Year 2011 / Volume 103 / Number 5
Notas
Amyloidosis and Crohn’s disease

pp. 268-274

Antonio Guardiola Arévalo, Mariano Alcántara Torres, Julio Valle Muñoz, Rufo Humberto Lorente Poyatos, Marta Romero Gutiérrez, Rufo Rodríguez Merlo, Alejandro Pérez Martínez y José María Carrobles Jiménez

Abstract
Secondary amyloidosis is a rare but serious complication of inflammatory bowel disease that may influence the prognosis even more than the underlying disease. Due to a better knowledge of
the association of secondary amyloidosis to inflammatory bowel disease, early diagnosis of this complication is becoming more frequent,
but its treatment continues to pose a challenge.
We report 4 cases of patients with Crohn’s disease and amyloidosis diagnosed in the inflammatory bowel disease Units of Toledo and Ciudad Real, which represent 0.68% of the patients with
Crohn’s disease of our health areas. There have been not cases of amyloidosis in patients with ulcerative colitis. In our 4 patients the
secondary amyloidosis was clearly related to Crohn’s disease, which was often of fistulising type. The predominant clinical picture of amyloidosis was nephrotic syndrome. The patients responded to medical and surgical treatment of Crohn’s disease and colchicine, which improved renal function in all cases except in one who required kidney transplantation.
Share Button
New comment
Comments
No comments for this article
Related articles
Citation tools
Antonio Guardiola Arévalo, Mariano Alcántara Torres, Julio Valle Muñoz, Rufo Humberto Lorente Poyatos, Marta Romero Gutiérrez, Rufo Rodríguez Merlo, Alejandro Pérez Martínez y José María Carrobles Jiménez. Amyloidosis and Crohn’s disease . 268-274


Download to a citation manager

Download the citation for this article by clicking on one of the following citation managers:

Metrics
This article has received 7 visits.
This article has been downloaded 7 times.
Share
This article has been rated by 1 readers.
Reader rating:
Valora este artículo:




Asociación Española de Ecografía Digestiva Sociedad Española de Endoscopia Digestiva Sociedad Española de Patología Digestiva
The Spanish Journal of Gastroenterology is the official organ of the Sociedad Española de Patología Digestiva, the Sociedad Española de Endoscopia Digestiva and the Asociación Española de Ecografía Digestiva
Cookie policy Privacy Policy Legal Notice © Copyright 2023 y Creative Commons. The Spanish Journal of Gastroenterology