Systemic amyloidosis is a very rare complication of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The reported cases of secondary amyloidosis in children with IBD are much fewer than those reported in adults. Herein, a teenage boy with Crohn's disease is presented who developed nephrotic syndrome due to renal involvement secondary to amyloidosis, whereas the patient was under treatment with corticosteroid ...

purpose: to present the success of novel method for management of conjunctival orbital inclusion cysts following enucleation after using trichloroacetic acid injection technique. methods: a 20% tca solution was injected to treat 6 cases of orbital conjuctival cyst in anophthalmic socket. results: all the patients were treated successfully. the follow-up interval was 1-7 years. no recurrence or ...

A recent study has demonstrated secondary amyloidosis in dogs treated with continuous intravenous insulin infusion. Since elevated levels of serum amyloid A protein (SAA) and diminished amyloid fibril degrading activity (AFDA) are associated with amyloidosis, we measured SAA and AFDA in ten type I diabetics treated with continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion and in five conventionally treated...

Macular amyloidosis is a major cause of skin pigmentation and a rare form of localized primary cutaneous amyloidosis in western countries, with a higher prevalence in Asia and South America. The etiopathogenesis of macular amyloidosis has not yet been fully clarified; a number of risk factors are involved, among them chronic friction in particular. A 54-year-old patient with macular amyloidosis...

Amyloidosis is characterized by a deposition of insoluble fibrils in various organs and tissues. Amyloid deposition, in the gastrointestinal track, provokes a dysfunction of the organ, due to an accumulation of fibrils, and causes a variety of clinical symptoms and endoscopic findings. Primary amyloidosis in the gastrointestinal tract is rarely reported in Korea. We experienced a case of recurr...

Amyloidosis is a disease related to abnormal protein folding and deposition of that abnormal protein between cells of the body in various tissues and organs, resulting in multiple clinical manifestations. We report a case of amyloidosis with atypical features, isolated to the mediastinum, in a 75-year-old male who presented with fatigue and shortness of breath. Amyloidosis that is isolated to t...

AIMS To characterise the vasculature of pterygium using indocyanine green (ICG) anterior segment angiography and to demonstrate the pattern of revascularisation following conjunctival autografting. METHODS ICG anterior segment angiography was performed on nine patients with pterygium. Angiography was repeated at 1-2 weeks and 2 months following conjunctival autografting in these patients. R...

OBJECTIVE To compare the recurrence of pterygium between free conjunctival auto-graft and conjunctival rotation flap following simple surgical excision of pterygium. STUDY DESIGN Quasi-experimental study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Shifa Foundation Community Health Clinic, Shifa College of Medicine, Islamabad, from January to November 2012. METHODOLOGY Fifty seven cases aged above 18 yea...

Amyloidosis is characterised by the extracellular deposition of abnormal protein fibrils. Recent advances in the study of amyloidosis have been based on the chemical analysis of these protein fibrils.1,2 This has also led to a more rational classification of the condition (Fig 1). Further discussion of localised forms of amyloidosis is outside the scope of this article, which will be confined t...

Background Amyloid cardiomyopathy is a polymorphic condition with heterogeneous prognosis. Whereas AL amyloid cardiomyopathy is the most frequent type of amyloid cardiopathy, transthyretin (TTR) amyloidosis is often under diagnosed. TTR gene sequencing may be easily performed although usually used after a histological proof of amyloidosis is obtained. We conducted a prospective study to evaluat...