Urinary/Renal manifestations

Secondary, AA, amyloidosis is a rare systemic complication that can develop in any long-term inflammatory disorder, and is characterized by the extracellular…

Amyloid A (AA) amyloidosis is a rare but serious complication of chronic inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis (RA), causing progressive organ dysfunction…

Amyloidosis is a condition characterized by the extracellular deposition of amyloid, a fibrillary substance consisting of low-molecular-weight protein subunits.…

Amyloidosis is a rare disease caused by extracellular deposition of proteins in an insoluble beta-pleated physical conformation. Multiple causative proteins have…

Lauren Stern is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in nephrology at the Boston University School of Medicine. She received her medical degree from University of…

Laura M. Dember is a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine where she is a faculty member in the Renal…

A 66-year-old woman presented with renal failure and purulent discharge associated with a chronic prosthetic joint infection (PJI) of the left knee. Her medical…

Back in 2015, I went to see my primary care manager (PCM) several times because of fatigue and feeling feverish (when I didn't have a fever). My muscles and bones…