Items for "transthyretin amyloid"

Transthyretin amyloidosis in a patient of Iranian-Jewish extraction: a second Israeli-Jewish case

Background: We present a patient with late-onset progressive polyneuropathy and a Congo-red positive staining of sural nerve biopsy, where routine immunohistochemical analysis failed to determine the type of amyloid deposited...

Keywords: familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy, micro-method, mutation V32A, transthyretin amyloid, Western blotting