Amyloid goiter and arthritides after kidney transplantation in a patient with systemic amyloidosis and Muckle-Wells syndrome.

Abstract

A case of hereditary AA amyloidosis with Muckle-Wells syndrome is described. After a successful kidney transplantation for chronic renal failure due to renal amyloid deposits at age 21, the patient, a white female now 26 years of age, developed a large amyloid goiter as a manifestation of the systemic amyloidosis and recurrent monarthritides. Both observations are novel for this disease. Subtotal thyroidectomy and oral colchicine administration, known to be effective in preventing complications of familial Mediterranean fever, another hereditary type of AA amyloidosis, proved highly effective in the management of this unusual case.

• Authors: R E Schwarz, H Dralle, R P Linke, W B Nathrath, K H Neumann
• Journal: American journal of clinical pathology (Am J Clin Pathol) Vol. 92 Issue 6 Pg. 821-5 (Dec 1989) ISSN: 0002-9173 [Print] England
• PMID: 2589249 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)

Chemical References

• Serum Amyloid A Protein
• Colchicine

Topics

• Adult
• Amyloidosis (complications, metabolism, pathology)
• Arthritis, Rheumatoid (complications, drug therapy)
• Colchicine (therapeutic use)
• Female
• Goiter (complications, metabolism, pathology, therapy)
• Hearing Loss
• Hearing Loss, Bilateral (complications)
• Humans
• Kidney Failure, Chronic (complications, surgery)
• Kidney Transplantation
• Serum Amyloid A Protein (metabolism)
• Syndrome
• Thyroidectomy
• Urticaria (complications)