Vitreous Amyloidosis as the Presenting Symptom of Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy TTR Val30Met in a Portuguese Patient

Familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) is a group of disorders characterized by the extracellular deposition of amyloid substance in various tissues. The peripheral nervous system and the heart are the main target organs, but the eye may also be involved. We report a case of vitreous amyloidosis as t...

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Autores principales: Seca, Mariana, Ferreira, Natália, Coelho, Teresa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2014
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Published online: March, 2014
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3985800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24748873
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000360790
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author Seca, Mariana
Ferreira, Natália
Coelho, Teresa
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description Familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) is a group of disorders characterized by the extracellular deposition of amyloid substance in various tissues. The peripheral nervous system and the heart are the main target organs, but the eye may also be involved. We report a case of vitreous amyloidosis as the first manifestation of FAP in a 66-year-old Portuguese man without a family history.
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spelling pubmed-39858002014-04-18 Vitreous Amyloidosis as the Presenting Symptom of Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy TTR Val30Met in a Portuguese Patient Seca, Mariana Ferreira, Natália Coelho, Teresa Case Rep Ophthalmol Published online: March, 2014 Familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) is a group of disorders characterized by the extracellular deposition of amyloid substance in various tissues. The peripheral nervous system and the heart are the main target organs, but the eye may also be involved. We report a case of vitreous amyloidosis as the first manifestation of FAP in a 66-year-old Portuguese man without a family history. S. Karger AG 2014-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3985800/ /pubmed/24748873 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000360790 Text en Copyright © 2014 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC) (www.karger.com/OA-license), applicable to the online version of the article only. Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published online: March, 2014
Seca, Mariana
Ferreira, Natália
Coelho, Teresa
Vitreous Amyloidosis as the Presenting Symptom of Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy TTR Val30Met in a Portuguese Patient
title Vitreous Amyloidosis as the Presenting Symptom of Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy TTR Val30Met in a Portuguese Patient
title_full Vitreous Amyloidosis as the Presenting Symptom of Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy TTR Val30Met in a Portuguese Patient
title_fullStr Vitreous Amyloidosis as the Presenting Symptom of Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy TTR Val30Met in a Portuguese Patient
title_full_unstemmed Vitreous Amyloidosis as the Presenting Symptom of Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy TTR Val30Met in a Portuguese Patient
title_short Vitreous Amyloidosis as the Presenting Symptom of Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy TTR Val30Met in a Portuguese Patient
title_sort vitreous amyloidosis as the presenting symptom of familial amyloid polyneuropathy ttr val30met in a portuguese patient
topic Published online: March, 2014
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3985800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24748873
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000360790
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