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Endocrine organ failure due to systemic AA-amyloidosis
F L Erdkamp1, R O Gans, S J Hoorntje
1Department of Internal Medicine, Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
The Netherlands Journal of Medicine
|February 1, 1991
Abstract:
We describe a patient with panhypopituitarism and adrenal insufficiency associated with systemic AA-amyloidosis caused by tuberculosis. This case demonstrates the ongoing process of amyloidosis, despite a presumed cure for the tuberculosis more than 30 years previously. Difficulties in recognizing clinical symptoms and interpreting laboratory data in a patient on regular haemodialysis are discussed.