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Treatment of renal amyloidosis with etanercept in tumour necrosis factor receptor-associated periodic syndrome.
Rheumatology (Oxford, England) - 1 Nov 2004
Drewe E, Huggins M L, Morgan A G, Cassidy M J D, Powell R J
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OBJECTIVE: To describe the effect of Etanercept treatment in systemic AA amyloidosis in tumour necrosis factor receptor-associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS). METHODS: Etanercept therapy was given to a 27 year old woman, with systemic amyloidosis and nephrotic syndrome, and to her 51 year old father, also affected by TRAPS, who had previously undergone renal transplant for amyloidosis. Serum SAA levels, plasma...
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