Modern approaches to the treatment of amyloidosis: the critical importance of early detection in surgical pathology

MM Picken - Advances in anatomic pathology, 2013 - journals.lww.com
The amyloidoses comprise a group of disorders of diverse etiology, in which different
proteins undergo abnormal folding, leading to their deposition in tissues and concomitant …

Globular hepatic amyloid is highly sensitive and specific for LECT2 amyloidosis

VS Chandan, SS Shah, DM Lam-Himlin… - The American journal …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Globular hepatic amyloid (GHA) is rare, and its clinical significance remains unclear.
Recently, leukocyte chemotactic factor–associated amyloidosis (ALECT2) has been …

[HTML][HTML] Alect2 amyloidosis: primum non nocere (first, do no harm)

MM Picken - Kidney international, 2014 - Elsevier
Said et al. and Larsen et al. present the clinical, morphologic, and genetic features of a
recently described amyloidosis, derived from leukocyte chemotactic factor 2 (Alect2), which …