Late-onset Familial Amyloidotic Polyneuropathy with Bence Jones Proteinuria and Cardiomyopathy

Late-onset Familial Amyloidotic Polyneuropathy with Bence Jones Proteinuria and Cardiomyopathy

Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy is a genetically determined disease characterized by deposition of an anomalous transthyretin. A high index of suspicion is needed for this multisymptomatic and lethal disease to be diagnosed. The patient was a 70-year-old male examined due to hypesthesia in the h...

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Main Authors: Sira Carrasco García de León, Amalia Hernández González, Carmen Orellana Alonso, Laura Burriel Lobo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2017-07-01
Series:Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice
Subjects:
bence jones proteinuria
cardiac amyloidosis
transthyretin amyloidosis
Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/jnrp.jnrp_498_16

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