IDIOPATHIC AA AMYLOIDOSIS MANIFESTED BY AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY, VESTIBULOCOCHLEOPATHY, AND LATTICE CORNEAL-DYSTROPHY

Authors
TSUNODA I AWANO H KAYAMA H TSUKAMOTO T UENO S FUJIWARA T WATANABE M YAMAMOTO T
Citation
I. Tsunoda et al., IDIOPATHIC AA AMYLOIDOSIS MANIFESTED BY AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY, VESTIBULOCOCHLEOPATHY, AND LATTICE CORNEAL-DYSTROPHY, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 57(5), 1994, pp. 635-637
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,Neurosciences,"Clinical Neurology
Journal title
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry → ACNP
ISSN journal
00223050
Volume
57
Issue
5
Year of publication
1994
Pages
635 - 637
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-3050(1994)57:5<635:IAAMBA>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
A 69-year-old Japanese woman with non-familial amyloidosis had polyneu ropathy and profound autonomic neuropathy, and kappa chain monoclonal gammopathy. Immunohistopathological examination showed protein AA and protein AP in the amyloid deposits. She showed involvement of the vest ibulocochlear nerve and lattice dystrophy of the cornea. Vestibulococh leopathy and corneal lattice dystrophy have been reported in familial amyloid polyneuropathy type IV, Finnish type, but never in non-familia l amyloidosis.