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In this study, cases with secondary amyloidosis due to rheumatic diseases were investigated retrospectively. Sixteen female, 14 male (mean age, 34±15 years) total 30 cases were included into the study. The number of cas...

The antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS) is characterized by antibodies directed either at plasma proteins bound to phospholipids or at the phospholipids themselves. APS is referred to as primary when it occurs alone...

Methotrexate has been used as an important alternative therapy in the treatment of various rheumatic diseases. It is primarily cleared by the kidney. Life-threatening marrow suppression in hemodialysis patients has been ...

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), one of the most common rheumatic diseases of childhood, is characterized by chronic synovitis and other organ dysfunctions. The characteristic renal lesion in JIA is amyloidosis, usua...

OBJECTIVE: Patients with malignancies may develop autoimmune and rheumatic manifestations as a result of generation of autoantibodies, paraneoplastic syndromes, direct invasion of joints and muscles by the tumour cells, ...