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senile systemic amyloidosis
Etiology:
- old age
Pathology:
- wild type transthyretin deposited as amyloid in tissues
- heart is the most frequently involved organ
- see cardiac amyloidosis
Related
cardiac amyloidosis
Specific
transthyretin amyloidosis; ATTR amyloidosis
General
amyloidosis
Properties
PROTEIN-PRECURSOR: transthyretin
References
- Mayo Internal Medicine Board Review, 1998-99, Prakash UBS (ed)
Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, 1998, pg 54-55
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 17, 18,
American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2015, 2018.