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Sickle cell disease: a case report of renal amyloidosis

BACKGROUND: The development of proteinuria and reduced glomerular filtration rate is associated with higher mortality among patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). AA amyloidosis, also associated with increased mortality, in SCD is rare. We present a case of a woman with homozygous sickle cell dise...

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Autores principales: Bugeja, Ann, Blanco, Paula, Clark, Edward G., Sood, Manish M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6180649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30305036
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-018-1047-6