Ten-year follow-up of peripheral nerve function in patients with familial amyloid polyneuropathy after liver transplantation

Marked regression of abdominal fat amylo

Marked regression of abdominal fat amyloid in patients with familial amyloid polyneuropathy during long-term follow-up after liver transplantation

✍ Ayako Tsuchiya; Masahide Yazaki; Fuyuki Kametani; Yo-ichi Takei; Shu-ichi Ikeda 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 504 KB

To elucidate whether the amount of tissue-deposited amyloid in familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) patients decreases or increases over the long-term course after liver transplantation (LT), we examined changes in histopathological and biochemical characteristics of abdominal fat amyloid in the tr