A renal transplant recipient with delayed gastric emptying in amyloidosis due to familial Mediterranean fever improved with erythromycin: a case report.

Abstract

Patients with systemic amyloidosis often have symptoms related to impared gastrointestinal motility due to delayed gastric emptying, which results from autonomic nerve or smooth muscle infiltration with amyloid. There is no current report about gastric delaying secondary to amyloidosis due to familial Mediterranean fever. In this report, we have described a renal transplant recipient with delayed gastric emptying secondary to amyloidosis due to familial Mediterranean fever, which improved with erithromycin treatment.

• Authors: F Saglam, A Celik, C Cavdar, A Sifil, K Atila, G C Kaya, S Bora, H Gulay, T Camsari
• Journal: Transplantation proceedings (Transplant Proc) 2008 Jan-Feb Vol. 40 Issue 1 Pg. 308-9 ISSN: 0041-1345 [Print] United States
• PMID: 18261613 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Topics

• Adult
• Amyloidosis (etiology)
• Familial Mediterranean Fever (complications, physiopathology)
• Gastric Emptying
• Humans
• Kidney Failure, Chronic (etiology, surgery)
• Kidney Transplantation
• Male
• Treatment Outcome