Open AccessAn interesting case of renal amyloidosis
Author(s) -
Adrija Hajra,
Dibyendu Bandyopadhyay
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
indian journal of nephrology/indian journal of nephrology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.317
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1998-3662
pISSN - 0971-4065
DOI - 10.4103/0971-4065.177143
Subject(s) - medicine , amyloidosis , amyloid (mycology) , kyphoscoliosis , proteinuria , amyloid fibril , pathology , kidney , dermatology , surgery , disease , amyloid β , scoliosis
In amyloidosis, there is an extracellular deposition of beta-sheet fibrils. Over 25 proteins have been demonstrated to form amyloid. One of them is Ig amyloid light (AL) chains. We are presenting a 40-year-old female who presented with progressive kyphoscoliosis for last 2 years following a minor trauma and bilateral pedal edema for last 3 months. On further investigation, we found that she had a biclonal variety of MM with amyloidosis of kidney leading to massive proteinuria. Very few case reports are available where patient with biclonal variety of MM develop renal amyloidosis.