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In the past, the diagnosis and typing of amyloidosis often required an invasive biopsy of an internal organ, such as the heart or kidneys. Abdominal fat pad excisional biopsy (FPEB) offers a less invasive approach, but the sensitivity of this technique has been unclear. To determine the sensitivity of FPEB for immunoglobulin light chain (AL) and transthyretin (ATTR) amyloidosis, we performed a retrospective...
Tongue necrosis is a rare but dramatic clinical finding, which is most often related to infection, trauma, malignancy, or vasculitis. We describe an extremely unusual case in which systemic amyloid deposition in small arteries caused by senile systemic amyloidosis was associated with necrosis of the tongue as well as necrosis of portions of the bowel. To our knowledge, this is the first report of...
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