[The incidence and possibility of detecting various forms of senile amyloidosis (based on autopsy data from the clinics of the I. M. Sechenov 1st Moscow Medical Institute from 1955 to 1987)].

Abstract

It is shown that senile amyloidosis can not be detected without use of special stain (Congo red, thyophlavin T): not a single case was found when 17445 pathology records were reexamined for 30-year period. Special staining methods allow detection of senile amyloidosis in 6.8% of cases. Local forms of senile amyloidosis (isolated auricula amyloidosis, aortal amyloidosis, cerebral amyloidosis, amyloidosis of the pancreatic insular apparatus or that of seminal vesicles) constitute 85.4%, generalized and multiorgan forms--14.6%. Every form of the senile amyloidosis has its own features with regard to the incidence, age, sex and age peak.

• Authors: L D Zykova, G M Bezuskaia
• Journal: Arkhiv patologii (Arkh Patol) Vol. 51 Issue 11 Pg. 70-3 ( 1989) ISSN: 0004-1955 [Print] Russia (Federation)
• Vernacular Title: O chastote i vozmozhnosti vyiavleniia razlichnykh form starcheskogo amiloidoza (po dannym prozektury klinik I MMI im. I. M. Sechenova s 1955 po 1987 g.).
• PMID: 2482725 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article)

Topics

• Adult
• Age Factors
• Aged
• Aged, 80 and over
• Amyloidosis (epidemiology, pathology)
• Autopsy (statistics & numerical data)
• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Moscow (epidemiology)
• Sex Factors
• Staining and Labeling (methods)