β-cell Related Amyloidosis Localized to the Islets of Langerhans, Type II Diabetes Mellitus and Liponecrotic Pancreatitis in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Postmortem Clinicopathologic Statistical Study of 234 Autopsy Patients
Abstract:The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of systemic AA amyloidosis (AAa), islet amyloidosis (IA) and liponecrotic pancreatitis (LnP) including acute liponecrotic (aLnP), acute relapsing liponecrotic (aRelLnP), and chronic liponecrotic pancreatitis (chrLnP) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and to analyse the possible relationship between them.Patients and methods: At the National Institute of Rheumatology 11558 patients died between 1969 and 1998; among them 234 with RA, and all of them were autopsie… Show more
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