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JOURNAL OF RENAL CARE
Volume 35, Issue 3, Pages 147-150Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-6686.2009.00106.x
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Crohn's disease; Renal failure; Secondary amyloidosis
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Secondary amyloidosis is a rare but serious complication of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), generally seen in Crohn's disease. At least 1% of patients with Crohn's disease develop amyloidosis. In the literature, the time lapse between the onset of Crohn's disease and the diagnosis of amyloidosis has been reported to range from one to 21 years. In most patients, proteinuria heralded the onset of renal involvement from amyloid and occurred from three to 15 years after Crohn's disease diagnosis. In this case, we estimate secondary amyloidosis occurred before Crohn's disease or early Crohn's disease complication, based on the fact that hypoalbuminaemia and proteinuria was detected approximately one year after the start of gastrointestinal complaints.
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