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Senile Systemic Amyloidosis
Senile systemic amyloid contains the prealbumin-like fibril protein, ASc1, and is the only known form of systemic age-related amyloid. Although it involves predominantly the heart, it may be found in a wide ra...
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Immunohistochemical Ty** of Tissues from 100 Patients with Systemic Amyloidosis
Tissues obtained at biopsy or autopsy from 267 patients with systemic amyloidosis were evaluated immunologically with a panel of antibodies to specific amyloid fibril proteins. of the first 100 patients classi...
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Age-Related Amyloid in the Aorta
Tissue from thoracal and abdominal aorta was taken from 84 autopsy cases. The amyloid deposition in the intima, media and adventitia was studied. Except for one case, medial amyloid was found in all patients a...
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Clinicopathologic Correlations in 109 Patients with Systemic Amyloidosis Studied by Immunocytochemistry
Tissues obtained by biopsy or at autopsy from 266 patients with systemic amyloid were studied with antibodies specific for amyloid fibril proteins. 109 tissues could be characterized as follows: AλI 28%, AλIII...