic amyloidosis. In this case, nail dystrophy was the presenting sign o...

Primary diffuse tracheobronchial amyloidosis.

The case is reported of a woman who died at the age of 36 years from obstructive respiratory failure due to diffuse tracheobronchial amyloidosis which had caused symptoms for six years. When first seen her symptoms of wheezing cough and mucopurulent sputum sometimes streaked with blood were of recent onset, but on bronchogram and bronchoscopy her disease was already widespread. Appearances at b...