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Clinical strategies for amyloid A amyloidosis secondary to rheumatoid arthritis.
Modern rheumatology - 1 Jan 2008
Nakamura Tadashi
Abstract excerpt
Secondary amyloid A (AA) amyloidosis is an important complication of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and has remarkable variation in frequency worldwide. It is a serious, potentially life-threatening disorder caused by deposition in organs of AA fibrils, which are derived from the circulatory, acute-phase-reactant, serum amyloid A protein (SAA). The SAA1.3 allele can serve not only as a risk factor for the association...
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