Familial visceral amyloidosis

Familial renal amyloidosis
Classification and external resources
Specialty	endocrinology
ICD-10	E85.0
ICD-9-CM	277.3
OMIM	105200
DiseasesDB	33335
eMedicine	med/3379
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Familial renal amyloidosis (or familial visceral amyloidosis, or hereditary amyloid nephropathy) is a form of amyloidosis primarily presenting in the kidney.

It is associated with fibrinogen alpha chain,apolipoprotein A1, and lysozyme.

It is also known as "Ostertag" type, after B. Ostertag, who characterized it in 1932 and 1950.

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