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Virchow, 1854
DefinitionThis section has been translated automatically.
Heterogeneous group of diseases whose common feature is the extracellular deposition of a "waste protein", the amyloid, which cannot be utilized by the organism.
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ClassificationThis section has been translated automatically.
A distinction is made between cutaneous and systemic amyloidoses. In systemic amyloidoses, a distinction is also made between primary and secondary (concomitant) amyloidoses, and between acquired and hereditary amyloidoses (see also amyloidosis, systemic):
- Localized primarily cutaneous amyloidosis (symptoms at the site of synthesis):
- Systemic amyloidoses (rare, only minor dermatological relevance):
- Amyloidosis, hereditary (very rare, no dermatological relevance)
- Amyloidosis, acquired
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Amyloidosis of the AL or AH type:
- Gammopathy-associated amyloidosis
- Myeloma-associated amyloidosis.
- Amyloidosis of the AA type (serum amyloid A):
- Amyloidosis in chronic inflammation
- amyloidosis-ß2 microglobulin
- (amyloidosis in long-term dialysis).
- Amyloidosis TTR (ATTR)
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Amyloidosis of the AL or AH type:
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